Authors on the Air: Causing a Scene; Gabriel García Márquez; Eduardo Galeano

Compiled by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 5/28/2009 12:25:00 PM

This morning, Today hosted Charlie Todd and Alex Scordelis, authors of Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere (William Morrow, 978-0061703638, $19.99). 

The Diane Rehm Show re-scheduled its interview with Johns Hopkins University sociologist Andrew Cherlin, author of The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today (Knopf, 978-0307266897, $25.95). PW wrote “While Cherlin delineates the stress points created by the conflicting values of marriage and individualism, he offers few suggestions for dealing with the problems identified.” 

Authors on tonight’s Tavis Smiley rebroadcast: 

• Former investigative reporter and investment banker William Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (Doubleday, 978-0385528269, $27.95; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $49.99). 

• Emmy-winning actress Jaime Pressly, with It's Not Necessarily Not the Truth: Dreaming Bigger Than the Town You're From (William Morrow, 978-0061454141, $25.99). PW’s review had this to say: “While her son, Dezi, will surely appreciate her book someday, others will find little of real substance.” 

Authors on yesterday’s Leonard Lopate Show: 

• Gerald Martin chronicled Gabriel García Márquez: A Life (Knopf, 978-0307271778, $37.50). In its starred review, PW declared “Martin's control of his prodigious material in this first authorized biography of the great Colombian novelist is astonishing. Martin writes with a novelist's momentum.” 

• Acclaimed Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, with Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (Nation Books, 978-1568584232, $26.95). From PW’s starred review: “Across disparate civilizations and centuries — but always with an unflinching eye (and irony) trained on the present — Galeano's stories register the imaginations of our mythmaking species, the elaborate gestures of (gendered) forms of power and the spirit of rebellion and resilience that fires the underdog masses.” 

• Foreign policy expert Richard Haass, whose latest is War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars (S&S, 978-1416549024, $27). PW considered it “a combination of memoir and analysis on two wars that, he says, began in 1990: Desert Storm, the response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.” 

Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change. 

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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).