Authors on the Air: Wanted; The Tom Hayden Reader; Our Daily Meds
by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 6/30/2008 7:43:00 AM
Over the weekend, the movie Wanted opened, based on the graphic novel by Mark Millar and J. G. Jones (Top Cow/Image Comics, $19.99; deluxe "Director's Cut" hardcover edition, $29.99) and starring Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy.
Over the weekend on BookTV, legendary activist Tom Hayden pored over Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader (City Lights, $21.95). From PW’s review: “Hayden writes in a clear and heartfelt manner, turning spotlights not just on problems, but on the commonsense, and often overlooked, implications of those problems. Dense and wide-ranging, this is a thorough survey of an important thinker and activist.”
This morning, The Early Show talked with Internet mom Jen Singer, author of You're a Good Mom (And Your Kids Aren't So Bad Either) (Sourcebooks, $13.95).
Tonight, CNN’s Glenn Beck Show hosts bestseller Brad Thor, whose seventh Scot Horvath novel The Last Patriot (Atria, $26; S&S Audio abridged CD, $29.95) pubs tomorrow. PW called it “intriguing… A stunning revelation on the last page will surprise even the most savvy thriller readers.”
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Former New York Times reporter Melody Petersen shoved down Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (FS&G, $26). PW found “Petersen details these deceptions with information that will be startling even to those who closely follow the news on big pharma. She ends with tough, sound suggestions for reforms to make the pharmaceutical industry honest and to protect consumers.”
Paul Roberts served up The End of Food (Houghton Mifflin, $26; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $39.99).
On The Bob Edwards Show: professor of public service Paul Light, whose book is A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It (Harvard Univ. Press, $45).
Diane Rehm interviewed the newly knighted Salman Rushdie, whose latest novel is The Enchantress of Florence (Random House, $26).
Tonight, Tavis Smiley interviews journalist Jeremy Scahill, whose Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated] (Nation Books, $16.95; Blackstone Audio unabridged CD, $32.95) is recently out in paper.
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Authors on the Air is compiled by Diane Patrick. To be included in this compilation, email author appearance information to DPatrickPW@aol.com (at least TWO days in advance, please).
