Today's Today Show gets comfortable with Michael Chiarello, author of
At Home with Michael Chiarello: Easy Entertaining, Recipes, Ideas,
Inspiration (Chronicle, $40, 0811840484).
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Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: Joan Didion, author of The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X).
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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: James Shapiro, author of A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060088737).
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Campbell McGrath, author of Pax Atomica: Poems (Ecco, $23.95, 0060745649). As the show describes it: "Campbell McGrath has figured out how to perform a wonderful trick: he writes ecstatic comic poetry about the decline of America. Here, he discusses how he decided that even in dark times he could still fulfill the poet's essential task--the celebration of life as it is."
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Today the View checks out former Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall, author of Sexual Intelligence (Bulfinch, $30, 0821261754), which accompanies the HBO documentary that begins airing on November 15.
The View also elects to talk with comedienne Margaret Cho, author of I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight (Riverhead, $23.95, 1573223190).
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Front and center tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Janis Karpinski, former commanding general of the Abu Ghraib prison when Americans tortured some prisoners and author of One Woman's Army (Miramax, $24.95, 1401352472).
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Tonight the Charlie Rose Show hears arguments from Richard Posner, the federal appellate court judge whose new book is Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11 (Rowman & Littlefield, $18.95, 074254947X).
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More Lincoln: Yesterday All Things Considered had an inspiring conversation with Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness (Houghton Mifflin, $25, 0618551166).
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Yesterday Fresh Air was debriefed by former National Security Adviser Richard Clarke about his novel, The Scorpion's Gate (Putnam, $24.95, 0399152946), set in the Middle East five years in the future.
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Yesterday on Morning Edition, Thomas P.M. Barnett discussed his Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153128).
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On Talk of the Nation yesterday, Edmund Morris beat the drum for his latest biography, Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives, $21.95, 0060759747).
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Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: Joan Didion, author of The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf, $23.95, 140004314X).
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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: James Shapiro, author of A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060088737).
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Campbell McGrath, author of Pax Atomica: Poems (Ecco, $23.95, 0060745649). As the show describes it: "Campbell McGrath has figured out how to perform a wonderful trick: he writes ecstatic comic poetry about the decline of America. Here, he discusses how he decided that even in dark times he could still fulfill the poet's essential task--the celebration of life as it is."
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Today the View checks out former Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall, author of Sexual Intelligence (Bulfinch, $30, 0821261754), which accompanies the HBO documentary that begins airing on November 15.
The View also elects to talk with comedienne Margaret Cho, author of I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight (Riverhead, $23.95, 1573223190).
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Front and center tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Janis Karpinski, former commanding general of the Abu Ghraib prison when Americans tortured some prisoners and author of One Woman's Army (Miramax, $24.95, 1401352472).
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Tonight the Charlie Rose Show hears arguments from Richard Posner, the federal appellate court judge whose new book is Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11 (Rowman & Littlefield, $18.95, 074254947X).
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More Lincoln: Yesterday All Things Considered had an inspiring conversation with Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness (Houghton Mifflin, $25, 0618551166).
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Yesterday Fresh Air was debriefed by former National Security Adviser Richard Clarke about his novel, The Scorpion's Gate (Putnam, $24.95, 0399152946), set in the Middle East five years in the future.
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Yesterday on Morning Edition, Thomas P.M. Barnett discussed his Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating (Putnam, $26.95, 0399153128).
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On Talk of the Nation yesterday, Edmund Morris beat the drum for his latest biography, Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives, $21.95, 0060759747).