Authors on the Air: Freckleface Strawberry Returns; Happy Birthday, Willie Nelson!; The Brother Gardeners
Compiled by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 4/30/2009 3:15:00 PM
Authors on this morning’s Today show:
- Actress Julianne Moore, whose Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully (Bloomsbury Children's, 978-1599903163, $16.99) is the second in her series featuring a heroine with strawberry-red freckles and hair. PW wrote “A bright palette and a classic cartoon feel should prove eye-catching, as Freckleface navigates the world of playground activities. Those with dodgeball-related trauma may relate, though the bully is none too scary, and Freckleface gets over her fear pretty easily.”
- Dr. Cheryl Saban, author of What Is Your Self-Worth: A Woman’s Guide to Validation (Hay House, 978-1401923952, $24.95).
On Good Morning America, 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). PW noted “Moalem writes fluidly for the general reader, and when he necessarily goes into graphic detail, he does it gracefully.”
The Bob Edwards Show celebrated Willie Nelson’s 76th birthday by re-airing an interview with biographer Joe Nick Patoski, author of Willie Nelson: An Epic Life (Back Bay Books, 978-0316017794, $16.99). PW’s starred review declared it an “impressive, entertaining chronicle of Willie Nelson's life… Writing with an affectionate country twang, Patoski gives his subject the consideration he deserves in a fine, fluid piece of storytelling that any Nelson fan will appreciate.”
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
- Historian T.J. Stiles, whose new book is The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Knopf, 978-0375415425, $37.50).
- Former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry, with Straw: Finding My Way (Ecco, 978-0061704208, $26.99). PW called it “a readable book, though not a probing one.”
Diane Rehm chatted with German-born journalist Andrea Wulf, author of The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession (Knopf, 978-0307270238, $35), which PW said “wonderfully conveys the allure and cultural importance of the garden.”
On The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet:
- Access Hollywood host Nancy O'Dell, author of Full of Life: Mom-to-Mom Tips I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Pregnant (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 978-1439110256, $16.99).
- Clinical and sports nutritionist Christine Avanti served up Skinny Chicks Don't Eat Salads: Stop Starving, Start Eating and Losing (Rodale, 978-1605299976, $24.95).
Fox & Friends met with super-agent Sam Haskell, author of Promises I Made My Mother (Ballantine, 978-0345506559, $24; RH Audio unabridged CD, $29.95).
Tonight, Tavis Smiley talks with Joshua Cooper Ramo, former foreign editor of Time and author of The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It (Little, Brown, 978-0316118088, $25.99; Hachette Audio unabridged CD, $34.98). From PW’s starred review: “Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges. His revelatory work argues that there must be some audacity in thinking before there can be any audacity of hope.”
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