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Authors on the Air: Andersen, Vanzant, Burke, Freston
Tonight, The Colbert Report features Kurt Andersen, who wrote the foreword to Spark: How Creativity Works (Harper, ISBN 978-0061732317). PW’s review said, “Over the past 10 years, numerous artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers have sat down with host Kurt Anderson in his acclaimed public radio show, Studio 360, to reflect on the power of art and the nature of creativity. Pulling from those interviews, Burstein, the show's producer, gathers a diverse cast of characters (Chuck Close, Richard Ford, Isabel Allende, and Patti Lupone among them) who share their thoughts about the sources of their creativity: the influence of their parents, of place, or of a shattering event, or the stimulation of working with a creative partner.”
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Authors on the Air: Cheryl Burke, Marc Agronin, Julie Burstein
Cheryl Burke, author of Dancing Lessons: How I Found Passion and Potential on the Dance Floor and in Life (Wiley, ISBN 9780470640005), is on Good Morning America, The Ellen Degeneres Show, and ABC News Now today. The book shares the story of the life of the professional dancer, choreographer, and two-time champion on the series Dancing with the Stars.
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Authors on the Air: Ariel Sabar, Kathy Magliato, Michael Caine
Today, Ariel Sabar is on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show and Sirius/XM’s Bob Edwards Show to talk about his new book, Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York (Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-0738213798). PW’s review said, “When a man meets his future wife in the subway, Sabar could be describing the city itself when he notes its appeal: "Anonymity--the ability to be simultaneously surrounded by and withdrawn from other people." Sabar may want readers to deeply consider his thesis but the strength of this effort lies in its sweetness.”
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Authors on the Air: Stefan Kanfer, Janet Jackson
On The Leonard Lopate Show today, Stefan Kanfer discusses his new book, Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart (Knopf, ISBN 978-0307271006). PW’s review said, “the biography stands as an entertaining, definitive portrait, enriched with delightful digressions into Bogie's noirish, rough-hewn persona.”
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Authors on the Air: Engel, Polizzi, Milani, Freeman
Today, Good Morning America features Red Flags or Red Herrings? Predicting Who Your Child Will Become by Susan Engel (Atria, ISBN 978-1439150115). PW’s review said, “Parents will come away from this insightful book more with a sense of how to proceed rather than specific directions, but the author knows her stuff and is a wonderful storyteller.”
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Authors on the Air: Pearlman, Ray, Brand, Cora
Edith Pearlman talks about her new collection of short stories, Binocular Vision (Lookout Books, ISBN 978-0982338292), on The Leonard Lopate Show today. PW’s starred review said, “A finely tuned collection by writer's writer Pearlman combines the best of previous collections (How to Fall; etc.) with austere, polished new work. Pearlman's characters for the most part are stiff-upper-lipped Northeasterners who take what comes and don't grumble.”
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Authors on the Air: Levine, Portis, Epstein
Sarabeth Levine, author of Sarabeth's Bakery: From My Hands to Yours (Rizzoli, ISBN 978-0847834082), is on The Martha Stewart Show today. PW’s starred review of Levine’s book said, “From her modest beginnings selling fruit spreads, jams, and preserves in specialty shops and opening a bakery cafe ‘on what was then a distinctly inelegant Amsterdam Avenue on Manhattan's Upper West Side,’ the James Beard Award-winning pastry chef's star, like her dough, continues to rise.”
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Authors on the Air: Jwoww, Amy Sedaris, Nancy Grace
Jenni "jwoww" Farley, of Jersey Shore notoriety, has joined the publishing elite. Her book, The Rules According to JWOWW: Shore-Tested Secrets on Landing a Mint Guy, Staying Fresh to Death, and Kicking the Competition to the Curb (Morrow, ISBN 978-0062075390), is out this week, and today, Farley is on The Today Show.
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Authors on the Air: Grace Young, Martha Stewart
Grace Young, author of Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, with Authentic Recipes and Stories (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1416580577), is on The Leonard Lopate Show today.
