Tonight, former president Bill Clinton stops by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart with Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World (Knopf, $24.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $29.95).

This morning on Today, British chef Robert Irvine served up his combination cookbook-memoir Mission:Cook! My Life, My Recipes, and Making the Impossible Easy (HarperEntertainment, $24.95). PW wrote “his enthusiasm is genuine and infectious, and Irvine the storyteller keeps things interesting with tales of his education, the Royal family and the kitchen at Donald Trump's Taj Mahal.”

On Good Morning America: television actress Courtney Thorne-Smith, whose Hollywood novel Outside In (Broadway, $23.95) is about a failed movie actress who finds new life as the star of a nighttime soap.

Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

Edwidge Danticat, whose latest is Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf, $23.95; Recorded Books CD, $34.99). PW’s starred review said this: “Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart.”

South African novelist and playwright Zakes Mda with his latest novel, Cion (Picador, $14), which PW found “offers a rich and original picture of the United States on both a personal and grander historical level and is suffused with the same lyricism, vividness and dark, tragic wit that have earned the author previous recognition here and in his homeland.”

Michael Korda introduced Ike: An American Hero (HarperCollins, $34.95).

On The Bob Edwards Show, Garrison Keillor launched Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (Viking, $25.95; HighBridge unabridged CD, $36.95). PW deemed it a “delightful latest addition to the Lake Wobegon series. Keillor's longtime fans may find some of the material familiar (he notes he's told this story several hundred times... with many variations), but there's plenty of fun to be had with the well-timed deadpans and homespun wit.”

This evening on The Colbert Report, New Yorker legal writer Jeff Toobin tallies up The Nine: Inside The Secret World of the Supreme Court (Doubleday, $27.95; RH Audio abridged CD, $31.95), which PW called an “absorbing group profile... His savvy account puts the supposedly cloistered Court right in the thick of American life.” Tomorrow, he’ll be on The Leonard Lopate Show.

On Late Night with Dave Letterman, Senator Joe Biden continues promoting Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics (Random House, $25.95).

Conan O'Brien grills master pick-up artist Mystery (aka Erik von Markovik), author of The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed (St. Martin’s, $19.95; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $29.99) and star of the reality series The Pick-Up Artist. PW’s review explained: “Mystery, heralded as one of the best pick-up artists in the country, has created a science of seduction. His meticulously researched system, the ‘Mystery Method,’ offers advice to men of every ilk. You'll laugh, you'll scoff, but in the end, you'll probably learn something.”

Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz visits Tavis Smiley with 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.”

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