This morning on the Today Show: Frank McCourt, author of Angela and the Baby Jesus (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781416937890/1416937897).
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This morning on Good Morning America: Sandra Lee, author of Made
From Scratch (Meredith Books, $24.95, 9780696239199/0696239191).
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WETA's Author, Author! features two booksellers talking about their
holiday gift book recommendations: Barbara Meade, co-owner of Politics
& Prose in Washington, D.C., and Alexis Akre, a buyer for Olsson's,
which has stores in and around the capital.
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Today on the Diane Rehm Show: Daniel Schorr, author of Come to Think of
It: Notes on the Turn of the Millennium (Viking, $24.95, 9780670018734/
0670018732).
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Today on NPR's the Story: Jane Bernstein, author of Rachel in the World (University of Illinois Press, $24.95, 9780252032530/0252032535), a book reviewed in the September 5 Shelf Awareness.
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville (Europa
Editions, $14.95, 9781933372396/1933372397). As the show put it: "This
breakthrough novel is about the The Movies--not the movie business, not
the wheels and deals--but The Movies themselves. Here, we explore the
idea that there is a secret subject that binds All The Movies together.
Try and guess what it is."
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Today on the Martha Stewart Show: Peter Brown, author of The Fabulous
Bouncing Chowder (Little, Brown Young Readers, $15.99,
9780316011792/0316011797).
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Today the Writer's Roundtable, which covers the art, craft and business
of writing and can be heard on the new San Diego Union Tribune radio
station and at signonradio.com, features screenwriter Warren Lewis,
best known for his work on Black Rain and The 13th Warrior. He will
talk about breaking into screenwriting; the differences between writing
novels and screenplays; writing novels that translate easily to the
screen; making a living as a screenwriter; getting your screenplay read
by Hollywood; and getting your novel noticed by Hollywood. The host is
Antoinette Kurtz.
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Tonight on the Charlie Rose Show, a discussion about the movie The Kite Runner, including director Marc Forster, star Khalid Abdalla and the book's author, Khaled Hosseini. The movie goes into limited release tomorrow.