Today on The Leonard Lopate Show:

Editor Jenni Ferrari-Adler and contributors Holly Hughes and Laura Dave served up Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant (Riverhead, $22.95). PW explained: “A mishmash of foodie writers dispute, humorously or more self-seriously, the pros and cons of cooking and dining alone. The collection is named after an essay by Laurie Colwin, who found a dozen different ways to cook eggplant on her two-burner hot plate while living alone in a tiny Greenwich Village flat.”

Rupert Thomson and his new novel, Death of a Murderer (Knopf, $23). PW’s starred its review, noting “Thomson takes the death of real-life British serial sex murderer Myra Hindley, who died of natural causes in prison years after her crimes, as the starting point for his riveting eighth novel.”

Tonight on Tavis Smiley: Islamic studies professor Akbar Ahmed, author of Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization (Brookings Institution Press, $28.95), which PW called “a fascinating account of how he and his students braved danger to build mutual understanding in Pakistan, India, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Qatar, Malaysia and Indonesia. Mostly he comes across as an honorable man who believes that the future of the human race depends on international dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims.”

Tomorrow, NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday interviews Peter Sís, author of the graphic memoir The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (FS & G, $18). From PW’s starred review: “Born out of a question posed to Sís by his children (Are you a settler, Dad?), the author pairs his remarkable artistry with journal entries, historical context and period photography to create a powerful account of his childhood in Cold War—era Prague. Younger readers have not yet had a graphic memoir with the power of Maus or Persepolis to call their own, but they do now.”

Sunday on CBS’s Sunday Morning: Charlotte Chandler, whose Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends (S&S, $18) has a new paperback reprint.

This weekend on Book TV:

Military historian Stanley Weintraub shines 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall - Three Generals Who Saved the American Century (Free Press, $30).

Stephen Mansfield counts Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America...and What's Happened Since (Thomas Nelson, $25.99).

Jessica Valenti shows Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters (Seal Press, $15.95).

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