This morning on the Today Show: Stacey Tisdale, author of The True Cost
of Happiness: The Real Story Behind Managing Your Money (Wiley, $24.95,
9780470139066/0470139064).
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This morning's Book Report, the weekly AM radio book-related show
organized by Windows a bookshop, Monroe, La., features an interview
with Kim Mulkey, head coach of the Baylor University women's basketball
team and author of Won't Back Down: Teams, Dreams, and Family (Da Capo
Press, $24.95, 9780306815256/0306815257).
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 Oprah, in a repeat, Bill Clinton discusses his latest book,
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World (Knopf, $24.95,
9780307266743/0307266745). The former president is also on the Late
Show with David Letterman tomorrow night.
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Tomorrow on the Early Show: Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much
About Anything: Everything You Need to Know but Never Learned About
People, Places, Events, and More! (Harper, $14.95,
9780061251467/0061251461).
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Tomorrow on NPR's Day to Day: Charles Phoenix, author of Americana the Beautiful: Mid-Century Culture in Kodachrome (Angel City Press, $35, 9781883318543/1883318548), offers a Polynesian twist to Thanksgiving with his Tiki Turkey Dinner.
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Tomorrow on KCRW's Bookworm (but available only online because of the
holiday): Ron Padgett, author of Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (Coffee
House, $17, 9781566891592/1566891590). As the show put it: "Joe is Ron
Padgett's intimate and affectionate biography-memoir of his friend of
four decades, artist-poet Joe Brainard. It's a very plainspoken book
about a man whose work is lush, funny, crowded, dazzling, disarming,
and beautiful at a time when beauty was a suspect quality."
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Sunday on Face the Nation: Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming
Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage, $15.95,
9781400030842/1400030846).
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Sunday on CNN Headline News: Donna Freitas, author of Killing the
Imposter God: Philip Pullman's Spiritual Imagination in His Dark
Materials (Jossey-Bass, $17.95, 9780787982379/0787982377).
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Sunday evening on 60 Minutes: Rich Blake, author of The Day Donny
Herbert Woke Up: A True Story (Harmony, $23, 9780307383167/0307383164).