Today:
Fresh Air: Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot (Penguin Press, $27, 9781594205613).
Tomorrow:
NPR's Science Friday: Lawrence M. Krauss, author of The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here? (Atria, $27, 9781476777610).
HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, co-author of Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy (New Press, $27.95, 9781620972076).