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Authors on the Air: Blair Underwood; Pat Benatar; John Banville
This morning, Live with Regis and Kelly hosted Blair Underwood, whose latest in the Tennyson Hardwick mystery series (co-authored with Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes) is From Cape Town with Love (Atria, 978-1439159125, $25).
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Authors on the Air: 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'; Sean Payton; Tony Hsieh
Today, the movie The Twilight Saga: Eclipse opens, directed by David Slade, starring Xavier Samuel, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, and Justin Chon, and based on Stephenie Meyer's Eclipse (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers mti, 978-0316087360, $12.99; Listening Library unabridged CD, $57). Another tie-in, by Mark Cotta Vaz, is The Twilight Saga Eclipse: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 978-0316087377, $18.99), which pubbed yesterday.
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Authors on the Air: 'Hero Found'; 'BBQ 25'; 'Whistling Vivaldi'
Today, The Diane Rehm Show interviewed Bruce Henderson, whose Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War (Harper, 978-0061571367, $27.99; Tantor unabridged,CD, $34.99) pubs today. PW declared "This often riveting account sheds new light on an oft-told true story."
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Authors on the Air: 'Huge'; 'Eating with the Enemy'; 'Colorblind'
This evening, the ABC Family channel premieres the series Huge, based on the novel by Sasha Paley (S&S Children's Publishing, 978-1442417182, $8.99).
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Authors on the Air: 'The Most Dangerous Place'; 'Holy Hullabaloos'; 'The War on Moms'
Today on The Bob Edwards Show, Pakistani journalist Imtiaz Gul described The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier (Viking, 978-0670022250, $26.95; Tantor unabridged CD, $34.99). PW wrote, "Gul's disorganized but readable account doesn't alter the conventional picture of the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier, but he offers a useful scorecard for the struggle to bring order to the region--and shows how difficult and perhaps even unrealizable it is."
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Authors on the Air: 'The Killing of Anna Nicole Smith'; Reinvention 101; 'Texas Tough'
This morning, The View hosted judge Larry Seidlin, whose The Killing of Anna Nicole Smith (Transit Publishing, 978-1926745336, $25) is just out this week.
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Authors on the Air: 'The Killing of Anna Nicole Smith'; 'Reinvention 101'; 'Texas Tough'
This morning, The View hosted judge Larry Seidlin, whose The Killing of Anna Nicole Smith (Transit Publishing, 978-1926745336, $25) is just out this week.
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Authors on the Air: 'Hungry Girl Happy Hour'; Jere Van Dyk; Brett Easton Ellis
Today on Good Morning America, Lisa Lillien served up Hungry Girl Happy Hour: 75 Recipes for Amazingly Fantastic Guilt-Free Cocktails and Party Foods (St. Martin's Griffin; 978-0-312-62103-2, $14.99), which goes on sale today.
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Authors on the Air: Monica Seles; 'Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites'; 'More Money Than God'
This morning, Today hosted tennis champ Monica Seles, author of Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self (Avery, 978-1583333754, $16).
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Authors on the Air: 'Jonah Hex'; 'Lives Like Loaded Guns'; Happy 35th, 'Jaws'!
Movies opening today include: Jonah Hex, directed by Jimmy Hayward and starring Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Josh Brolin, and Will Arnett. It’s based on the DC Comics series, whose latest (by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, and Tony DeZuniga) is Jonah Hex: No Way Back (DC Comics, 978-1401225506, $19.99).
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Authors on the Air: David Mamet; 'Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead'; Brando Skyhorse
This evening on The Colbert Report, film director David Mamet talks about Theatre (Faber & Faber, 978-0865479289, $22).
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Authors on the Air: Alison Arngrim; 'A Baby at Last!'; 'Broke, USA'
This morning, the Today show featured actress Alison Arngrim, whose memoir Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated (It Books, 978-0061962141, $25.99) pubbed yesterday.
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RH Films' 'One Day' Heads Into Production
After announcing numerous projects in development, Random House Films has greenlit a project, with the film adaptation of David Nicholls' One Day going into production on July 12. The film unit, formed between RH and Focus Features, has a number of projects in the development stage--including an adaptation of Beth Raymer's Lay the Favorite (Spiegel & Grau) and Arthur Phillips' The Song Is You (Random House)--but, so far, only its launch project, Reservation Road, has made it to the screen.
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Authors on the Air: 'Blind Descent'; 'Tip It!'; 'Fred Willard's Magnificent Movie Trivia'
Today on both The Daily Show and The Leonard Lopate Show: James M. Tabor, whose Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth (Random House, 978-1400067671, $26; RH Audio unabridged CD, $40) pubs today. In its starred review, PW wrote, "Using a pulse-pounding narrative, this is tense real-life adventure pitting two master cavers mirroring the cold war with very uncommonly high stakes."
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Authors on the Air: Pat Benatar; Geneen Roth; 'God Is Not One'
Today, both the Today show and Nightline host rocker Pat Benatar, whose memoir, Between a Heart and a Rock Place (William Morrow, 978-0061953774, $25.99), pubs tomorrow. Tomorrow, she visits The Leonard Lopate Show.
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Authors on the Air: Emeril Lagasse; 'Signs, Visits, and Premonitions from Loved Ones Lost on 9/11'; Dan Ariely
Authors on today's Good Morning America included Chef Emeril Lagasse, whose new cookbook is Farm to Fork: Cooking Local, Cooking Fresh (HarperStudio, 978-0061742958, $24.99), which PW called "another of Lagasse's highly 'competent creations, full of flavorful recipes presented with simplicity and minimal chitchat."
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Authors on the Air: Danielle Steel; David Carradine; Jennifer Egan
Danielle Steel, whose Family Ties (Delacorte, 978-0385343169, $28; Brilliance Audio abridged CD, $24.99; unabridged, $38.99) pubs next week. PW thought "The treacle factor is front and foremost as Steel demonstrates, again, why she's not known as a prose stylist, although there's a glimmer of a good plot."
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B&N Gives Away Free Copies of New A&E Show's Script
Barnes & Noble is teaming with A&E Network on an exclusive marketing partnership for the network's new original drama series The Glades, which premieres July 11. In what's being called a TV and book industry first, A&E has adapted its pilot script of The Glades--a police procedural produced by Clifton Campbell, who did 21 Jump Street--into a free print and e-book.
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Authors on the Air: 'GH Family Vegetarian Cooking'; '52 Loaves'; 'Blood Secrets'
This morning on Today: Good Housekeeping food director Susan Westmoreland demonstrated a recipe from Good Housekeeping Family Vegetarian Cooking: 225 Recipes Everyone Will Love (Hearst Books, 978-1588167927, $24.95), just out last week, which PW said "makes it easy for would-be vegetarians to try meat-free eating, occasionally or every day."
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Authors on the Air: 'The Passage'; 'Surviving a Grizzly Attack'; 'Pretty Little Liars'
Today, Good Morning America hosted PEN/Hemingway Award winner Justin Cronin, whose The Passage (Ballantine, 978-0345504968, $27; RH Audio abridged CD, $45) pubs today. PW's starred review called it an "engrossingly horrific account of a post-apocalyptic America overrun by the gruesome reality behind the wish-fulfillment fantasies."
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