Today, on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, The Early Show interviewed award-winning New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, author of 1 Dead In Attic: After Katrina (S&S, $24), a collection of his Pulitzer winning columns. PW’s starred review called it “one of the finest first-person accounts yet in the growing Katrina canon.”
On Today, journalists Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley introduced Restless Virgins: Love, Sex, and Survival at a New England Prep School (Morrow, $24.95).
The Bob Edwards Show commemorated the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by re-airing an interview with journalists Christopher Cooper and Robert Block, authors of Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security (Holt Paperbacks, $16). From PW’s review: “Cooper and Block manage to thread a readable, coherent story through the morass of detail and acronyms, with disquieting implications about the government's ability to cope with catastrophe.”
On The Diane Rehm Show, novelist Beverly Lowry discussed Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life: A Biography (Doubleday, $26). PW wrote “Tubman's life invites imagining, and Lowry's reader-friendly book, which ‘does not pretend to be a work of intense scholarship,’ presents her story with a novelist's sense of pace, suspense and speculation.”
The Book Report hosted John Ed Bradley, author of It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium: Football and the Game of Life (ESPN Books, $24.95), which pubs next week.
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