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Authors on the Air: George W. Bush, Adriana Trigiani
The Today Show today features former president George W. Bush, whose Decision Points is just out from Crown (ISBN 978-0307590619); Adriana Trigiani, whose latest book is Don't Sing At The Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers (Harper, ISBN 9780061958946), and Julie Andrews Edwards, whose Little Bo in Italy is just out from HarperCollins (ISBN 9780060089085).
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RH Launches Literary Site for Film Buffs
Random House has launched a new marketing site dedicated to books and movies, www.wordandfilm.com. The site, which comes out of the publisher's digital initiatives division is, as the group's director Sheila O'Shea put it, something that "celebrates the intersection of books, movies, and television."
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Authors on the Air: Schiff, Nicholl, Cooper, Hedges
Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra (Little, Brown, ISBN 978-0316001922), is on The Diane Rehm Show today. PW's starred review called the book, "[An] excellent, myth-busting biography.... Schiff enters so completely into the time and place, especially the beauty and luxury of the 'great metropolis' of Alexandria, Cleopatra's capital, describing it in almost cinematic detail. And though we all know the outcome, Schiff's account of Cleopatra's and Antony's desperate efforts to manipulate their triumphant enemy, Octavian, make for tragic, page-turning reading. No one will think of Cleopatra in quite the same way after reading this vivid, provocative book."
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Authors on the Air: Cole, Carter, and Baldacci
Natalie Cole, author of Love Brought Me Back (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1451606058), is on The Today Show. PW's review said, "A second memoir (after Angel on My Shoulder) by singer Cole, daughter of legendary Nat King Cole, proves a stunning, uplifting, however brief story of her sudden diagnosis of hepatitis C and her subsequent need for a kidney transplant... Grief battles with spiritual faith and transcendence in Cole's moving personal story."
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Authors on the Air: 'For Colored Girls'; 'Fair Game'
The movie For Colored Girls, starring Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, and Omari Hardwick, opens today. It is based on the play For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (Scribner, ISBN 978-1451624205). Also opening today is Fair Game, starring Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, and Noah Emmerich. It is based on Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government by Valerie Plame Wilson (Pocket Star, ISBN 978-1451624045).
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Authors on the Air: Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris
Amy Sedaris, author of Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People (Grand Central, ISBN 978-0446557030) is on The Leonard Lopate Show today, along with James Kakalios, author of The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science that Made Our World (Gotham, ISBN 978-1592404797) and Kathy Reichs, whose latest YA novel, Virals, is just our from Razorbill (ISBN 978-1595143426).
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Authors on the Air: Lawson, Dunham, Chiarello
The Today Show interviews Nigella Lawson, whose latest cookbook is Nigella Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home (Hyperion, 978-1401323950). Check out a review of the book's recipe for Tomato Curry with Coconut Rice from Cooking the Books here.
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Authors on the Air: Flay, Lewis, Poliafito, Lawson
The Early Show today features Bobby Flay's Throwdown!: More Than 100 Recipes from Food Network's Ultimate Cooking Challenge by Bobby Flay (Clarkson Potter, ISBN 978-0307719164). PW's review said, "This companion volume is one part recap and one part cookbook. For true fans of the show, Flay recounts each episode in his trademark cocky prose ("I heat things up with Jamaican jerk jockey Nigel Spence") and in doing so provides a tasty travelogue of eateries, from Asian dumplings at the Good Fork in Brooklyn, N.Y., to chile cheeseburgers at the Buckhorn Tavern in San Antonio, Tex."
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Authors on the Air: Seinfeld, Lawson, Armstrong
Jessica Seinfeld is on Good Morning America today with tips from her new book, Double Delicious!: Good, Simple Food for Busy, Complicated Lives (Morrow, ISBN 978-0061659331). In an interview with Cooking the Books back in July, Seinfeld talked about why she wanted to write another book, and why parents shouldn't feel bad about slipping cauliflower into their kids' egg salad.
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Authors on the Air: 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest,' Edwidge Danticat
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest opens today, based on the blockbuster novel by Stieg Larsson (Knopf, ISBN 978-0307269997). The film has been getting mixed reviews: Metro Times in Detroit called it a "dark and glacially paced way to wrap up a trilogy," and the Chicago Tribune said, "It's a rather wobbly blend of courtroom drama and loose ends tied, albeit rather leisurely."
