CONFIRMED MEDIA BOOKINGS:
Frankie by Graham Norton/January 14, 2025/HarperVia/Paperback
PUBLICITY
TELEVISION
Jan 07 / Drew Barrymore pre-interview
Jan 13 / CBS / CBS Mornings / NEW YORK / LINK
Jan 13 / CBS / CBS Mornings / NEW YORK / Appearance #2
Jan 13 / NBC-TV / Late Night with Seth Meyers / NEW YORK
Jan 14 / NBC Universal / Morning Joe / LINK
Jan 16 / Drew Barrymore Show / NEW YORK / LINK
Jan 17 / Sherri / LINK
PRINT
Date TK / NEW YORK TIMES / NEW YORK / LINK
Oct 14 / KIRKUS / “This feel-good story of an unlikely friendship soothes and surprises with its tenderness.”
Nov 01 / KIRKUS / NEW YORK / Announcement / LINK
Nov 11 / PUBLISHERS WEEKLY / ” Readers will be glad to go along for the ride.” / LINK
Nov 28 / NEW YORKER, THE / LINK
PODCAST
Jan 14 / CTB / Keep It Podcast / National Online / LINK
Feb 28 / RuPaul / LINK
ONLINE
Oct 16 / LIBRARY JOURNAL / Author panel
Nov 18 / BOOKLIST / “Richly told and portraying an unforgettable protagonist, Frankie will appeal to
readers of character-driven historical fiction.”
Jan 13 / BOSTON GLOBE / Boston
Jan 15 / RuPaul BookClub Pick / LINK
Feb 03 / BOOKREPORTER.COM / National Online / “Graham Norton handles everything with a deft hand and a quiet narrative that manages to sneak up on you when you least expect it.”
BOOKSTORE
Date TK / BookTowne / New Jersey
Jan 13 / RIZZOLI BOOKSTORE / NEW YORK
Chita by Chita Rivera/April 25, 2023/HarperOne/Hardback
PUBLICITY
TELEVISION
Apr 23 / CBS / CBS Sunday Morning / LINK
Apr 24 / ABC-TV / THE VIEW / NEW YORK
Apr 27 / CUNY TV / Theater, All the Moving Parts / NEW YORK / Interview with Patrick / LINK
May 01 / Tamron Hall / NEW YORK / LINK
May 02 / CBS / The Late Show with Stephen Colbert / NEW YORK
May 06 / NY1 / On Stage / NEW YORK / LINK
RADIO
Date TK / The Joan Hamburg Show 770AM WABC
Apr 06 / NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO / Morning Edition / Washington, DC / LINK
Apr 26 / SIRIUSXM/Seth’s Big Fat Broadway / NEW YORK
Apr 26 / SIRIUSXM/Broadway Names with Julie James / NEW YORK
Apr 27 / SIRIUS RADIO / Andy Cohen Live / NEW YORK / Via zoom / LINK
May 01 / WOR-AM / Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning / NEW YORK
May 01 / I HEART RADIO / INSIDE BROADWAY PODCAST / NEW YORK
PRINT
Dec 09 / AARP / Upcoming mention of memoir
Jan 03 / KIRKUS / NEW YORK / “The author is honest and outspoken in life and on the page, and fans of musical theater and dance are in for a real treat.” / LINK
Mar 13 / PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY / “This deserves a standing ovation.” / LINK
Mar 15 / KIRKUS / NEW YORK / Interview for their diversity issue
Mar 25 / AARP The Magazine / Los Angeles
Apr 17 / NEW YORK TIMES / “One role she never played, this upbeat memoir makes clear — the victim.” / LINK
Apr 19 / NEW YORK TIMES / NEW YORK / LINK
Apr 21 / USA TODAY / Phoenix / LINK
Apr 23 / NEW YORK POST / NEW YORK / LINK
Apr 24 / The Cut/NY Magazine / National Online / LINK
Apr 25 / ASSOCIATED PRESS / NEW YORK / LINK
Apr 25 / American Theatre Magazine
May 03 / Orange County Register / Los Angeles
May 04 / American Theatre Magazine / LINK
May 28 / WASHINGTON POST / Maryland / LINK
