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Authors on the Air: 'Red,' Gayle King, Laurie Puhn
Red opens today. It is based on the graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer (WildStorm, ISBN 978-1401223465) and stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren. PW's review said, "this is a lightweight but sporadically entertaining journey into two much-traveled genres," and noted the story's "unity of theme and unfolding action, following the gruesome trail of a retired CIA killer who reacts with violence when the agency decides to eliminate him."
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Authors on the Air: Rakoff, Zuiker, Flay
David Rakoff, author of Half Empty (Doubleday, ISBN 978-0385525244), is on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight. PW's review said, "In this sardonic collection of essays, Rakoff (Don't Get Too Comfortable) plays the role of a naysayer who tries to convince the reader, with humorous asides and sarcastic one-liners, that the world is going to hell in a hand-basket and the nerds and geeks will someday be the globe's financial and political tyrants."
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Authors on the Air: Bobbi Brown, Mark Bittman
Make-up artist Bobbi Brown is on the Martha Stewart Show today for her new book, Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules: Fabulous Looks, Beauty Essentials, and Life Lessons for Loving Your Teens and Twenties (Chronicle, ISBN 978-0811874687). The show's theme is a slumber party, and with a large number of teenage girls in the audience, Brown will be talking about her book and demonstrating some techniques from it.
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Authors on the Air: Condoleezza Rice, Hoda Kotb, Tyler Florence
This morning, The Today Show hosts Condoleezza Rice, author of Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, ISBN 978-0385738798); Hoda Kotb, author of Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1439189481); and Tyler Florence, author of Tyler Florence Family Meal: Bringing People Together Never Tasted Better (Rodale, ISBN 978-1605293387).
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Authors on the Air: 'Secretariat,' 'It's Kind of a Funny Story'
The Disney movie Secretariat opens today. The official tie-in is Secretariat by William Nack (Hyperion, ISBN 978-1401324018), and a related title is Secretariat's Meadow by Kate Chenery Tweedy, daughter of Penny Chenery, who bred and raced Secretariat (played by Diane Lane in the movie). Dementi Milestone Publishing is the publisher (ISBN 978-0982701904).
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Authors on the Air: Terry McMillan, Paul David Pope
Terry McMillan is on The Mo'Nique Show today. McMillan's latest is Getting to Happy (Viking, ISBN 978-0670022045). PW's review said, "Fifteen years after Waiting to Exhale, McMillan brings back Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin--now in their 50s--for a disappointing and uninspired outing.... this reunion reads like a catalogue of personal catastrophes annotated with very long, rambling discussions, with more emphasis on simple drama than character."
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Authors on the Air: Dray, Berman, Eisner, Ellroy
Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart checks in with Philip Dray, author of There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (Doubleday, ISBN 978-0385526296). PW's review said, "this stirring study situates one of the most subversive yet profoundly American of social movements at the heart of the nation's history.... Packed with vivid characters and dramatic scenes, Dray's fine recap of a neglected but vital tradition has much to say about labor's current straits."
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Authors on the Air: Chris Kimball, Anthony Bourdain, Paul David Pope
Chris Kimball is on The Early Show today. His new book is Fannie's Last Supper: Two Years, Twelve Courses, and Creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook (Hyperion, ISBN 978-1-4013-2322-6). PW's starred review said, "Kimball is off on a culinary and historical adventure... A must-read for history buffs, home cooks, and professional chefs alike."
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Authors on the Air: Eugene Robinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Walter F. Mondale
Eugene Robinson, author of Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America (Doubleday, ISBN 978-0385526548), is on The Colbert Report tonight. PW called the book a "clear-eyed and compassionate study" in which Robinson "marshals persuasive evidence that the African-American population has splintered into four distinct and increasingly disconnected entities: a small elite with enormous influence, a mainstream middle-class majority, a newly emergent group of recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, and an abandoned minority 'with less hope of escaping poverty than at any time since Reconstruction's end. "
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Authors on the Air: 'Let Me In,' 'The Social Network,' 'Freakonomics'
Movies opening today include Let Me In, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee, based on the bestselling Swedish novel Lat den Ratte Komma In (Let the Right One In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist. St. Martin's Griffin has the movie tie-in edition, titled Let Me In (ISBN 978-0312656492). PW's review said, "Swedish author Lindqvist's debut, a horror novel, offers few twists that won't already be familiar to readers of modern vampire fiction.... it's the gory set pieces that propel the predictable plot."
