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Two years ago, Tek Nath Rizal was released from a Bhutanese prison after serving 10 years as a political prisoner. A pioneering figure in the human and democratic rights movements in Bhutan, Mr. Rizal joins us with an update on the current political climate there. Then, Pam Houston, the author of Cowboys Are My Weakness, discusses the unconventional protagonist of her new novel: a three-legged Irish wolfhound who teaches the humans in his life how to love one another. Amy Krouse Rosenthal chronicles some of the not-so-unusual reference points of her life in an unconventional new memoir: Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. And Charles Gasparino of Newsweek reveals the details of a Wall Street scam that swindled billions of dollars from ordinary investors: Blood on the Street.