Authors on the Air: L.A. Candy; The Lassa Ward; How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll

Compiled by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 6/18/2009 2:28:00 PM

Today, The Early Show, The View and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon all interview Lauren Conrad, star of MTV's The Hills, whose new YA novel L.A. Candy (HarperCollins, 978-0061767586, $17.99) is just out this week. 

Authors on today’s Bob Edwards Show: 

• UCLA medical professor and ER doc Ross Donaldson explained The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases (St. Martin's Press, 978-0312377007, $24.95). PW starred its review, calling it “a wild and extraordinary memoir of his 2003 summer in Sierra Leone as a naive medical student studying Lassa fever (a close cousin of the Ebola virus). Despite a slow start, this astounding story of the seemingly insurmountable barriers to public health in a Third World country revs up into an irresistible tale of discovery, courage and kindness.  

• Tori Murden McClure, the first woman (and first American) to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean and author of A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean (Collins, 978-0061718861, $25.99). 

On The Diane Rehm Show, professor Lennard Davis discussed Go Ask Your Father: One Man's Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing (Bantam, 978-0553805512, $25). 

This evening on The Colbert Report: Irish-born poet and Princeton professor Paul Muldoon, who participated in the recent White House poetry slam, discusses Plan B (Enitharmon Press, 978-1904634829, $32.95). 

Yesterday on NPR’s Soundcheck, musician, writer and historian Elijah Wald explained How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music (Oxford Univ. Press, 978-0195341546, $24.95). 

Last night on Sean Hannity Tonight: Carey Casey, CEO of the National Center for Fathering and author of Championship Fathering: How to Win at Being a Dad (Tyndale/Focus on the Family, 978-1589975347, $13.99).

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).