Today the movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice opens, directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Nicolas Cage, Alfred Molina, Jay Baruchel, Teresa Palmer, and Omar Benson Miller. Book tie-ins include James Ponti’s The Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Junior Novel (Disney Press, 978-1423126904, $5.99) and Michael Singer’s The Answer Is Yes: The Art and Making of The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Disney Editions, 978-1423129035, $35).
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Chef Rick Bayless served up his seventh cookbook, Fiesta at Rick's: Fabulous Food for Great Times with Friends (W. W. Norton, 978-0393058994, $35). PW thought “the attention paid to tequila in the opening chapter could easily lead to guests never leaving the sofa.”
Adam Ross discussed his debut novel Mr. Peanut (Knopf, 978-0307270702, $25.95), which PW deemed “a unique book—stark and sublime, creepy and fearless—that readers into the darker end of the literary spectrum won't want to miss.”
Angela Glover Blackwell, with the revised and updated edition of Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future (W. W. Norton, 978-0393336856, $16.95).
Irish journalist Ed Moloney, whose latest is Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland (PublicAffairs, 978-1586489328, $19.95).
The View hosted Laura Ingraham, author of The Obama Diaries (Threshold Editions, 978-1439197516, $25; S&S Audio unabridged CD, $39.99).
On The Wendy Williams Show: soap opera star Eileen Davidson, whose Diva Las Vegas: A Soap Opera Mystery (Signet, 978-0451230751, $6.99) pubbed last week.
Last night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees shared Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity (Tyndale House, 978-1414339436, $26.99; Tyndale House CD, $29.99).
Yesterday, The Early Show talked with A.J. Jacobs, whose My Life as an Experiment (S&S, 978-1439104996, $15; S&S Audio unabridged CD, $29.99) came out in paperback yesterday.
Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change.
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