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.”
Good Morning America hosted Dominique Browning, former editor-in-chief of House & Garden and author of Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness (Atlas, 978-1934633311, $23). PW’s starred review found it an “enchanting, funny, deeply gracious memoir. There is such feeling and care on each page of Browning's well-honed memoir—her rediscovery of nature, her avowal to let love find her rather than seek it, tapping satisfying work at her own keyboard—that the reader is swept along in a pleasant mood of transcendence.”
On The Diane Rehm Show, William Alexander served up 52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust (Algonquin Books, 978-1565125834, $23.95).
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Blood-spatter analyst Rod Englert spilled Blood Secrets: Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist (Thomas Dunne Books, 978-0312564001, $25.99). PW’s review declared “Englert deftly balances real-life examples and detailed scientific analysis, giving readers a richer understanding of this developing avenue of forensic science.”
Regular Harper’s and Financial Times contributor Barry C. Lynn, author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (Wiley, 978-0470186381, $26.95).
On The Brian Lehrer Show,Daily Beast and Time contributor Peter Beinart discused The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris (Harper, 978-0061456466, $27.99). PW considered it a “perceptive study of foreign policy over-reach. The book amounts to a brief for moderation, good sense, humility, and looking before leaping—virtues that merit Beinart's spirited, cogent defense.”
This evening, The Daily Show interviews geneticist, anthropologist, and National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence Spencer Wells, author of Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization (Random House, 978-1400062157, $26; Tantor unabridged CD, $34.99), which pubbed yesterday and which PW deemed a “diffuse meditation on progress and its discontents.”
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