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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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Authors on the Air: Chris Kimball, Anthony Bourdain, Paul David Pope
Chris Kimball is on The Early Show today. His new book is Fannie's Last Supper: Two Years, Twelve Courses, and Creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook (Hyperion, ISBN 978-1-4013-2322-6). PW's starred review said, "Kimball is off on a culinary and historical adventure... A must-read for history buffs, home cooks, and professional chefs alike."
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Authors on the Air: Eugene Robinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Walter F. Mondale
Eugene Robinson, author of Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America (Doubleday, ISBN 978-0385526548), is on The Colbert Report tonight. PW called the book a "clear-eyed and compassionate study" in which Robinson "marshals persuasive evidence that the African-American population has splintered into four distinct and increasingly disconnected entities: a small elite with enormous influence, a mainstream middle-class majority, a newly emergent group of recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, and an abandoned minority 'with less hope of escaping poverty than at any time since Reconstruction's end. "
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Authors on the Air: 'Let Me In,' 'The Social Network,' 'Freakonomics'
Movies opening today include Let Me In, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee, based on the bestselling Swedish novel Lat den Ratte Komma In (Let the Right One In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist. St. Martin's Griffin has the movie tie-in edition, titled Let Me In (ISBN 978-0312656492). PW's review said, "Swedish author Lindqvist's debut, a horror novel, offers few twists that won't already be familiar to readers of modern vampire fiction.... it's the gory set pieces that propel the predictable plot."
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Authors on the Air: Sigrid Nunez, Janet Elder, Meredith Maran
Sigrid Nunez talks about her latest novel, Salvation City (Riverhead, ISBN 978-1594487668), on The Leonard Lopate Show today. PW called the book "intellectually rigorous and grimly prophetic," noting that it "initially resembles any number of coming-of-age yarns, except that most adolescences don't coincide with apocalyptic flu pandemics and the rise of insular church-cities."
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Authors on the Air: America's Cheapest Family, Marlo Thomas, Nicole Richie
Steve and Annette Economides and family, aka America's Cheapest Family, are appear on The Today Show today (as well as tomorrow and Friday) to promote their new book, Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half with America's Cheapest Family: Includes So Many Innovative Strategies You Won't Have to Cut Coupons (Thomas Nelson, ISBN 978-1400202836).
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Authors on the Air: Adrian Goldsworthy, Stephen Prothero, Bob Woodward
Adrian Goldsworthy is on NPR's Talk of the Nation today to talk about his new dual biography, Antony and Cleopatra (Yale Univ., ISBN 9780300165340). PW starred its review, saying, "Readers who recognize Goldsworthy as Britain's most prolific and perhaps finest popular historian of Roman times will find him once again at his best."
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