Authors on the Air: America 24/7 Is an Oprah "Fave"
by Staff, PW Daily for Booksellers -- Publishers Weekly, 11/26/2003
Yesterday Oprah Winfrey picked America 24/7, the $50 large format picture book from DK, as the only book on her list of "favorite things of the year."
America 24/7 is especially
notable for allowing readers to create a jacket for their copy of the book--by submitting a photo, writing a caption and paying the $5.99 shipping and handling charge. The custom jacket is usually at the reader's home in a week. (Check it out here--anytime.) DK has printed 400,000 copies; Amazon.com reports that sales of the title jumped 1,200% overnight since the announcement.
Today Imus in the Morning interviewed Herb Cohen about his new business primer, Negotiate This (Warner, $24.95). Cohen's motto is "Care, but not T-H-A-T much." PW thought it was a book that "features the practical wisdom of experience and the ring of authority, but sometimes wanders beyond the limits of the reader's patience."
Diane Rehm talked to David Maraniss about a convergence of events in the fall of 1967: a deadly ambush in Vietnam and a deadly clash between protesters and police at the University of Wisconsin. He recounts the events in his book They Marched Into Sunlight (S&S, $29.95). PW praised the book, writing, "The two narratives together provide a fierce, vivid diptych of America bisected by a tragic war: a moving remembrance for those who lived through it and an illuminating lesson for a new generation trying to understand what it was all about."
Brother to Brother: Phillip Lopate appeared on his brother Leonard's talk show, WNYC's New York & Co., to discuss his new collection of essays, Getting Personal: Selected Writings (Basic, $25.95). PW opined, "The essays form a discontinuous but satisfying whole."
