Media Heat: 'Tis Frank McCourt

This morning on the Today Show:

  • Jerry Stiller and Allen Salkin, authors of Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us (Warner, $14.95, 0446696749).
  • Frank McCourt, whose Teacher Man: A Memoir (Scribner, $26, 0743243773) goes on sale today.

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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show:
  • New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, whose memoir is Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life (Putnam, $25.95, 0399153241).
  • Mary Gaitskill, who talks about her new novel, Veronica (Pantheon, $23, 0375421459), which is a National Book Award nominee (fate to be decided tomorrow evening).

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WAMU's Diane Rehm Show seeks answers from Maureen Dowd, author of Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide (Putnam, $25.95, 0399153322).

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Tonight on Larry King Live, honestly, Nicole Richie, whose novel is The Truth About Diamonds (Regan, $23.95, 0060820489).

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Yesterday Talk of the Nation surrendered to military historian Victor Davis Hanson, author of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (Random House, $29.95, 1400060958), in which he argues that despite technological advancements, the nature of war has remained the same over the centuries.

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