The Today Show today features Lidia Bastianich, author of Nonna Tell Me a Story: Lidia’s Christmas Kitchen (Running Press Kids, ISBN 978-0762436927). Back in August, Bastianich, known for her cookbooks and restaurants, talked to Cooking the Books about writing for children.
NPR’s Talk of the Nation features Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C) by David Eltis, David Richardson, David Blight, and David Brion Davis (Yale Univ., ISBN 978-0300124606).
Wendy Walker, whose book is Producer: Lessons Shared from 30 Years in Television (Center Street, ISBN 978-1599952536), is on Good Morning America.
Steven Rattner, author of Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 978-0547443218), is on CNBC’s Squawk Box and BloombergTV’s In Business.
Bill Carter, author of The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy (Viking, ISBN 978-0670022083) is on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Dennis Lehane, whose latest book is Moonlight Mile (Morrow, ISBN 978-0061836923) is on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno features former president George W. Bush, author of Decision Points (Crown, ISBN 978-0307590619).
Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change.
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