NPR Books Watch (4/18-5/1)

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), subject category and interview hyperlink.

TOTAL books stories these past two weeks: 40

All Things Considered: 7 stories

Booktour.com: 1

The Bryant Park Project: 2

Day to Day: 4

Fresh Air: 7

Morning Edition: 5

News & Notes: 3

Talk of the Nation: 6

Tell Me More: 1

Weekend All Things Considered: 1

Weekened Edition Saturday: 1

Weekend Edition Sunday: 2

All Things Considered	N/A (You Must Read This)	Sally	Gunning
All Things Considered	N/A (Some Libraries Shun Google in Book Battle)
All Things Considered	Lavinia	Ursula	LeGuin
All Things Considered	Seven Notebooks	Campbell	McGrath
All Things Considered	Post-American World, The	Fareed	Zakaria
All Things Considered	Voyage Long and Strange, A	Tony	Horwitz
All Things Considered	N/A (Nabokov Novel to Be Published, Against Dying Wish)	Vladimir	Nabokov
Booktour.com	Life of the Skies	Jonathan	Rosen
Bryant Park Project, The	Mama Rock’s Rule	Rose	Rock
Bryant Park Project, The	Like a Rolling Stone	Steve	Kurutz
Day to Day	In Defense of Food	Michael	Pollan
Day to Day	My Beautiful Mommy	Michael Alexander	Salzhauer
Day to Day	Making Your Case	Antonin	Scalia
Day to Day	N/A (In L.A., Dutton’s Books Reaches Final Chapter)
Fresh Air	Relentless Pursuit	Donna	Foote
Fresh Air	Translation of Dr. Apelles, The	David	Treuer
Fresh Air	Soloist, The	Steve	Lopez
Fresh Air	Comfortably Numb	Charles	Barber
Fresh Air	Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose and Letters
Fresh Air	Learning from the Heart	Dan	Gottleib
Fresh Air	Final Salute	Jim	Sheeler
Morning Edition	Dear First Lady	Dwight	Young
Morning Edition	Our Story Begins	Tobias	Wolff
Morning Edition	Something About the Blues	Al	Young
Morning Edition	N/A (Darwin’s Notes and Thoughts Go Online)
Morning Edition	Good Fight, The	Harry	Reid
News & Notes	Pleasure	Eric Jerome	Dickey
News & Notes	Book of Life (Introduction)	Holly Robinson	Peete
News & Notes	Soloist, The	Steve	Lopez
Talk of the Nation	Commonwealth	Jeffrey	Sachs
Talk of the Nation	Like a Rolling Stone	Steve	Kurutz
Talk of the Nation	Ten Cent Plague, The	David	Hajdu
Talk of the Nation	Zoo on the Road to Nablus	Amelia	Thomas
Talk of the Nation	Chalked Up	Jennifer	Sey
Talk of the Nation	N/A (Authors Debate Ethics of Writing Private for Public)
Tell Me More	Remarkable Mother, A	Jimmy	Carter
Weekend All Things Considered	Special Orders	Edward	Hirsch
Weekend Edition Saturday	Story of Forgetting	Stefan Merrill	Block
Weekend Edition Sunday	Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel, A	Annie Griffiths	Belt
Weekend Edition Sunday	Wild Nights	Joyce Carol	Oates

Randi Rhodes now on Air America *channel* at XM

Portfolio.com’s Mixed Media reports that the host, booted from the Air America Radio Network after making controversial remarks about Hillary, is back on the air, but now on the Air America channel on XM Satellite Radio. 

Morning Brief — May 1, 2008

Social networking guru Chris Brogan posts about how to pitch bloggers.  Among the differences with traditional media: bloggers are passionate — read “obsessed” — with what they do (yours truly included), bloggers don’t have to be polite.  Similarities: bloggers like exclusives too, and freebies.  Brogan elaborates on how he likes to be pitched (and his Twitter friends chime in as well) so check out the complete post.

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Word on the street — for those of you who haven’t already heard this directly – is that Kim Hubbard at People does not want us to check in on the review status of books.  She says she will contact us if interested.  Kim joins the ranks of media folk who have specifically asked us not to follow up in *any* way: Pat Towers at O, Lev Grossman at TIME, Erich Eichmann at the WSJ, Benjamin Ivry.  (Needless to say, I expect exceptions will be made for people they know well / in cases of breaking news if that’s appropriate for that particular publication.)

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Ben from Viking Penguin reports that Karen Casto is no longer the book editor at the San Jose Mercury News.  Her replacement (for now) is Acting Features Editor Katharine Fong.