Authors on the Air: Cable News Confidential; American Visa; Salt Water Cure

Compiled by Diane Patrick, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 5/29/2007

Yesterday, The Diane Rehm Show re-aired an interview with Marietta McCarty, author of Little Big Minds (Tarcher, $14.95).

On yesterday’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Jeff Cohen, founder of the progressive media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), reported on Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media (Polipoint Press, $14.95), which PW’s review deemed an “ excellent, high-energy look back at his trials and tribulations at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC."

Juan de Recacoechea, with American Visa (Akashic, $14.95), which won Bolivia's National Book Prize in 1994 and has been filmed. PW called it a “sweet noir” and a “winning tale.”

Today, Good Morning America met with the founding editor of Riverhead Books, Mary South, whose book is The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea (HarperCollins, $23.95).

On this morning’s Early Show:
Journalist Ruth Bass with her debut YA novel Sarah's Daughter (Gadd & Co., $14.95).

Bestselling author and culinary teacher Patricia Wells offered Vegetable Harvest: Vegetables at the Center of the Plate (Morrow Cookbooks, $34.95).

Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Victoria Redel, whose new novel is The Border of Truth (Counterpoint, $24.95), which PW found “offers a welcome and fresh perspective on the well-trod subject of the Holocaust.”

Allan Brandt unwrapped The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America (Basic, $36), which PW’s starred review deemed a “highly readable, exhaustively researched book.”

CBS correspondent Bill Geist, with Way Off the Road: The Peculiar Charms of Small-Town America (Broadway, $23.95).

Dina Matos McGreevey, author of Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage (Hyperion, $23.95).

Montel interviewed former Parents magazine editor-in-chief Ann Pleshette Murphy, author of The 7 Stages of Motherhood: Loving Your Life Without Losing Your Mind (Anchor, $14; Random House Audio abridged CD, $27.50). From PW’s review: “The calming tone, plus the fact that Pleshette Murphy not only survived motherhood but raised two well-adjusted children, make this a comforting book for uncertain mothers.”

On The Bob Edwards Show:
Pulitzer winning John Updike, whose novel Terrorist (Ballantine, $14.95; Brilliance Audio unabridged CD, $36.95) comes out in paperback today. PW’s starred review called it “a by-the-numbers novelization of the last five years' news reports on the dangers of home-grown terror that packs a gut punch.”

Novelist and critic Cynthia Ozick, whose The Din in the Head (Houghton Mifflin, $14.95) comes out in paperback on June 2. In a PW Signature review, Daphne Merkin called it a “strikingly independent and articulate voice, one that rises above the noise of the madding crowd with rare clarity and force.”

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