Authors on the Air: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen; Lisa Lillien; Luis Alberto Urrea
Compiled by Diane Patrick -- Publishers Weekly, 6/24/2009 2:29:00 PM
Today, the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opens, directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. Movie tie-ins include Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe by Simon Furman (DK, 978-0756651725, $17.99). From HarperEntertainment: When Robots Attack! by Ray Santos (978-0061729652, $3.99); Operation Autobot by Susan Korman (978-0061729669, $3.99); The Last Prime by Tracey West (978-0061729720, $4.99) and The Junior Novel by Dan Jolley (978-0061729737, $5.99). Additional HarperTrophy movie tie-ins, by Jennifer Frantz, are I Am Optimus Prime (978-0061729690, $3.99) and Rise of the Decepticons (978-0061729706, $3.99).
On The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet, Lisa Lillien served up her Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories (St. Martin's Griffin, 978-0312556174, $19.95). Tomorrow, she’ll visit The Bonnie Hunt Show.
Bob Edwards hosted Pulitzer finalist Luis Alberto Urrea, whose latest novel Into the Beautiful North (Little, Brown, 978-0316025270, $24.99; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $34.99), was called by PW a “fine new novel. Urrea's poetic sensibility and journalistic eye for detail in painting the Mexican landscape and sociological complexities create vivid, memorable scenes. Though the Spanglish can be tough for the uninitiated to detangle, the colorful characters, strong narrative and humor carry this surprisingly uplifting and very human story.”
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
- Justine Hardy, author of In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World (Free Press, 978-1439102893, $25). PW’s starred review had this to say: “Hardy's deep familiarity with the region — she has reported on the Kashmir conflict for close to 20 years — allows her to present complicated and conflicting points of view. Her reporting is admirable and gilded by lyrical prose and evocative description.”
- Bestseller Peter G. Peterson, whose latest is The Education of an American Dreamer: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Learned His Way from a Nebraska Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and Beyond (Twelve, 978-0446556033, $34.99).
This evening on The Colbert Report, philosopher and motorcycle repair-shop owner Matthew Crawford offers Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work (Penguin, 978-1594202230, $25.95; Brilliance Audio CD, $29.99). From PW’s starred review: “Crawford extols the value of making and fixing things in this masterful paean to what he calls 'manual competence,' the ability to work with one's hands. With wit and humor, the author deftly mixes the details of his own experience as a tradesman and then proprietor of a motorcycle repair shop with more philosophical considerations.”
On The Daily Show, religions scholar and Islam expert Reza Aslan explains How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror (Random House, 978-1400066728, $26; RH Audio unabridged CD, $35).
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