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Authors on the Air: 'Hungry Girl Happy Hour'; Jere Van Dyk; Brett Easton Ellis
Today on Good Morning America, Lisa Lillien served up Hungry Girl Happy Hour: 75 Recipes for Amazingly Fantastic Guilt-Free Cocktails and Party Foods (St. Martin's Griffin; 978-0-312-62103-2, $14.99), which goes on sale today.
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Authors on the Air: Monica Seles; 'Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites'; 'More Money Than God'
This morning, Today hosted tennis champ Monica Seles, author of Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self (Avery, 978-1583333754, $16).
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Authors on the Air: 'Jonah Hex'; 'Lives Like Loaded Guns'; Happy 35th, 'Jaws'!
Movies opening today include: Jonah Hex, directed by Jimmy Hayward and starring Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Josh Brolin, and Will Arnett. It’s based on the DC Comics series, whose latest (by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, and Tony DeZuniga) is Jonah Hex: No Way Back (DC Comics, 978-1401225506, $19.99).
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Authors on the Air: David Mamet; 'Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead'; Brando Skyhorse
This evening on The Colbert Report, film director David Mamet talks about Theatre (Faber & Faber, 978-0865479289, $22).
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Authors on the Air: Alison Arngrim; 'A Baby at Last!'; 'Broke, USA'
This morning, the Today show featured actress Alison Arngrim, whose memoir Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated (It Books, 978-0061962141, $25.99) pubbed yesterday.
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RH Films' 'One Day' Heads Into Production
After announcing numerous projects in development, Random House Films has greenlit a project, with the film adaptation of David Nicholls' One Day going into production on July 12. The film unit, formed between RH and Focus Features, has a number of projects in the development stage--including an adaptation of Beth Raymer's Lay the Favorite (Spiegel & Grau) and Arthur Phillips' The Song Is You (Random House)--but, so far, only its launch project, Reservation Road, has made it to the screen.
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Authors on the Air: 'Blind Descent'; 'Tip It!'; 'Fred Willard's Magnificent Movie Trivia'
Today on both The Daily Show and The Leonard Lopate Show: James M. Tabor, whose Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth (Random House, 978-1400067671, $26; RH Audio unabridged CD, $40) pubs today. In its starred review, PW wrote, "Using a pulse-pounding narrative, this is tense real-life adventure pitting two master cavers mirroring the cold war with very uncommonly high stakes."
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Authors on the Air: Pat Benatar; Geneen Roth; 'God Is Not One'
Today, both the Today show and Nightline host rocker Pat Benatar, whose memoir, Between a Heart and a Rock Place (William Morrow, 978-0061953774, $25.99), pubs tomorrow. Tomorrow, she visits The Leonard Lopate Show.
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Authors on the Air: Emeril Lagasse; 'Signs, Visits, and Premonitions from Loved Ones Lost on 9/11'; Dan Ariely
Authors on today's Good Morning America included Chef Emeril Lagasse, whose new cookbook is Farm to Fork: Cooking Local, Cooking Fresh (HarperStudio, 978-0061742958, $24.99), which PW called "another of Lagasse's highly 'competent creations, full of flavorful recipes presented with simplicity and minimal chitchat."
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Authors on the Air: Danielle Steel; David Carradine; Jennifer Egan
Danielle Steel, whose Family Ties (Delacorte, 978-0385343169, $28; Brilliance Audio abridged CD, $24.99; unabridged, $38.99) pubs next week. PW thought "The treacle factor is front and foremost as Steel demonstrates, again, why she's not known as a prose stylist, although there's a glimmer of a good plot."
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B&N Gives Away Free Copies of New A&E Show's Script
Barnes & Noble is teaming with A&E Network on an exclusive marketing partnership for the network's new original drama series The Glades, which premieres July 11. In what's being called a TV and book industry first, A&E has adapted its pilot script of The Glades--a police procedural produced by Clifton Campbell, who did 21 Jump Street--into a free print and e-book.
