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 |
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