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.”
On Good Morning America, journalist Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger recalled Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century (Harper, 978-0061562846, $27.99), which also pubs today. PW called it a “raucous, intimate, dual biography of Hollywood's ultimate It Couple. . . .from the binges and bling emerges a revealing portrait of the magnetic qualities—her vulgar warmth, his soulful virility—that glued the couple together.”
Both Today and The View chatted with ninetysomething Maggie Griffin (mother of Kathy), whose memoir Tip It! The World According to Maggie (Hyperion, 978-1401324049, $23.99) pubs on June 29.
Both Fox & Friends and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon host veteran comedian Fred Willard, whose book is Fred Willard's Magnificent Movie Trivia: Put Your Knowledge of Movies, Actors, Facts & Firsts to the Test (Square One Publishers, 978-0757003110, $7.95).
On The Diane Rehm Show, David Kirkpatrick, senior tech writer at Fortune magazine, explained The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World (S&S, 978-1439102114, $26), written with the full cooperation of founder Mark Zuckerberg. PW thought “Though significantly more informative, thoughtful, and credible than Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, it may be hamstrung by its late entry; the furor over Facebook has more or less subsided, and potential readers are more likely to be using the site than to be reading about its origins.”
On NPR’s Talk of the Nation, preeminent linguist David Crystal shared A Little Book of Language (Yale Univ. Press, 978-0300155334, $25), which PW’s starred review called an “exhilarating romp through the mysteries and vagaries of language, from how infants acquire language to how many words the average adult knows (40,000) and slang.”
The Leonard Lopate Show interviewed award-winning reporter Joshua Phillips, whose None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture (Verso, 978-1844675999, $26.95) pubbed yesterday.
Bob Edwards talked with consultant, teacher and writer Clay Shirky, whose Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (Penguin, 978-1594202537, $25.95; Tantor unabridged CD, $29.99) pubbed last week.
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