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Authors on the Air: Kennedy, Crow, Greitens
Today, Talk of the Nation talks to Caroline Kennedy, author of She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems (Voice, ISBN 978-1401341459).
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Authors on the Air: Holland, Simon, Cohan
Good Morning America features Beat the Gym: Personal Trainer Secrets--Without the Personal Trainer Price Tag by Tom Holland (Morrow, ISBN 978-0061984051) today.
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Authors on the Air: Elliot Tiber, Francisco Goldman
Elliot Tiber, author of Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland, and Interior Decorating (Square One, ISBN 978-0757003516), is on NBC's New York Non-Stop with Chuck Scarborough tonight. PW's review said, "Tiber's rollicking prequel to Taking Woodstock has all of the prime ingredients of a madcap literary comic sendup with an enterprising, hapless narrator taking on chic Gotham city with mixed results"
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Authors on the Air: David Orr, Jesse Ventura
David Orr, author of Beautiful & Pointless (Harper, ISBN 9780061673450), is on Weekend All Things Considered. PW’s starred review said, “This debut from New York Times Book Review poetry columnist Orr is equal parts friendly invitation for the uniniti-ated into the joys and possibilities of reading poetry for the uninitiated and opinionated cultural critique of the contemporary American poetry scene, on which Orr has an unusual vantage point, being one of the only poetry critics with a wide readership, while also being a poet himself.”
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Authors on the Air: Reusing, Higgins Clark, Bourdain
Today, The Today Show talks with Andrea Reusing, author of Cooking in the Moment (Clarkson Potter, ISBN 978-0307463890); Mary Higgins Clark, author of I’ll Walk Alone (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1439180969); Carol Higgins Clark, author of Mobbed (Scribner, ISBN 978-1439170281); and Wayne Pacelle, author of The Bond (Morrow, ISBN 9780061969782).
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Authors on the Air: Billy Collins, Sara Foster, Karen Russell
Today, Talk of the Nation features Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems by Billy Collins (Random, ISBN 978-1400064922). PW's review said, "The 1990s belonged to Billy Collins in the same way that the 1980s belonged to Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten). Collins's gently ironic, gently elegiac work--the mirror image of, say, Jonathan Franzen's suburban delvings--has slowly constructed a pitch-perfect purgatory, and this death-themed ninth collection seems to want to make it as literal as possible: it opens as the speaker stands 'before the joined grave of my parents' and asks, 'What do you think of my new glasses?' "
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Authors on the Air: 'River Monsters,' 'The Bond,' 'Infinite Reality'
Jeremy Wade, author of River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones That Didn't Get Away (Da Capo, ISBN 978-0306819544), is on Conan tnoight. Wade is the host of Animal Planet's series River Monsters, and in the book, he discloses the details of how he tracks down and catches each species and recounts off-camera highlights of his life, from his arrest as a suspected spy in Southeast Asia to a plane crash in the Amazon.
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Authors on the Air: Mansharamani, Bezmozgis, Christian
Today, WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show welcomes Vikram Mansharamani, author of Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst (Wiley, ISBN 978-0470879467); David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World (FSG, ISBN 978-0374281403); and Brian Christian, author of The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive (Doubleday, ISBN 978-0385533065).
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Authors on the Air: 'Hop,' Kreamer, Danson
Hop, starring James Marsden, Russell Brand, Kaley Cuoco, Elizabeth Perkins, and Hugh Laurie, opens today. There is a tie-in chapter book based on the film: Hop (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, ISBN 978-0316129008).
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Authors on the Air: Lillien, Bloch, Abrams
Today, The Today Show features Lisa Lillien, author of Hungry Girl 300 Under 300 (St. Martin’s Griffin, ISBN 978-0312676810). PW’s review said, “The architect of the Hungry Girl franchise returns with nearly a year's worth of recipes that all clock in at under 300 calories per serving... the majority are healthier takes on the familiar and will give time-starved cooks a litany of choices.”
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Authors on the Air: Kathy Freston
On The Martha Stewart Show today, Kathy Freston, author of Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World (Weinstein Books, ISBN 978-1602861336), makes fruit and nut bars. PW’s review said, “Freston, coining the word ‘veganist,’ puts a soft edge on the vegan lifestyle... for the novice, this book offers a gentle, guilt-free path to a meatless (or even, as Freston says, ‘vegan-ish’) life.”
