Authors on the Air: The Purity Myth; First Comes Love, Then Comes Money; The House on Mango Street at 25
Compiled by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 4/23/2009 3:14:00 PM
This morning on Today, feminist Jessica Valenti explained The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women (Seal Press, 978-1580052535, $24.95).
Both Good Morning America and The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet consulted financial advisers Bethany and Scott Palmer, whose book is First Comes Love, Then Comes Money: A Couple's Guide to Financial Communication (HarperOne, 978-0061649912, $14).
This evening on The Daily Show, historian Richard Beeman introduces Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (Random House, 978-1400065707, $30; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $49.99). PW’s starred review deemed it “the most authoritative, up-to-date treatment of the Constitutional Convention since Catherine Drinker Bowen's Miracle at Philadelphia over 40 years ago. It's unlikely to be surpassed.”
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
- Sandra Cisneros marked the 25th anniversary of her classic novel The House on Mango Street (Vintage, 978-0679734772, $10.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $14.99).
- Journalist Mark Hyman discussed Until It Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids (Beacon Press, 978-0807021187, $23.95).
On The Bob Edwards Show, Joe Queenan explained Closing Time: A Memoir (Viking, 978-0670020638, $26.95; Tantor unabridged CD, $37.99).
On The Diane Rehm Show: Tori Murden McClure, the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic and to ski over land to the South Pole, tried on A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean (Collins, 978-0061718861, $25.99).
Tonight, Tavis Smiley talks with Thomas Cahill, author of A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green (Nan A. Talese, 978-0385520195, $18.95). PW thought “Given the spiritual and literary license Cahill takes, one must read this less as a reasoned argument than an impassioned, very personal plea against racism, poverty and the death penalty.”
Yesterday on The Bob Edwards Show: Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson, whose latest is More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (W.W. Norton, 978-0393067057, $24.95). PW wrote “Wilson combines a critical look at recent research on poverty and race with his own field research to construct a synthesis that sidesteps many of the pitfalls that often entrap race and poverty theorists.”
Authors on yesterday’s Leonard Lopate Show:
- Novelist and classical music expert Anthony Rudel bade Hello, Everybody! The Dawn of American Radio (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0151012756, $26). PW considered it “an authoritative and entertaining survey of the early days of dial twisting.”
- Said Sayrafiezadeh wondered When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood (Dial Press, 978-0385340687, $22). PW’s starred review called it a “subtle yet bracing account of growing up in Pittsburgh as the child of two committed socialists during the 1970s and '80s. Sayrafiezadeh's excellent memoir displays a sophistication and keen intelligence that allows him to walk the line between pain and humor without even seeming mawkish or cheaply cynical.”
- Reza Aslan explained How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror (Random House, 978-1400066728, $26; RH Audio unabridged CD, $35).
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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).
