Tomorrow the Today Show's menu features the Scottos, author of Scotto Sunday Suppers (HarperCollins, $39.95, 0060815639).
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Tomorrow on the Diane Rehm Show: Ray Kurzweil, the human author of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking, $29.95, 0670033847).
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Tomorrow on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show:
Tomorrow Oprah's main course is Food Network host Rachael Ray, author of the 30 Minute Meals series.
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On KCRW's Bookworm, which airs on Thursday: Mary Caponegro, author of The Complexities of Intimacy (Coffee House, $14.95, 1566891205). As the program describes it: "The very contrary Mary Caponegro doesn't write or think like anyone else. She is a complete original. In the course of this interview, the snowballing perplexities of fusing logic and madness emerge with great force. Each of her stories is a triumph against nearly insuperable odds--but what a triumph!"
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On WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show on Thursday:
On Thursday on Fresh Air: John Dominic Crossan, author of In Search of Paul: How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom (HarperSanFrancisco, $19.95, 0060816163).
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On Friday on the Early Show: Teri Garr, whose new book, Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood (Penguin, $23.95, 1594630070), is about her life and dealing with MS.
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On WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show on Friday:
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Tomorrow on the Diane Rehm Show: Ray Kurzweil, the human author of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking, $29.95, 0670033847).
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Tomorrow on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show:
- CNN reporter Walter Rodgers, author of Sleeping with Custer and the 7th Calvary: An Embedded Reporter in Iraq (Southern Illinois University Press, $29.50, 0809326728), talks about his changing views about the war in Iraq.
- Hella Winston, author of Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels (Beacon, $23.95, 0807036269).
- Alan Kaufman, an American expatriate serving in the Israeli Defense Force, on his new novel, Matches (Back Bay, $13.95, 031610664X).
- Alan Lightman, author of The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers (Pantheon, $32.50, 0375421688).
Tomorrow Oprah's main course is Food Network host Rachael Ray, author of the 30 Minute Meals series.
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On KCRW's Bookworm, which airs on Thursday: Mary Caponegro, author of The Complexities of Intimacy (Coffee House, $14.95, 1566891205). As the program describes it: "The very contrary Mary Caponegro doesn't write or think like anyone else. She is a complete original. In the course of this interview, the snowballing perplexities of fusing logic and madness emerge with great force. Each of her stories is a triumph against nearly insuperable odds--but what a triumph!"
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On WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show on Thursday:
- Man of many talents John Updike offers a glimpse at his new book, Still Looking: Essays on American Art (Knopf, $40, 1400044189).
- George Taber, who offers a taste of his Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine (Scribner, $26, 0743247515).
- MacKenzie Bezos talks about her first novel, The Testing of Luther Albright (Fourth Estate, $23.95, 006075141X), probably most easily available at Amazon.com, founded by the author's husband.
- Filmmaker Norman Jewison looks back on his life in the movies, as recounted in his autobiography, This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me (Thomas Dunne, $25.95, 0312328680).
On Thursday on Fresh Air: John Dominic Crossan, author of In Search of Paul: How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom (HarperSanFrancisco, $19.95, 0060816163).
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On Friday on the Early Show: Teri Garr, whose new book, Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood (Penguin, $23.95, 1594630070), is about her life and dealing with MS.
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On WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show on Friday:
- Garry Wills, author of Henry Adams and the Making of America (Houghton Mifflin, $30, 0618134301).
- Photographer Nathan Farb, whose images fill Adirondack: Wilderness (Rizzoli, $50, 0847826384).
- Australian novelist Tim Winton, whose latest book is The Turning: New Stories (Scribner, $25, 0743276930).
- Jane Goodall, best known for her work with chimpanzees and baboons, whose new book, Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating (Warner, $24.95, 0446533629), pays more attention to humans.