APRIL 21, 2010

This morning, Today talked with BFFs Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones, and Pamela Ferdinand about their book Three Wishes: A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood (Little, Brown, 978-0316079068, $24.99).

The Diane Rehm Show interviewed astrophysicist and former chief scientist of the Hubble Space Telescope Edward Weiler, author of Hubble: A Journey Through Space and Time (Abrams, 978-0810989979, $29.95).

On The Bob Edwards Show, English professor Tom De Haven introduced Our Hero: Superman on Earth (Yale Univ. Press, 978-0300118179, $24).

Authors on today's Leonard Lopate Show:

  • Jennifer Gilmore discussed her second novel Something Red (Scribner, 978-1416571704, $25), which PW explained "takes an extended documentary look at divided loyalties within a suburban Washington, D.C., family caught in the cultural and political mayhem of late-1970s America. Gilmore relentlessly chronicles these hapless characters' collective flight from numbness with verve."

  • Bestseller Richard A. Clarke, whose Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It (Ecco, 978-0061962233, $25.99) pubbed yesterday.

  • Michelle Obama's brother Craig Robinson, whose memoir is A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago's Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond (Gotham, 978-1592405480, $26). Tonight, he's on The Colbert Report.


This evening on The Daily Show: Fred Pearce, author of The Coming Population Crash: and Our Planet's Surprising Future (Beacon Press, 978-0807085837, $26.95). In a starred review, PW deemed it "Highly readable and marked by first-class reportage."

Last night on Nightline, journalist and social commentator Anna Jane Grossman discussed Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By (Abrams Image, 978-0810978492, $15.95).

Yesterday, The Diane Rehm Show chatted with TV journalist Jim Lehrer, whose latest novel Super (Random House, 978-1400067633, $25), pubbed yesterday. PW declared "Those expecting an Agatha Christie homage from Lehrer will be disappointed by this subpar crime novel set in 1956 almost entirely aboard the Super Chief, the train that ran for years between Chicago and Los Angeles."

Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change.

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