AUGUST 23, 2010

Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:

Canadian journalist Micah Toub, whose Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks (W. W. Norton, 978-0393067552, $23.95) pubbed last week. PW found it an “engaging and illuminating memoir. Toub writes with wit, humor, and a penetrating honesty as he examines his family life, his relationships with various women and his marriage, along with sexual fantasies, masturbation, the I Ching, and meditation.”

Jennifer Vanderbes introduced Strangers at the Feast (Scribner, 978-1439166956, $26; Tantor unabridged CD, $34.99), which PW called a “misfired sophomore novel... Vanderbes spins her wheels on a toothless Corrections-lite family saga that winds its way to an ever-so-unlikely big bang conclusion.”

NPR’s Here and Now interviewed Manal Omar, author of Barefoot in Baghdad: A Story of Identity—My Own and What It Means to Be a Woman in Chaos (Sourcebooks, 978-1402237218, $14.99).

The Bonnie Hunt Show re-aired a conversation with journalist Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (William Morrow, 978-0060889579, $29.99; HarperAudio unabridged CD, $34.99).

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 dpatrick@publishersweekly.com (at least TWO days in advance, please).