Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

Pediatrician Perri Klass dispensed Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor (Perseus, $24.95), which PW’s starred review found “effortlessly transcends all professions, ages and interests, appealing to anyone who has ever stepped inside a hospital or watched one of television's ever-popular medical dramas.”

Iranian-born Dalia Sofer with her novel The September of Shiraz (Ecco, $24.95). From PW’s review: “Sofer's dramatization of just-post-revolutionary Iran captures its small tensions and larger brutalities, which play vividly upon a family that cannot, even if it wishes to, conform.”

Ralph Baruch navigated Television Tightrope: How I Escaped Hitler, Survived CBS, and Fathered Viacom (Probitas Press, $27.95).

Authors on The Diane Rehm Show:

Journalists Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun, authors of Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible (Wiley, $25.95). From PW’s review: “Farah and Braun center their absorbing exposé of this source of global misery on its most successful practitioner, the Russian dealer Victor Bout. Although an unsatisfactory portrait, the book surrounds it with an engrossing, detailed description of this wildly destructive traffic.”

Senator Joe Biden continued promoting his memoir Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics (Random House, $25.95).

Bob Edwards talked with Michael Wallis, author of The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate (Norton, $39.95), which PW noted “will delight those looking to uncover their local roots as well as adventurers yearning for that American rite of passage—a cross-country road trip.”

In honor of her recent 90th birthday, Phyllis Diller visited NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. Her recent autobiography is Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy (Tarcher, $14.95). From PW’s review: “Brash comedy and a surprising bitterness fuel this unsparing account of Diller's drive to make it big.”

This evening, The Colbert Report meets with biology professor Michael J. Behe, author of The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism (Free Press, $28; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $34.99).

Nightline hosts Laura Allen and Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, editors of Dam Nation: Dispatches From The Water Underground (Soft Skull Press, $19.95). PW explained: “This essay anthology looks at water issues worldwide and throughout history, including science, history and investigative reporting, as well as personal stories and profiles. The authors maintain a tongue-in-cheek style that, for the most part, keeps tedium at bay.”

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