This evening on The Colbert Report, film director David Mamet talks about Theatre (Faber & Faber, 978-0865479289, $22).

Today, Good Morning America featured bestseller Brad Meltzer, author of Heroes for My Son (Harper, 978-0061905285, $19.99).

The Diane Rehm Show hosted bestseller Donald Miller, author of Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation (Howard Books, 978-1439169162, $19.99).

Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

Historian-travel writer William Dalrymple, whose Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Knopf, 978-0307272829, $26.95) is just out this week. PW’s starred review deemed it an “ambitious and affectionate book that respects popular religion.”

Frank Meeink, with Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story as Told to Jody M. Roy, Ph.D. (Hawthorne Books, 978-0979018824, $15.95). From PW’s starred review: “A brutal tour of modern American racism at its worst, a case study of traumatized youth and drug addiction, and a stark reminder of the human capacity for redemption, Meeink and Roy's account is a shocking but ultimately reaffirming read.”

On The View, Joanna Philbin (daughter of Regis) introduced The Daughters (Poppy, 978-0316049009, $16.99; Hachette Audio unabridged CD, $22.98), the first in her YA series about growing up with celebrity parents. PW found it a “predictably glam but thoroughly enjoyable debut.”

The Bob Edwards Show talked with journalist Gretchen Peters, whose Seeds of Terror: How Drugs, Thugs, and Crime Are Reshaping the Afghan War (Picador, 978-0312429638, $16; Tantor unabridged CD, $29.99) is now out in paperback. PW said “Peters has exhaustively framed one of the thorniest problems facing policy makers in this long war.”

This evening, The Daily Show interviews actor and former senator Fred Thompson, author of Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances (Crown Forum, 978-0307460288, $25).

Tonight on Tavis Smiley, Brando Skyhorse introduces The Madonnas of Echo Park (Free Press, 978-1439170809, $23). PW thought “Skyhorse excels at building a vibrant community and presenting several perspectives on what it means to be Mexican in America.”

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