Authors on the Air: Hip-Hop Liner Notes; The Fabric of America; Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell

Compiled by Diane Patrick, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 6/29/2007 7:50:00 AM

Today on NPR’s Soundcheck: hip-hop scribe Brian Coleman, author of Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (Villard, $16.95).

Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

Andro Linklater wove The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity (Walker & Co., $25.95). From PW’s review: “The focus of this unruly book is one of the unsung founders of the United States, Andrew Ellicott. Linklater performs a real service in rescuing from near oblivion this surveyor and boundary commissioner who, for 35 years after 1785, laid down many of the borders that now demarcate the United States from Canada and state from state.”

Professional photographer Andy Olenick, whose book is Historic New York: Architectural Journeys in the Empire State (Landmark Society of Western New York, $49.95).

Geraldo at Large interviews former chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin, author of The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence (Free Press, $25). From PW’s review: “Using examples from both his chess and martial arts backgrounds, Waitzkin draws out a series of principles for improving performance in any field. Waitzkin's engaging voice and his openness about the limitations he recognized within himself make him a welcome teacher.”

This evening, Tavis Smiley talks with Republican pollster Frank Luntz about Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (Hyperion, $24.95; Hyperion abridged audio CD, $29.98).

Saturday on NPR’s Weekend America, famed New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan interprets Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Story We All Really Need Now More Than Ever (S&S, $11.95)

Authors on Book TV this weekend:

Political journalist and historian Michael Barone remembers Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers (Crown, $25.95; Tantor Media unabridged audio CD, $34.99), which PW called a “well-written history.... It was a Glorious Revolution indeed that laid the political groundwork for the world in which we now live, and Barone's lucid work honors its heritage.”

Humanities professor Seth Lerer, author of Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language (Columbia Univ. Press, $24.95). PW’s starred review declared, “[T]he book percolates with creative energy and will please anyone intrigued by how our richly variegated language came to be.”

Political reporter Jules Witcover explores Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Nixon & Agnew (Public Affairs, $27.95).

Josh Rushing, coauthor of Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World (Palgrave MacMillan, $24.95).

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