Authors on the Air: Zoe Style; Cooking Vegetarian; Cheech the School Bus Driver
by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 10/12/2007
This morning on The Today Show, celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe displayed Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty, & Everything Glamour (Grand Central Publishing, $24.99).
On The Leonard Lopate Show, chef (and avowed meat eater) Mark Bittman explained How to Cook Everything Vegetarian (Wiley, $35). PW’s starred review had this to say: “Even owners of the original book will find much new to savor while benefiting from Bittman's remarkable ability to teach foundational skills and encourage innovation with them, which will help even longtime vegetarians freshen their repertory.”
Tonight, Tavis Smiley chats with Eastern philosophy popularizer and mind-body pioneer Deepak Chopra, whose latest is Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment (HarperOne, $24.95; Brilliance Audio abridged CD, $24.95; unabridged, $34.95), a novel of how the Indian prince Siddhartha came to be the enlightened one, the Buddha. In its starred review, PW said “This fast and easy-to-read book teaches without being didactic. Chopra scores a fiction winner.”
This weekend on Book TV:
Larry Sabato proposes A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country (Walker & Co., $25.95). PW’s review said “While there's room for skepticism and unintended consequences in some of his suggestions, Sabato makes strong, cogent arguments.”
Michael Oreskes, executive editor of the International Herald Tribune,and law professor Eric Lane investigate The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved Our Country--and Why it Can Again (Bloomsbury, $23.95). PW found them “superb at explaining underlying principles of governance embedded in the Constitution.”
Randall Robinson, whose latest is An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President (Basic Civitas, $26).
Lynne Cheney, with Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family (Pocket, $26; S&S Audio abridged CD, $29.95).
Actor and comedian Cheech Marin drops by CBS News Sunday with his children’s book Cheech the School Bus Driver (HarperCollins, $16.99).
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Authors on the Air is compiled by Diane Patrick. To be included in the compilation, email DPatrickPW@aol.com.
