NPR Books Watch (5/2-5/8)
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 this week: 25
All Things Considered: 2 (Alan Cheuse reviewed three books in his segment.)
BookTour: 1
Bryant Park Project: 3
Day to Day: 1
Fresh Air: 6
Morning Edition: 4
NPR.org: 2
Talk of the Nation: 1
Tell Me More: 1
Weekend Edition Saturday: 2
Weekend Edition Sunday: 2
| All Things Considered | Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper | Fuchsia | Dunlop |
| All Things Considered | Wild Nights! | Joyce Carol | Oates |
| All Things Considered | Stone Gods, The | Jeanette | Winterson |
| All Things Considered | Lavinia | Ursula | LeGuin |
| BookTour | Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa | Lahiri |
| Bryant Park Project, The | N/A (‘BPP’ Book Club Gears Up for Author Talk) | ||
| Bryant Park Project, The | God of Animals, The | Aryn | Kyle |
| Bryant Park Project, The | Contested Waters | Jeff | Wiltse |
| Day to Day | Bang | Brian | May |
| Fresh Air | Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The* | Junot | Diaz |
| Fresh Air | Songs of Innocence | Charles | Ardai |
| Fresh Air | Hardheaded Weather | Cornelius | Eady |
| Fresh Air | Assault on Reason, The | Al | Gore |
| Fresh Air | Wiser in Battle | Ricardo S. | Sanchez |
| Fresh Air | Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, The | Kate | Summerscale |
| Morning Edition | Girl with no Shaow, The | Joanne | Harris |
| Morning Edition | Boots on the Ground | Mary | Tillman |
| Morning Edition | N/A (Ayn Rand Studies on Campus, Courtesy of BB&T) | ||
| Morning Edition | Audition | Barbara | Walters |
| NPR.org | Excerpt (The New Asian Hemisphere) | Kishore | Mahbubani |
| NPR.org | N/A (You Must Read This) | Marisa | De Los Santos |
| Talk of the Nation | Film Club, The | David | Gilmour |
| Tell Me More | Mommy Wars | Leslie Morgan | Steiner |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | My Guy Barbaro | Edgar | Prado |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Book of Dahlia, The | Elisa | Albert |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Plague of Doves, The | Louise | Erdrich |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Playing the Changes | David | Berger |
Morning Brief — May 8, 2008
Mashable reports that FORA.tv (sort of C-SPAN online) has managed to secure a few mil in funding. What this means for us is that FORA is likely to stick around — and cover our authors — for a while yet (at least until they burn through this latest pile of cash).
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Since we’re all now staking our claim online — whether individually or corporately — it probably behooves us to give a little thought to what we post online and how it appears. ReadWriteWeb talks about how we read online. Apparently, research shows that online reading habits are similar to how I used to “read” (in other words, skim) in college. So that means if I write a really long blog post, you won’t read it. Or something.
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A lot of marketing departments reach out to book groups. Booklist’s Book Group Buzz blog lists some sites that feature online reading guides.
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Ever booked an author on “Connie Martinson Talks Books”? Methinks pretty much yes if you’ve ever sent an author to L.A. LA Observed reports that she has donated her interviews to Claremont University.
