Authors on the Air: Jenny McCarthy; Alec Baldwin; Dennis Lehane
by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 9/24/2008
Today, Oprah chats with Jenny McCarthy, whose Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds (Dutton, $24.95; Blackstone unabridged CD, $19.95) pubbed yesterday.
The View hosted Emmy award winner Alec Baldwin, whose A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood and Divorce (St. Martin’s Press, $24.95) was published yesterday.
Authors on today’s Good Morning America:
Kris Carr, whose latest is Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor: More Rebellion and Fire for Your Healing Journey (Skirt! Books, $19.95). which PW deemed an “uplifting guide. While her hip, chatty style may particularly appeal to a youthful audience, her authenticity and sound advice will resonate with survivors of all stages and ages.” Tomorrow she’s on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet.
Three-time Pulitzer winner Thomas L. Friedman returned with Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America (FS&G, $27.95; Macmillan Audio unabridged CD, $59.95; abridged, $29.95).
On The Early Show, New York Times columnist Randall Stross explored Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know (Free Press, $26; Blackstone unabridged CD, $19.95). In a starred review, PW deemed it a “spellbinding behind-the-scenes look at Google. The unfolding narrative of Google's journey reads like a suspense novel.”
Authors on The Leonard Lopate Show:
Dennis Lehane with his latest novel The Given Day (William Morrow, $27.95; HarperAudio unabridged CD, $75), just out yesterday. From PW’s starred review: “In a splendid flowering of the talent previously demonstrated in his crime fiction, Lehane combines 20th-century American history, a gripping story of a family torn by pride and the strictures of the Catholic Church, and the plot of a multifaceted thriller.”
John Ehrenfeld, a pioneer in the field of industrial ecology, explained Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture (Yale Univ. Press, $28).
Actor Robert Wagner served up Pieces of My Heart: A Life (HarperEntertainment, $25.95; HarperAudio abridged CD, $29.95).
On The Diane Rehm Show: Laurence Steinberg, co-author of Rethinking Juvenile Justice (Harvard Univ. Press, $29.95).
Martha Stewart and horticulturalist Dennis Schrader celebrated the world of Extraordinary Leaves (Firefly Books, $45).
On The Bob Edwards Show, journalist and former labor organizer David Bacon introduced Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, $25.95), which pubbed last week. PW starred its review, calling it an “incisive investigation of the global political and economic forces creating migration. Bacon offers an invaluable corrective to America's hobbled discourse on immigration and a spur to genuine, creative action.”
Tonight, Tavis Smiley talks with journalist Helene Cooper, whose memoir is The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood (S&S, $25; S&S Audio unabridged CD, $39.95). PW said “Cooper combines deeply personal and wide-ranging political strands in her memoir. There's the halcyon early childhood in Africa, a history of the early settlement of Liberia, an account of the violent, troubled years as several regimes are overthrown, and the story of the family's exile to America.”
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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).
