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February 21, 2008
Authors on the Air
If you're a fan of Steve Martin's recent memoir, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, (hopefully you are...it's fabulous!), you may want to tune in to tonight's Late Show with David Letterman at 11:30pm on CBS. After listening to the audiobook myself, I'm looking forward to hearing Mr. Martin talk about his stand-up career and how those days, despite the humble beginnings and the larger-than-life attention that resulted, really seemed to be the most purely joyful times of his life so far.
On a more serious matter, at 8:00pm on Comedy Central, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will repeat its interview with Mark Siegel, co-author of Benazir Bhutto's final book, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, completed just seven days before her assassination. Siegel, Bhutto's personal advisor, speaks touchingly about his friend's fight for a Pakistani democracy, her legacy as a proponent for equality, and the future of modern Islam.
Posted by EricaB at February 21, 2008 02:17 PM