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Authors on the Air: Richard Panek, Glenn Beck
The Leonard Lopate Show interviews Richard Panek, author of The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 978-0618982448). PW's starred review said, "This lively story of big personalities, intellectual competitiveness, and ravenous curiosity is as entertaining as it is illuminating."
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Authors on the Air: Ron Reagan, Jr.; Kris Carr
Ron Reagan, Jr., is making the rounds to promote his new memoir, My Father at 100: A Memoir, which is just out from Viking (ISBN 978-0670022595). Today he's on Good Morning America and WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show. Reagan's book is timed to the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, which is February 6, 2011.
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Authors on the Air: 'Barney's Version,' 'The Green Hornet'
Barney's Version opens today. The film stars Paul Giamatti, Dustin Hoffman, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, and Rachelle Lefevre. It is based on Mordecai Richler's novel (Vintage, ISBN 978-0307741097). PW's review noted, "Readers may never love Barney Panofsky, the self-destructive, self-loathing, derisive, womanizing, hot-tempered antihero of Richler's latest novel. But by the end of what he calls 'this story of my wasted life,'' one feels sorrow and pity for a heartbroken man."
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RH Films Sets Release for 'One Day'
Random House Films has a release date for its second film to make it into theaters. One Day, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, is scheduled to premiere in the U.S. on July 8. RH Films launched with Reservation Road in 2007 and has since announced numerous projects on its development slate, but has not released another film into theaters.
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Authors on the Air: Offit, Chua, Akst, Carter, Nepo
The Leonard Lopate Show today features Dr. Paul A. Offit, author of Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Basic Books, ISBN 978-0465021499); Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Penguin Press, ISBN 978-1594202841 ); and Daniel Akst, author of We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess (Penguin Press, ISBN 978-1594202810).
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Authors on the Air: 'Violence of Peace,' 'Giant Steps to Change the World'
Stephen L. Carter is on the Leonard Lopate Show and the Dennis Miller Show to talk about his book The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama (Beast Books, ISBN 978-0-9842951-7-3). Our review called the book a "thoughtful examination of America's engagement in a 'great war' undertaken by a dedicated thinker on the subject."
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Authors on the Air: Meltzer, Snooki, Pawlenty
Brad Meltzer is on Good Morning America today. Meltzer's latest book is The Inner Circle (Grand Central, ISBN 978-0446577892). PW's review called the book "A fascinating look at the hidden treasures of the National Archives" but also declared it an "otherwise unsatisfying thriller."
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Authors on the Air: Montaigne, Weir, Cutie, Snooki
Tonight, The Colbert Report talks to Fen Montaigne, author of Fraser's Penguins (Holt, ISBN 9780805079425). PW's review said, "Montaigne poetically portrays the daunting Antarctic landscape and gives readers an intimate perspective on its rugged, audacious, and charming penguin and human inhabitants."
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Authors on the Air: Porter, Woestendiek, Proulx
Authors appearing on today's Leonard Lopate Show include Annie Proulx, author of Bird Cloud (Scribner, ISBN 978-0743288804). PW's review said, "Like her fiction, Proulx's memoir flows from a memorable landscape where 'the sagebrush seems nearly black and beaten low by the ceaseless wind'; the result is a fine evocation of place that becomes a meditation on the importance of a home, however harsh and evanescent."
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Authors on the Air: 'Prophets of War,' 'American Rose'
The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC 93.9FM and AM820 in New York talks to William Hartung, author of Prophets of War (Nation Books, ISBN 978-1568584201). PW's review said, "Corporate clout, military innovation, and political influence make an uneasy mix in this smart and thorough corporate history of Lockheed Martin's emergence as the nation's largest weapons contractor."
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Movie Alert: 'I Am Number Four'
Has a book ever become a movie so quickly? Published by HarperCollins last August, just five months ago, I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore arrives in theaters next month. Of course, the YA science fiction novel, first in the Lorien Legacies series, is not really by Pittacus Lore, who is one of the Loric elders mentioned in the book. Rather, I Am Number Four was pseudonymously co-written by adult author James Frey and Jobie Hughes, a graduate of Columbia University’s creative writing program. The extremely quick path from page to screen makes some sense, since film rights to the project were sold before the book was.