Jun 13 / HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW / Boston / July/August issue / LINK
Jun 15 / REDBOOK / NEW YORK / Best memoirs of 2023 / LINK
PODCAST
Apr 13 / IHEART PODCAST NETWORK / Onward! Rosie O’Donnell / National Online / via Riverside app / LINK
Apr 28 / NPR / New Yorker Radio Hour / NEW YORK / LINK
ONLINE
Jan 09 / WASHINGTON POST / Washington, DC / Spring preview / LINK
Mar 09 / AARP MAGAZINE / Spring Books To Watch / LINK
Apr 21 / Vulture / Chita audio featured / LINK
Apr 22 / BroadwayDirect / LINK
Apr 25 / BROADWAY WORLD / NEW YORK / LINK
May 02 / talkin broadway / “…the book is a fast, fun read full of fabulous tales, smart and insightful. It may well make you laugh and cry. And I bet you’ll be sad when it ends. I was.” / LINK
May 09 / BROADWAYWORLD.COM / National Online / LINK
May 16 / MASTER WORKS BROADWAY / CHITA AND HER ACHIEVEMENTS BY PETER FILICHIA / LINK
May 16 / The Bay Area Reporter / Chita Rivera’s memoir shares the Broadway legend’s life and career / LINK
Jun 10 / TOWN AND COUNTRY / Best Celeb Memoirs 2023 / LINK
BOOKSTORE
Apr 24 / TEMPLE EMANU-EL / NEW YORK / In conversation with Nathan Lane
Apr 30 / OBLONG BOOKS @ Bardavon Theatre / NEW YORK / BARDAVON PRESENTS in partnership with Oblong Books
In conversation with Harvey Fierstein
May 04 / WATCHUNG BOOKSELLERS/Montclair Literary Fest / New Jersey / In conversation with Richie Ridge
May 10 / RJ JULIA BOOKSELLERS / Connecticut / In conversation with Patrick Pacheco
May 15 / DRAMA BOOKSHOP / NEW YORK / In conversation with Patrick Pacheco
Life by Pope Francis /March 19, 2024/HarperOne/Hardback
PUBLICITY
TELEVISION
Mar 18 / CBS / CBS Evening News / NEW YORK / LINK
Mar 19 / ABC-TV / THE VIEW / NEW YORK / Audience giveaway
Mar 19 / MSNBC / Morning Joe / NEW YORK
Mar 19 / NBC-TV / Today Show / Correspondent Anne Thompson will cover the book in 8AM hour. / LINK
Mar 21 / EWTN / World Over with Raymond Arroyo / Evening News / LINK
May 20 / CBS / CBS Special / NEW YORK / LINK
PRINT
Nov 07 / PUBLISHERS WEEKLY / NEW YORK / LINK
Dec 13 / PUBLISHERS WEEKLY / NEW YORK / Cover reveal / LINK
Mar 14 / WASHINGTON POST / “But there is also a thread woven through the book: I am like you, and the Catholic Church isn’t about the trappings you see. And as Francis tries, in his final era as pope, to shift the direction of the Church, perhaps this book is trying — in a different way — to say something more like what you expect from a pope: God is like you, the Catholic Church isn’t about the trappings you see.” / LINK
Mar 14 / ASSOCIATED PRESS / NEW YORK / LINK
Mar 14 / WASHINGTON POST / LINK
Mar 15 / Reuters / NEW YORK / LINK
Mar 19 / NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER / Audio announcement / LINK
Mar 20 / PUBLISHERS WEEKLY / NEW YORK / LINK
Apr 12 / People / National Online
Apr 12 / PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY / “Catholics will value this chance to see the leader of their church in a fresh light. ” / LINK
ONLINE
Nov 07 / Vatican News / LINK
Mar 14 / People / National Online / LINK
Mar 15 / Deadline.com / Los Angeles / Audio announcement / LINK
Mar 18 / Detroit Catholic / LINK
Mar 19 / Catholic Register / LINK