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Authors on the Air: Sigrid Nunez, Janet Elder, Meredith Maran
Sigrid Nunez talks about her latest novel, Salvation City (Riverhead, ISBN 978-1594487668), on The Leonard Lopate Show today. PW called the book "intellectually rigorous and grimly prophetic," noting that it "initially resembles any number of coming-of-age yarns, except that most adolescences don't coincide with apocalyptic flu pandemics and the rise of insular church-cities."
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Authors on the Air: America's Cheapest Family, Marlo Thomas, Nicole Richie
Steve and Annette Economides and family, aka America's Cheapest Family, are appear on The Today Show today (as well as tomorrow and Friday) to promote their new book, Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half with America's Cheapest Family: Includes So Many Innovative Strategies You Won't Have to Cut Coupons (Thomas Nelson, ISBN 978-1400202836).
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Authors on the Air: Adrian Goldsworthy, Stephen Prothero, Bob Woodward
Adrian Goldsworthy is on NPR's Talk of the Nation today to talk about his new dual biography, Antony and Cleopatra (Yale Univ., ISBN 9780300165340). PW starred its review, saying, "Readers who recognize Goldsworthy as Britain's most prolific and perhaps finest popular historian of Roman times will find him once again at his best."
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Authors on the Air: Fall Fiction on 'GMA'; Donoghue on NPR
Good Morning America features a fall books round-up today. Its fiction picks are Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (FSG, ISBN 978-0312600846), The Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (Dutton, ISBN 978-0525951650), Room: A Novel by Emma Donaghue (Little, Brown, ISBN 978-0316098335), Nemesis by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 978-0547318356), and Our Kind of Traitor by John Le Carre (Viking, ISBN 978-0670022243).
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Authors on the Air: 'Howl,' 'Dandelion Dust,' 'Legend of the Guardians'
Movies opening today include Howl, starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg. Tie-ins include City Lights' Howl and Other Poems (ISBN 978-0872860179) and Harper Perennial's Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions (ISBN 978-0061137457).
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Authors on the Air: Bobbi Brown, James Franco, Alan Khazei
Make-up artist Bobbi Brown is on The Today Show today to talk up her new book, Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules: Fabulous Looks, Beauty Essentials, and Life Lessons for Loving Your Teens and Twenties, which Chronicle Books is publishing October 1 (ISBN 978-0811874687). Brown demonstrates techniques from the book, which emphasizes natural beauty.
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Authors on the Air: Mark Bittman, Jenny McCarthy, Guillermo Del Toro
Mark Bittman is on The Today Show today, talking about his Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1439120231). In a starred review, PW said, "Practical and balanced, this collection will shape the way we cook at home for years to come."
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Authors on the Air: Tori Spelling, Rachael Ray
Tori Spelling is on The Today Show today, going into uncharted terriTORI (Gallery, ISBN 978-1439187715). Woe is Spelling; so says her book's promo copy, "It's not every Hollywood starlet whose name greets you on a Virgin Airways flight into la-la land. But Tori Spelling has come to accept that her life is a spectacle. Her name is her brand, and business is booming. Too bad when your job is to be yourself, you can't exactly take a break."
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Authors on the Air: Mark Lachs, Jimmy Carter, Pam Anderson
Good Morning America talks to Dr. Mark Lachs about his new book, Treat Me, Not My Age: A Doctor's Guide to Getting the Best Care as You or a Loved One Gets Older (Viking, ISBN 978-0670022106). Geriatrician Lachs offers "an insider's guide to staying healthy," with tips on finding the right primary care doctor, specialist, or care facility; making home improvements that will keep the nursing home at bay; and more.
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Authors on the Air: 'The Town;' 'Third World America;' 'Golden Rules'
The movie The Town opens today. It's based on Chuck Hogan's novel Prince of Thieves. A movie tie-in edition of the book is out from Scribner, titled The Town (ISBN 978-1439196502). Despite some quibbles, PW's review said, "the author's original writing style and knack for unusual metaphors can make for engaging reading, and the book's cinematic quality and grittily realistic action sequences bode well for its day on screen."
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