Media Heat: Medicine, Laughter, Santa Claus

The Book Report, the weekly AM radio book-related show organized by Windows a bookshop, Monroe, La., will feature two author interviews on today's show whose theme is children's books.
  • Marla Frazee, author and illustrator of Santa Claus the World's Number One Toy Expert (Harcourt), Roller Coaster (Harcourt), Walk On: A Guide for Babies of All Ages (Harcourt) and many other children's books.
  • Terri Hoover Dunham, author of The Legend of Papa Noel (Sleeping Bear Press) and P Is for Pelican (Sleeping Bear Press).
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: Ricky Lauren, wife of fashion designer Ralph and author of Ricky Lauren: Cuisine, Lifestyle, and Legend of the Double RL Ranch (Assouline, $50, 2843238838).

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Today on WAMU's Diane Rehm Show: Dr. Barron Lerner, author of When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press, $25, 0801884624).


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Scheduled for tonight on the Charlie Rose Show: Salman Rushdie, whose latest book is Shalimar the Clown (Random House, $14.95, 0679783482).

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Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Eve Herold, co-author of Stem Cell Wars: Inside Stories from the Front Lines (Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95, 1403974993).

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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno spices things up with Gerry Garvin, author of the cookbook Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin (Meredith Books, $19.95, 0696233940).

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