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By dave, on November 9th, 2010%
On November 8th, the interview guest on The Colbert Report was author Reza Aslan. His newest book is one he edited, an anthology of Middle Eastern literary work from the last 100 years.
Buy Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East by Reza Aslan from Amazon for the Kindle.
Buy Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization by Reza Aslan from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on November 2nd, 2010%
On the November 1 episode of The Colbert Report, a guest was columnist and author Jonathan Alter. His most recent book is a look at the first year of the Obama presidency.
Buy The Promise by Jonathan Alter from Amazon for the Kindle.
By dave, on October 27th, 2010%
On the October 26th episode of The Colbert Report, the interview guest was historian and journalist Garry Wills. His new book is a re-examination and re-evaluation of leaders he has known through his life and also essays on the friends who have had the most affect on him through his 76 years.
Buy Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer by Garry Wills from Amazon for the Kindle or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on October 15th, 2010%
On the October 14 episode of The Colbert Report, author Bill Bryson was the interview guest. His newest book is an examination of our homes and the stuff of our homes, and how our notion of what it means to be “at home” has evolved over the centuries.
Buy At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on October 12th, 2010%
On the October 11th episode of The Colbert Report, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich was the interview guest. His new book explores income inequality and how he feels that has led to structural flaws in our economy that threaten future stability.
Buy Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future by Robert B. Reich from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.
By dave, on October 5th, 2010%
On the October 4th episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen interviewed Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson. His new book is about the ongoing fracturing of the black community.
Buy Disintegration by Eugene Robinson from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on September 23rd, 2010%
On the September 22nd episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen spoke with Mexican film director and author Guillermo Del Toro. He is known as the director of Pan’s Labrynth, the Hellboy films and the upcoming adaptation of The Hobbit. His most recent book as co-author is the second book in a horror series about a vampiric virus spreading through New York.
Buy The Fall: Book Two of the Strain Trilogy by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo Del Toro from Amazon for the Kindle.
By dave, on September 15th, 2010%
On the September 14th episode of The Colbert Report, author Sean Wilentz was the interview guest. His new book is about Bob Dylan and his role in creating the zeitgeist of the 1960s, explored from Welentz’ perspective as both a historian and a fan of Dylan’s music.
Buy Bob Dylan In America by Sean Wilentz from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on September 14th, 2010%
On the September 13 episode of The Colbert Report, the interview guest was author Lisa Birnbach. She is best known for authoring the popular tongue-in-cheek Preppy Handbook in 1980. Her new book is a humourous revisiting of the topic of preppies, 30 years on from the original book.
Buy True Prep: It’s a Whole New Old World by Chip Kidd and Lisa Birnbach from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.
By dave, on September 2nd, 2010%
The Colbert Report sometimes has guests in the opening segments as well as the designated interview segment, and I sometimes miss those. Here is one that I missed at the time but just ran across. On the August 25th episode of The Colbert Report, a guest was professor and critic of the educational system Andrew Hacker. He appeared as part of a segment about online universities that appear to be scamming students.
Buy Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It by Andrew Hacker from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on August 26th, 2010%
On the August 25 episode of The Colbert Report, a guest was climatologist Heidi Cullen. Her new book is an examination of possible scenarios of changes in landscape in a warming world.
Buy The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet by Heidi Cullen from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 24th, 2010%
Here’s one that I missed from last week because it was in the first segment, not the main interview. On the August 16th episode of The Colbert Report in a segment on the large number of intelligence agencies and over 800,000 people with Top Secret clearance, Stephen talked with security expert and author Richard Clarke. Clarke is currently Chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, and has been a long time public servant in the State Department across many presidential administrations. His newest book examines the current USA state of preparation for cyber attacks.
Buy Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clarke from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 24th, 2010%
On the August 23th episode of The Colbert Report the interview guest was journalist and broadcaster Leslie Kean. Her newest book is a serious examination of the phenomenon of UFO sightings.
Buy UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record by Leslie Kean from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 20th, 2010%
On the August 19th episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen’s interview guest was mountaineer and author Jon Krakauer. He is most known for his book about his participation in an ill-fated climb of Mt. Everest and his new book is about the life and death of football player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
Buy Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more, or from the Kobo store.
Buy Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more, or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on August 19th, 2010%
On the August 18th episode of The Colbert Report, the interview guest was journalist and professor Thomas French. His newest book is a behind-the-scenes look at the operation of Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa Florida and examination of what the keeping of animals in zoos does to the culture around it.
Buy Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more, or from the Kobo store.
By dave, on August 12th, 2010%
On the August 11th episode of The Colbert Report, the interview guest was journalist David Finkel. He is a staff writer for The Washington Post and in 2006 won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting he did in Yemen. His new book is an account of the Iraq surge, reported while he was embedded with the 2-16 Rangers battalion.
Buy The Good Soldiers by David Finkel from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on August 4th, 2010%
On the August 3 episode of The Colbert Report, the interview guest was conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham. Her newest book is a satirical parody of the First Family as written in their diaries.
Buy The Obama Diaries by Laura Ingraham from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on July 27th, 2010%
On the July 26th episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen interviewed editor, broadcaster and author Hephzibah Anderson. Her new book is a chronicle of her experience of swearing off sex for a year and the effects that had on her life and her interpersonal relationships.
Buy Chastened; The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex by Hephzibah Anderson from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
By dave, on July 7th, 2010%
On July 6th, the feature interview on Colbert Report was with author Garret Keizer. His most recent book is an examination of noise in our lives, in our environment and what its presence and ubiquity does to a culture.
Buy The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want by Garret Keizer from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook, or from Powells for Nook, Sony Reader and more.
By dave, on July 6th, 2010%
On July 5th, Colbert Report included an interview with physicist and science popularizer Dr. Michio Kaku. His newest book is both a biography of Albert Einstein as well as an examination of his works and theories and how they affect scientific thinking to this day.
Buy Einstein’s Cosmos: How Albert Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time by Michio Kaku from Amazon for the Kindle or from Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
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