Speaking of music, this morning Imus in the Morning riffs with Willie Nelson, who wrote the foreword for Farm Aid: A Song for America
(Rodale, $35, 1594862850), published on the 20th anniversary of the
first Farm Aid concert. The organization that developed out of the
concert continues to help farmers.
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This morning on the Early Show:
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Today All Things Considered talks with Kent Nerbura, author of Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy (HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 0060513012).
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WAMU's Diane Rehm Show speaks with that character, Senator John McCain, co-author of Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember (Random House, $23.95, 1400064120).
The show also features a Readers' Review of Kurt Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse-Five.
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On WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show today:
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The View speaks Southern with Jeff Foxworthy, the comedian whose new book is Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of (Villard, $16.95, 1400064651).
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One fact: tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise (Dutton, $22, 0525949089), an almanac of useful "facts," all of which have been made up by the author and include, for example, 700 most common names for hoboes, shortened words used on submarines to save oxygen and seven presidents who had hooks for hands.
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This morning on the Early Show:
- Jerry Lewis, author of Dean and Me: A Love Story (Doubleday, $26.95, 0767920864).
- Frank McCourt, author of Teacher Man: A Memoir (Scribner, $26, 0743243773).
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Today All Things Considered talks with Kent Nerbura, author of Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy (HarperSanFrancisco, $24.95, 0060513012).
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WAMU's Diane Rehm Show speaks with that character, Senator John McCain, co-author of Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember (Random House, $23.95, 1400064120).
The show also features a Readers' Review of Kurt Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse-Five.
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On WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show today:
- Word maven Patricia T. O'Conner, who teaches Internet etiquette and grammar rules in You Send Me: Getting It Right When You Write Online (Harcourt, $17.95, 0151005931).
- Vikram Seth, author of Two Lives (HarperCollins, $27.95, 0060599669).
- Uzodinma Iweala on his debut novel, Beasts of No Nation (HarperCollins, $16.95, 006079867X).
- Jerome Karabel, author of The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale (Houghton Mifflin, $28, 0618574581).
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The View speaks Southern with Jeff Foxworthy, the comedian whose new book is Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of (Villard, $16.95, 1400064651).
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One fact: tonight on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise (Dutton, $22, 0525949089), an almanac of useful "facts," all of which have been made up by the author and include, for example, 700 most common names for hoboes, shortened words used on submarines to save oxygen and seven presidents who had hooks for hands.