Authors on the Air: The Joy of Text; The Race Beat; The Joy of Mess

Compiled by Diane Patrick, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 1/19/2007

This morning on The Early Show:

Public health advocate Charles Stuart Platkin explained The Diet Detective's Count Down: 7500 of Your Favorite Food Counts with Their Exercise Equivalents for Walking, Running, Biking, Swimming, Yoga, and Dance (Fireside, $13).

Kristina Grish shared The Joy of Text: Mating, Dating, and Techno-Relating (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $12.95).

Today hosted Susan Westmoreland, coauthor of Good Housekeeping's The Supermarket Diet Cookbook (Hearst, $19.95).

On The Diane Rehm Show, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff discussed The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Knopf, $30). From PW's review: "This gripping account of how America and the world found out about the Civil Rights movement is written by two veteran journalists of the 'race beat' from 1954 to 1965.... [T]he book is so enlivened with anecdotes that it remains a page-turner."

Authors on On Point:

Kevin Young, whose latest poetry collection isFor the Confederate Dead (Knopf, $24.95). PW's review had this to say: "Much celebrated despite his relative youth, Young has set himself apart from his peers with his supple, variable, blues-inflected line employed in a series of ambitious book-length projects. This bulky yet powerful fifth collection [of] mostly somber lyrics and shorter sequences tells stories of African and African-American pilgrimages and homelands, imagined, fought for and too often lost."

Calvin Trillin continued promoting About Alice (Random House, $14.95; RH Audio unabridged CD, $19.95).

The Leonard Lopate Show chatted with Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman about A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder—How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place (Little, Brown, $24.95; Hachette Audio abridged CD, $24.98).

On The Tyra Banks Show, Giuliana DePandi demonstrated Think Like a Guy: How to Get a Guy by Thinking Like One (St. Martin's Griffin, $12.95).

This evening, 20/20 interviews Robert Pagliarini, author of The Six-Day Financial Makeover: Transform Your Financial Life in Less Than a Week! (St. Martin's, $24.95; Blackstone Audiobooks unabridged CD, $27.95).

Tonight, Tavis Smiley talks with law professor Jeffrey Rosen about The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America (Times Books, $25).

Sunday on Book TV's AfterWords, law professor and philanthropist Joel Fleishman discusses his first book, The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth Is Changing the World (Public Affairs, $27.95), which PW called "a thoughtful, engrossing, comprehensive guide to the origins, initiatives, successes and failures among the largely unsung 68,000 private foundations in America, which together grant over $32.2 billion tax-exempt per year. Fleishman's efforts prove an illuminating guide to a little-examined aspect of the American tradition."

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