Authors on today’s
Early Show:
BFFs Jennifer Baggett and Holly C. Corbett, whose The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World. (Harper, 978-0061689062, $24.99) pubbed yesterday.
Deepak Chopra, co-author of The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self (HarperOne, 978-0061962653, $25.99; HarperAudio CD, $29.99). Tonight, he visits The Colbert Report.
Good Morning America hosted Fred Thompson, whose Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances (Crown Forum, 978-0307460288, $25) pubs next week.
Oprah chats with bestseller Geneen Roth, author of Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything (Scribner, 978-1416543077, $24; S&S Audio unabridged CD, $29.99).
Authors on The Leonard Lopate Show:
Former WSJ reporter Sarah Ellison, whose War at the Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547152431, $27; Tantor Media unabridged CD, $34.99) pubs today. PW declared it a “take-no-prisoners chronicle. In the end, Ellison offers a close look into a raw, aggressive power in international commerce.”
Award-winning British environment journalist Michael McCarthy discussed Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo: Migratory Birds and the Impending Ecological Catastrophe (Ivan R. Dee, 978-1566638562, $26.95).
On The View: comedian and actor Jay Mohr, whose No Wonder My Parents Drank: Tales from a Stand-Up Dad (Simon & Schuster, 978-1439173213, $25; S&S Audio abridged CD, $29.99) pubbed yesterday.
The Diane Rehm Show interviewed human nutrition expert Marion Nestle and animal nutrition expert Malden Nesheim, authors of Feed Your Pet Right: The Authoritative Guide to Feeding Your Dog and Cat (Free Press, 978-1439166420, $16.99), which pubbed yesterday. Tomorrow, they’re on The Brian Lehrer Show and Friday, on Good Morning America.
Authors on Live with Regis and Kelly:
Actress Queen Latifah, whose book is Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom (Grand Central Publishing, 978-0446555890, $20; Hachette Audio unabridged CD, $22.98). Tonight, she’s visiting Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Beth Ostrosky Stern, with Oh My Dog: How to Choose, Train, Groom, Nurture, Feed, and Care for Your New Best Friend (Gallery, 978-1439160299, $25.99). Tomorrow, she’s on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Variety reporter Nicole LaPorte introduced The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547134703, $28; Tantor unabridged CD, $49.99).
On NPR’s On Point: biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber, with the revised and updated second edition of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment (Da Capo Press, 978-0306818691, $16.95).
Authors on The Bob Edwards Show:
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore displayed his National Geographic Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species (Focal Point, 978-1426205750, $24).
Philosophy teacher Jack Bowen, author of If You Can Read This: The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers (Random House, 978-0812981056, $14). PW thought “Bowen's concept is certainly a clever way to draw in laypeople, but his hubris and narrow-mindedness is a good way to turn them off.”
On The Brian Lehrer Show, economist Nouriel Roubini explained Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (Penguin, 978-1594202506, $27.95; Penguin Audio unabridged CD, $39.95), just out yesterday. Tonight, he’s on Tavis Smiley.
Tonight, Tavis Smiley talks with bestseller Isabel Allende about her latest novel, Island Beneath the Sea (Harper, 978-0061988240, $26.99).
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