Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart interviews Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush (Free Press, $28).

This morning on Today, Elle fashion director Nina Garcia cracked open her Little Black Book of Style (Collins, $17.95).

Good Morning America had an appointment with psychologist Dr. Frank Lawlis, whose book is Mending the Broken Bond: The 90 Day Answer to Developing a Loving Relationship with your Child (Viking, $24.95).

Authors on The Bob Edwards Show:

Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz with his first novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead, $24.95; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $39.95). In a PW signature review, Matthew Sharpe called it “dark and exuberant… this fierce, funny, tragic book is just what a reader would have hoped for in a novel by Junot Diaz.”

MacArthur Genius grant recipient George Saunders with his first nonfiction collection, The Braindead Megaphone (Riverhead, $14). PW wrote “Despite a few rough spots, these essays contain much to delight.”

Authors on today’s Book Report:

Kate Braestrup, chaplain to game wardens in Maine and author of Here If You Need Me: A True Story (Little Brown, $23.99). From PW’s starred review: “Braestrup's insightful essays are extraordinarily well written, mingling elements of police procedural and touching love story with trenchant observations about life and death.”

Photography professor Ann Fessler remembered The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade (Penguin, $15).

Authors on today’s Diane Rehm Show:

Wisconsin congressman David Obey, author of Raising Hell for Justice: The Washington Battles of a Heartland Progressive (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, $35).

Actor Alan Alda continued promoting Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself (Random House, $24.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $29.95). From PW’s review: “Alda is chatty, easygoing and humble, rather like a Mr. Rogers for grownups. His words of inspiration would be a perfect gift for a college grad or for anyone facing major life changes.”

Authors on The Leonard Lopate Show:

Forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass, author of Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science (William Morrow, $25.95; HarperAudio abridged CD, $29.95), which PW called an “unnervingly cheerful collection of case studies and anecdotes from the field of corpse identification.”

Finance writer Jason Zweig with Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich (S&S, $26). From PW’s starred review: “Backed by stellar research and written in an entertaining, informal style that makes a complex subject accessible to the layperson, Zweig makes clear how we can understand what our brains are doing and how to use that knowledge to get out of our own way and invest wisely.”

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