Today, the movie Shrek Forever After opens, directed by Mike Mitchell, with voices of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas. It’s based on William Steig’s Shrek! (20th Anniv. Ed., FS&G Books for Young Readers, 978-0374368791, $16.99; Live Oak Media unabridged CD, $39.95), which PW’s review deemed an “engrossing and satisfying tale.” Movie tie-ins from Price Stern Sloan include Cathy Hapka’s Shrek Forever After: The Movie Storybook, illus. by Larry Navarro (978-0843199482, $9.99) and Lauren Alexander’s Shrek Forever After: The Novel (978-0843199475, $4.99).
On The Leonard Lopate Show, New York Times health editor Barbara Strauch revealed The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind (Viking, 978-0670020713, $26.95), which PW called a “very comforting treatise on the aging brain. Her mix of intriguing pop-science and reassuring pep talk should win her hopeful message an avid readership.”
On The Brian Lehrer Show: Hedge fund manager Nassim Nicholas Taleb with the new edition of The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Random House, 978-0812973815, $17; Recorded Books CD, $39.99).
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