Media Heat: Holly Peete Controls the Remote

Oprah unveils her next book club pick today. And the ISBN is . . . 0307276902.

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Today on Good Morning America, Holly Robinson Peete, wife of NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, gives a play by play on her new book, Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game!: A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football (Rodale, $14.95, 1594861633).

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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show:

  • Word maven Patricia T. O'Conner teaches Internet etiquette and grammar rules in You Send Me: Getting It Right When You Write Online (Harcourt, $17.95, 0151005931).
  • Paul Clemens describes growing up in a racially unstable city in his new book, Made in Detroit: A South of 8 Mile  Memoir (Doubleday, $23.95, 038551140X).
  • MacKenzie Bezos talks about her first novel, The Testing of Luther Albright (Fourth Estate, $23.95, 006075141X).
  • Filmmaker Norman Jewison reminisces on his life in the movies in This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me: An Autobiography (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, $25.95, 0312328680).
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Yesterday Fresh Air spoke with Anthony Shadid, the Baghdad correspondent for the Washington Post whose new book is Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War (Holt, $26, 0805076026).
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