Movies opening today:
Nanny McPhee Returns, directed by Susanna White, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Smith, Asa Butterfield, Lil Woods, and Oscar Steer; it’s inspired by Christianna Brand’s Nurse Matilda: The Collected Tales (Bloomsbury Children's, 978-1582346700, $16.95). Tie-in books include Emma Thompson’s Nanny McPhee Returns (Bloomsbury Children's, 978-1599904726, $7.99; Macmillan Young Listeners unabridged CD, $16.99) and Nanny McPhee: The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda (Bloomsbury Children's, 978-1582346717, $7.95).
The Switch, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, starring Jennifer Aniston, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, and Jason Bateman, and based on Jeffrey Eugenides’s short story “Baster,” which is included in Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (Random House, 978-0375757525, $20).
Mao’s Last Dancer (in limited release), directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, and Chi Cao. It’s based on Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin (Berkley mti, 978-0425240304, $17).
Authors on today’s Leonard Lopate Show:
Journalist Stephanie Syman described The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America (FS&G, 978-0374236762, $28). PW’s review had this to say: “When she pulls back to view the culture mashup yoga has become—a cure for back pain, a beauty regime, and a route to God—she gives a cogent, engrossing analysis of this Asian-born spiritual practice turned all-American panacea.”
John Brandon, with his novel Citrus County (McSweeney's, 978-1934781531, $22), which PW considered “funny and horrifying. Brandon's dry wit, dark imagination, and surprisingly big heart combine to reveal a Florida that, despite (or because of) being more Ted Bundy than Disney World, is absolutely worth visiting.”
This weekend, Book TV's After Words interviews Michael Belfiore, author of The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs (Smithsonian, 978-0061577932, $26.99).
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Authors on the Air is compiled by Diane Patrick. To be included in this compilation, email author appearance information to dpatrick@publishersweekly.com (at least TWO days in advance, please).
