On Sunday on ESPN SportsCenter: Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson, authors of When the Game Was Ours (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780547225470/0547225474).
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On Monday on NPR's Morning Edition, as part of a Thanksgiving food special: Marcus Samuelsson, author of New American Table (Wiley, $40, 9780470281888/047028188X). There's also a feature on NPR.org, highlighting Thanksgiving-themed recipes from the book.
Incidentally Samuelsson will be guest chef at President Obama's first state dinner at the White House next Tuesday, November 24, when the president honors India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.