NPR Books Watch — 4/17-4/23
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, genre, 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: 27
All Things Considered: 5
Diane Rehm: 4
Fresh Air: 4
Morning Edition: 3
NPR.org: 4
Talk of the Nation: 4
Weekend Edition Saturday: 2
Weekend Edition Sunday: 1
* rebroadcast
| All Things Considered | Ruins | Achy | Obejas |
| All Things Considered | Book Reviews / Columbine | Dave | Cullen |
| All Things Considered | Don’t Cry | Mary | Gaitskill |
| All Things Considered | Remembrances / ‘Empire Of The Sun’ Novelist Ballard Dies | ||
| All Things Considered | Three Books … / Stone Soup: Three Cookbooks For Lean Times | ||
| Diane Rehm | Crash of 2008 and What it Means | George | Soros |
| Diane Rehm | Different Life, A* | Quinn | Bradlee |
| Diane Rehm | Readers Review / Elegance of the Hedgehog, The | Muriel | Barbery |
| Diane Rehm | Pearl in the Storm, A | Tori Murden | McClure |
| Fresh Air | Empire of the Sun* | J.G. | Ballard |
| Fresh Air | Shadow Of Sirius, The* | W.S. | Merwin |
| Fresh Air | Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator | Craig | Yoe |
| Fresh Air | When You Lie About Your Age | Carol | Leifer |
| Morning Edition | Arabian Knight | Thomas | Lippman |
| Morning Edition | Columbine | Dave | Cullen |
| Morning Edition | Not Becoming My Mother | Ruth | Reichl |
| NPR.org | Books We Like / Pilo Family Circus | Will | Elliott |
| NPR.org | Books We Like / Don’t Cry | Mary | Gaitskill |
| NPR.org | Books We Like / Spoiled | Caitlin | Macy |
| NPR.org | Book Tour / Rag and Bone | Peter | Manseau |
| Talk of the Nation | Garden of Invention | Jane S. | Smith |
| Talk of the Nation | Columbine | Dave | Cullen |
| Talk of the Nation | Getting a Grip | Monica | Seles |
| Talk of the Nation | Challenge for Africa | Wangari | Maathai |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Numbers | Dana | Dane |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Closing Time | Joe | Queenan |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed | Marc | Blatte |
