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Authors on the Air: Fall Fiction on 'GMA'; Donoghue on NPR
Good Morning America features a fall books round-up today. Its fiction picks are Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (FSG, ISBN 978-0312600846), The Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (Dutton, ISBN 978-0525951650), Room: A Novel by Emma Donaghue (Little, Brown, ISBN 978-0316098335), Nemesis by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 978-0547318356), and Our Kind of Traitor by John Le Carre (Viking, ISBN 978-0670022243).
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Authors on the Air: 'Howl,' 'Dandelion Dust,' 'Legend of the Guardians'
Movies opening today include Howl, starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg. Tie-ins include City Lights' Howl and Other Poems (ISBN 978-0872860179) and Harper Perennial's Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions (ISBN 978-0061137457).
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Authors on the Air: Bobbi Brown, James Franco, Alan Khazei
Make-up artist Bobbi Brown is on The Today Show today to talk up her new book, Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules: Fabulous Looks, Beauty Essentials, and Life Lessons for Loving Your Teens and Twenties, which Chronicle Books is publishing October 1 (ISBN 978-0811874687). Brown demonstrates techniques from the book, which emphasizes natural beauty.
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Authors on the Air: Mark Bittman, Jenny McCarthy, Guillermo Del Toro
Mark Bittman is on The Today Show today, talking about his Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1439120231). In a starred review, PW said, "Practical and balanced, this collection will shape the way we cook at home for years to come."
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Authors on the Air: Tori Spelling, Rachael Ray
Tori Spelling is on The Today Show today, going into uncharted terriTORI (Gallery, ISBN 978-1439187715). Woe is Spelling; so says her book's promo copy, "It's not every Hollywood starlet whose name greets you on a Virgin Airways flight into la-la land. But Tori Spelling has come to accept that her life is a spectacle. Her name is her brand, and business is booming. Too bad when your job is to be yourself, you can't exactly take a break."
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Authors on the Air: Mark Lachs, Jimmy Carter, Pam Anderson
Good Morning America talks to Dr. Mark Lachs about his new book, Treat Me, Not My Age: A Doctor's Guide to Getting the Best Care as You or a Loved One Gets Older (Viking, ISBN 978-0670022106). Geriatrician Lachs offers "an insider's guide to staying healthy," with tips on finding the right primary care doctor, specialist, or care facility; making home improvements that will keep the nursing home at bay; and more.
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Authors on the Air: 'The Town;' 'Third World America;' 'Golden Rules'
The movie The Town opens today. It's based on Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves. A movie tie-in edition of the book is out from Scribner, titled The Town (ISBN 978-1439196502). Despite some quibbles, PW's review said, "the author's original writing style and knack for unusual metaphors can make for engaging reading, and the book's cinematic quality and grittily realistic action sequences bode well for its day on screen."
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Authors on the Air: Sloane Crosley, Max Lucado, Katherine Schwarzenegger
Sloane Crosley shows up on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson tonight to discuss the finer points of How Did You Get This Number (Riverhead, ISBN 978-1594487590). PW called Crosley’s collection of essays "fresh, funny, and eager to be loved."
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Authors on the Air: Laurie Hertzel, Gabriel Grayson, 'Howl'
Laurie Hertzel, author of News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist (Univ. of Minnesota Press) visits Midmorning on Minnesota Public Radio and WILL-FM (Illinois public radio). Hertzel's book tells of how she applied for a job at the Duluth, Minn., News Tribune, answering phones, writing obituaries, and making coffee for the newsroom staff--and wound up getting more and more responsibilities.
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Authors on the Air: Tony Blair, Michael Eisner, Katherine Schwarzenegger
Tony Blair is on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart talking about his new book, A Journey: My Political Life (Knopf, ISBN 978-0307269836). PW's review said, "Critics who dubbed Britain's ex-prime minister "Tony Blur" for his allegedly substance-free politics swaddled in gauzy PR won't have their minds changed by this nebulous memoir."
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Authors on the Air: The Story Behind Susan G. Komen; Casey's 'Wave'
Good Morning America visits with Nancy Brinker, whose Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer (Crown, ISBN 978-0307718129) pubs tomorrow. PW's review summed it up: "In this deeply thoughtful, assertive, sensitive memoir of the sisters' growing up and devotion to each other in life and death, Brinker chronicles the long path she trod to create Susan G. Komen for the Cure."
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HBO Boardwalk Empire Series Boosts NJ Publisher
A small regional publisher based in Medford, N.J., could have its best year ever thanks to HBO. The sister company to Information Today, Plexus Publishing, which is distributed by IPG and typically releases two or three trade titles a year, has the book on which HBO's newest series to mix crime, corruption, and New Jersey, is based: Nelson Johnson's Boardwalk Empire.
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Authors on the Air: 'The Romantics,' 'Never Let Me Go'
The movie The Romantics opens today, starring Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, and Anna Paquin. The film is based on Galt Niederhoffer's novel, The Romantics; Picador has the movie tie-in edition (ISBN 978-0312545994).
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Authors on the Air: 'Brady, Brady, Brady'; Meghan McCain, Liz Murray
It's a very Brady morning, as producer and writer Lloyd J. Schwartz, coauthor with his father, Sherwood Schwartz, of Brady, Brady, Brady: The Complete Story of The Brady Bunch as Told by the Father/Son Team Who Really Know (Running Press, ISBN 978-0-7624-3962-1) shows up on Good Morning America, along with Brady cast members Susan Olsen (who played Cindy), Mike Lookinland (Bobby), and Christopher Knight (Peter).
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Movie Alert: 'It's Kind of a Funny Story'
Ned Vizzini's critically acclaimed 2006 novel, It's Kind of a Funny Story, hits the big screen next month. The Focus Features film is directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who also co-wrote the screenplay, based on Vizzini's novel. Keir Gilchrist (The United States of Tara) stars in the movie as Craig, a Brooklyn teenager who checks himself into a psychiatric hospital, after having difficulty coping with the stresses of his first year at a competitive high school.
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Authors on the Air: Safran Foer, Oz, Bourdain, Ripert
The Ellen DeGeneres Show says hello to Jonathan Safran Foer today. Back Bay released Foer's Eating Animals (ISBN 978-0316069885) in paperback this month.
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Authors on the Air: 'Baby Love,' Patrick Hennessey, Jr., 'Gunn's Golden Rules'
On The Today Show this morning, Norah O'Donnell and chef Geoff Tracy give tips on feeding wee ones, which is the subject of their new book, Baby Love: Healthy, Easy, Delicious Meals for Your Baby and Toddler (St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 978-0312621926).
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Authors on the Air: 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet'; 'Just Food'; 'Open'
Authors on today's Leonard Lopate Show include influential novelist David Mitchell, who discussed his latest, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Random House, 978-1400065455, $26). PW's starred review called it a "majestic historical romance set in turn-of-the-19th-century Japan. It's certainly no Cloud Atlas, but it is a dense and satisfying historical with literary brawn and stylistic panache."
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Authors on the Air: 'Called to Coach'; 'Let's Take the Long Way Home'; 'An Actor's Odyssey'
Today, The 700 Club features legendary Florida State University football coach Bobby Bowden, whose Called to Coach: Reflections on Life, Faith, and Football (Howard Books, 978-1439195970, $25) pubbed last week.
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Authors on the Air: Andre Agassi; 'Hostage Nation'; Bill McKibben
Today, The Today Show, Mike and Mike in the Morning, and Anderson Cooper 360 all host tennis champ Andre Agassi, whose Open: An Autobiography (Vintage, 978-0307388407, $15.95; RH Audio abridged CD, $32) is recently out in paperback.
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