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Authors on the Air: Flay, Lewis, Poliafito, Lawson
The Early Show today features Bobby Flay's Throwdown!: More Than 100 Recipes from Food Network's Ultimate Cooking Challenge by Bobby Flay (Clarkson Potter, ISBN 978-0307719164). PW's review said, "This companion volume is one part recap and one part cookbook. For true fans of the show, Flay recounts each episode in his trademark cocky prose ("I heat things up with Jamaican jerk jockey Nigel Spence") and in doing so provides a tasty travelogue of eateries, from Asian dumplings at the Good Fork in Brooklyn, N.Y., to chile cheeseburgers at the Buckhorn Tavern in San Antonio, Tex."
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Authors on the Air: Seinfeld, Lawson, Armstrong
Jessica Seinfeld is on Good Morning America today with tips from her new book, Double Delicious!: Good, Simple Food for Busy, Complicated Lives (Morrow, ISBN 978-0061659331). In an interview with Cooking the Books back in July, Seinfeld talked about why she wanted to write another book, and why parents shouldn't feel bad about slipping cauliflower into their kids' egg salad.
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Authors on the Air: 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest,' Edwidge Danticat
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest opens today, based on the blockbuster novel by Stieg Larsson (Knopf, ISBN 978-0307269997). The film has been getting mixed reviews: Metro Times in Detroit called it a "dark and glacially paced way to wrap up a trilogy," and the Chicago Tribune said, "It's a rather wobbly blend of courtroom drama and loose ends tied, albeit rather leisurely."
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Authors on the Air: The Von Trapps, Michael Caine
Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, and Oprah are a few of our favorite things, and they converge today when The Sound of Music cast reunites on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Books on those crazy singing Von Trapps abound, including The Sound of Music Companion by Laurence Maslon (Fireside, ISBN 978-1416549543); The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp (Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 9780060005771); and Memories Before and After the Sound of Music by Agathe von Trapp (Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 9780061998812).
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Authors on the Air: Apolo Ohno, Ming Tsai
The Today Show talks to Apolo Anton Ohno, whose Zero Regrets is just out from Atria (ISBN 978-1451609066 ); Ming Tsai, author of the forthcoming Simply Ming One-Pot Meals: Quick, Healthy & Affordable Recipes (Kyle Books, ISBN 978-1906868369); and Kim Barnouin, the nice person behind Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook: Crazy Delicious Recipes that Are Good to the Earth and Great for Your Bod (Running Press, ISBN 978-0762439379).
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Authors on the Air: Ina Garten, Kelly Valen, 4TROOPS
Ina Garten is on The Today Show today for her newest book, Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That (Clarkson Potter, ISBN 978-0307238764). Garten talked to Cooking the Books back in August, and PW's review of her book noted, "True to her trademark style, Garten once again shows that delicious food can be prepared with a minimum of fuss, even with guests on the way."
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Authors on the Air: Mark Rotella, Michael Caine, Condoleezza Rice
PW's own Mark Rotella is on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show today, talking about his book Amore: The Story of Italian American Song (FSG, ISBN 978-0865476981). PW's starred review said, "Rotella's revelatory follow-up to Stolen Figs is much more than the story of the years after the war and before the Beatles, when Italian-Americans ruled popular music--it's an astute examination of how the Italians integrated into America."
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Authors on the Air: 'The Geometry of Pasta,' Keith Richards
Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy talk about their book The Geometry of Pasta (Quirk, ISBN 978-1594744952) on The Martha Stewart Show today. PW's starred review said, "One would think that a minimalist cookbook devoid of photography wouldn't be worthy of coffee table status, but the illustrations adorning this volume prove otherwise. Conceived by award-winning graphic designer Hildebrand... the diversity of pasta morphology, from Agnolotti to Ziti, is revealed through historical anecdotes, recipes, and an eye-catching b&w aesthetic."
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Authors on the Air: David Sedaris, Deanna Favre, Shane Stanford
The Leonard Lopate Show sits down with David Sedaris, whose his latest collection of short stories is Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (Little, Brown, ISBN 978-0316038393). Sedaris's appearance on the public radio show marks a return to his roots: the writer's big break involved a reading from his book SantaLand Diaries--which was produced by Ira Glass, who went on to create This American Life.
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Authors on the Air: Nicolle Wallace, Stephen Cohen, Deanna Favre
Today, Morning Joe features Nicolle Wallace, author of Eighteen Acres (Atria, ISBN 978-1439194829). PW's review said, "Wallace, a former White House communications director for George W. Bush, does a fine job of making politics both maddening and glamorous in her compelling but uneven debut."