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New Novel Cloaks Red Riding Hood Legend in Mystery
The residents of the sleepy village of Daggorhorn have long kept the local werewolf at bay with a monthly sacrifice. But now the Wolf has told Valerie—the only villager who can hear his voice—that she must surrender herself to him or everyone she loves will die. In Red Riding Hood, a novel that 22-year-old Sarah Blakley-Cartwright has written based on a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson, the plot of the traditional fairy tale has thickened substantially. On sale January 25, this Little, Brown/Poppy book ties into the Warner Brothers film that is set for March release.
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Authors on the Air: Mukherjee, Thornton, Starr, Giridharadas
The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC 93.9FM and AM820 in New York today talks to Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner, ISBN 978-1439107959); Yvonne Thornton, author of Something to Prove (Kaplan, ISBN 978-1607147244); Douglas Starr, author of The Killer of Little Shepherds (Knopf, ISBN 978-0307266194); and Anand Giridharadas, author of India Calling (Times Books, ISBN 978-0805091779).
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Authors on the Air: Homans, Cutie, Carter, Szwed
WYNC's Soundcheck today interviews Jennifer Homans, author of Apollo's Angels (Random, ISBN 978-1400060603). PW's starred review said, "In an important and original work of cultural history, New Republic dance critic Homans places ballet--an art often viewed as hermetic and esoteric--in the larger context of the times and societies in which it evolved, flourished, and flagged, only to be revitalized by an infusion of fresh ideas."
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Authors on the Air: 'Lighten Up,' 'Cinch!'
Peter Walsh, author of Lighten Up: Love What You Have, Have What You Need, Be Happier with Less (Free Press, ISBN 978-1439155141), is on Good Morning America today. PW's review said, "Organizational guru Walsh (Enough Already!) coaches readers in dealing with psychological clutter tied to money and finances so they can live thrifty lives that are also liberating, pleasurable, and rewarding."
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Authors on the Air: Jackson, Murray, Brown
The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC today features Kenneth T. Jackson, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition (Yale Univ., ISBN 978-0300114652). The revised edition addresses changes since the volume first was published in 1995, among them: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration--Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side--has become commonplace.
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Authors on the Air: Cookbooks Galore
Molly O'Neill, author of One Big Table (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0743232708), is on The Today Show today. In a starred review, PW said, "O'Neill, former New York Times Magazine food writer and author (New York Cookbook), has compiled an informative and heartwarming refutation of the demise of American home cooking. Ten years and many miles in the making, this collection celebrates the nation's culinary diversity, both ethnically and agriculturally, and offers a uniquely intimate look at what home cooking in America is truly like today."
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Authors on the Air: Coffee Table Books, '400 Calorie Fix'
Coffee table books are the subject of a segment on Good Morning America today. Titles discussed include Dogs by Tim Flach (Abrams, ISBN 978-0810996533); Edith Head by Jay Jorgensen (Running Press, ISBN 978-0762438051); Barbie: A Rare Beauty by Sandi Holder (Krause, ISBN 978-1440212796); Ansel Adams: In the National Parks by Ansel Adams (Little, Brown, ISBN 978-0316078467); and Portrait of Camelot by Richard Reeves (Abrams, ISBN 978-0810995857).
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Daniel H. Wilson: A Hollywood Favorite Awaits His Publishing Moment
Daniel H. Wilson doesn't have the kind of pedigree you'd expect from a young writer. He doesn't have an M.F.A. He wasn't an undergraduate English major. In fact, for the most part, Wilson fell into writing almost by accident. Now he's one of the hottest tracked authors in Hollywood. Don't know who he is? That's largely because his most ambitious books haven't been published yet.
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Authors on the Air: 'Rabbit Hole,' 'Tron'
The movie Rabbit Hole opens today, starring Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Sandra Oh, Dianne Wiest, and Tammy Blanchard. It is based on David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole (Dramatists Play Service, ISBN 9780822221548).
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