Authors on the Air: Juicy Confessions

by Staff, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 9/15/2005

Good Morning America heard from Jessica Canseco today. The ex-wife of Jose Canseco has penned the tell-all Juicy: Confessions of a Former Baseball Wife (ReganBooks, $25.95).

Today on the Diane Rehm Show, Michael Strober offered advice from Just a Little Too Thin: How to Pull Your Child Back from the Brink of an Eating Disorder (Da Capo Press, $25). PW had this to say: “As the title indicates, this thorough and informative guide targets teens who are teetering on the edge of a potential eating disorder, exhibiting warning signs yet still on the brink. At this delicate and precarious point, there are preventive measures concerned parents can take, which eating disorder authority Strober and psychologist Meg Schneider clearly delineate in a user-friendly, approachable style.”

Today Talk of the Nation spoke with Garry Wills, the author of Henry Adams and the Making of America (Houghton Mifflin, $30). PW wrote in a starred review: “Wills nimbly dusts off the nine volumes of Henry Adams's little-studied history of the United States from 1800 to 1817 and proclaims it to be both ‘a prose masterpiece’ and a model for how to research and write history…. With its revisionist stance, felicitous prose and compelling argument, Wills's book charts new directions as well.”

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