Mar 20 / Salt Lake Tribune / LINK
Mar 20 / Religious News Service / LINK
My Husband by Maud Ventura/July 11, 2023/HarperVia/Hardback
PUBLICITY
TELEVISION
Jun 28 / ABC TV / GOOD MORNING AMERICA / LINK
PRINT
Date TK / OPRAH DAILY
Mar 27 / PUBLISHERS WEEKLY / Open Book column / NEW YORK / LINK
May 01 / PUBLISHERS WEEKLY / NEW YORK / “Ramadan’s exacting translation holds the reader in her grip, and what makes this so thrilling is not just the narrator’s surprising ruthlessness but how Ventura causes the reader to repeatedly change their mind about who’s to blame for the messed up marriage all the way to the explosive ending. It’s a bold and memorable first outing.” / LINK
May 25 / SHELF AWARENESS / ” Ventura’s cleverly constructed, one-sided portrait of a marriage delivers a breathtaking conclusion that is as unexpected as it is deviously brilliant.” / LINK
May 26 / SERENDIPITY MAGAZINE / New York State / Summer Reading Round Up
May 26 / BOOKLIST / Chicago / ‘Fans of Caroline Kepnes’ You (2014) or Gillian Flynn will find My Husband to be a new, satisfying, and unnerving take on the relationship-suspense genre.”
Jun 01 / PUBLISHERS WEEKLY / NEW YORK
Jun 01 / KIRKUS / NEW YORK / “…twist at the end that reading groups will love to discuss. Writing about control as much as love, Ventura describes a marriage from hell that works, however oddly.”
Jul 06 / SAN ANTONIO MAGAZINE / San Antonio / LINK
Jul 09 / MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE / “Winner of France’s First Novel Prize in 2021, “My Husband” will have you thinking hard
about the meaning of love.” / LINK
Jul 09 / NEW YORK POST / NEW YORK / LINK
Jul 20 / VOGUE / NEW YORK / “If you obsessively reread (or, let’s be real, rewatched) Gone Girl, then this darkly comic French novel about a woman so deeply besotted with her picture-perfect husband that she goes to some truly crazy lengths to keep him within her clutches is almost sure to resonate with you” / LINK
Aug 20 / NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW / NEW YORK / “The book takes its time, demanding the reader’s forbearance as it lays out the minutiae of the couple’s domestic arrangements. But we start to wonder about the husband (who, like the narrator, is never named). Maybe he isn’t as perfect as he seems. Ventura gradually ratchets up the tension, as if she’s stretching a rubber band. What will make it snap?” / LINK
Sep 04 / NEW YORKER / ” as the story progresses, the intensity of her fixation is contrasted with his profound indifference, and her vapid exterior is shown to mask desperate anxieties about class, gender, and power.” / LINK
PODCAST
Aug 01 / Zibby Owens / Mom’s Don’t Have Time to Read Books / LINK
Aug 23 / RJ JULIA BOOKSELLERS, LTD. / Just the Right Book Podcast / NEW YORK / LINK
ONLINE
Mar 22 / Oprah Daily / NEW YORK / Spring preview / LINK
Jul 03 / MILLIONS, THE / NEW YORK / “A delicious addition to the relationship-suspense genre.” / LINK
Jul 11 / LITHUB / National Online / LINK
Jul 11 / BookBrowse / LINK
Jul 13 / PEN AMERICA / NEW YORK / PEN TEN Question Feature / LINK
Jul 27 / LITHUB / National Online / Best Covers July / LINK
Aug 03 / THESKIMM / LINK
