NPR Books Watch — 5/1-5/7
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. ***
TOTAL book stories for the week: 24
All Things Considered: 8
Diane Rehm: 4
Fresh Air: 2
NPR.org: 4
Talk of the Nation: 3
Tell Me More: 1
Weekend Edition Sunday: 2
* rebroadcast
| All Things Considered | Dissection | John Harley | Warner |
| All Things Considered | Brooklyn | Colm | Toibin |
| All Things Considered | You Must Read This / Independent People | Halldor | Laxness |
| All Things Considered | Annie’s Ghosts | Steve | Luxenberg |
| All Things Considered | End of Overeating | David | Kessler |
| All Things Considered | Three Books … / Mining The Classics For Laughs (Even ‘Moby Dick’) | ||
| All Things Considered | Resilience | Elizabeth | Edwards |
| All Things Considered | Final Four of Everything | Mark | Reiter |
| Diane Rehm | Match King, The | Frank | Partnoy |
| Diane Rehm | Brother Gardeners, The* | Andrea | Wulf |
| Diane Rehm | Sonata Mulattica | Rita | Dove |
| Diane Rehm | Age of the Unthinkable | Joshua Cooper | Ramo |
| Fresh Air | Bad Mother | Ayelet | Waldman |
| Fresh Air | Brooklyn | Colm | Toibin |
| NPR.org | Books We Like / Who is Mark Twain? | Mark | Twain |
| NPR.org | Books We Like / Likewise | Ariel | Schrag |
| NPR.org | Books We Like / Stealing MySpace | Julia | Angwin |
| NPR.org | Against the Grain / Why We Hate Us | Dick | Meyer |
| Talk of the Nation | Secret Lives of Boys, The | Malina | Saval |
| Talk of the Nation | Mighty Queens of Freeville | Amy | Dickinson |
| Talk of the Nation | 40 More Years | James | Carville |
| Tell Me More | Sag Harbor | Colson | Whitehead |
| Weekend Edition | Requiem for a Paper Bag | Davy | Rothbart |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Who is Mark Twain? | Mark | Twain |
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 |
NPR Books Watch — 12/12-12/18
Some of you have asked why certain shows are on this list and others aren’t. First, the shows on this list are national; there are plenty of excellent local and regional shows that I don’t include simply because of the sheer number. Second, for time-saving reasons on my part, I’ve only been following the shows that appear in the NPR Books RSS feed. The upside is that this feed is a one-stop shop of the majority of national NPR books stories and it means I don’t have to trawl through the RSS feeds of individual shows; the downside, though, is that it doesn’t include certain national NPR shows like Diane Rehm, On Point or To the Best of Our Knowledge.
For the sake of providing a more complete picture of national books coverage, I’m going to try to include these other shows (although I may or may not continue depending on how much time it takes). This week I have included numbers for Diane Rehm.
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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: 23
All Things Considered: 2
Book Tour: 1
Diane Rehm: 3
Fresh Air: 4
Morning Edition: 3
NPR.org: 4
Talk of the Nation: 3
Tell Me More: 1
Weekend Edition Saturday: 2
| All Things Considered | Shadows at Dawn | Karl | Jacoby | History |
| All Things Considered | Words in Air | Elizabeth | Bishop | Poetry |
| Book Tour | Payback | Margaret | Atwood | Business |
| Diane Rehm | Man Who Invented Christmas | Les | Standiford | Literary Fiction |
| Diane Rehm | My Father’s Paradise | Ariel | Sabar | Memoir |
| Diane Rehm | Tales of Two Species | Patricia | McConnell | Science |
| Fresh Air | Milk | Anne | Mendelson | |
| Fresh Air | Shadow of Sirius | W.S. | Merwin | Poetry |
| Fresh Air | Maureen Corrigan’s Best Books Of 2008 | |||
| Fresh Air | Full Burn | Kevin | Conley | Entertainment |
| Morning Edition | Doubt | John Patrick | Shanley | Literary Fiction |
| Morning Edition | Holiday Reading Tradition For The Whole Family | |||
| Morning Edition | Falling for Science | Sherry | Turkle | Science |
| NPR.org | Best Collections Of Literary Letters 2008 | |||
| NPR.org | World War II Writings | A.J. | Leibling | History |
| NPR.org | Elegance of the Hedgehog, The | Muriel | Barbery | Literary Fiction |
| NPR.org | Best Superhero Graphic Novels Of 2008 | |||
| Talk of the Nation | Hungry Scientist Handbook | Patrick | Buckley | Science |
| Talk of the Nation | Why We Buy | Paco | Underhill | Business |
| Talk of the Nation | Wishful Drinking | Carrie | Fisher | Memoir |
| Tell Me More | Moms Want Parenting Books For Christmas | |||
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Family Planning | Karan | Mahajan | Literary Fiction |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Reza War and Peace | Reza | Deghati | Photography |
