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Authors on the Air: Skewering Sitcoms; Quirkology; Bettis Off the Field
ABC News Now interviews former 1970s teen heart-throb (Ice Castles; Ode to Billy Joe) turned sitcom director Robby Benson, whose debut is Who Stole the Funny? A Novel of Hollywood (HarperPaperbacks, $13.95).
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Authors on the Air: Married Men, Unwrapped; Alda Talks Again; Aurora County Returns
This morning on The Early Show, Ladies' Home Journal columnist Stephen Fried investigated Husbandry: Sex, Love & Dirty Laundry--Inside the Minds of Married Men (Bantam, $18), a collection of 31 of his columns.
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Authors on the Air: Bill Clinton’s Giving; Taraborrelli’s New Diana; Michael Palin’s Diaries
Today, former president Bill Clinton visits Oprah with his book Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World (Knopf, $24.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $29.95), which pubs today. This evening, he’ll appear on Late Night with Dave Letterman.
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Authors on the Air: Crazy '08; Surgeon’s Musings; Elvis in Harlem
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show: Fortune magazine editor Cait Murphy recalled Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History (Collins, $24).
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Authors on the Air: On the Road’s 50; Adolescent Pain; Don Rickles
Authors on the Air for Thursday, August 30, 2007.
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Authors on the Air: Hurricane Katrina Anniversary; Restless Virgins; Imagining Harriet Tubman
Today, on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, The Early Show interviewed award-winning New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, author of 1 Dead In Attic: After Katrina (S&S, $24), a collection of his Pulitzer winning columns. PW’s starred review called it “one of the finest first-person accounts yet in the growing Katrina canon.”
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Authors on the Air: Alek Wek, Unwrapped; Your Brain on Music; A Class Apart
Authors on the Air .for Tuesday, August 28, 2007. This morning on Today, Alek Wek showed off Alek: From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel (Amistad, $24.99), which pubs today.Wek uses her book to tell her daring story of fleeing on foot the war in southern Sudan and her escape to London, where she rose from young model to supermodel.
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Authors on the Air: Ty and The Babe; Paula Deen; Recalling Katrina
This morning, The Diane Rehm Show chatted with Tom Stanton, author of Ty and The Babe: Baseball's Fiercest Rivals; A Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship (Thomas Dunne, $23.95), which PW’s starred review deemed “as splendid as a sunny spring day at the ballpark. Stanton's writing is seamless, exploring the lives of both men but never lapsing into tedious detail.”
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Authors on the Air: Michael Connelly’s Overlook; Schatz Hearts PJ; Pattie, George and Eric
Today, NPR’s Morning Edition featured bestseller Michael Connelly, author of The Overlook (Little, Brown, $21.99; Hachette Audio unabridged CD, $29.98), which PW’s starred review declared a “dazzling 13th Harry Bosch novel. This is a quick read, almost half the length of Connelly's previous novels, but he spares no punches when it comes to complexity and suspense.”
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Authors on the Air: The Hottest State; Military Fiasco; The Great Expectations School
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show: Ethan Hawke, writer, director, and co-star of the upcoming film (opening tomorrow) based on his novel The Hottest State (Vintage, $13.95).
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Authors on the Air: Obama’s Audacious; Kozol’s Letters to a Young Teacher; Sacco and Vanzetti, Revisited
Barack Obama joins Jon Stewart on The Daily Show and is sure to mention his second book, The Audacity of Hope (Three Rivers Press, $25; abridged RH Audio CD, $29.95).
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Authors on the Air: Sign Language, Unwrapped; 1,001 Things to Eat; The Flexitarian Table
Last night, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart interviewed Nikolas Kozloff, author of Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. (Palgrave, $14.95), which PW found “a thoughtful, well-researched alternative to the majority of information available on Chavez in the English-speaking world.”
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Authors on the Air: Steve Harvey’s Not Punny; Gay Veterans Tell; Ted Gup’s Secrets
Today, Oprah chats with Dina Matos McGreevey, ex-wife of former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey and author of Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage (Hyperion, $23.95).
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Authors on the Air: Solo Eggplant; Rupert Thomson Returns; Sis’s Graphic Memoir
Today on The Leonard Lopate Show: Editor Jenni Ferrari-Adler and contributors Holly Hughes and Laura Dave served up Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant (Riverhead, $22.95).
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Authors on the Air: Fifty Years On the Road; Physics, Unwrapped; Doc Pomus, Too
Today, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road (Penguin, $16.95), Bob Edwards talked with Joyce Johnson, author of Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Penguin, $19.95), which chronicles the 1950s and her relationship with Kerouac and other beats.
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PW talks with Eric Kampmann
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Authors on the Air: Loving Frank; They Heart Books; Ehrenreich Son Debut
On The Early Show, Nancy Horan discussed her first novel, Loving Frank (Ballantine, $23.95; Brilliance Audio unabridged CD, $38.95; abridged $26.95), which PW explained “is a fictionalization of the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney, best known as the woman who wrecked Frank Lloyd Wright's first marriage."
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Authors on the Air: Madness Memoir; Juicy Mangos; Danica McKellar’s Math
Authors on the Air for Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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Authors on the Air: Hocus Potus, Elizabeth Ewards and Helen Thomas
This morning, Leonard Lopate sat down with former Time and Newsweek correspondent Malcolm MacPherson, whose new novel is Hocus Potus (Melville House, $24.95).
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Authors on the Air: It’s Movie Time!; The Constitution, Unwrapped; Robots, Too
Stardust, based on Neil Gaiman’s book of the same name (Harper Perennial, $13.95; HarperAudio unabridged CD, $29.95).



