Authors on the Air: Beat the Reaper; The Essential Green You; Dirty Dishes
by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 1/13/2009
This morning, Today hosted first-time novelist Josh Bazell, whose Beat the Reaper: A Novel (Little, Brown, 978-0316032223, $24.99; Hachette unabridged CD, $29.98) pubbed last week. PW said “Making a hit man turned medical intern a sympathetic figure would be a tall order for most authors, but Bazell makes it look easy in this breezy and darkly comic suspense novel. The hero's wry narrative voice, coupled with Bazell’s artful use of flashbacks to sustain tension and fill in Pietro's past, are a winning combination.”
On Good Morning America, filmmaker Andrea Buchanan passed along Note To Self: 30 Women on Hardship, Humiliation, Heartbreak, and Overcoming It All, (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 978-1416948766, $24.95).
The Early Show met with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, with Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood: Rebels, Reds, and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind the Making of 13 Iconic Films (Penguin, 978-0143114710, $16).
On The View: Deirdre Imus, whose The Essential Green You: Easy Ways to Detox Your Diet, Your Body, and Your Life (S&S, 978-1416541257, $15.95) is the third volume in her bestselling Green This! series.
Live with Regis and Kelly consulted financial expert David Bach, whose The Finish Rich Dictionary: 1001 Financial Words You Need to Know (Oxford Univ. Press, 978-0195375589, $12.95) pubbed yesterday.
Leonard Lopate hosted New York restaurateur Pino Luongo, whose book is Dirty Dishes: A Restaurateur's Story of Passion, Pain, and Pasta (Bloomsbury, 978-1596914421, $25). PW wrote “The book might disappoint hardcore foodies if it were not for a few incisive remarks on restaurant design, pasta portioning, how to skewer a critic — and recipes.”
On The Bob Edwards Show, Azar Nafisi discussed Things I've Been Silent About: Memories (Random House, 978-1400063611, $27; RH Audio abridged CD, $29.95).
This evening, The Colbert Report interviews historian and business scholar Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin, 978-1594201929, $29.95; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $34.99).
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