This morning on the Today Show: Michael Weisskopf, author of Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57 (Holt, $25, 0805078606). He will also appear on Hannity & Colmes tonight.
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Today on Good Morning America: David Lieberman, author of Dave's
Dinners: A Fresh Approach to Home-Cooked Meals (Hyperion, $27.50,
1401301290).
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Today on the Early Show: Larry Miller, author of Spoiled Rotten
America: Outrages of Everyday Life (Regan Books, $25.95,
0060819081).
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Today on CNN's American Morning: Andy Borowitz, author of The Republican Playbook (Hyperion, $16.95, 1401302904). Borowitz is also scheduled for CNBC's Donny Deutsch.
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Mark Z. Danielewski, author of Only
Revolutions (Pantheon, $26, 0375421769). As the show describes it:
"There's no mistaking a novel by Mark Danielewski for any other. This
new one can be read forward, backward and upside down. It has
multi-colored inks; two sewn-in bookmarks (green and gold); and a
circular structure. Here, we explore how the book's design reflects the
joy-ride/killing spree of its two perpetual teenagers as they careen
through time and space."
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Today on NPR's All Things Considered: Neil Gaiman whose new book is
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (Morrow, $26.95, 0060515228).
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Today on the View: Actress and author Meg Tilly, whose new novel is
Gemma (Syren Book Co., $15.95, 0929636619). She'll also talk about her
debut novel, Singing Songs, first published by Dutton in 1994, and
reissued this past week (Syren Book Co., $14.95, 0929636627).
Also on the View: Queen Latifah, whose new children's book illustrated
by Frank Morrison is Queen of the Scene (Laura Geringer, $16.99,
0060778563). She's also on the Early Show on Friday.
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Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun (Knopf, $24.95, 1400044162).
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Today on NPR's Fresh Air and Imus in the Morning: former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, author of Work Hard, Study . . . And Keep Out of Politics!: Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Political Life (Putnam, $28.95, 0399153772). Baker will be on Hannity & Colmes tonight. He's also on Good Morning America on Friday.
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Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: David Rakoff, author of Don't Get too Comfortable (Broadway, $12.95, 0767916034).
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Tonight on the Charlie Rose Show:
- John Danforth, author of Faith and Politics: How the Moral Values Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together (Viking, $24.95, 0670037877).
- Mark Halperin and John F. Harris, authors of The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 (Random House, 1400064473).
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Friday morning on the Today Show: Lou Dobbs, author of War on the Middle
Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups
Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back (Viking,
$24.95, 0670037923).
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Friday on Good Morning America: Andy Borowitz, author of The Republican Playbook (Hyperion, $16.95, 1401302904).
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Friday on the View: Whoopi Goldberg, actress and author of the children's book Whoopi's Big Book of Manners, illustrated by Olo (Jump at the Sun, $15.99, 078685295X).
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Friday on the Martha Stewart Show: Laurie David, author of Stop Global
Warming: The Solution Is You! (Fulcrum, $9.95, 155591621X), part of the
publisher's of Speaker's Corner Series.
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Friday on Court TV's Catherine Crier: Larry Miller, author of Spoiled
Rotten America: Outrages of Everyday Life (Regan Books, $25.95,
0060819081).
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Friday night on the Charlie Rose Show: Katherine Ketcham, author of Broken:
My Story of Addiction and Redemption (Viking, $25.95, 0670037893).
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Saturday on NBC Weekend Today: Elizabeth Edwards, author of Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers (Broadway, $24.95, 0767925378).
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Sunday on NBC Weekend Today:
- Annie Leibovitz, author of A Photographer's Life (Random House, $75, 0375505091).
- Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships (Bantam, $28, 0553803522).
- Laura Stack, author of Find More Time: How to Get Things Done At Home, Organize Your Life, and Feel Great About It (Broadway, $12.95, 0767922026).
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The Spoken Word, which will be aired on many public radio stations on
Sunday evening at 8 p.m. (as well as some other times next week),
features:
George Soros, international financier, philanthropist and author of The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror (PublicAffairs, $24, 1586483595), who will be interviewed by John Podesta, former chief of staff to President Clinton.
Also on the show: Tom Bell, who discusses this week's Book Sense picks;
and Robin Fischer, who talks about Handselling on the Radio.
For a listing of the radio stations playing the Spoken Word, click here.