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Authors on the Air: 'GH Family Vegetarian Cooking'; '52 Loaves'; 'Blood Secrets'
This morning on Today: Good Housekeeping food director Susan Westmoreland demonstrated a recipe from Good Housekeeping Family Vegetarian Cooking: 225 Recipes Everyone Will Love (Hearst Books, 978-1588167927, $24.95), just out last week, which PW said "makes it easy for would-be vegetarians to try meat-free eating, occasionally or every day."
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Authors on the Air: 'The Passage'; 'Surviving a Grizzly Attack'; 'Pretty Little Liars'
Today, Good Morning America hosted PEN/Hemingway Award winner Justin Cronin, whose The Passage (Ballantine, 978-0345504968, $27; RH Audio abridged CD, $45) pubs today. PW's starred review called it an "engrossingly horrific account of a post-apocalyptic America overrun by the gruesome reality behind the wish-fulfillment fantasies."
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Authors on the Air: Anthony Bourdain; John Waters; Charles Bowden
Authors on this morning's Today show include Anthony Bourdain, whose Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Ecco, 978-0061718946, $26.99) pubs tomorrow.
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Authors on the Air: 'Marmaduke'; Spike Mendelsohn; Christopher Hitchens
Today, the movie Marmaduke opens, based on Brad Anderso's Marmaduke comic strip, directed by Tom Dey and starring the voices of Owen Wilson, Emma Stone, Ron Perlman, William H. Macy, George Lopez, Stacy Ferguson, Damon Wayans Jr., and Jeremy Piven. Tie-ins include Marmaduke: The Junior Novel by J. E. Bright (HarperFestival, 978-0061995064, $5.99) and Kirsten Mayer's Marmaduke: Meet Marmaduke (I Can Read Book 1) (HarperCollins, 978-0061995057, $3.99).
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Authors on the Air: 'Dear Money'; Plenitude; Gary Player
Martha McPhee counted Dear Money (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0151011650, $25; Blackstone Audio unabridged CD, $29.95), which goes on sale today. PW found it "a middling tweak of a familiar story, though a fitting one for these times of shattered money dreams."
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Authors on the Air: Dick and Liz, Unwrapped; Henry Luce, Too; Bill Gates, Sr.
Today, Good Morning America hosted journalist Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger, whose Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century (Harper, 978-0061562846, $27.99) pubs on June 15. PW called it a "raucous, intimate, dual biography of Hollywood's ultimate It Couple."
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Authors on the Air: Belinda Carlisle; Chuck Barris; 'AIA Guide to New York City'
Today, Good Morning America hosted singer Belinda Carlisle, whose Lips Unsealed: A Memoir (Crown, 978-0307463494, $26; RH Audio abridged CD, $30) pubs today. PW thought "Carlisle writes candidly, and her chronic fear of being exposed as a fake is heartfelt and winning." Tomorrow, she visits The View.
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Authors on the Air: 'Sex and the City 2'; 'Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time'; 'Mohamed's Ghosts'
Movies opening today include Sex and the City 2, directed by Michael Patrick King, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Chris Noth, and Cynthia Nixon, and based on Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (Grand Central Publishing, 978-0446617680, $7.99). The book tie-in, by the movie's co-producer Eric Cyphers, is Sex and the City 2: The Stories. The Fashion. The Adventure (Running Press, 978-0762440603, $29.95).
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Authors on the Air: Howard Shapiro; 'Bottled and Sold'; 'Crash Course in Love'
Today, Good Morning America consulted weight-loss doctor Howard Shapiro, co-author of Eat & Beat Diabetes with Picture Perfect Weight Loss: The Visual Program to Prevent and Control Diabetes (Harlequin, 978-0373892181, $19.95). And the Diane Rehm Show interviewed Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, whose book is Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water (Island Press, 978-1597265287, $26.95).
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