Aug 18 / CRIMEREADS / NEW YORK / LINK
Aug 18 / BookBrowse / “The story it tells seems quiet on the surface, but deep tensions ripple underneath. It prompts the reader to consider just how well they really know their spouse.” / LINK
Aug 30 / BELLETRIST
Aug 31 / CRIMEREADS / LINK
Sep 11 / NEW YORKER / Book of the week / LINK
Dec 06 / ZIBBY MAG / Best of Year / LINK
Dec 13 / CRIMEREADS / NEW YORK / “Best of Year” / LINK
The Best Strangers in the World by Ari Shapiro/March 21, 2023/HarperOne/Hardback
PUBLICITY
TELEVISION
Mar 19 / CBS Sunday Morning – CBS Television Network / CBS Sunday Morning / NEW YORK / LINK
Mar 21 / MSNBC / Morning Joe / NEW YORK / LINK
Mar 25 / MSNBC-TV / Jonathan Capehart / NEW YORK / LINK
Mar 27 / MSNBC/THE REID OUT / Washington, DC
RADIO
Date TK / NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO / Morning Edition / NEW YORK / LINK
Date TK / KQED-Forum / San Francisco
Mar 21 / NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO / It’s Been A Minute
Mar 22 / Fresh Air with Terry Gross – NPR/National Public Radio / Fresh Air with Terry Gross – NPR/National Public Radio / Philadelphia / LINK
Mar 28 / WHYY / Philadelphia
Mar 29 / MOMS DON’T HAVE TIME TO READ BOOKS PODCAST / NEW YORK / LINK
Apr 24 / NPR / Los Angeles / NPR’s Book of the Day
NPR’s Ari Shapiro looks back on reporting, singing and touring in new memoir / LINK
RADIO SATELLITE TOUR
Feb 27 / NPR / 10-12 NPR affiliates / LINK
WAMC / Roundtable / Albany / 03/23/2023
KCHO / Nancy’s Bookshelf / California / 03/23/2023
IOWA PUBLIC RADIO / Talk of Iowa / IOWA / 03/23/2023
WYPR / On the Record / Baltimore / 03/23/2023
WGVU Morning Show – WGVU-FM / Morning Show / Michigan, not Detroit / 03/23/2023
SOUTH DAKOTA PUBLIC RADIO / In The Moment / South Dakota / 03/23/2023
NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO / Local / New Hampshire, all / 03/23/2023
KPCC / AirTalk with Larry Mantle / Los Angeles / 03/23/2023
Capital Public Radio / Insight / Sacramento / 03/23/2023
WUFT-FM / Local / Florida, except Miami / 03/23/2023
cincinnati public radio / Cincinnati Edition / Cincinnati / 03/23/2023
KRWG-FM / Local / New Mexico / 03/23/2023
KMUW-FM / Marginella / Wichita / 03/23/2023
WABE 90.1 / Local / Atlanta / 03/23/2023
MPB / Mississippi Edition / Mississippi / 03/23/2023
PRINT
Date TK / Orange County Register / Los Angeles / LINK
Aug 24 / Oprah Daily / NEW YORK / Cover reveal / LINK
Jan 04 / BOOKPAGE / Nashville / Most anticipated / LINK
Jan 06 / MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE / Minneapolis / Spring Round up / LINK
Jan 23 / KIRKUS MEDIA LLC / NEW YORK / ‘A clever and compulsively readable crowd pleaser.’
Jan 24 / booklist / Starred review
The book keeps on giving, chapter after chapter, in turns humorous, introspective,
or deeply serious, weaving together personal anecdotes, behind-the-scenes secrets, and
heartbreaking profiles from war zones and refugee camps. Shapiro says he’s built his radio career on “empathy, connection, and listening”— qualities that ring true in his writing as well.
Jan 25 / Library Journal / NEW YORK / “His writing will resonate with many and is a treasure for biography readers. Highly recommended.”
