This morning, the Today show featured actress Alison Arngrim, whose memoir Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated (It Books, 978-0061962141, $25.99) pubbed yesterday.

Good Morning America consulted fertility doctors Zev Rosenwaks and Mark Goldstein, authors of A Baby at Last! The Couple's Complete Guide to Getting Pregnant--from Cutting-Edge Treatments to Commonsense Wisdom (Fireside, 978-1439149621, $15.99), which also came out yesterday.

Authors on today’s Diane Rehm Show:

Journalist Alex Heard, author of The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South (Harper, 978-0061284151, $26.99), which PW called a “provocative study. Heard finds no easy answers, but his nuanced, evocative portrait of the passions enveloping McGee's case is plenty revealing.”

Emmy-winning writer, director, and producer Mary McDonagh Murphy, author of Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper, 978-0061924071, $24.99). PW thought “Readers should turn (or return) to To Kill a Mockingbird before bothering to dip into this disappointing collection.”

On The Leonard Lopate Show: journalist Gary Rivlin, author of Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. How the Working Poor Became Big Business (HarperBusiness, 978-0061733215, $26.99). PW declared it “a superb exposé of the poverty business—the flock of companies that cater to (and prey on) the working poor. A timely, important, and deeply disturbing look at the cycle of debt of the nation's most vulnerable.”

On All Things Considered, Minnesota garden writer Bonnie Blodgett discussed Remembering Smell: A Memoir of Losing--and Discovering--the Primal Sense (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0618861880, $24). PW considered it a “thoughtful, informative work . . . General readers will find her memoir richly nuanced and broadly researched.”

Tonight on The Late Show with David Letterman, Emeril Lagasse serves up Farm to Fork: Cooking Local, Cooking Fresh (HarperStudio, 978-0061742958, $24.99), which PW called “another of Lagasse's highly competent creations, full of flavorful recipes presented with simplicity and minimal chitchat.”

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