Today on the Diane Rehm Show: James Lipton, author of Inside Inside (Dutton, $27.95, 9780525950356/0525950354).
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Millard Kaufman, author of Bowl of Cherries
(McSweeney's, $22, 9781932416831/1932416838). As the show put it:
"Millard Kaufman has written a classic comic novel that belongs in the
tradition that runs from Charles Dickens to Evelyn Waugh. At the age of
ninety, Kaufman has discovered that comedy has its own vocabulary--one
that many readers no longer understand. He describes why political
incorrectness is necessary in order to break conventional attitudes and
awaken indignation."
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WETA's Author Author! features Michael Dirda, author of Classics for Pleasure (Harcourt, $25, 9780151012510/0151012512).
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Today on the View: Steve Martin, author of Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Scribner, $25, 9781416553649/1416553649).
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After a year-long hiatus, the Writer's Roundtable, which covers the art, craft and business of writing, is starting up again today on the new San Diego Union Tribune station and is accessible through the Internet at signonradio.com. Show times are Thursdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Pacific time. Today's guest is Eric Kampmann of Midpoint Trade Distribution and Beaufort Press, who will talk about publishing and why Beaufort published O.J. Simpson's If I Did It. The host is Antoinette Kurtz.