NPR Books Watch — 9/5-9/11

You may or may not be aware, but there are at least two settings for your automatic email signature: you can set it 1) only when you write a new message 2) all the time, when you write a message and when you reply to / forward messages.  I highly recommend the latter.

Just the other day, my colleague and I offered people in our company copies of a book whose authors were speaking at The Strand Wednesday night.  Several people asked for a copy of the book, but without email signatures, we didn’t know where to interoffice the books, and that meant we had to email them to ask for their locations and they had to email back.  WASTE OF TIME.

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But now I’m in a good mood because now that the Olympics and conventions are over, we’re back up to 20 book stories on the national NPR shows for the week.  Nice.

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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.

TOTAL book stories for the week: 20

All Things Considered: 4

Book Tour: 1

Day to Day: 2

Fresh Air: 3

Morning Edition: 1

NPR.org: 3

Talk of the Nation: 3

Tell Me More: 1

Weekend Edition Saturday: 2

All Things Considered	Three Books / Chick Lit That Features Heroines, Not High Heels
All Things Considered	My Dad, John McCain	Meghan	McCain	Children’s
All Things Considered	Man in the Dark	Paul	Auster	Literary Fiction
All Things Considered	Three Books / Prodigal Pages Celebrate Many Awkward Returns
Book Tour	Stand the Storm	Breena	Clarke	Literary Fiction
Day to Day	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Lee	Israel	Biography
Day to Day	Massacre at Mountain Meadows	Ronald W.	Walker	History
Fresh Air	Hot, Flat, and Crowded	Thomas	Friedman	Politics
Fresh Air	War Within, The	Bob	Woodward	Politics
Fresh Air	Limits of Power, The	Andrew	Bacevich	Politics
Morning Edition	Bacardi and the Long Fight For Cuba	Tom	Gjelten	History
NPR.org	Books We Like / Bottomless Belly Button	Dash	Shaw	Graphic Novel
NPR.org	Books We Like / The Lost Spy	Andrew	Meier	History
NPR.org	Books We Like / Names on the Land	George R.	Stewart	History
Talk of the Nation	Save the World on Your Own Time	Stanley	Fish	Education
Talk of the Nation	Tell Me How This Ends	Linda	Robinson	History
Talk of the Nation	Forever War, The	Dexter	Filkins	History
Talk of the Nation	In a Time of War	Bill	Murphy Jr.	History
Tell Me More	How Does it Feel to be a Problem?	Moustafa	Bayoumi	Current Events
Weekend Edition Saturday	When We Were Romans	Matthew	Kneale	Literary Fiction
Weekend Edition Saturday	Jim Copp	Daniel	Pinkwater	Children’s