Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Nathan Englander, author of The Ministry of Special Cases (Knopf,
$25, 9780375404931/0375404937). As the show put it: "In this, his first
novel, Nathan Englander uses desapareacidos to stand for all kinds of
disappearance. Here, we focus on yet another: his own, from this very
personal novel. How did he do it? Did he suffer the same anxieties
young writers usually feel when launching a major new work?"
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Today on the Diane Rehm Show: John Heath and Lisa Adams, authors of Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books (SourceBooks, $16.95, 9781402210549/140221054X).
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Today on PBS's Tavis Smiley Show: Jerome Bettis, author of The Bus: My Life In and Out of a Helmet (Doubleday, $23.95, 9780385520614/0385520611).
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Today on the Rachael Ray Show: Conn Iggulden, co-author of The Dangerous Book for Boys (Collins, $24.95, 9780061243585/0061243582).
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Today on Oprah in a repeat: Paula Deen, whose latest book is Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' (S&S, $25, 9780743292856/0743292855).
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Today on ABC's News Now: Robby Benson, author of Who Stole the Funny?: A Novel of Hollywood (Harper, $13.95, 9780061245008/0061245003).
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Tonight on the Late Show with David Letterman: MacArthur "genius" grant recipient George Saunders, whose new nonfiction essay collection is The Braindead Megaphone (Riverhead, $14, 9781594482564/159448256X). He also appears on the Leonard Lopate Show today.
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Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a repeat: Lt. Col. John Nagl, contributor to The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (University of Chicago Press, $15, 9780226841519/0226841510). (See below for information about his Book TV appearance this weekend.)
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Tonight on the Colbert Report, in a repeat: Joe Klein, whose most recent book is Politics
Lost: From RFK to W: How Politicians Have Become Less Courageous and
More Interested in Keeping Power than in Doing What's Right for America (Broadway, $12.95, 9780767916011/0767916018), recently released in paperback.
Also on Colbert: Thomas E. Ricks, the Washington Post reporter whose Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Penguin, $16, 9780143038917/0143038915) was also recently released in paperback.