Authors on the Air: After Etan; Maneater; Inside the Apple
Compiled by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 5/29/2009 12:31:00 PM
This evening, 20/20 talks with Emmy-winning TV newsmagazine producer Lisa Cohen, author of After Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive (Grand Central Publishing, 978-0446582513, $25.99). PW wrote “As true crime, this tragic tale is a standout, and Cohen, though no prose stylist, does a creditable job telling it.”
Today on The Bob Edwards Show, attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley discussed his late client in Why Just Her: The Judicial Lynching of D.C. Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey (BookSurge, 978-1439227954, $25.99).
Saturday evening, Lifetime TV premieres Maneater, a miniseries starring Sarah Chalke and based on the novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer (Pocket Star, 978-1416523345, $7.99). PW wrote “Masquerading as chick lit, this pitch-black comedy is actually a scathing satire of L.A. society (to use the term loosely).”
In addition to the BEA coverage, authors on this weekend’s Book TV include:
- Tour-guide/entrepreneur husband-and-wife team James Nevius and Michelle Nevius venture Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City (Free Press, 978-1416589976, $16.95). PW said “From the 1765 Bowling Green Park protest of the Stamp Act to the 1980 murder of John Lennon outside the Dakota Apartments, this extremely thorough sidewalk-level guide is rich with 20 years of combined tour experience.”
- History professor Thomas Schoonover, author of Hitler's Man in Havana: Heinz Luning and Nazi Espionage in Latin America (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 978-0813125015, $29.95). From PW’s review: “The story of how this hapless, largely incompetent man found his way to the Americas and, eventually, the international limelight is at once strange, humorous and pathetic, if drily rendered.”
- Former Catholic priest James Carroll, with Practicing Catholic (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0618670185, $28; Brilliance Audio unabridged CD, $34.99). PW found it a “spiritual memoir infused with church history. Readers who, like Carroll, remain Catholic but wrestle with their church's positions on moral issues will most appreciate his story.”
- Historian T.J. Stiles introduces The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Knopf, 978-0375415425, $37.50).
- Environmental journalist Laurel Neme, author of Animal Investigators: How the World's First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species (Scribner, 978-1416550563, $25).
- William Holstein explains Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon (Walker & Co., 978-0802717184, $26).
- Chesa Boudin, whose memoir is Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America (Scribner, 978-1416559115, $25).
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).
