Authors on the Air: Sam Haskell; How Sex Works; Darryl Strawberry
Compiled by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 4/28/2009 2:30:00 PM
Authors on this morning’s Today show:
- Hollywood talent agent Sam Haskell reveals Promises I Made My Mother (Ballantine, 978-0345506559, $24; RH Audio unabridged CD, $29.95), just out today. Tomorrow he’ll be on The Early Show.
- Physiologist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Sharon Moalem explained How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do (Harper, 978-0061479656, $26.99), also pubbing today. PW noted “Moalem writes fluidly for the general reader, and when he necessarily goes into graphic detail, he does it gracefully.”
Good Morning America hosted personal trainer and bestseller Jim Karas, author of The 7 Day Energy Surge (Rodale, 978-1605298801, $26).
On The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet: former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry, whose Straw: Finding My Way (Ecco, 978-0061704208, $26.99) goes on sale today. PW called it “a readable book, though not a probing one.”
The Brian Lehrer Show discussed the swine flu outbreak with public health expert Philip Alcabes, author of Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu (PublicAffairs, 978-1586486181, $26.95). PW starred its review: “Showing how even epidemics hinge on societal attitudes and expectations, Alcabes presents an engrossing, revealing account of the relationship between progress and plague.”
On The Leonard Lopate Show, Bernie Ilson recalled his eight years as The Ed Sullivan Show’s public relations man in Sundays with Sullivan: How the Ed Sullivan Show Brought Elvis, the Beatles, and Culture to America (Taylor Trade Publishing, 978-1589793903, $21.95).
Diane Rehm met with David Kilcullen, adviser on counterinsurgency to General Petraeus and author of The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One (Oxford Univ. Press, 978-0195368345, $27.95). PW starred its review, saying “Kilcullen's compelling argument merits wide attention.”
This evening, The Colbert Report interviews money journalist Daniel Gross, author of Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation (Free Press, 978-1439159873, $9.99).
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