On today’s Brian Lehrer Show, Adam Mansbach talked about his Amazon best-seller and web phenomenon Go The F**k to Sleep (Akashic Books, 978-1617750250), which officially pubs today.

Tonight on The Colbert Report, Janny Scott introduces A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother (Riverhead, 978-1594487972).

Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

  • Jaimy Gordon, whose novel Lord of Misrule (McPherson, 978-0929701837) won the 2011 National Book Award.
  • Pamela Haag, author of Marriage Confidential: The Post-Romantic Age of Workhorse Wives, Royal Children, Undersexed Spouses, and Rebel Couples Who Are Rewriting the Rules (Harper, 978-0061719288).
  • Priscilla Gilman discussed her memoir The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy (Harper, 978-0061690273).

Tonight on Charlie Rose: Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War (Harper, 978-0061228599).

Tavis Smiley talks with Iran-born journalist-filmmaker Maziar Bahari about his new memoir, Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival (Random House, 978-1400069460).

Ryan D’Agostino, editor of Esquire’s Eat Like a Man: The Only Cookbook a Man Will Ever Need (9780811877411), discussed the book on The Today Show.

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

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