Media Heat: O'Reilly on Oprah

Today on the Early Show, Eve Pollard talks about Jack's Widow (Morrow, $24.95, 0060817038), a suspense novel that imagines the life of Jackie Kennedy in the days after JFK's assassination. Pollard is also the author of a biography of the former First Lady.

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Today on CNN's American Morning: Scott Dikkers, author of Destined for Destiny: The Unauthorized Autobiography of George W. Bush (Scribner, $19.95, 0743299663).

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Today on Oprah and tonight on the Late Show with David Letterman: Bill O'Reilly, whose new book is Culture Warrior (Broadway, $26, 0767920929).

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Today on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher: Andrew Sullivan, author of The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back (HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060188774).

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Tomorrow on Weekend Today:
  • Kate Atkinson, author of the thriller One Good Turn (Little, Brown, $24.99, 0316154849), which features the return of Detective Jackson Brodie from her breakout novel Case Histories.
  • Nina Hartley offers advice from Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex (Avery, $25.95, 1583332634).
  • Diane Meier Delaney shares tips and suggestions from The New American Wedding: Ritual and Style in a Changing Culture (Viking Studio, $39.95, 0670034622).
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Sunday on Weekend Today: Brian Wansink, Ph.D., dishes about Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More than We Think (Bantam, $25, 0553804340).

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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:
  • An interview with Kaye Gibbons, who returns to the scene of her triumphant debut with her latest book, The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster.
  • A reading by Tom Drury from his new novel, The Driftless Area. He is the author of The End of Vandalism and Hunts in Dreams.
Also on the show: Tom Bell, who discusses this week's Book Sense picks; and Robin Fischer, who talks about Handselling on the Radio. (Nicola Rooney, owner of Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor, Mich., recommends Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky and Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson.)

For a listing of the radio stations playing the Spoken Word, click here.

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