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On the Radio
September 04, 2008
(All listings are tentative and subject to change.)
National Public Radio
Log on to http://www.npr.org/programs/
to listen to these and other NPR shows.
Also see Books on NPR, a daily
listing of books that have been featured.
From NPR.org
Previous book segments:
Book Tour is a Web feature and podcast. Each week, authors of fiction and nonfiction
read from and discuss their work.
Christian Lander, STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE: A Definitive Guide to the Unique
Taste of Millions, Random House
Ethan Canin, AMERICA AMERICA (Random House)
(also author of six books of fiction, including EMPEROR OF THE AIR and THE PALACE
THIEF)
"Books We Like." Each week the critics review their top picks for new fiction
and nonfiction.
For week of September 1:
Susan Squire, I DON'T: A Contrarian History of Marriage, Bloomsbury
For week of August 25:
Tana French, THE LIKENESS, Viking
(debut novel, IN THE WOODS)
All Things Considered
September 6: Daniel Mendelsohn, HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS AND HOW EASILY IT CAN BE
BROKEN, Harper
Previous book segments:
Junot Díaz, THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, Riverhead paperback
Three books -- a series in which we invite writers to recommend three great
reads on a single theme:
Susan L. Shirk, CHINA: Fragile Superpower, Oxford Univ. Press
Alexandra Harney, THE CHINA PRICE: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage,
Penguin Press
Lisa See, SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN: A Novel, Random House
Anne-Marie Slaughter, THE IDEA THAT IS AMERICA: Keeping Faith With Our Values
in a Dangerous World, Basic Books
Day to Day
Previous book segments:
Lee Israel, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Memoirs of a Literary Forger, S&S
Jeroen van Bergeijk, MY MERCEDES IS NOT FOR SALE: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...An
Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara, Broadway
Diane Rehm
September 4: Qanta A. Ahmed, IN THE LAND OF INVISIBLE WOMEN: A Female Doctor's
Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, Sourcebooks
Previous book segments:
David W. Moore, THE OPINION MAKERS: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind
the Polls, Beacon Press
John Zogby, THE WAY WE'LL BE: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the
American Dream, Random House/Tantor Media
T. Boone Pickens, THE FIRST BILLION IS THE HARDEST: Reflections on a Life of
Comebacks and America's Energy Future, Crown Business/RH Audio
Philip Dine, STATE OF THE UNIONS: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class,
Improve Our Economy, and Regain Political Influence, McGraw Hill
Roger Tory Peterson, Lee Allen Peterson (foreword), THE PETERSON FIELD GUIDE
TO BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA (Peterson Field Guides), Houghton Mifflin (combines
the PETERSON FIELD GUIDE TO EASTERN BIRDS and PETERSON FIELD GUIDE TO WESTERN
BIRDS into one volume) (also THE BACKYARD BIRDSONG GUIDE: Eastern and Central
North America)
Lee Allen Peterson, THE PETERSON FIELD GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS
Peter Brookes, A DEVIL'S TRIANGLE: Terrorism, WMD and Rogue States
John Cacioppo (co-author), LONELINESS: Human Nature and the Need for Social
Connection, Norton/Tantor Media
Moustafa Bayoumi, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A PROBLEM? Being Young and Arab in
America, Penguin
Paul Auster, MAN IN THE DARK, Henry Holt/Macmillan Audio
Morning Edition
Previous book segments:
Billie Jean King, PRESSURE IS A PRIVILEGE: Lessons I've Learned from Life
and the Battle of the Sexes, Lifetime Media
Weekend Edition Saturday
Children's
Literature with Daniel Pinkwater
http://www.pinkwater.com/pzone/
Daniel Pinkwater is the author of at least 100 books for children,
young adults, and adults. He makes frequent appearances on Weekend Edition
to read and discuss books for children.
June 7: Bonny Becker, A VISITOR FOR BEAR, Candlewick Press
Previous book segments:
January: Calef Brown, FLAMINGOS ON A ROOF, Houghton Mifflin
October: LITTLE TOOT, by Hardie Gramatky (newly-issued edition for the 100th
anniversary of his birth), Putnam Juvenile
August: Andrea U'Ren, MARY SMITH, FSG
The Leonard Lopate Show *WNYC
September 4: Linda Robinson, TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS: General David Petraeus
and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq, PublicAffairs
Previous book segments:
Wynton Marsalis, MOVING TO HIGHER GROUND: How Jazz Can Change Your Life, Random
House
David Sirota, THE UPRISING: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring
Wall Street and Washington, Crown/Tantor Media
W.S. Di Piero, CHINESE APPLES: New and Selected Poems, Knopf
Gary Bass, FREEDOM'S BATTLE: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention, Knopf
Cynthia Saltzman, OLD MASTERS, NEW WORLD: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures,
Viking
On Point
Previous book segments:
Doris Lessing, ALFRED AND EMILY, Harper
Talk of the Nation
September 4: Linda Robinson, TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS: General David Petraeus and
the Search for a Way Out of Iraq, PublicAffairs
David Lovelace, SCATTERSHOT: My Bipolar Family, Dutton
Previous book segments:
Wynton Marsalis, MOVING TO HIGHER GROUND: How Jazz Can Change Your Life, Random
House
Patrick Tracey, STALKING IRISH MADNESS: Searching for the Roots of My Family's
Schizophrenia, Bantam
On Other Radio Shows
The Book Report * AM Talk Radio
www.thebookreport.net
The Book Report is a magazine format radio show, hosted by independent
booksellers Pat Grant and Elisabeth Grant-Gibson, featuring news about the
book world as well as reviews, interviews, and the occasional read-aloud.
The one-hour show airs weekly on AM Talk Radio stations in the south and
is streamed live on Wednesdays at 8:00 a.m. CST and archived at www.thebookreport.net.
Also on KLCN 910 AM on Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m. For more info, contact
(870) 763-3333 or www.tbib.com.
Previous book segments:
Interviews:
Kirby Larson with Mary Nethery, TWO BOBBIES: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina,
Friendship, and Survival, illustrated by Jean Cassels, Walker Books for
Young Readers
Ian McNulty, A SEASON OF NIGHT: New Orleans Life after Katrina, Univ. Press
of Mississippi
Ken Wells, THE GOOD PIRATES OF THE FORGOTTEN BAYOUS: Fighting to Save a
Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, Yale Univ. Press
Bookworm
(On-air and online Thursdays at 2:30 p.m. EST on AM820)
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw
Bookworm showcases writers of fiction and poetry -- the established, new, or emerging
-- interviewed by the show's host, Michael Silverblatt.
September 4: An American Bookworm in Paris, Part I
Sylvia Whitman, of Shakespeare and Company, a bookstore popular with Americans
in Paris
Francois Cusset, FRENCH THEORY: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed
the Intellectual Life of the United States, Univ. of Minnesota Press
September 11: An American Bookworm in Paris, Part II
Camille de Toledo, COMING OF AGE AT THE END OF HISTORY, Soft Skull
September 18: Annie Proulx, FINE JUST THE WAY IT IS: Wyoming Stories 3, Scribner
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