This morning the Early Show hosts Lisa Scottoline, author of Dirty Blonde (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060742909).
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Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: Markus Zusak, author of the very hot new book, The Book Thief (Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.95, 0375831002).
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Walter Kirn, author of Mission to America (Doubleday, $23.95, 038550764X).) As the show describes it: "Walter Kirn uses comedy the way a magician uses sleight-of-hand. His hilarity conceals sadness, his levity masks gravity. Here, we talk about American spirituality and how it often manifests itself as naïve nonsense before transforming into perilous disregard for life."
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Today on NPR's Talk of the Nation: Christopher Moore, whose new book is Dirty Job (Morrow, $24.95, 0060590270).
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Tonight on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno: political consultant James Carville, whose recent book, co-written with Paul Begala, is Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future (S&S, $24, 074327752X).
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Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Michael Mandelbaum, author of The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the Twenty-first Century (PublicAffairs, $26, 1586483609).
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Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: Markus Zusak, author of the very hot new book, The Book Thief (Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.95, 0375831002).
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Walter Kirn, author of Mission to America (Doubleday, $23.95, 038550764X).) As the show describes it: "Walter Kirn uses comedy the way a magician uses sleight-of-hand. His hilarity conceals sadness, his levity masks gravity. Here, we talk about American spirituality and how it often manifests itself as naïve nonsense before transforming into perilous disregard for life."
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Today on NPR's Talk of the Nation: Christopher Moore, whose new book is Dirty Job (Morrow, $24.95, 0060590270).
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Tonight on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno: political consultant James Carville, whose recent book, co-written with Paul Begala, is Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future (S&S, $24, 074327752X).
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Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Michael Mandelbaum, author of The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the Twenty-first Century (PublicAffairs, $26, 1586483609).