Today on Oprah: actress and author Jenny McCarthy, whose brand new book is Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism (Dutton, $23.95). McCarthy, who previously chronicled her pregnancy, motherhood and crumbling marriage in Belly Laughs, Baby Laughs and Life Laughs, takes a serious look at autism and specifically her experience with her five-year-old autistic son, Evan. A few months ago, when McCarthy was on The View, she said, "I just want moms ... who have children out there with autism ... to know that I am coming back in a few months with this book, and I am planning on using my big, giant, controversial mouth to blow the lid off a lot of things related to autism to give moms hope. It is so needed."
Today on the View: cohost Joy Behar, author of When You Need a Lift: But Don't Want to Eat Chocolate, Pay a Shrink, or Drink a Bottle of Gin (Crown, $19.95; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $49.99), pubbing today and described by PW as “mood boosters… brief personal essays from more than 100 of her best friends.”
This morning on Today, Connecticut senator Christopher Dodd discussed Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice (Crown, $25.95; Tantor Media audio CD, $37.99), which PW said “make for fascinating reading and must be considered an essential addition to Nuremberg studies.” Tomorrow, he’ll be on The Bob Edwards Show.
On The Early Show, Pablo Fenjves, ghostwriter of If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer (Beaufort Books, $24.95) described the writing of the “story behind the story.”
Popular British writer Alan Bennett (Tony-winning play The History Boys) stopped by NPR’s Morning Edition with The Uncommon Reader: A Novella (FS&G, $15), just out today. PW’s review had this to say: “Briskly original and subversively funny, this novella sends Queen Elizabeth II into a mobile library van in pursuit of her runaway corgis and into the reflective, observant life of an avid reader. There are lessons packed in here, but Bennett doesn't wallop readers with them. It's a fun little book.”
Tonight, Alan Greenspan visits The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to continue stirring up The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Penguin, $35; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $44.95; abridged, $34.95).
Also tonight, the television drama Gossip Girl premieres, based on the novel series of the same name by Cecily von Ziegesar, the latest of which is Gossip Girl #11: Don't You Forget About Me (Poppy, $11).
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Sociologist Kathleen Newman, co-author of The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (Beacon, $24.95), called by PW a “compassionate and clear-eyed analysis… Newman and Chen contribute significantly to the dialogue on America's widening inequities.”
Dr. Aubrey DeGrey proposed Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime (St. Martin’s, $26.95).
Reporter Alec Klein, with A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools (S&S, $25).
On The Diane Rehm Show, Mark Penn explained Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes (Twelve Books, $25.99; Twelve unabridged CD, $39.98).
Hannity & Colmes interview Paul Kengor, whose latest is God and Hillary Clinton: A Spiritual Life (Harper, $24.95; HarperAudio abridged CD, $29.95).
Tonight, Tavis Smiley meets with Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West, whose most recent is Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (Penguin, $15; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $29.95).
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