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Jessa Crispin Rewrites the Rules of Reviewing

by Claire Kirch | 01/11/2008 @ 07:00AM

I don’t have the background people in publishing have,” literary blogger Jessa Crispin freely admits. “Bookslut is on the outside: we’re not located in New York, we’re not print, and we take things less seriously than the New York Times Book Review. “But that’s why we became popular.
NYAF’s John McGeary Talks Anime

By Kai-Ming Cha | 11/30/2007 @ 01:40PM

PWCWtalks with the show manager of the New York Anime Fest about the intersection of anime and manga and what will make NYAF different from other anime conventions.
Authors on the Air: Dorothy Hamill; Jim Lehrer; Frank Rich

by Diane Patrick | 10/02/2007 @ 06:38PM

This morning on Today, 1976 Olympic skating champion Dorothy Hamill recounted A Skating Life: My Story (Hyperion, $24.95), which PW deemed a “quietly charming book.” Tomorrow, she’ll appear on The Leonard Lopate Show.
Authors on the Air: Clarence Thomas; Jenna Bush; Chris Matthews

by Diane Patrick | 10/01/2007 @ 12:54PM

Last night, 60 Minutes profiled Justice Clarence Thomas, whose autobiography My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir (HarperCollins, $26.95; HarperAudio unabridged CD, $39.95) is just out today. Today, he appeared on Good Morning America; tonight, Tavis Smiley will discuss the book with National Urban League head Marc Morial and professors Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Farah Griffin.
Authors on the Air: Sinister Families; Deanna Favre; World War IV

by Diane Patrick | 09/26/2007 @ 01:30PM

Today was Good Morning America’s session with Cheryl Dellasega, whose latest is Forced to Be Family: A Guide for Living with Sinister Sisters, Drama Mamas, and Infuriating In-Laws (Wiley, $24.95). From PW’s review: “Chock-full of real-life, victim-oriented stories by complaining women, Dellasega's latest is based on the idea that no one can hurt a woman more than a member of her own family, especially if the aggressor is female.”
Authors on the Air: Good Calories, Bad Calories; Ann Patchett; Spying Blind

by Diane Patrick | 09/26/2007 @ 12:35PM

Today on Good Morning America, Science writer Gary Taubes counted Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight and Disease (Knopf, $27.95). Said PW’s starred review: “His call for dietary advice that is based on rigorous science, not century-old preconceptions about the penalties of gluttony and sloth is bound to be echoed loudly by many readers.”
Authors on the Air: My Boring-Ass Life; Dubner’s Two Belly Buttons; Dancing with the Stars Workout

by Diane Patrick | 09/25/2007 @ 06:55PM

Yesterday, Oprah chatted with sociologist Pepper Schwartz, author of Prime: Adventures and Advice on Sex, Love, and the Sensual Years (Collins, $24.95). PW’s starred review found it “both a highly entertaining sexual autobiography and an account of her romantic liaisons in the five years after her divorce.”
Authors on the Air: Nikki Sixx’s Heroin Diaries; John Grisham’s Pizza; Eisenhower and Civil Rights

by Diane Patrick | 09/25/2007 @ 01:51PM

Today on Good Morning America: Mike May, the subject of Robert Kerson's biography, Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See (Random House, $25.95; RH Audio abridged CD. $29.95). PW called the book “a remarkable story of courage and endurance.”
Authors on the Air: Modern American Slave Labor; Wangari Maathai; Dead Certain

by Diane Patrick | 09/24/2007 @ 12:44PM

Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart interviews journalist John Bowe, author of Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy (Random House, $25.95). In a starred review, PW declared “Bowe's deeply researched, well-written treatise on the very real problem of modern American slavery deserves the attention of anyone living, working and consuming in America.”
Authors on the Air: Are The Rich Necessary?; The Gospel According to Hollywood; The War

