NPR Books Watch — 5/14-5/20
So who’s in town next week for BEA? And of course, BBC (Book Blogger Convention), on Friday, May 28. (I’m really excited to be joining some fellow bloggers on the marketing panel!)
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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.
* indicates the interview is a rebroadcast.
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TOTAL book stories for the past week: 26
All Things Considered: 2 (2 LW)
Diane Rehm: 5 (4 LW)
Fresh Air: 4 (2 LW)
Morning Edition: 3 (1 LW)
NPR.org: 4 (4 LW)
Talk of the Nation: 3 (3 LW)
Tell Me More: 1 (1 LW)
Weekend Edition Saturday: 2 (1 LW)
Weekend Edition Sunday: 2 (1 LW)
| All Things Considered | Reluctant Fundamentalist, The | Mohsin | Hamid |
| All Things Considered | Revolutionaries | Jack | Rakove |
| Diane Rehm | Anthill* | E.O. | Wilson |
| Diane Rehm | Undaunted* | Zoya | Phan |
| Diane Rehm | Mosque In Munich, A | Ian | Johnson |
| Diane Rehm | Other Wes Moore, The | Wes | Moore |
| Diane Rehm | Actor and a Gentleman, A | Louis | Gossett Jr. |
| Fresh Air | Bottled and Sold | Peter | Gleick |
| Fresh Air | Somewhere Inside | Laura | Ling |
| Fresh Air | Slow Love | Dominique | Browning |
| Fresh Air | Tattoos on the Heart | Father Gregory | Boyle |
| Morning Edition | Ilustrado | Miguel | Syjuco |
| Morning Edition | End of the Free Market, The | Peter | Bremmer |
| Morning Edition | Dead Republic, The | Roddy | Doyle |
| NPR.org | Long Song, The | Andrea | Levy |
| NPR.org | Island Beneath the Sea | Isabel | Allende |
| NPR.org | Private Life | Jane | Smiley |
| NPR.org | Pregnant Widow, The | Martin | Amis |
| Talk of the Nation | Nomad | Ayaan Hirsi | Ali |
| Talk of the Nation | Invisible Gorrilla, The | Christopher | Chabris |
| Talk of the Nation | Kill Shakespeare | Conor | McCreery |
| Tell Me More | Foxy | Pam | Grier |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Innocent | Scott | Turow |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Last Hero, The | Howard | Bryant |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Should You Judge This Book By Its Cover? | Julian | Baggini |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Red Pyramid, The | Rick | Riordan |
How could you possible give a review to Hampton Sides’ Hellhound on His Trail when it is written as fiction yet claims to be fact. A cursory review by someone not even acquainted with the facts of Dr. King’s murder will show his book is filled with hyperbole, conjecture, baseless exaggeration, not to mention factually wrong frequently. ON THE OTHER HAND
CONTINUED FROM LAST EMAIL SUBMISSION….On the other hand, you refuse to review The 13th Juror, The Official Trial Transcript of the Martin Luther King assassination conspiracy, which is unique in that it reads exceptionally well yet is the actual court transcript of the tamped-down trial proving a conspiracy in King’s murder. Please, for the sake of truth and justice and fair play, you must review this book if you’ve reviewed Sides. It is found at http://www.MLKtheTruth.com or Amazon books and was just published last May, yet everyone from the Wall Street Journal to the local Commercial Appeal have turned a blind eye and refuse to review this essential and historical work on King’s assassination.
Another uniqueness to The 13th Juror is that it is interactive, in that you may actually act as if you are a juror at the trial and enter your verdict on-line when done. A very unique book/internet interaction in a legal forum not done before.