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Authors on the Air: Trudeau, Crystal, Brown, Lakshmi
Gary Trudeau is on The Colbert Report tonight. Trudeau is the author of 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective (Andrews McMeel, ISBN 978-0740797354). PW's starred review said, "This monolithic overview of G.B. Trudeau's landmark newspaper strip is the most comprehensive book on the subject imaginable, a must-read for both fans and those interested in what amounts to a chronicle of American society over the past four decades."
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Authors on the Air: 'I Love You Phillip Morris'
I Love You Phillip Morris opens today, starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. It is based on Steve McVicker's book (Miramax, ISBN 978-0786869039). PW's review said, "Steven Russell, the subject of this true crime story, is a rare individual, a genius who has run afoul of the law, a prodigious intellect endowed with boundless energy, audacity and guile.... Journalist McVicker has written an unexceptional book about this exceptional man, but Russell's charisma--shining through lackluster prose--is what makes this offbeat biography a success."
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Authors on the Air: Brad Meltzer, Stacy Schiff
Brad Meltzer's new show, Brad Meltzer's Decoded, premieres on History tonight. In the 10-part series, Meltzer scours secret clues, symbols, and conspiracy theories to unravel provocative enigmas such as the real story behind the White House cornerstone, the location of the lost Confederate Treasury, and the hidden messages of the Statue of Liberty. Meltzer's next book is The Inner Circle, which Grand Central will publish in January (ISBN 978-0446577892).
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Authors on the Air: Sam Calagione, Anne Rice, Gil Marks
This week, Sam Calagione, coauthor of He Said Beer, She Said Wine (DK Publishing, ISBN 9780756654498) begins starring in the new show Brew Masters on the Discovery Channel. Brew Masters follows Calagione and his partners in suds as they travel the country and the world sourcing exotic ingredients and discovering ancient techniques to produce beer. PW's review said, "This cute exploration of food pairings screams that it wants to be a cable TV series."
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Authors on the Air: Siobhan O'Connor, Alexandra Spunt, The Kardashians
The Today Show features No More Dirty Looks: The Truth about Your Beauty Products--and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics by Siobhan O'Connor and Alexandra Spunt (Da Capo Lifelong, ISBN 978-0738213965) and Kardashian Konfidential by Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe Kardashian (St. Martin's, ISBN 978-0312628079).
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Authors on the Air: Steve Martin, The Kardashians
Talk of the Nation today features An Object of Beauty: A Novel by Steve Martin (Grand Central, ISBN 978-0446573641). PW's review said, "Martin compresses the wild and crazy end of the millennium and finds in this piercing novel a sardonic morality tale.... If Shopgirl was about the absence of purpose, this book is about the absence of a moral compass, not just in the life of an adventuress but for an entire era."
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Authors on the Air: 'An Awesome Book of Thanks', 'Tyler Florence Family Meal'
Dallas Clayton, author of An Awesome Book of Thanks! (AmazonEncore, ISBN 978-1935597377), is on CBS's The Talk today. The book's message is simple: be thankful for all that you have. Clayton is also the creator of the Awesome World Foundation, which donates books to needy children.
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Authors on the Air: Kimball, Herm, Garten
Today, The Leonard Lopate Show interviews Kristin Kimball, author of The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Scribner, ISBN 978-1416551607), about why Kimball left a career as a freelance writer in New York City to become a farmer near Lake Champlain. And fourth-generation farmer Eric Herm, author of Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth: A Path to Agriculture's Higher Consciousness (Dreamriver Press, ISBN 978-0979790898), discusses the strains commercial agriculture puts on our natural resources, ecosystems, and farmers.
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Authors on the Air: Darin Strauss, Steve Martin
Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life (McSweeney's, ISBN 978-1934781708) is on The Diane Rehm Show today. PW's review said, "Strauss's spare memoir begins with a confession: 'Half my life ago, I killed a girl.' Strauss (The Real McCoy) readily acknowledges the problems of writing about this event, the result of a moment's distraction... yet a discomfiting tone pervades, and some of the author's concerns, such as those related to public perception, may alienate readers."
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Authors on the Air: 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, and Ralph Fiennes, opens today. It is based, of course, on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine Books, ISBN 978-0545139700).
