Yesterday, Oprah chatted with sociologist Pepper Schwartz, author of Prime: Adventures and Advice on Sex, Love, and the Sensual Years (Collins, $24.95). PW’s starred review found it “both a highly entertaining sexual autobiography and an account of her romantic liaisons in the five years after her divorce.”

Also yesterday, The Brian Lehrer Show interviewed sociologist Bruce Barry, author of Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, $27.95).

Last night on Late Night with David Letterman, director Kevin Smith explained My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith (Titan Books, $14.95). The 480-page book, a sequel to 2005's Silent Bob Speaks, collects entries from his online diary at www.viewaskew.com.

On today’s Good Morning America:

Bestseller Stephen J. Dubner freaked out over The Boy with Two Belly Buttons (HarperCollins, $16.99).

Joey Lawrence and professional dancer Elena Grinenko demonstrated moves from Dancing with the Stars: Jive, Samba, and Tango Your Way into the Best Shape of Your Life (Collins, $19.95), written by Guy Phillips.

Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

Alek Wek showed off Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel (Amistad, $24.99).

View cohost Joy Behar, author of When You Need a Lift: But Don't Want to Eat Chocolate, Pay a Shrink, or Drink a Bottle of Gin (Crown, $19.95; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $49.99).

On The Diane Rehm Show, Ann Packer offered up Songs Without Words (Knopf, $27.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $34.95), which PW found “a richly nuanced meditation on the place of friendship in women's lives.”

Authors on today’s Bob Edwards Show:

Four-star general Wesley Clark offered A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country (Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95; Audio Renaissance unabridged CD, $34.95).

Texan journalist John Anderson explained Follow the Money: How George W. Bush and the Texas Republicans Hog-Tied America (Scribner, $26; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $34.99).

Authors on tonight’s Tavis Smiley:

Robert Draper, with Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush (Free Press, $28).

Randall Robinson, whose latest is An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President (Basic Civitas, $26).

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