Media Heat

Tomorrow Leonard Lopate interrogates former NYPD Cold Case Squad deputy inspector Vito Spano and Stacy Horn, authors of The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad (Viking, $24.95, 0670034193).

Lopate also literally talks trash with Elizabeth Royte, author of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash (Little, Brown, $24.95, 0316738263).

Tomorrow Diane Rehm steals a few minutes with Edward Dolnick, author of The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060531177), about the 1994 theft and recovery of Edvard Munch's The Scream.

Today Leonard Lopate talks with:
  • Stephen Yafa, author of Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map (Viking, $25.95, 0670033677)
  • Lynne Jones, author of Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia (Harvard University Press, $27.95, 0674015614)
  • John Banville, who discusses the life and work and lack of recognition of Booker Prize-winner J.G. Farrell--for the Summer Reading series.

Today on Diane Rehm: Maria Mudd Ruth chirps about her Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrele (Rodale, $23.95, 1594860904), about the unusual, threatened Pacific Northwest native whose nesting habits weren't understood until the 1970s.

Yesterday Larry King Live cross-examined Nancy Grace, former prosecutor, former Court TV fixture and now on CNN and author of Objection!: How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System (Hyperion, $24.95, 1401301800).
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