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Authors on the Air: Sloane Crosley, Max Lucado, Katherine Schwarzenegger
Sloane Crosley shows up on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson tonight to discuss the finer points of How Did You Get This Number (Riverhead, ISBN 978-1594487590). PW called Crosley’s collection of essays "fresh, funny, and eager to be loved."
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Authors on the Air: Laurie Hertzel, Gabriel Grayson, 'Howl'
Laurie Hertzel, author of News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist (Univ. of Minnesota Press) visits Midmorning on Minnesota Public Radio and WILL-FM (Illinois public radio). Hertzel's book tells of how she applied for a job at the Duluth, Minn., News Tribune, answering phones, writing obituaries, and making coffee for the newsroom staff--and wound up getting more and more responsibilities.
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Authors on the Air: Tony Blair, Michael Eisner, Katherine Schwarzenegger
Tony Blair is on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart talking about his new book, A Journey: My Political Life (Knopf, ISBN 978-0307269836). PW's review said, "Critics who dubbed Britain's ex-prime minister "Tony Blur" for his allegedly substance-free politics swaddled in gauzy PR won't have their minds changed by this nebulous memoir."
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Authors on the Air: The Story Behind Susan G. Komen; Casey's 'Wave'
Good Morning America visits with Nancy Brinker, whose Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer (Crown, ISBN 978-0307718129) pubs tomorrow. PW's review summed it up: "In this deeply thoughtful, assertive, sensitive memoir of the sisters' growing up and devotion to each other in life and death, Brinker chronicles the long path she trod to create Susan G. Komen for the Cure."
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HBO Boardwalk Empire Series Boosts NJ Publisher
A small regional publisher based in Medford, N.J., could have its best year ever thanks to HBO. The sister company to Information Today, Plexus Publishing, which is distributed by IPG and typically releases two or three trade titles a year, has the book on which HBO's newest series to mix crime, corruption, and New Jersey, is based: Nelson Johnson's Boardwalk Empire.
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Authors on the Air: 'The Romantics,' 'Never Let Me Go'
The movie The Romantics opens today, starring Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, and Anna Paquin. The film is based on Galt Niederhoffer's novel, The Romantics; Picador has the movie tie-in edition (ISBN 978-0312545994).
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Authors on the Air: 'Brady, Brady, Brady'; Meghan McCain, Liz Murray
It's a very Brady morning, as producer and writer Lloyd J. Schwartz, coauthor with his father, Sherwood Schwartz, of Brady, Brady, Brady: The Complete Story of The Brady Bunch as Told by the Father/Son Team Who Really Know (Running Press, ISBN 978-0-7624-3962-1) shows up on Good Morning America, along with Brady cast members Susan Olsen (who played Cindy), Mike Lookinland (Bobby), and Christopher Knight (Peter).
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Movie Alert: 'It's Kind of a Funny Story'
Ned Vizzini's critically acclaimed 2006 novel, It's Kind of a Funny Story, hits the big screen next month. The Focus Features film is directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who also co-wrote the screenplay, based on Vizzini's novel. Keir Gilchrist (The United States of Tara) stars in the movie as Craig, a Brooklyn teenager who checks himself into a psychiatric hospital, after having difficulty coping with the stresses of his first year at a competitive high school.
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Authors on the Air: Safran Foer, Oz, Bourdain, Ripert
The Ellen DeGeneres Show says hello to Jonathan Safran Foer today. Back Bay released Foer's Eating Animals (ISBN 978-0316069885) in paperback this month.
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Authors on the Air: 'Baby Love,' Patrick Hennessey, Jr., 'Gunn's Golden Rules'
On The Today Show this morning, Norah O'Donnell and chef Geoff Tracy give tips on feeding wee ones, which is the subject of their new book, Baby Love: Healthy, Easy, Delicious Meals for Your Baby and Toddler (St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 978-0312621926).
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Authors on the Air: 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet'; 'Just Food'; 'Open'
Authors on today's Leonard Lopate Show include influential novelist David Mitchell, who discussed his latest, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Random House, 978-1400065455, $26). PW's starred review called it a "majestic historical romance set in turn-of-the-19th-century Japan. It's certainly no Cloud Atlas, but it is a dense and satisfying historical with literary brawn and stylistic panache."
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Authors on the Air: 'Called to Coach'; 'Let's Take the Long Way Home'; 'An Actor's Odyssey'
Today, The 700 Club features legendary Florida State University football coach Bobby Bowden, whose Called to Coach: Reflections on Life, Faith, and Football (Howard Books, 978-1439195970, $25) pubbed last week.
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Authors on the Air: Andre Agassi; 'Hostage Nation'; Bill McKibben
Today, The Today Show, Mike and Mike in the Morning, and Anderson Cooper 360 all host tennis champ Andre Agassi, whose Open: An Autobiography (Vintage, 978-0307388407, $15.95; RH Audio abridged CD, $32) is recently out in paperback.
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Authors on the Air: Jorge Posada; Meghan McCain; Charlie Chan, Unwrapped
This morning's Today show featured New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada and his wife, lawyer/philanthropist Laura Posada, authors of The Beauty of Love: A Memoir of Miracles, Hope, and Healing (Atria Books, 978-1439103081, $24), which pubs today. PW's review had this to say: "An intimate testament that transforms private tragedy into public resource, this heartfelt work gives courage a caring face."
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Authors on the Air: Jonathan Franzen; 'Debt-Free U'; 'Favela'
Today, The Bob Edwards Show interviews Jonathan Franzen, whose new novel, Freedom (FSG, 978-0374158460, $28; Macmillan Audio unabridged CD, $59.99), pubs tomorrow. From PW's starred review: "The first question facing Franzen's feverishly awaited follow-up is whether it can find its own voice in its predecessor's shadow. In short: yes, it does, and in a big way."
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Authors on the Air: 'Flipped'; 'Displaced Persons'; 'Life with Asperger's in 20 1/3 Chapters'
Today's the wide release opening of the movie Flipped, directed by Rob Reiner. Starring Callan McAuliffe, Madeline Carroll, Rebecca De Mornay, Anthony Edwards, Penelope Ann Miller, Aidan Quinn, and John Mahoney, it's based on Wendelin Van Draanen's critically acclaimed YA novel Flipped (Knopf Books for Young Readers mti, 978-0375863479, $8.99), which PW called an "enticing story, relayed alternately by eighth graders Bryce and Juli. With a charismatic leading lady kids will flip over, a compelling dynamic between the two narrators and a resonant ending, this novel is a great deal larger than the sum of its parts."
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Movie Alert: 'Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole'
Fans still mourning the end of Kathryn Lasky’s 15-book Guardians of Ga’Hoole series, which came to a close in 2008, will have a chance to reunite with Soren the barn owl when Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (Warner Bros.) arrives in theaters on September 24.
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Authors on the Air: Mary Walton; Grace Young; Debra Shigley
Authors on today's Bob Edwards Show include veteran journalist Mary Walton, whose A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot (Palgrave Macmillan, 978-0230611757, $28) pubbed last week.
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Authors on the Air: 'The Weather of the Future'; 'The Curse of the Good Girl'; 'Killing Willis'
This evening, The Colbert Report talks with Heidi Cullen, author of The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet (Harper, 978-0061726880, $25.99), which PW thought "presents a surprisingly optimistic view of humanity's determination to come to terms with a daunting future."
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