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Authors on the Air: Jenny Sanford, Jane Leavy, Michael Perino
This morning, Good Morning America hosts Jenny Sanford, author of Staying True, which is out today in paperback from Ballantine (ISBN 978-0345522566). PW's review said, "Sanford--the wronged wife of Mark Sanford, disgraced governor of South Carolina, who famously refused to stand by him when his affair came to light—delivers a crisp and affecting reading of her memoir of her family, career, faith, and the very public implosion of her marriage. She's surprisingly relatable and possessed of a very dry wit."
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Oceanview Teams With Amber to Make Movies
Florida-based Oceanview Publishing has inked an agreement with Amber Entertainment to develop films based on its backlist. Oceanview specializes in mystery/suspense novels, and the first title in the development slate is Ward Larsen's The Perfect Assassin, which was originally published in 2006. Amber Entertainment's Ileen Maisel and Lawrence Elman, along with Oceanview founders Robert and Patricia Gussin, will serve as executive producers on the project, about a female doctor whose boat is hijacked by an Israeli assassin.
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Authors on the Air: Steven Johnson, Kevin Kelly
The Leonard Lopate Show today talks with Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Riverhead, ISBN 978-1594487712), and Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants (Viking, ISBN 978-0670022151). PW found Johnson's book to be "a sweeping look at innovation spanning nearly the whole of human history.... eye-opening stuff--although it does require an investment from the reader." We called Kelly's book "ingenious," noting, "Kelly's wise attempts to explain our organic relationship with technology will surely provoke conversations with critics whose discussions of the evils of technology are limited to the negative impact of the computer and the Internet on culture."
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Authors on the Air: 'Red,' Gayle King, Laurie Puhn
Red opens today. It is based on the graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer (WildStorm, ISBN 978-1401223465) and stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren. PW's review said, "this is a lightweight but sporadically entertaining journey into two much-traveled genres," and noted the story's "unity of theme and unfolding action, following the gruesome trail of a retired CIA killer who reacts with violence when the agency decides to eliminate him."
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Authors on the Air: Rakoff, Zuiker, Flay
David Rakoff, author of Half Empty (Doubleday, ISBN 978-0385525244), is on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight. PW's review said, "In this sardonic collection of essays, Rakoff (Don't Get Too Comfortable) plays the role of a naysayer who tries to convince the reader, with humorous asides and sarcastic one-liners, that the world is going to hell in a hand-basket and the nerds and geeks will someday be the globe's financial and political tyrants."
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Authors on the Air: Bobbi Brown, Mark Bittman
Make-up artist Bobbi Brown is on the Martha Stewart Show today for her new book, Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules: Fabulous Looks, Beauty Essentials, and Life Lessons for Loving Your Teens and Twenties (Chronicle, ISBN 978-0811874687). The show's theme is a slumber party, and with a large number of teenage girls in the audience, Brown will be talking about her book and demonstrating some techniques from it.
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Authors on the Air: Condoleezza Rice, Hoda Kotb, Tyler Florence
This morning, The Today Show hosts Condoleezza Rice, author of Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, ISBN 978-0385738798); Hoda Kotb, author of Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1439189481); and Tyler Florence, author of Tyler Florence Family Meal: Bringing People Together Never Tasted Better (Rodale, ISBN 978-1605293387).
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Authors on the Air: 'Secretariat,' 'It's Kind of a Funny Story'
The Disney movie Secretariat opens today. The official tie-in is Secretariat by William Nack (Hyperion, ISBN 978-1401324018), and a related title is Secretariat's Meadow by Kate Chenery Tweedy, daughter of Penny Chenery, who bred and raced Secretariat (played by Diane Lane in the movie). Dementi Milestone Publishing is the publisher (ISBN 978-0982701904).
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Authors on the Air: Terry McMillan, Paul David Pope
Terry McMillan is on The Mo'Nique Show today. McMillan's latest is Getting to Happy (Viking, ISBN 978-0670022045). PW's review said, "Fifteen years after Waiting to Exhale, McMillan brings back Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin--now in their 50s--for a disappointing and uninspired outing.... this reunion reads like a catalogue of personal catastrophes annotated with very long, rambling discussions, with more emphasis on simple drama than character."
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Authors on the Air: Dray, Berman, Eisner, Ellroy
Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart checks in with Philip Dray, author of There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Doubleday, ISBN 978-0385526296). PW's review said, "this stirring study situates one of the most subversive yet profoundly American of social movements at the heart of the nation's history.... Packed with vivid characters and dramatic scenes, Dray's fine recap of a neglected but vital tradition has much to say about labor's current straits."
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