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July 01, 2009

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Summer Books 2009: in which the critics name their top picks of the season. New lists will be added throughout the summer" (The Complete Printable List)

Previous book segments:
Books We Like: Each week the critics review their top picks for new fiction and nonfiction.
Peter Abraham, REALITY CHECK, HarperCollins
A HOMEMADE LIFE by Molly Wizenberg, and I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI by Giulia Melucci

All Things Considered
Previous book segments:
Caroline Moorehead, DANCING TO THE PRECIPICE: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era, Harper
Dean Olsher, SQUARE ONE: A Meditation, with Digressions, on Crosswords, Scribner

Diane Rehm
July 1: Christian Davenport, AS YOU WERE: To War and Back with the Black Hawk Battalion of the Virginia National Guard, John Wiley
July 2: Vincent J. Cannato, AMERICAN PASSAGE: The History of Ellis Island, Harper

Previous book segments:
Kristine A. Huskey, JUSTICE AT GUANTANAMO: One Woman's Odyssey and Her Crusade for Human Rights, Lyons Press
Readers' Review: OLIVE KITTERIDGE, Random House (the collection of stories which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction)
Kate Lehrer, CONFESSIONS OF A BIGAMIST
Leslie Maitland, memoir will be published next year.
Jackson Bryer (co-editor), DEAR SCOTT, DEAR ZELDA, St. Martin's
Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer, THE STATE OF JONES, Doubleday
Michael and Elizabeth Norman, TEARS IN THE DARKNESS: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath, FSG/Tantor Media
Lennard Davis, GO ASK YOUR FATHER: One Man's Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing, Bantam

Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Previous book segments:
Bradley Graham, BY HIS OWN RULES: The Story of Donald Rumsfeld, PublicAffairs

Here and Now
Previous book segments:
Andy Borowitz, WHO MOVED MY SOAP? The CEO's Guide to Surviving Prison, S&S

Marketplace
Previous book segments:
Aravind Adiga, BETWEEN THE ASSASSINATIONS, Free Press
L. Jon Wertheim, STROKES OF GENIUS: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Morning Edition
July 3: Adam Perry Lang, SERIOUS BARBECUE, Hyperion

Weekend Edition Saturday
Previous book segments:
Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, THE STRAIN, Morrow

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.

Latest NPR appearance:
May 30: Anthony Browne, LITTLE BEAUTY, Walker Books Ltd.

Previous book segments:
STAND TALL, ABE LINCOLN by Judith St. George, Matt Faulkner (illus.)
Daniel Manus Pinkwater, THE NEDDIAD: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization. Houghton Mifflin (paperback, with a new cover by Calef Brown)
Also: Daniel Pinkwater, THE YGGYSSEY, Houghton Mifflin (the sequel to THE NEDDIAD)
December: James Thurber's new edition of THE THIRTEEN CLOCKS (the New York Review Children's Collection)
September: Scott Simon, JIM COPP, WILL YOU TELL ME A STORY? (a collection of three of Copp and Ed Brown's stories for children, put in book form for the first time)
June: Bonny Becker, A VISITOR FOR BEAR, Candlewick Press
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
July 1: Iranian authors: Roya Hakakian, JOURNEY FROM THE LAND OF NO: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran, Three Rivers Press and Azar Nafisi, THINGS I'VE BEEN SILENT ABOUT: Memories, Random House/RH Audio

Previous book segments:
Julie Powell, JULIE AND JULIA: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, Little Brown/Hachette Audio (paperback movie tie-in to the August 7 movie release)
Kathleen Collins, WATCHING WHAT WE EAT: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows, Continuum
Colum McCann, LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN, Random House
Suzanne Simons, MASTER OF WAR: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the Business of War, Harper
Andy Borowitz, WHO MOVED MY SOAP? The CEO's Guide to Surviving Prison: The Bernie Madoff Edition, S&S
Michele Cohen, PUBLIC ART FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, The Monacelli Press
Paula Span, WHEN THE TIME COMES: Families with Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions, Springboard Press
Michela Wrong IT'S OUR TURN TO EAT: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower, Harper
June 25: Bradley Graham, BY HIS OWN RULES: The Story of Donald Rumsfeld, PublicAffairs
Justine Hardy, IN THE VALLEY OF MIST: Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World, Free Press
Peter G. Peterson, THE EDUCATION OF AN AMERICAN DREAMER: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Learned His Way from a Nebraska Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and Beyond, Twelve
Buzz Aldrin, MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION: The Long Journey Home from the Moon, Harmony/RH Audio
Dean Olsher, FROM SQUARE ONE: A Meditation, with Digressions, on Crosswords, Scribner
Lisa Hamilton, DEEPLY ROOTED: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, Counterpoint
Bill Wasik, AND THEN THERE'S THIS: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture, Viking

The Takeaway
Previous book segments:
Andy Borowitz, WHO MOVED MY SOAP? The CEO's Guide to Surviving Prison, S&S

Talk of the Nation
Previous book segments:
Bruce Weber, AS THEY SEE 'EM: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires, Scribner

Wendy Wax's Accidental Radio
http://www.authorwendywax.com/books.cfm

Through July: Launch with Laura Lippman, the first of eighteen authors joining the former broadcaster for her internet radio feature.

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