Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

  • British actor/comedian Simon Pegg talked about his memoir Nerd Do Well: A Small Boy’s Journey to Becoming a Big Kid (Gotham, 978-1592406814), which pubbed last week. Tonight, he’s on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
  • John Donahue, an editor at the New Yorker, introduced Man with a Pan: Culinary Adventures of Fathers Who Cook For Their Families (Algonquin Books, 978-1565129856).

Tonight, The Daily Show talks with Alex Prud’Homme, Julia Child’s grandnephew and author of The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century (Scribner, 978-1416535454).

On The Colbert Report, Henry Kissinger speaks about On China (Penguin, 978-1594202711).

Saturday, NPR’s Weekend Edition interviewed Eric Greitens, author of The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547424859).

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

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