This morning on Imus in the Morning: Lynn Sherr, author of Swim: Why We Love the Water (PublicAffairs, $25.99, 9781610390460).
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Today on the Martha Stewart Show: chefs David Bouley, Tom Colicchio, Larry Forgione, Patrick O'Connell, Alfred Portale, Eric Ripert and Jean-Georges Vongerichten will appear to commemorate The James Beard Foundation's Best of the Best: A 25th Anniversary Celebration of America's Outstanding Chefs (Chronicle, $60, 9780811874663) and the work of the foundation over the past 25 years.
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Tomorrow morning on Good Morning America: Vanessa Williams, author of You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (and Each Other) (Gotham, $28, 9781592407071). She will also appear on Access Hollywood Live and Piers Morgan Tonight.
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Tomorrow on NPR's Diane Rehm Show: Ross Douthat, author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (Free Press, $26, 9781439178300).
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Tomorrow on KCRW's Bookworm: William H. Gass, author of Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts (Knopf, $28.95, 9780307595843). As the show put it: "Novelist, essayist and philosopher William Gass discusses the aesthetic structure of the sentence. He discloses the intricate net of inter-relationships that produce meaning in fiction. We play with a simple sentence, examine a complex sentence by Henry James and praise the work of Gertrude Stein and Katherine Anne Porter."
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Tomorrow night on the Daily Show: Judy Smith, author of Good Self, Bad Self: Transforming Your Worst Qualities into Your Biggest Assets (Free Press, $26, 9781451649994).
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Tomorrow night on the Colbert Report: Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, authors of The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto (SmileyBooks, $12, 9781401940638).