NPR Books Watch — 12/25-12/31
Here are the NPR interviews for the last week. Not surprisingly, there were a lot of repeats this past week. Interestingly, the second time an interview airs, the Amazon rankings don’t do much of anything (even though Amazon rankings do typically jump the first time a book / author is featured on a national NPR show).
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.
Happy New Year to everyone!
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TOTAL book stories for the past week: 27
* indicates the interview is a rebroadcast.
All Things Considered: 7
Diane Rehm: 4
Fresh Air: 3
Morning Edition: 5
NPR.org: 1
Talk of the Nation: 4
Tell Me More: 1
Weekend Edition Saturday: 1
Weekend Edition Sunday: 1
| All Things Considered | You Must Read This / Book of Disquiet | Fernando | Pessoa |
| All Things Considered | Thelonious Monk | Robin D.G. | Kelley |
| All Things Considered | You Must Read This / To the Finland Station | Edmund | Wilson |
| All Things Considered | Men Who Stare at Goats | Jon | Ronson |
| All Things Considered | Yale Book of Quotations, The | Fred | Shapiro |
| All Things Considered | Up In The Air (Movie tie-in) | Walter | Kirn |
| All Things Considered | Too Much Happiness | Alice | Munro |
| Diane Rehm | Cutting for Stone* | Abraham | Verghese |
| Diane Rehm | Charlatan* | Pope | Brock |
| Diane Rehm | Enchantress of Florence* | Salman | Rushdie |
| Diane Rehm | In Spite of Myself* | Christopher | Plummer |
| Fresh Air | I Am the New Black* | Tracy | Morgan |
| Fresh Air | In Memoriam: Activist Poet Dennis Brutus* | ||
| Fresh Air | My Booky Wook* | Russell | Brand |
| Morning Edition | SantaLand Diaries, The* | David | Sedaris |
| Morning Edition | Louisa May Alcott | Harriet | Reisen |
| Morning Edition | First Tycoon, The | T.J. | Stiles |
| Morning Edition | How E-Books Will Change Reading And Writing | ||
| Morning Edition | Sweet Thunder | Wil | Haygood |
| NPR.org | Fit To Print: Top Five Current Affairs Books Of 2009 | ||
| Talk of the Nation | Truth About Santa | Gregory | Mone |
| Talk of the Nation | Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens* | K.C. | Cole |
| Talk of the Nation | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Alan | Brinkley |
| Talk of the Nation | Big Questions, The | Steven E. | Landsburg |
| Tell Me More | Henderson’s Light | Jack | Torry |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Very Brief History of Eternity, A | Carlos | Eire |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Wife of the Gods | Kwei | Quartey |
NPR Books Watch — 12/11-12/117
Here are the NPR interviews for the last 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 past week: 26 (22 last week)
All Things Considered: 4 (6 LW)
Diane Rehm: 4 (3 LW)
Fresh Air: 3 (3 LW)
Morning Edition: 2 (2 LW)
NPR.org: 5 (2 LW)
Talk of the Nation: 2 (2 LW)
Tell Me More: 0 (1 LW)
Weekend Edition Saturday: 5 (2 LW)
Weekend Edition Sunday: 1 (1 LW)
| All Things Considered | Thucycides | Donald | Kagan |
| All Things Considered | Just and Unjust Wars | Michael | Walzer |
| All Things Considered | Waterbirds | Theodore | Cross |
| All Things Considered | Baseball Americana | Harry | Katz |
| Diane Rehm | Moon River and Me | Andy | Williams |
| Diane Rehm | Ford County | John | Grisham |
| Diane Rehm | Interesting Times | George | Packer |
| Diane Rehm | American Original | Joan | Bikupic |
| Fresh Air | Lovely Bones, The | Alice | Sebold |
| Fresh Air | Too Much Money | Dominick | Dunne |
| Fresh Air | Blackwater | Jeremy | Scahill |
| Morning Edition | Truth About Santa | Gregory | Mone |
| Morning Edition | Random House Fires Next Shot In Digital Book Wars | ||
| NPR.org | Year’s Most Mesmerizing Mysteries | ||
| NPR.org | Hannukah Lights 2009 | ||
| NPR.org | In The Year’s Best Memoirs, Mirth And Melancholy | ||
| NPR.org | Best Books For A Book Club? Lynn Neary’s ’09 Picks | ||
| NPR.org | 2009′s Crop Of Great Gardening Books | ||
| Talk of the Nation | What on Earth Evolved | Christopher | Lloyd |
