NPR Books Watch Contest (5/23-5/29)
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 book stories this week: 43! (Although that includes nine stories over two days about Scott McClellan’s new book)
All Things Considered: 13
Bryant Park Project: 5
Day to Day: 4
Fresh Air: 3
Morning Edition: 5
News & Notes: 2
NPR.org: 3
Talk of the Nation: 3
Tell Me More: 3
Weekend Edition Saturday: 1
Weekend Edition Sunday: 1
| All Things Considered | Beijing Coma | Jian | Ma |
| All Things Considered | Boat, The | Nam | Le |
| All Things Considered | George Washington on Leadership | Richard | Brookhiser |
| All Things Considered | Indiana Law Targets ‘Explicit’ Books | ||
| All Things Considered | N/A (Bush Critic McClellan Makes the Rounds) | ||
| All Things Considered | N/A (Roethke’s Poetry Rooted in Humble Beginnings) | Theodore | Roethke |
| All Things Considered | Three Books | ||
| All Things Considered | Three Books | ||
| All Things Considered | Warrior, The | Fran | Richey |
| All Things Considered | Welcome To Your Brain | Sandra | Aamodt |
| All Things Considered | What Happened: Inside the Bush White House | Scott | McClellan |
| All Things Considered | What Happened: Inside the Bush White House | Scott | McClellan |
| All Things Considered | You Must Read This | Tony | Horwitz |
| Bryant Park Project, The | Borders’ Web-Based Plan to Save the Book | ||
| Bryant Park Project, The | Five Lessons I Didn’t Learn From Breast Cancer | Shelley | Lewis |
| Bryant Park Project, The | N/A (‘Twilight Zone’ Gets the Graphic Treatment) | ||
| Bryant Park Project, The | Predictably/Irrational | Dan | Ariely |
| Bryant Park Project, The | What Happened: Inside the Bush White House | Scott | McClellan |
| Day to Day | Can’t Remember What I Forgot | Sue | Halpern |
| Day to Day | N/A (How McClellan’s Book Got Released Early) | ||
| Day to Day | Torture Team | Phillipe | Sands |
| Day to Day | What Happened: Inside the Bush White House | Scott | McClellan |
| Fresh Air | Assisted Loving | Bob | Miller |
| Fresh Air | Final Salute | Jim | Sheeler |
| Fresh Air | Yiddish Policeman’s Union, The | Michael | Chabon |
| Morning Edition | Best Chicken Recipes | Cook’s | Illustrated |
| Morning Edition | Booksellers’ Selections for Summer Afternoons | ||
| Morning Edition | Devil May Care | Sebastian | Faulks |
| Morning Edition | New Exhibit Honors 007 Creator Ian Fleming | ||
| Morning Edition | What Happened: Inside the Bush White House | Scott | McClellan |
| News & Notes | Beautiful Struggle | Ta-nehisi | Coates |
| News & Notes | We Were There | Yvonne | Latty |
| NPR.org | Nim Chimpsky | Elizabeth | Hess |
| NPR.org | Nine First Books that Make a Lasting Impression | ||
| NPR.org | When the Heat Turns Up, Get Out of the Kitchen | ||
| Talk of the Nation | N/A (Tell-All Authors and the Price They Pay) | ||
| Talk of the Nation | Snoop | Sam | Gosling |
| Talk of the Nation | What Happened: Inside the Bush White House | Scott | McClellan |
| Tell Me More | Do Hard Things | Alex and Brett | Harris |
| Tell Me More | Here Comes Everybody | Clay | Shirky |
| Tell Me More | Librarian Suggests Books for Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month | ||
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Crowd Sounds Happy, The | Nicholas | Dawidoff |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Clotilde’s Edible Adventures in Paris | Clotilde | Dusoulier |
Morning Brief — Friday, May 30
Mary-Kate Figur is the new Editorial Coordinator at Kirkus Reviews who can answer questions about review status or other related general inquiries. She reminds us to check their “coming-soon page” (which I think I have seen in the past, although when I just checked for it, the Coming Soon link took me to the home page). If you need her contact information but did not receive Figur’s email, you can check Kirkus’ About Us page or try calling 866-890-8541.
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Publishers Weekly reports that the Amazon Bookstore Coop, a feminist bookstore in Minneapolis, will close at the end of June.
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For those of you not at BEA, like me, you can look at photos of people at BEA. Carolyn Kellogg of Pinky’s Paperhaus (and the L.A. Times’ book blog Jacket Copy) posts some pix of her and some other well-known lit / publishing bloggers whose blogs you may be familiar with but whose faces you may not know.
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I thought this post entitled The Art of No on PR Squared might resonate with book publicists. I would like to draw your attention to the following quote: “No, I’m sorry, your Enterprise IT Security product probably won’t be a good fit on the TODAY Show. We’ll both have egg on our face if we try that outlet.” Happy half-day Friday. (Unless you’re in LA. In which case you’ll be working through the weekend.)