by Diane Patrick | 09/20/2007 @ 07:46PM

Today, Oprah talks with Pulitzer winner Jeffrey Eugenides, whose Middlesex (Picador, $16) is an Oprah's Book Club selection. PW called it a “beautifully written novel… It's difficult to imagine any serious male writer of earlier eras so effortlessly transcending the stereotypes of gender. This is one determinedly literary novel that should also appeal to a large, general audience.”
Authors on the Air: Mission: Cook!; Edwidge’s Brother; Zakes Mda

by Diane Patrick | 09/19/2007 @ 06:18PM

Tonight, former president Bill Clinton stops by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart with Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World (Knopf, $24.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $29.95).
Authors on the Air: Dog Love, Unwrapped; Louisiana Racism; Tiki’s Memoir

by Diane Patrick | 09/19/2007 @ 12:42PM

Today, four-star general Wesley Clark appears on both The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Diane Rehm Show with A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country (Palgrave Macmillan, $24.95; Audio Renaissance unabridged CD, $34.95).
Authors on the Air: Jenny McCarthy on Autism; Gossip Girl; God and Hillary Clinton

by Diane Patrick | 09/17/2007 @ 09:14PM

Today on Oprah: actress and author Jenny McCarthy, whose brand new book is Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism (Dutton, $23.95). McCarthy, who previously chronicled her pregnancy, motherhood and crumbling marriage in Belly Laughs, Baby Laughs and Life Laughs, takes a serious look at autism and specifically her experience with her five-year-old autistic son, Evan.
Authors on the Air: Greenspan’s Turbulence; Ending Aging; CIA, Unwrapped

by Diane Patrick | 09/17/2007 @ 01:12PM

Last night, 60 Minutes profiled Alan Greenspan, whose The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Penguin, $35; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $44.95; abridged, $34.95), pubs today.
Authors on the Air: Eightysomethings, Unwrapped; DA, Crime Novelist; Dick Morris’s Outrage

by Diane Patrick | 09/13/2007 @ 07:01PM

On the Today show this morning: Gerald Gardner, co-editor of 80: Our Most Famous Eighty Year Olds Reveal Why They Never Felt So Young (Sourcebooks, $24.95).
Authors on the Air: The Goldmans; Arms Dealer, Unwrapped; Miranda July

by Diane Patrick | 09/12/2007 @ 08:11PM

Today, Oprah hosts Fred and Kim Goldman, who will discuss O.J. Simpson's If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer (Beaufort Books, $24.95). Tomorrow, they will appear on Today.
Authors on the Air: Junot’s First Novel; Here If You Need Me; Beyond the Body Farm

by Diane Patrick | 09/11/2007 @ 07:34PM

Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart interviews Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush (Free Press, $28).
Authors on the Air: Amy Bloom; Jonathan Kozol; Garrison Keillor

by Diane Patrick | 09/10/2007 @ 07:26PM

Today on Leonard Lopate Show: Amy Bloom, author of Away (Random House, $23.95; HighBridge unabridged CD, $34.95). In its starred review, PW had this to say: “Encompassing prison, prostitution and poetry, Yiddish humor and Yukon settings, Bloom's tale offers linguistic twists, startling imagery, sharp wit and a compelling vision of the past. Bloom has created an extraordinary range of characters, settings and emotions. Absolutely stunning.”
Authors on the Air: Smotherhood; Royal Stepson Chows Down; Brad Thor’s Back

by Diane Patrick | 09/10/2007 @ 12:56PM

The top grossing movie of this weekend was 3:10 to Yuma, which raked in $14.1 million. The critically-acclaimed remake of the 1957 western is based on Elmore Leonard’s 15-page short story, contained in Three-Ten To Yuma and Other Stories (HarperTorch, $5.99; HarperAudio abridged CD, $29.95).
Authors on the Air: High End’s End; The Black Harry Potter; History’s Evil Boys

by Diane Patrick | 09/06/2007 @ 05:32PM

On today’s Leonard Lopate Show, Newsweek reporter Dana Thomas explained Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster (Penguin, $27.95), which PW’s review found “skillfully narrates European fashion houses' evolution from exclusive ateliers to marketing juggernauts... her curiosity is contagious.”

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