NPR Books Watch — 3/20-3/26
Good news this week: FishBowlNY reports that NPR’s listener numbers up.
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Here are the NPR interviews for this week. Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that includes, in addition to the information below, interviewer, pub date, imprint, post-interview Amazon ranking, pre-interview ranking (if the book was mentioned on Shelf Awareness and I was able to look up the number before the interview), and interview hyperlink.
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TOTAL book stories for the week: 18
All Things Considered: 6
Diane Rehm: 4
Fresh Air: 1
Morning Edition: 1
NPR.org: 4
Weekend Edition Saturday: 1
Weekend Edition Sunday: 1
| All Things Considered | Experimental Man | David Ewing | Duncan | Health |
| All Things Considered | Kneadlessly Simple | Nancy | Baggett | Cooking |
| All Things Considered | Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth | Frances | Wilson | Biography |
| All Things Considered | Age of the Unthinkable, The | Joshua | Ramo | Politics |
| All Things Considered | Cheever | Blake | Bailey | Biography |
| All Things Considered | You Must Read This / Hope in the Unseen, A | Ron | Suskind | Biography |
| Diane Rehm | Engaging the Muslim World | Juan | Cole | History |
| Diane Rehm | Soloist, The* | Steve | Lopez | Biography |
| Diane Rehm | No Sense of Decency | Robert | Shogan | History |
| Diane Rehm | Oh, Johnny | Jim | Lehrer | Literary Fiction |
| Fresh Air | Fiasco | Frank | Partnoy | Business |
| Morning Edition | Engaging the Muslim World | Juan | Cole | History |
| NPR.org | Books We Like / Notes from No Man’s Land | Eula | Bliss | Short Stories |
| NPR.org | Book Tour / Sowing Crisis | Rashid | Khalidi | History |
| NPR.org | Books We Like / Saga Of The Swamp | Alan | Moore | Graphic Novel |
| NPR.org | Books We Like / Birthday Present, The | Barbara | Vine | Mystery |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Baseball Great | Tim | Green | Children’s |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Live Through This | Debra | Gwartney | Memoir |
