This morning Imus in the Morning talks with Al Franken, whose new book is The Truth (With Jokes) (Dutton, $25.95, 0525949062).
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Salman Rushdie, whose latest book is Shalimar the Clown (Random House, $25.95, 0679463356). As the show describes the episode: "Although the history of Kashmir provides the backdrop of Rushdie's new novel, it is a larger-than-life romance with larger-than-life characters--a version of Romeo and Juliet and the Ramayana. In this conversation, he describes the ways in which an historical conflict can determine the course of love."
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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: Nell Bernstein, author of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated (New Press, $25.95, 1565849523).
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Too funny? Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Chris Elliott, whose debut novel is The Shroud of the Thwacker (Miramax, $22.95, 1401352456).
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Yesterday All Things Considered ate up Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, authors of Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Ten Speed, $40, 1580086810), a photographic chronicle of what 30 families around the world ate during one week.
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Yesterday on Talk of the Nation: Mel Watkins, author of Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry (Pantheon, $26.95, 0375423826).
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Salman Rushdie, whose latest book is Shalimar the Clown (Random House, $25.95, 0679463356). As the show describes the episode: "Although the history of Kashmir provides the backdrop of Rushdie's new novel, it is a larger-than-life romance with larger-than-life characters--a version of Romeo and Juliet and the Ramayana. In this conversation, he describes the ways in which an historical conflict can determine the course of love."
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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: Nell Bernstein, author of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated (New Press, $25.95, 1565849523).
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Too funny? Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Chris Elliott, whose debut novel is The Shroud of the Thwacker (Miramax, $22.95, 1401352456).
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Yesterday All Things Considered ate up Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, authors of Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Ten Speed, $40, 1580086810), a photographic chronicle of what 30 families around the world ate during one week.
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Yesterday on Talk of the Nation: Mel Watkins, author of Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry (Pantheon, $26.95, 0375423826).