This morning on the Today Show: Rain Pryor, daughter of Richard Pryor and author of the new book, Jokes My Father Never Taught Me (Regan Books, $24.95, 0061195421).
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Today on the Early Show: Dr. Andrew Weil, author of Eight Weeks to
Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your
Body's Natural Healing Power (Knopf, $22, 0307264920).
Also on the Early Show: Ron Smith, author of Scambusters!: More than 60
Ways Seniors Get Swindled and How They Can Prevent It (Collins, $14.95,
0061120235).
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The Book Report, the weekly AM radio book-related show
organized by Windows a bookshop, Monroe, La., will feature three author
interviews on today's show, which has the theme "on the move":
- Katherine Lanpher, author of Leap Days: Chronicles of a Midlife Move (Warner, $23.99, 0821258303)
- Ken Foster, author of The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind (Lyons Press, $12.95, 1592287492)
- Janis Cooke Newman, author of Mary (MacAdam/Cage, $26, 193156163X)
The show airs at 8 a.m. Central Time and can be heard live at thebookreport.net; the archived edition will be posted this afternoon.
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Today on the Martha Stewart Show: Joan Collins offers advice from The
Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great (Sourcebooks, $24.95,
1402209428).
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Today on Fox News Live: John O'Hurley, author of It's Okay to Miss the
Bed on the First Jump: And Other Life Lessons I Learned from Dogs
(Hudson Street Press, $19.95, 1594630321).
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Today on the Tavis Smiley Show: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Knopf,
$25.95, 1400044871), who will be back on the show for additional
appearances Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.
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Tonight on the Late Show with David Letterman, it's la dolce vita with
chef Jamie Oliver, whose latest culinary companion is Jamie's Italy
(Hyperion, $34.95, 1401301959).
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Tonight on the Colbert Report: PBS anchorman Jim Lehrer, author of the
page-turner The Phony Marine (Random House, $23.95, 1400064864).