This morning, Today hosted tennis champ Monica Seles, author of Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self (Avery, 978-1583333754, $16).

This evening on The Colbert Report, investment banker, Rhodes scholar, and former aide to Condoleezza Rice Wes Moore introduces The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (Spiegel & Grau, 978-0385528191, $25; RH Audio unabridged CD, $35). PW starred its review: “Moore writes with subtlety and insight about the plight of ghetto youth, viewing it from inside and out; he probes beneath the pathologies to reveal the pressures—poverty, a lack of prospects, the need to respond to violence with greater violence—that propelled the other Wes to his doom. The result is a moving exploration of roads not taken.”

On Sirius XM Book Radio's Pia Lindström Presents, MTV executive Bill Flanagan talks about his latest novel Evening's Empire (S&S, 978-1439148457, $26.95). PW thought “Flanagan, despite his tendency to leave absolutely nothing out, pulls it all together into a complex, humorous and touching story.”

Coral Ridge Ministries’ Truths That Transform features sociologist Bradley Wright, author of Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites...and Other Lies You've Been Told: A Sociologist Shatters Myths From the Secular and Christian Media (Bethany House, 978-0764207464, $14.99; Oasis Audio unabridged CD, $22.99). PW wrote, “Wright’s colloquial writing style gives this volume the feel of a folksy college lecture series. The abundant use of graphics adds to the impression the book’s genesis was cribbed from introductory sociology of religion classes.”

Tonight, Tavis Smiley interviews journalist Sebastian Mallaby, author of More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Penguin, 978-1594202551, $29.95). PW declared “Mallaby's enthusiasm for an old-school capitalism of unfettered risk taking isn't always persuasive, but he does offer a penetrating look into a shadowy corner of high finance.”

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson hosts William Knoedelseder, author of I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era (PublicAffairs, 978-1586488963, $14.95), which pubs in paperback next month. From PW’s starred review: “Knoedelseder skillfully layers powerful dramatic details, and readers will shelve the book alongside those other key classics on comedy: Steve Allen's The Funny Men and Janet Coleman's The Compass.”

On Sunday, Pia Lindström Presents featured bestseller Eric Lax, who explained Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey (Knopf, 978-0307270917, $26).

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