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Authors on the Air: The Von Trapps, Michael Caine
Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, and Oprah are a few of our favorite things, and they converge today when The Sound of Music cast reunites on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Books on those crazy singing Von Trapps abound, including The Sound of Music Companion by Laurence Maslon (Fireside, ISBN 978-1416549543); The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp (Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 9780060005771); and Memories Before and After the Sound of Music by Agathe von Trapp (Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 9780061998812).
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Authors on the Air: Apolo Ohno, Ming Tsai
The Today Show talks to Apolo Anton Ohno, whose Zero Regrets is just out from Atria (ISBN 978-1451609066 ); Ming Tsai, author of the forthcoming Simply Ming One-Pot Meals: Quick, Healthy & Affordable Recipes (Kyle Books, ISBN 978-1906868369); and Kim Barnouin, the nice person behind Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook: Crazy Delicious Recipes that Are Good to the Earth and Great for Your Bod (Running Press, ISBN 978-0762439379).
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Authors on the Air: Ina Garten, Kelly Valen, 4TROOPS
Ina Garten is on The Today Show today for her newest book, Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That (Clarkson Potter, ISBN 978-0307238764). Garten talked to Cooking the Books back in August, and PW's review of her book noted, "True to her trademark style, Garten once again shows that delicious food can be prepared with a minimum of fuss, even with guests on the way."
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Authors on the Air: Mark Rotella, Michael Caine, Condoleezza Rice
PW's own Mark Rotella is on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show today, talking about his book Amore: The Story of Italian American Song (FSG, ISBN 978-0865476981). PW's starred review said, "Rotella's revelatory follow-up to Stolen Figs is much more than the story of the years after the war and before the Beatles, when Italian-Americans ruled popular music--it's an astute examination of how the Italians integrated into America."
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Authors on the Air: 'The Geometry of Pasta,' Keith Richards
Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy talk about their book The Geometry of Pasta (Quirk, ISBN 978-1594744952) on The Martha Stewart Show today. PW's starred review said, "One would think that a minimalist cookbook devoid of photography wouldn't be worthy of coffee table status, but the illustrations adorning this volume prove otherwise. Conceived by award-winning graphic designer Hildebrand... the diversity of pasta morphology, from Agnolotti to Ziti, is revealed through historical anecdotes, recipes, and an eye-catching b&w aesthetic."
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Authors on the Air: David Sedaris, Deanna Favre, Shane Stanford
The Leonard Lopate Show sits down with David Sedaris, whose his latest collection of short stories is Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk (Little, Brown, ISBN 978-0316038393). Sedaris's appearance on the public radio show marks a return to his roots: the writer's big break involved a reading from his book SantaLand Diaries--which was produced by Ira Glass, who went on to create This American Life.
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Authors on the Air: Nicolle Wallace, Stephen Cohen, Deanna Favre
Today, Morning Joe features Nicolle Wallace, author of Eighteen Acres (Atria, ISBN 978-1439194829). PW's review said, "Wallace, a former White House communications director for George W. Bush, does a fine job of making politics both maddening and glamorous in her compelling but uneven debut."
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Authors on the Air: Jenny Sanford, Jane Leavy, Michael Perino
This morning, Good Morning America hosts Jenny Sanford, author of Staying True, which is out today in paperback from Ballantine (ISBN 978-0345522566). PW's review said, "Sanford--the wronged wife of Mark Sanford, disgraced governor of South Carolina, who famously refused to stand by him when his affair came to light—delivers a crisp and affecting reading of her memoir of her family, career, faith, and the very public implosion of her marriage. She's surprisingly relatable and possessed of a very dry wit."
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Oceanview Teams With Amber to Make Movies
Florida-based Oceanview Publishing has inked an agreement with Amber Entertainment to develop films based on its backlist. Oceanview specializes in mystery/suspense novels, and the first title in the development slate is Ward Larsen's The Perfect Assassin, which was originally published in 2006. Amber Entertainment's Ileen Maisel and Lawrence Elman, along with Oceanview founders Robert and Patricia Gussin, will serve as executive producers on the project, about a female doctor whose boat is hijacked by an Israeli assassin.
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Authors on the Air: Steven Johnson, Kevin Kelly
The Leonard Lopate Show today talks with Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Riverhead, ISBN 978-1594487712), and Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants (Viking, ISBN 978-0670022151). PW found Johnson's book to be "a sweeping look at innovation spanning nearly the whole of human history.... eye-opening stuff--although it does require an investment from the reader." We called Kelly's book "ingenious," noting, "Kelly's wise attempts to explain our organic relationship with technology will surely provoke conversations with critics whose discussions of the evils of technology are limited to the negative impact of the computer and the Internet on culture."
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