Today on Fresh Air: Irene Pepperberg, author of Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process (Collins, $23.95, 9780061672477/0061672475).
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Tonight on the Charlie Rose Show: John Updike whose new book is The Widows of Eastwick (Knopf, $24.95, 9780307269607/0307269604).
The show also offers a tribute to the late Michael Crichton.
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Tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: T. Boone Pickens, author of The First Billion Is the Hardest (Crown Business, $26.95, 9780307395771/0307395774).
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Tomorrow morning on the Today Show: Jose Andres, author of Made in Spain: Spanish Dishes for the American Kitchen (Clarkson Potter, $35, 9780307382634/030738263X).
Also on the Today Show: Jon Meacham, author of America Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Random House, $30, 9781400063253/1400063256).
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Tomorrow morning on Live with Regis and Kelly: Don Rickles, author of Rickles' Letters (Simon & Schuster, $25, 9781416596639/1416596631).
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Tomorrow on KCRW's Bookworm: An American Bookworm in Paris, Part IV with Grégoire Bouillier, author of The Mystery Guest: An Account (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $12.95, 9780618959709/061895970X) and Report on Myself (Mariner, $13.95, 9780618968619/061896861X); Olivier Cadiot, author of Colonel Zoo (Green Integer, $11.95, 9781933382548/1933382546); and Marc Cholodenko, author of Mordechai Schamz (Dalkey Archive). As the show put it: "Finally at ease in Paris, the Bookworm encounters three French novelists and attempts to navigate the tangle of philosophy, artifice, intertextuality and hilarity that exemplifies the art of the new French novel."
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Tomorrow on the Tavis Smiley Show: Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D.-Calif.), author of Renegade for Peace and Justice (Rowman & Littlefield, $24.95, 9780742558434/0742558436).
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Tomorrow night on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Bill O'Reilly, author of A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity (Broadway, $26, 9780767928823/0767928822).