MAY 3, 2010
Authors on this morning's Today show:
- Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, whose Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis (Rodale Books, 978-1594868818, $22.99) pubbed last week.
- Actress Melissa Anderson, whose The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House (Globe Pequot 978-0762759705, $22.95) pubs tomorrow.
Good Morning America
hosted sports columnist Rick Reilly, whose
Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition
(Doubleday/ESPN Books, 978-0385514385, $26; RH Audio unabridged CD, $30) comes out tomorrow.
Authors on
The View:
- Investment banker, Rhodes scholar, and former aide to Condoleezza Rice Wes Moore discussed The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (Spiegel & Grau, 978-0385528191, $25; RH Audio unabridged CD, $35), out last week. PW starred its review: "Moore writes with subtlety and insight about the plight of ghetto youth, viewing it from inside and out; he probes beneath the pathologies to reveal the pressures-poverty, a lack of prospects, the need to respond to violence with greater violence-that propelled the other Wes to his doom. The result is a moving exploration of roads not taken."
- Jillian Lauren, author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem (Plume, 978-0452296312, $15).
Authors on today's
Leonard Lopate Show:
- Isabel Allende talked about her latest novel, Island Beneath the Sea (Harper, 978-0061988240, $26.99), which pubbed last week. In a PW Signature Review, Marlon James wrote "Slavery as a subject in fiction is still a high-wire act, but one expects more from Allende."
- 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), which goes on sale today.
The Diane Rehm Show
interviewed Ann Hood, whose novel
The Red Thread
(W. W. Norton, 978-0393070200, $23.95; Blackstone unabridged CD, $29.95) pubs today.
PW
called it an "engaging new tearjerker. Hood's sensitive depiction of her characters' hopes and fears makes for a moving story of dedication, forgiveness, and love."
The Doctors
had an appointment with former child star Todd Bridges, author of
Killing Willis: From
Diff'rent Strokes
to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted
(Touchstone, 978-1439148983, $26).
CNN Radio
airs segments throughout the day with Clara Silverstein, author of
A White House Garden Cookbook: Healthy Ideas from the First Family for Your Family
(Red Rock Press, 978-1933176352, $24.95).
Tonight,
The Mo'Nique Show
hosts Shaq's mom Lucille O'Neal, whose memoir is
Walk Like You Have Somewhere To Go
(Thomas Nelson, 978-1595553072, $22.99).
Tavis Smiley
talks with gospel music star Kirk Franklin about his new memoir
The Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life's Storms
(Gotham, 978-1592405473, $25; Brilliance unabridged CD, $29.99), pubbing on May 18.
On
The Wendy Williams Show,
bestseller Dr. Ian Smith becomes
Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life
(St. Martin's Press, 978-0312606350, $23.99; Macmillan Audio unabridged CD, $24.99).
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
chats with comedian Sarah Silverman, whose memoir is
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
(Harper, 978-0061856433, $25.99; HarperAudio CD, $29.99).
PW
's starred review said "Though she's best known for sexually explicit jokes, Silverman is able to address more serious subjects in the book without losing her edge."
Yesterday, authors on PRI's
Studio 360:
- Extreme action dancer/choreographer Elizabeth Streb, author of Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 978-1558616561, $18.95).
- Newsweek editor and bestselling author Evan Thomas, author of The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 (Little, Brown, 978-0316004091, $29.99; Hachette Audio unabridged CD, $39.98), which PW called a "shrewd, caustic psychological interpretation of the Spanish-American War."
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