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Podcast Scheduled to appear this week are Kate Zernike, discussing her book about the Tea Party movement, ''Boiling Mad''; Julie Bosman with notes from the field; and Gregory Cowles with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review, is the host. Paper Cuts The Book Review's blog covers books and other forms of printed matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sun is hot and yellow, gas is cheap again, the fun's gone out of flying, and America, proud and resilient, beckons anew. Citizens, it's time for a road trip. Pick your road, any road: the ''holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road,'' to quote from Jack Kerouac's guidebook, though good luck plugging those into MapQuest. It might be better to try, say, I-95, that nice fat highway that loosely hugs the Atlantic coastline. The highlights of any road trip, of course, are the pit stops for food, and -- on paper at least -- I-95 should offer a cornucopia: Maryland crabs, North Carolina barbecue, Virginia ham, Georgia boiled peanuts. Yet as we're all sourly aware, Interstate exits rarely, if ever, yield memorable culinary pit stops. Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food. So what's a spontaneous road tripper, equipped with a functioning palate, to do? Here's one line of advice -- pertaining to Virginia travelers seeking native fare like Brunswick stew or chess pie -- worth considering: ''If the tourist does not find the Virginian foods along the highway, he should knock at some farmhouse door, register his complaint against American standardization, and be served after a manner that conforms to the ancient rules of hospitality.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

To the Editor: Virginia Heffernan's humorous essay ''Advice Squad'' (July 20) reinforced my long-held suspicion that self-help authors are helping themselves to a far greater extent than they help their devotees. At a time when my local paper is providing daily columns to help consumers navigate the economic hard times -- how to barter, how to use coupons and so forth -- Heffernan provided me with a clear-cut formula for how to make money, as well as 10 surefire ways to save it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Present a list of best selling fiction, non-fiction and how-to paper back books in the U.S. as of June 28, 1992. 'The Firm,' by John Grisham; 'Cruel Doubt,' by Joe McGinniss; 'The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,' by Stephen R. Covey.