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Authors on the Air: Joyce Carol Oates, V. S. Ramachandran
Joyce Carol Oates, whose latest book is A Widow's Story (Ecco, ISBN 9780062015532), is on PBS’s NewsHour today. PW’s review said, “In her typically probing fashion, Oates navigates her way through the choppy waters of widowhood, at first refusing to accept her new identity as a widow.... At times overly self-conscious, Oates nevertheless shines a bright light in every corner in her soul-searing memoir of widowhood.”
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Authors on the Air: Kelly, Berman, Bittman
Tonight, The Colbert Report talks to Sean Kelly, coauthor of All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age (Free Press, ISBN 978-1416596158). PW’s review of the book noted, “Ambitious it is, but by turns it drifts or jumps, giving a sense of randomness to its argument.”
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Authors on the Air: Smalls, Drummond, Yankovic
This morning, The Today Show hosts Tionna Tee Smalls, author of Girl, Get Your Mind Right! (Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 9780062032843); Ree Drummond, author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks (Morrow, ISBN 9780061658198); and Al Yankovic, author of When I Grow Up (HarperCollins, ISBN 9780061926914).
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Authors on the Air: Paul Offit, Maxine Hong Kingston, Elizabeth Gilbert
Paul Offit, author of Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Basic Books, ISBN 978-0465021499), is on The Colbert Report tonight. PW’s starred review called the book “a smart, hard-hitting expose of vaccine pseudoscience…. a thorough dismantling of antivaccine notions and a sober warning about the resurgence of deadly childhood infections stemming from declining vaccination rates.”
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Authors on the Air: Chang, 'Anonymous'
Joanne Chang, author of Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston’s Flour Bakery + Cafe (Chronicle, ISBN 9780811869447), is on The Martha Stewart Show today. Chang, a Harvard alum with a degree in economics, owns Flour Bakery in Boston, which sells sweet, simple treats such as Homemade Pop-Tarts, Brioche au Chocolat, and Lemon Raspberry Cake.
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Authors on the Air: Orenstein, Harvey, Hasselbeck
Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter (Harper, ISBN 978-0061711527), is on The Diane Rehm Show today. PW’s review said, “With insight and biting humor, the author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement.”
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Authors on the Air: Betty White, Joanne Chang
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson today talks to Betty White, author of Here We Go Again (Scribner, ISBN 978-1451613698). PW's review said, "This behind-the-scenes look at television since the late 1940s, with its dozens of photos, should delight fans."
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Authors on the Air: LaFemina, Falcinelli, Castronovo
It’s Meatball Day on The Martha Stewart Show today. Martha gets schooled by chef and cookbook author John LaFemina (A Man and His Meatballs: The Hilarious but True Story of a Self-Taught Chef and Restaurateur, Morrow, ISBN 978-0060853358); as well as chefs and cookbook authors Frank Falcinelli and Frank Castronovo of Frankies Spuntino (The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual, Artisan, ISBN 978-1579654153).
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Authors on the Air: Carter, Reagan, Ruane
Stephen L. Carter, author of The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama (Beast Books, ISBN 978-0-9842951-7-3), is on Talk of the Nation today. PW's review called the book "a thoughtful examination of America's engagement in a 'great war' undertaken by a dedicated thinker on the subject."
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Authors on the Air: 'The Long Walk,' 'Eye of the Hurricane'
The Way Back opens today. Adapted from Slavomir Rawicz's memoir, The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (Lyons Press, ISBN 978-1599219752), the movie stars Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, and Saoirse Ronan. PW covered Lyons's push for the book in December, noting that the memoir, originally published in the U.K., has long been a steady seller for the press.
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Authors on the Air: Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Ken Taylor, Siobhan Fallon
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, author of The G-Free Diet (Center Street, ISBN 978-1599951898), is on Good Morning America today. In the book, Hasselbeck shares wisdom on living without gluten, explaining how to read food labels, create "G-Free shopping lists," cook without gluten, and manage "G-Free living" with family and friends.
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