Celebrity Bios ~ show May 30 and 31

FEATURED BOOKS PREVIEWED

“A Fine Romance” by Candice Bergen
“Part Swan, Part Goose” by Swoosie Kurtz
“Watch Me” by Anjelica Huston
“There Was A Little Girl” by Brooke Shields
“When the Balls Drop” by Brad Garrett
“So That Happened” by Jon Cryer
“Uganda Be Kidding Me” by Chelsea Handler

INTERVIEW
Swoosie Kurtz, Author

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A look at the new crop of celebrity bios, written by the men and women frequently in the Hollywood headlines. To add to your enjoyment, each of these titles is performed by the author. Elaine speaks with Swoosie Kurtz about her memoir, “Part Swan, Part Goose.”

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This Fall’s Top Books

THIS FALL’S TOP BOOKS

The editors at Publisher’s Weekly have made their selects for the books to look out for this fall.

Here’s the fiction list:
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
The Dog by Joseph O’Neill
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
The Forgers by Bradford Morrow
The Bishop’s Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison

And some nonfiction titles to watch for:
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” by Lena Dunham
My Heart is A Drunken Compass by Domingo Martinez
Watch Me by Anjelica Huston

Entertaining New Biographies ~ Show Feb 1

“Johnny Carson” by Henry Bushkin

“Sister, Mother, Husband, Dog” by Delia Ephron

“Poirot and Me” by David Suchet with Geoffrey Wansell

“Jim Henson” by Brian Jay Jones

“A Story Lately Told” by Anjelica Huston

“Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting” edited by Ann Hood

“The Wives: The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants” by Alexandra Popoff

INTERVIEWS:

Delia Ephron and Brian Jay Jones, Authors

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A focus on entertaining new biographies that take you behind the tabloids to offer up an accurate account of the lives of men and women who’ve become cultural icons.