Authors on this morning’s Today show:
Longtime New York journalist Stephanie Dolgoff, whose My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches from Just the Other Side of Young (Ballantine, 978-0345521453, $25) pubs today. PW said “In the end, Dolgoff fashions her tight, tongue-in-cheek memoir into a kind of humorous self-help manual to getting by in life.”
Chef Adam Perry Lang, author of BBQ 25 (Morrow Cookbooks, 978-0061990236, $19.99).
Good Morning America hosted Jennifer Arnold, author of Through a Dog's Eyes (Spiegel & Grau, 978-1400068883, $25; RH Audio unabridged CD, $30), which pubbed last week. From PW’s review: “Engagingly written with a perfect balance of science and observation, this book... is a worthy tribute to our canine friends.”
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Andrew Beahrs, author of Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens (Penguin, 978-1594202599, $25.95). PW wrote “In his first book, Beahrs uses the palate of America's great humorist and satirist to celebrate and explore native foodstuffs and even make the case for him as a passionate locavore. Beahrs frequently interrupts the narrative with historical culinary asides about dishes like oyster ice cream, but his passion and scope of detail are bracing.”
Ayelet Waldman, whose latest is Red Hook Road (Doubleday, 978-0385517867, $25.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $40). PW thought “Though Waldman is often guilty of overwriting here, the narrative is well crafted, and each of the characters comes fully to life.”
The Diane Rehm Show interviewed Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, authors of Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids--and What We Can Do About It (Times Books, 978-0805087345, $26).
This evening on The Daily Show: former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, co-author of Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (Morrow, 978-0062015877, $19.99), which pubs today.
Tonight, Tavis Smiley talks with Ken Follett, whose The Pillars of the Earth (Signet tvti, 978-0451232816, $9.99; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $59.95) is the basis of the Starz TV network miniseries, and whose World Without End (Signet, 978-0451228376, $9.99) is recently out in paperback.
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