Authors on the Air: Sarah Manguso; True Blood; Bob Woodward’s Bush Bombshell
by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 9/5/2008
On this morning’s Leonard Lopate Show, poet and fiction writer Sarah Manguso went through The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir (FS&G, $22). From PW’s starred review: “What makes this lightning-quick book extraordinary is not just Manguso's deadpan delivery of often unthinkable details, nor her poet's struggle with the damaging metaphors of disease, but the compassion she acquires as she comes to understand her pain in relation to the pain of others: suffering, however much and whatever type, shrinks or swells to fit the shape and size of a life.”
Live with Regis & Kelly hosted tennis star and activist Billie Jean King, promoting Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I've Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes (Lifetime Media, $19.95).
Tonight on Real Time with Bill Maher, Scott McClellan explains What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception (PublicAffairs, $27.95; Blackstone Audiobooks unabridged CD, $29.95).
Yesterday, NPR’s Morning Edition talked with coach Bill Curry, author of Ten Men You Meet in the Huddle: Lessons From a Football Life (ESPN, $24.95).
On Sunday, HBO premieres the series True Blood, based on New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s Dead Until Dark (Ace, $7.99), the first novel in her popular Sookie Stackhouse series. PW called her “an author of rare talents.”
Sunday’s Q&A with Brian Lamb features bestseller Linda Robinson, discussing Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq (PublicAffairs, $27.95).
60 Minutes will interview bestseller and Washington Post editor Bob Woodward, whose The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008 (S&S, $32; S&S Audio abridged CD, $29.95) pubs on Monday.
Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change.
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