Today, Oprah talks with Pulitzer winner Jeffrey Eugenides, whose Middlesex (Picador, $16) is an Oprah's Book Club selection. PW called it a “beautifully written novel… It's difficult to imagine any serious male writer of earlier eras so effortlessly transcending the stereotypes of gender. This is one determinedly literary novel that should also appeal to a large, general audience.”

This morning on Today, NPR host Ira Flatow marked Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature (Collins, $24.95), based on interviews from his own programs.

NPR's Morning Edition aired an interview with Hunter Lewis, author of Are The Rich Necessary? Great Economic Arguments and How They Reflect Our Personal Values (Axios Press, $20). Tomorrow, he'll be on NPR’s BBC World Business Review.

Ellen DeGeneres chatted with “Science Guy” Steve Spangler, whose latest is Secret Science: 25 Science Experiments Your Teacher Doesn't Know About (Silverleaf, $9.95).

Tom McCarthy visited The Leonard Lopate Show with Remainder (Vintage, $13.95). PW wrote: “McCarthy's debut novel, set in London, takes a clever conceit and pumps it up with vibrant prose to such great effect that the narrative's pointlessness is nearly a nonissue. McCarthy's evocation of the narrator's absorption in his fantasy world as it cascades out of control is brilliant all the way through the abrupt climax.”

Bob Edwards talked with English professor Greg Garrett about The Gospel According to Hollywood (Westminster John Knox Press, $16.95), which PW’s starred review explained “analyzes dozens of films and extracts their religious and spiritual themes. He masterfully weaves threads of Christian history, doctrine and tradition into the chapters, utilizing these films as platforms from which to teach the reader.”

Tonight, Real Time with Bill Maher’s guest is Salman Rushdie, whose most recent is Shalimar the Clown: A Novel (Random House, $14.95; CD, $39.99). PW’s starred review found it “a mostly lyrical parable that offers us a way of grappling with the realities of our time and place, a way of refracting history through multiple lenses.”

On Tavis Smiley, actor Alan Alda offers Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself (Random House, $24.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $29.95). From PW’s review: “Alda is chatty, easygoing and humble, rather like a Mr. Rogers for grownups. His words of inspiration would be a perfect gift for a college grad or for anyone facing major life changes.”

Authors on Book TV this weekend:

Respected legal journalist Stuart Taylor discusses Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case (Thomas Dunne, $26.95).

Bestseller Nassim Taleb, with The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Random House, $26.95).

Alan Greenspan, continuing to promote The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Penguin, $35; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $44.95; abridged, $34.95).

Atlantic Monthly correspondent and bestseller Robert Kaplan, author of Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground (Random House, $27.95; RH Audio abridged CD, $34.95), which PW’s starred review found “combines the travel writer's keen eye for detail and the foreign correspondent's analytical skill to produce an account of America's military worthy of its subject.”

On CBS Sunday Morning, novelist Donald Friedman strokes The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers (Mid-List Press, $40). In its starred review, PW noted “Sure to cover at least a few of any given lit fan's favorites, Friedman's volume provides hours of fascinating browsing, and makes a perfect coffee table book for the avid reader.”

On Sunday evening, PBS airs the first part of documentarian Ken Burns's seven-part series The War, whose tie-in book by Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward is The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 (Knopf, $50; RH Audio CD, $34.95). From PW’s review: “This lavishly illustrated… visually appealing coffee-table book gives little idea of how and why America won, but a strong sense of what it felt like on the way to victory.”

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