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Authors on the Air: Lidia Bastianich, Dennis Lahane
The Today Show today features Lidia Bastianich, author of Nonna Tell Me a Story: Lidia's Christmas Kitchen (Running Press Kids, ISBN 978-0762436927). Back in August, Bastianich, known for her cookbooks and restaurants, talked to Cooking the Books about writing for children.
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Authors on the Air: Buddy Valastro, Jamie Oliver, Rachael Ray
Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia author Buddy Valastro is on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight. Free Press published the book earlier this month (ISBN 978-1439183519). PW's review said, "Best known on TLC cable as the Cake Boss, Valastro shares recipes and a sometimes treacly tale of family, tradition, and ambition.... His is the American dream told in flashbacks; like his show, the book plays on charm and the idea that to know Buddy is to like his work. Still, the book offers hard-won baking know-how."
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Authors on the Air: Korda, Oliver, Rushdie
Today, NPR's Talk of the Nation interviews Michael Korda, author of Hero (Harper, ISBN 9780061712616). PW's starred review said, "This magisterial biography of British soldier and adventurer T.E. Lawrence celebrates a life spent subverting authority in the most glamorous--and bizarre--ways.... Korda's vivid portrait of Lawrence and his warring impulses captures the brilliance and charisma of this fascinating figure."
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Overlook Sees Portis Boost from 'True Grit'
The Coen Brothers' forthcoming adaptation of Charles Portis's True Grit has brought the celebrated, if reclusive, author back into the headlines... and onto peoples' bookshelves. Overlook, Portis's publisher, has seen strong sales on its tie-in edition of the book; the indie house went to press for 100,000 copies of the edition and is planning a second printing for before Christmas.
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Authors on the Air: Susan Cheever, Ian Frazier
The Leonard Lopate Show today welcomes Susan Cheever, author of Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1416569916). PW's starred review said, "While some may find Cheever's digressions and self-referencing grating, most will savor this work--surely a future book club staple--as keen, refreshing, and authoritative." Also on the show today are John and Patricia Adams, authors of A Force for Nature: The Story of NRDC and Its Fight to Save Our Planet (Chronicle, ISBN 978-0811865357); and Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 978-0374278724).
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Authors on the Air: Sandra Lee, Wes Yoder, Mike Lupica
Domestic diva and shortcut smarty (but not First Lady of New York State) Sandra Lee is on Good Morning America today. Her latest book, Semi-Homemade: The Complete Cookbook (Wiley, ISBN 978-0470874059), came out in October, and this month she releases Semi-Homemade Comfort Food (Wiley, ISBN 978-0470645949).
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Authors on the Air: Danticat, Barry, Silverman, Osmond
Edwidge Danticat is on The Leonard Lopate Show today to discuss her new book, Create Dangerously (Princeton Univ. ISBN 978-0691140186). PW's starred review said, "this lean collection of jaw-breaking horrors side by side with luminous insights... is uneven and inorganic in patches. But in Danticat's many remarkable stories and pensees from the gut, one locates the inimitable power of truth."
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Authors on the Air: George W. Bush, Adriana Trigiani
The Today Show today features former president George W. Bush, whose Decision Points is just out from Crown (ISBN 978-0307590619); Adriana Trigiani, whose latest book is Don't Sing At The Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers (Harper, ISBN 9780061958946), and Julie Andrews Edwards, whose Little Bo in Italy is just out from HarperCollins (ISBN 9780060089085).
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RH Launches Literary Site for Film Buffs
Random House has launched a new marketing site dedicated to books and movies, www.wordandfilm.com. The site, which comes out of the publisher's digital initiatives division is, as the group's director Sheila O'Shea put it, something that "celebrates the intersection of books, movies, and television."
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Authors on the Air: Schiff, Nicholl, Cooper, Hedges
Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra (Little, Brown, ISBN 978-0316001922), is on The Diane Rehm Show today. PW's starred review called the book, "[An] excellent, myth-busting biography.... Schiff enters so completely into the time and place, especially the beauty and luxury of the 'great metropolis' of Alexandria, Cleopatra's capital, describing it in almost cinematic detail. And though we all know the outcome, Schiff's account of Cleopatra's and Antony's desperate efforts to manipulate their triumphant enemy, Octavian, make for tragic, page-turning reading. No one will think of Cleopatra in quite the same way after reading this vivid, provocative book."
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