Media Heat: Waist Management and Crossing State Lines

Today on the Oprah Winfrey Show: Dr. Mehmet Oz, co-author of You on a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management (Free Press, $25, 0743292545). You know this means even more demand for this title.

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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 and has the theme "smorgasbord":

  • Mo Willems, author and illustrator of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Hyperion) and its sequels as well as several other children's books and You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day (Hyperion, $12.99, 0786837470).
  • Colleen Rush, author of The Mere Mortal's Guide to Fine Dining (Broadway, $12.95, 0767922034)
  • David Horton, author of America Exposed (SoundHole Publishing)

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: John Leguizamo, actor, comic and author of the memoir Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: A Life (Ecco, $25.95, 006052071X).

Also on the Martha Stewart Show: Matt Lewis, owner of Baked in Brooklyn and one of the authors of Chocolate Bar: Recipes and Entertaining Ideas for Living the Sweet Life (Running Press, $24.95, 0762419210).

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Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: Andrew Koppelman, author of Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines (Yale University Press, $35, 0300113404).

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Tonight during a 20/20 special on charity called "Cheap in America": Arthur Brooks, author of Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism (Basic Books, $26, 0465008216), which has just been published.

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Tonight on the Charlie Rose Show: Garry Wills, author of What Paul Meant (Penguin, $24.95, 0670037931)

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Tonight on the Colbert Report: Nora Ephron, whose new book is I Feel Bad About My Neck (Knopf, $19.95, 0307264556)

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On Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Martha Stewart, author of Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home (Crown, $45, 0517577003).

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