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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).
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Authors on the Air: Yarrow’s Still Puff-ing; Pearlstine’s Off the Record; The Backwash Squeeze
On today’s Good Morning America: Singer/songwriter Peter Yarrow presented his children’s book adaptation of Puff the Magic Dragon (Sterling, $16.95).
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Authors on the Air: King of Bollywood; Katrina ‘R’ Us; Duane “Dog” Chapman
Today, The Leonard Lopate Show chatted with Mumbai-based freelance journalist Anupama Chopra, whose book is King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema (Grand Central Publishing, $24.95).
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OJ Simpson "Confession" To Be Re-Shopped
OJ Simpson's If I Did It, which supposedly imagines how he would have killed his ex-wife and her friend, is making the rounds again. An LA based agent is representing the Goldman family; She hopes to "recoup" what they deserve.
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Authors on the Air: Teen Vampire #3; Economics Professors Speak; Being a Black Man
Stephenie Meyer viewed Eclipse (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99; unabridged Random House CD, $57), the third book in her teen vampire series.
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Authors on the Air: Skinny Bitch; The Quinceanera, Unwrapped; Who Killed HealthCare?
This morning, Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin visited Today with their bestselling Skinny Bitch (Running Press, $13.95). The two women, both former models, offer a no-holds-barred approach to being thin and fabulous



