About Thoughts Without Cigarettes Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Gotham (June 2, 2011) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has won multiple awards for his novels that feature locales as exotic as beautiful Havana and subjects as universal as family, dreams, love, and music. For his latest project, he writes from the heart about the people and […]
John Pollack, author of The Pun Also Rises, on tour April/May 2011
About The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Gotham (April 14, 2011) The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay. But such attitudes are relatively recent developments. […]
Lisa Napoli, author of Radio Shangri-La, on tour February/March 2011
About Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Crown (February 8, 2011) When Napoli met the handsome Sebastian at a cookbook party in New York City, she was intrigued by this man who traveled to Bhutan regularly. And when the accomplished L.A.-based journalist (MSNBC, CNN, public […]
Tim O’Donnell, author of A View from the Back Pew, on tour March 2011
About A View from the Back Pew: God, Religion & Our Personal Quest for Truth: Paperback: 280 pages Publisher: Linchpin Publishing (March 1, 2011) Since the time Tim O’Donnell was a nuisance to the nuns, he has been asking questions about religion. He went on to become a successful owner of daily newspapers and consulting […]
Iain Reid, author of ONE BIRD’S CHOICE, on tour March 2011
About One Bird’s Choice: A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: House of Anansi Press (Mar 1, 2011) Meet Iain Reid: an overeducated, underemployed twenty-something, living in the big city in a bug-filled basement apartment and struggling to make ends meet. When Iain lands […]
Daniel Akst, author of We Have Met the Enemy, on tour January/February 2011
About We Have Met the Enemy • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (January 6, 2011) An intelligent and irreverent investigation into the age-old problem of self-control finds that, in the modern world, solving it is the most important thing we can do. More calories, sex, and intoxicants are more readily and […]
Lauren Ruotolo, author of Unstoppable in Stilettos, on tour November 2010
About Unstoppable in Stilettos How to Live Large Every Day and Kick Butt Along the Way! How does a girl who was originally predicted to live a wheelchair-bound existence become adventurous, self-assured, successful, and . . . unflappable? Standing 4 feet 2 inches tall in flats (which she would never be caught dead in, anyway), […]
Ted Gup, author of A Secret Gift, on tour November/December 2010
About A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness – and Trove of Letters – Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press HC (November 1, 2010) An inspiring account of America at its worst-and Americans at their best-woven from the stories of Depression-era families who were […]
Paul De Angelis, author of Dear Mrs. Kennedy: The World Shares Its Grief, Letters November 1963, on tour November, 2010
About Dear Mrs. Kennedy: The World Shares Its Grief, Letters November 1963 Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Press; First Edition edition (October 12, 2010) In the weeks and months following the assassination of her husband, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy received over one million letters. They came from political luminaries such as Winston Churchill, Martin […]
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, authors of Game Change, on tour November 2010
About Game Change • Paperback: 480 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 26, 2010) In 2008 , the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the […]