On the Today Show today:
Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: Scott Turow, whose new novel is Ordinary Heroes (FSG, $25, 0374184216).
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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show:
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Jane Smiley, author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (Knopf, $26.95, 1400040590). As the show describes it: "Join us for an informal conversation in which two novel-lovers share their deep passions for reading. Jane loves the realists (Austen, Trollope); Michael the Bookworm loves the inventors (Kafka, Cervantes). But more than anything, they love 'a lengthy written narrative with a protagonist.'"
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Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: David McCullough, whose most recent book is 1776 (S&S, $32, 0743226712).
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Tonight on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno (with Jokes): Al Franken, author of The Truth (with Jokes) (Dutton, $25.95, 0525949062).
- On the Today's Kitchen segment, Giuliano Hazan tries to cook up some interest in his How to Cook Italian (Scribner, $35, 0743244362).
- Anthony Swofford, whose Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (Scribner, $14, 0743287215) is the basis for the movie of the same name opening tomorrow.
- The one and only Yoko Ono, whose Memories of John (HarperEntertainment, $24.95, 0060594551) appears in December.
Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: Scott Turow, whose new novel is Ordinary Heroes (FSG, $25, 0374184216).
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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show:
- Penn Jillette, half of the team of Penn & Teller and author of How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker: The Wisdom of Dickie Richard (St. Martin's, $19.95, 031234905X).
- Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (Norton, $35, 0393058204).
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Jane Smiley, author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (Knopf, $26.95, 1400040590). As the show describes it: "Join us for an informal conversation in which two novel-lovers share their deep passions for reading. Jane loves the realists (Austen, Trollope); Michael the Bookworm loves the inventors (Kafka, Cervantes). But more than anything, they love 'a lengthy written narrative with a protagonist.'"
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Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: David McCullough, whose most recent book is 1776 (S&S, $32, 0743226712).
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Tonight on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno (with Jokes): Al Franken, author of The Truth (with Jokes) (Dutton, $25.95, 0525949062).