Feb 27 / PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
Mar 05 / NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW / NEW YORK / By The Book feature / LINK
Mar 15 / OUT MAGAZINE / LINK
Mar 17 / BOOKPAGE / Nashville / “The Best Strangers in the World will instill a newfound appreciation for the hard work journalists do and a sense of awe for the scope of history they get to observe up close.” / LINK
Mar 17 / USA TODAY / Phoenix / Books to Read / LINK
Mar 21 / MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE / LINK
Mar 21 / JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL / NEW YORK / “This book will be of interest to anyone seeking to better understand the human faces behind investigative journalism in the United States today?—?particularly those of the hard-hit generation of gay men in America who’ve largely been left without mentors or leaders in the wake of the AIDS crisis.” / LINK
Mar 21 / BOOKPAGE / Nashville / “With his sparkling memoir, “All Things Considered” host Ari Shapiro gives readers insight into the hard work journalists do and the incredible scope of history they get to observe up close.” / LINK
Apr 02 / SEATTLE TIMES / Seattle / LINK
Apr 12 / ASSOCIATED PRESS / NEW YORK
PODCAST
Date TK / Earwolf Podcast / Homophilia / NEW YORK
Date TK / NATIONAL SOCIETY OF LEADERSHIP AND SUCCESS / National Broadcast Series / National Online / via zoom / LINK
Date TK / ctb-la / Bakari Sellers / NEW YORK
Date TK / Time Sensitive with Spencer Bailey / LINK
Date TK / The Stacks with Traci Thomas / LINK
Date TK / Schmaltzy Podcast / LINK
Mar 21 / Late Night with Seth Meyers – NBC Television Network / Late Night with Seth Meyers – NBC Television Network / LINK
Mar 23 / Shelf Life with Aaron Hicklin / LINK
Mar 24 / Into it with Sam Sanders / LINK
Mar 27 / LINKEDIN / Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel / LINK
Mar 29 / Las Culturistas Podcast / NEW YORK / LINK
Apr 01 / LOVETT OR LEAVE IT PODCAST / Los Angeles / Live at Dynasty Typewriter / LINK
Jun 01 / Pulling the Thread / Pulling the Thread
Jun 28 / WAMU Radio / The Diane Rehm Show / Washington, DC
ONLINE
Date TK / ADVOCATE / Los Angeles / Video Interview
Date TK / LGBTQ Nation
Feb 10 / SHELF AWARENESS / “Smart, humane and just a bit quirky.” / LINK
Mar 01 / Portland Jewish Review / Portland, Oregon / LINK
Mar 06 / She Reads / Most anticipated Spring list / LINK
Mar 15 / Jewish News of N California / LINK
Mar 21 / TIMES OF ISRAEL, THE / LINK
Mar 31 / OFM / LINK
Apr 06 / She Reads / Best Spring Memoirs / LINK
Jun 13 / BOOKLIST / Top memoirs of the year so far / LINK
BLOG
Apr 10 / Washington Blade / National Online / LINK
BOOKSTORE
Mar 25 / KERA, NPR FOR DALLAS/NORTH TEXAS / Dallas / The Center for Brain Health. In conversation with Think host Krys Boyd.
SPEAKING EVENT
Mar 22 / TEMPLE EMANU-EL / NEW YORK / in conversation
Mar 23 / FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA / Philadelphia / In conversation with Mike Solomonov
Mar 26 / WBUR CITY SPACE / Boston / In conversation with Lisa Mullins
Mar 27 / SIXTH & I / Washington, DC / In conversation with Audie Cornish
Mar 28 / WESTMINSTER TOWN HALL FORUM / Minneapolis
Mar 29 / Music Box Theatre/Park West/Exile Books / Chicago / In conversation: Peter Sagal
Mar 31 / UC Theatre/Book Passage / San Francisco / In conversation with Davia Nelson
Apr 02 / POWELL’S BOOKS / Portland, Oregon / In conversation with Thomas Lauderdale
Apr 03 / Town Hall Seattle / Seattle / In conversation with Dan Savage
Apr 04 / LIVE TALKS LOS ANGELES / Los Angeles / IN conversation with Pamela Adlon
Apr 04 / Talk Back/Microsoft / Los Angeles / In conversation. 350 book purchase / LINK
May 11 / LIVE WIRE! / Portland, Oregon
Aug 12 / NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL / Washington, DC / Panel with Mary Louise Kelly
FESTIVAL/CONFERENCE
May 20 / GAITHERSBURG BOOK FESTIVAL / Maryland
Nov 11 / St Louis Jewish Book Festival / St. Louis