Today, Good Morning America hosted singer Belinda Carlisle, whose Lips Unsealed: A Memoir (Crown, 978-0307463494, $26; RH Audio abridged CD, $30) pubs today. PW thought “Carlisle writes candidly, and her chronic fear of being exposed as a fake is heartfelt and winning.” Tomorrow, she visits The View.
Authors on this morning’s Today show (all titles pubbing today):
Entertainment superstar Chuck Barris introduced Della: A Memoir of My Daughter (S&S, 978-1439167991, $25).
The Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee declared I Know I Am, But What Are You? (Gallery, 978-1439142738, $25; S&S Audio unabridged CD, $29.99).
Talk show host Ed Schultz explained Killer Politics: How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class (Hyperion, 978-1401323783, $25.99).
On The View, culinary television personality Marcela Valladolid served up Fresh Mexico: 100 Simple Recipes for True Mexican Flavor (Clarkson Potter, 978-0307451101, $22.50). PW declared “Home cooks will appreciate Valladolid’s enthusiastic yet straightforward approach.”
Both The Brian Lehrer Show and The Daily Show interview American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks, whose The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future (Basic Books, 978-0465019380, $23.95) pubbed last week.
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Architect Fran Leadon, co-author of the fifth edition of AIA Guide to New York City (Oxford Univ. Press, 978-0195383867, $39.95).
Law professor Ray D. Madoff examined Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead (Yale Univ. Press, 978-0300121841, $26).
Dutch author Arthur Japin with his new novel Director's Cut (Knopf, 978-1400040629, $27.95). PW wrote “This story of romance between a young Dutch actress and a slightly fictionalized Federico Fellini flounders on poor plotting and overwrought prose. Though Japin brings together a number of promising elements, this book comes up short.”
This evening, The Colbert Report talks with Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former member of Parliament in the Netherlands and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, about her new memoir Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (Free Press, $27, 978-1439157312; S&S Audio unabridged CD, $39.99).
Tonight on Tavis Smiley, Carol Burnett talks about writing her memoir This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection (Harmony, 978-0307461186, $25; RH Audio unabridged CD, $30).
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