Media Heat: Erica Jong, Diablo Cody

This morning the Today Show has no fear talking with Erica Jong, whose Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life (Tarcher, $22.95, 1585424447) appeared last week.

The Today Show also dishes up David Nicholls, author of Off Duty: The World's Greatest Chefs Cook at Home (Morrow Cookbooks, $39.95, 0060841478).

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Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show, fashion designer Dana Buchman talks about her book A Special Education: One Family's Journey Through the Maze of Learning Disabilities (Perseus, $21.95, 0738210331).

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Today on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show, Stephen Dando-Collins discusses his Standing Bear Is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice (Da Capo, $18, 0306814412).

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Tonight on the Charlie Rose Show, a panel "marking three years in Iraq" includes:

  • Francis Fukuyama, whose new book is America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy (Yale University Press, $25, 0300113994)
  • George Packer, author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (FSG, $26, 0374299633).

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Tonight the Late Show with David Letterman invites Diablo Cody, author of Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper (Gotham, $24, 1592401821), to sit in the guest chair.

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