Media Heat: Cats and Dogs Around Turkey Day

This morning on the Today Show: Brian Wansink, Ph.D., author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think (Bantam, $25, 0553804340).

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This morning on the Early Show: Jimmy Bradley, author of The Red Cat Cookbook: 125 Recipes from New York City's Favorite Neighborhood Restaurant (Clarkson Potter, $35, 1400082811).

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Today on NPR's Talk of the Nation: Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus, author of Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (PublicAffairs, $15, 1586481983).

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Tonight on the Charlie Rose Show: art critic Robert Hughes, whose new book is Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir (Knopf, $27.95, 1400044448).

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Tomorrow on the Today Show: William Bastone sounds off about The Dog Dialed 911: A Book of Lists from the Smoking Gun (Little, Brown, $15.99, 0316611115).

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Tomorrow on the Early Show: James L. Swanson, author of Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution (Morrow, $39.95, 0061237612).

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Tomorrow on Oprah: Chris Gardner, author of The Pursuit of Happyness (Amistad, $14.95, 0060744871), an appearance that was supposed to have aired last week. The film version of Gardner's inspiring rags-to-riches memoir opens in theaters December 15.

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Tomorrow on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: columnist Art Buchwald, author of Too Soon to Say Goodbye (Random House, $17.95, 1400066271).

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Tomorrow on NPR's Talk of the Nation: Alex Kershaw, author of The Few: The American 'Knights of the Air' Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain (Da Capo, $25, 0306813033).

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Thursday on the Diane Rehm Show: A rebroadcast of the show's interview with Charles Frazier, whose new book is Thirteen Moons (Random House, $26.95, 0375509321).

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Thursday on NPR's On Point: David Kamp, author of The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation (Broadway, $26, 0767915798).

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Friday on CNN's American Morning: Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, author of Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (PublicAffairs, $15, 1586481983).

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Friday on the Martha Stewart Show: Lauren Bacall, whose updated memoir is By Myself and Then Some (Harper Paperbacks, $15.95, 0061127914).

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Friday on the Diane Rehm Show: A rebroadcast of the show featuring Oscar winning actress Ellen Burstyn, author of Lessons in Becoming Myself (Riverhead, $25.95, 1594489297).

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Friday on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno: rapper Snoop Dogg, author of Love Don't Live Here No More: Book One of Doggy Tales (Atria, $24, 074327363X).

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