NPR Books Watch — 9/26-10/2

Wow.  All I can say is … I sure can’t wait to watch Saturday Night Live this weekend!

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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: 12

All Things Considered: 2

Day to Day: 1

Fresh Air: 2

Morning Edition: 2

News & Notes: 1

NPR.org: 3

Weekend Edition Saturday: 1

All Things Considered	Legs Are the Last to Go, The	Diahann	Carroll	Memoir
All Things Considered	State by State	Matt	Weiland	Current Events
Day to Day	Sit Down and Shut Up	Brad	Warner	Religion
Day to Day	Hardcore Zen	Brad	Warner	Religion
Fresh Air	Wall Street	Steve	Fraser	History
Fresh Air	Devil We Know, The	Robert	Baer	Politics
Morning Edition	Achewood	Chris	Onstad	Graphic Novel
Morning Edition	Obscene in the Extreme	Rick	Wartzman	Politics
News & Notes	State by State	Matt	Weiland	Current Events
NPR.org	Books We Like / What Happened to Anna K.	Irina	Reyn	Literary Fiction
NPR.org	Book Tour / American Wife	Curtis	Sittenfeld	Literary Fiction
NPR.org	Books We Like / After 9/11	Sid	Jacobson	History
Weekend Edition Saturday	Crossbearer	Joe	Eszterhas	Biography