Radar and 02138 fold
Eat the Press, The Huffington Post’s media blog, reports that Radar has folded.
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And FishbowlNY reports that 02138, the glossy Harvard magazine, has closed up shop as well.
NPR Books Watch — 10/17-10/23
Looks like the NPR shows may have a bit of backlog — more than half of the books below were published in September.
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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: 19
All Things Considered: 5
Fresh Air: 1
Morning Edition: 2
News & Notes: 2
NPR.org: 4
Talk of the Nation: 3
Tell Me More: 2
All Things Considered | Burn and Dodge | Sharon | Dolin | Poetry |
All Things Considered | Graveyard Book | Neil | Gaiman | Young Adult |
All Things Considered | Wasted Vigil | Nadeem | Aslam | Mystery |
All Things Considered | Where Three Roads Meet | Salley | Vickers | Literary Fiction |
All Things Considered | You Must Read This / Groucho Letters | Groucho | Marx | Entertainment |
Fresh Air | Born Standing Up | Steve | Martin | Entertainment |
Morning Edition | Olives and Oranges | Sara | Jenkins | Cooking |
Morning Edition | House at Sugar Beach | Helene | Cooper | Memoir |
News & Notes | Hog and Hominy | Fredrick D. | Opie | Cooking |
News & Notes | Capitol Men | Phillip | Dray | History |
NPR.org | Books We Like / Graveyard Book | Neil | Gaiman | Young Adult |
NPR.org | Book Tour / Brief Wondrous Life | Junot | Diaz | Literary Fiction |
NPR.org | Books We Like / Exact Replica | Elizabeth | McCracken | Memoir |
NPR.org | Books We Like / Right | Hanna | Rosin | Education |
Talk of the Nation | Tried By War | James | McPherson | History |
Talk of the Nation | B-List | David | Sterritt | Entertainment |
Talk of the Nation | Alphabet Juice | Roy | Blount, Jr. | Pop Culture |
Tell Me More | Bridge to Literacy | John | Corcoran | Education |
Tell Me More | Tears of the Desert | Halima | Bashir | Current Events |