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Authors on the Air: Nicolelis, Vaynerchuk, Haag, Lucci
Miguel Nicolelis, author of Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines--and How It Will Change Our Lives, is on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart today. PW’s review said, “While Nicolelis predicts future developments, such as brain-machine interfaces that will, for instance, allow paralyzed humans to interact fully with their environment, he devotes most of the book to a historical perspective on neuroscience and to explaining the specifics of his research, which will fascinate neuroscience buffs but may be too detailed for general readers.”
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Authors on the Air: Bindi Irwin, Sheryl Crow, Alexander McCall Smith
Today, Bindi Irwin , author of the new children’s book series Bindi Wildlife Adventures, whose first two books are Trouble at the Zoo and Rescue!, is on Good Morning America, Live! with Regis and Kelly, and Piers Morgan Tonight. PW’s review of Trouble at the Zoo said, “Young wildlife conservationist and media darling Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin, is as exuberant on the pages of this peppy early reader as she is on-screen.”
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Authors on the Air: 'Sucker Punch,' 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules'
Movies opening today include Sucker Punch, starring Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, and Jamie Chung. The tie-in book is Sucker Punch: The Art of the Movie by Zach Snyder (Titan Books, ISBN 978-1848568532).
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Authors on the Air: 'Man Down,' 'The Longevity Project'
Dan Abrams, author of Man Down: Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt that Women are Better Cops, Drivers, Gamblers, Spies, World Leaders, Beer Tasters, Hedge Fund Managers, and Just About Everything Else (Abrams Image, ISBN 978-0810998292), is on CBS’s The Talk and KTLA’s Morning Show in Los Angeles today.
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Authors on the Air: DiSpirito, Yamaguchi, Burnett
This morning, The View sits down with Rocco DiSpirito, author of Now Eat This! Diet (Grand Central Life & Style, ISBN 978-0446584494). PW’s review said, “The recipes are mostly super (more like assembling ingredients than cooking) and the prose is straightforward (if a little choppy and repetitive)--meaning just about anyone who wants to should be able to follow this plan and lighten up mealtimes.”
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Authors on the Air: 'Martha Stewart's New Pies and Tarts,' 'The Savage City'
The bakers behind Martha Stewart's New Pies and Tarts: 150 Recipes for Old-Fashioned and Modern Favorites (Clarkson Potter, ISBN 978-0307405098) are on The Martha Stewart Show today, demonstrating how to make rustic galettes filled with seasonal rhubarb and raspberries; light, bright marbleized lemon tarts; and velvety coffee cream pie.
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Authors on the Air: 'Unfamiliar Fishes,' 'Heaven Is for Real'
Sarah Vowell, author of Unfamiliar Fishes (Riverhead, ISBN 978-1594487873), is on The Daily Show today. PW’s review said, “Recounting the brief, remarkable history of a unified and independent Hawaii, Vowell, a public radio star and bestselling author (The Wordy Shipmates), retraces the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England.... Outrageous and wise-cracking, educational but never dry, this book is a thought-provoking and entertaining glimpse into the U.S.'s most unusual state and its unanticipated twists on the familiar story of Americanization.”
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Authors on the Air: 'The Lincoln Lawyer,' 'Limitless,' 'Alabama Moon'
The Lincoln Lawyer opens today, starring Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, and Michael Pena. It is based on Michael Connelly’s novel of the same name (Grand Central, ISBN 978-1455500239). PW’s starred review said, “Veteran bestseller Connelly enters the crowded legal thriller field with flash and panache.... heart-stopping twists and topflight storytelling.”
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Authors on the Air: 'Ireland Unhinged'
Today, The Leonard Lopate Show interviews David Monahan, who moved his family their home in Connecticut to Cork, Ireland, in 2000. Monahan’s book Ireland Unhinged (Council Oak Books, ISBN 978-1571782526) looks back at the past decade, the changes that the economic boon wreaked on the Irish countryside, and what the future holds for the country. The show also talks to mystery novelist Ian Rankin, author of The Complaints (Reagan Arthur Books, ISBN 978-0316039741).
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