| Talk of the Nation | Fingerprints of God | Barbara Bradley | Hagerty |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Inventory | The A.V. | Club |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Highest Duty | Chelsy | Sullenberger |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Ounce, Dice, Trice | Alastair | Reid |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Why cant U teach me 2 read | Beth | Fertig |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Churchill | Paul | Johnson |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Dracula is Dead | Jim | Rosapepe |
NPR Books Watch — 12/4-12/10
Here are the NPR interviews for the last 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 past week: 22 (21 last week)
All Things Considered: 6 (4 LW)
Diane Rehm: 3 (4 LW)
Fresh Air: 3 (2 LW)
Morning Edition: 2 (2 LW)
NPR.org: 2 (1 LW)
Talk of the Nation: 2 (4 LW)
Tell Me More: 1 (2 LW)
Weekend Edition Saturday: 2 (0 LW)
Weekend Edition Sunday: 1 (2 LW)
| All Things Considered | From Dickens Himself, Notes On ‘A Christmas Carol’ | ||
| All Things Considered | Surviving Against the Odds | S. Ann | Dunham |
| All Things Considered | You Must Read This / Mrs. Bridge | Evan | Connell |
| All Things Considered | Three Books … / Afghanistan Unveiled In Three Eye-Opening Accounts | ||
| All Things Considered | Nadirs | Herta | Mueller |
| All Things Considered | Black Book, The | Toni | Morrison |
| Diane Rehm | When Art Worked | Roger G. | Kennedy |
| Diane Rehm | Yours Ever | Tom | Mallon |
| Diane Rehm | Moon River and Me | Andy | Williams |
| Fresh Air | Book Suggestions For A Passionate Holiday | ||
| Fresh Air | Thelonious Monk | Robin D.G. | Kelley |
| Fresh Air | To Live or to Perish Forever | Nicholas | Schmidle |
| Morning Edition | You Can’t Put A Bow On An E-Book | ||
| Morning Edition | Librarian Nancy Pearl’s Under-The-Radar Gift Books | ||
| NPR.org | World Of Novels: Picks For Best Foreign Fiction | ||
| NPR.org | 2009′s Best Young Adult Fiction (Mostly) | ||
| Talk of the Nation | Black Is The New White | Paul | Mooney |
| Talk of the Nation | Seven | Jacqueline | Leo |
| Tell Me More | Does Sarah Palin’s Journey Contradict Her Politics? | ||
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Thank Heaven | Leslie | Caron |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Superfreakonomics | Steve | Levitt |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Heidegger and a Hippo | Thomas | Cathcart |
NPR Books Watch — 11/27-12/3
Here are the NPR interviews for the last 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 past week: 21 (30 last week, but really, the week of 11/13-11/19)
All Things Considered: 4 (6 LW)
Diane Rehm: 4 (3 LW)
Fresh Air: 2 (2 LW)
Morning Edition: 2 (3 LW)
NPR.org: 1 (4 LW)
Talk of the Nation: 4 (9LW)
Tell Me More: 2 (1 LW)
Weekend Edition Saturday: 0 (1 LW)
Weekend Edition Sunday: 2 (1 LW)
| All Things Considered | Raymond Carver | Carol | Sklenicka |
| All Things Considered | Three Books … / These Aren’t Your Geek’s Graphic Novels | ||
| All Things Considered | River Gods, The | Brian | Kitely |
| All Things Considered | My Guilty Pleasure / Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth | Gilbert |
| Diane Rehm | Annie’s Ghosts* | Steve | Luxenberg |
| Diane Rehm | Bringing It to the Table | Wendell | Berry |
| Diane Rehm | Stones into Schools | Greg | Mortenson |
| Diane Rehm | Surviving Against the Odds | Maya | Soetoro-Ng |
| Fresh Air | Dangerously Funny | David | Bianculli |
| Fresh Air | Up In The Air (Movie tie-in) | Walter | Kirn |
| Morning Edition | Neil Gaiman Asks: Heard Any Good Books Lately? | ||
| Morning Edition | Season’s Readings | ||
| NPR.org | Best Five Books To Share With Your Friends | ||
| Talk of the Nation | Making of a Stand Up Guy | Charlie | Murphy |
| Talk of the Nation | Pops | Terry | Teachout |
| Talk of the Nation | Our Insatiable Appetite For Cookbooks | ||
| Talk of the Nation | A Climate Change Reading List For Laypeople | ||
| Tell Me More | Without Fidel | Ann Louise | Bardach |
| Tell Me More | Murder in the Name of Honor | Rana | Husseini |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Poor Man’s Provence | Rheta Grimsley | Johnson |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Reality Behind Fantasy Fiction |
