Authors on the Air: Hungry Monkey; Causing a Scene; Fingerprints of God
Compiled by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 5/19/2009 11:52:00 AM
This morning, The Early Show hosted food writer Matthew Amster-Burton, author of Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater (Houghton Mifflin, 978-0151013241, $23).
Authors on today’s Today show:
- Charlie Todd and Alex Scordelis, guilty of Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere (William Morrow, 978-0061703638, $19.99), which pubs today.
- Consumer reporter Janice Lieberman demonstrated How to Shop for a Husband: A Consumer Guide to Getting a Great Buy on a Guy (St. Martin's Press, 978-0312549985, $22.95).
On The Diane Rehm Show: NPR correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty with her first book Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality (Riverhead, 978-1594488771, $26.95; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $34.99). From PW’s starred review: “The real beauty of this book lies in watching Hagerty gracefully balance her own trust in faith and science and, in the end, come down with one foot planted firmly in both.”
Both The View and The Leonard Lopate Show interviewed bestseller and senatorial wife Elizabeth Edwards, author of Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities (Broadway, 978-0767931366, $22.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $25). Tomorrow, she’s on The Daily Show.
Also on The Leonard Lopate Show: landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson shared Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City (Abrams, 978-0810996335, $40).
The Bob Edwards Show met with Deepa Narayan, senior advisor in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network of the World Bank and editor of Moving Out of Poverty (Volume 3): The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India (World Bank Publications, 978-0821372173, $40).
Tonight, The Daily Show hosts Newt Gingrich, co-author of 5 Principles for a Successful Life: From Our Family to Yours (Crown Forum, 978-0307462329, $22).
Last night, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson talked with bestseller Lawrence Block, whose book is Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir (William Morrow, 978-0061721816, $24.99).
Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change.
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