Books in the Media – November 2019

Here is a sample of some of the books prominently featured in the media this week.

November 26:

Elle:

In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

Entertainment Weekly:

Camgirl by Isa Mazzei

Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

The Sacrament by Olaf Olafsson

On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl

The Financial Times:

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

NPR:

The Second Sleep by Robert Harris

Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer

NYT:

Midnight in Chernobyl: the Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Time:

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Disney’s Land Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow

The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire by Francesca Cartier Brickell

Janis: Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren

USA Today:

The Dutch House: A Novel by Ann Patchett

The Washington Post:

Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation by Michael Powell

The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan

Authors on Air:

NPR:

by Rachael Ray

 

PBS NEWS HOUR:

by David M. Rubenstein

by Karine Jean-Pierre

The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon:

by Michael Eric Dyson

November 19:

The Atlantic:

The Movie Musical! by Jeanine Basinger

The Guardian:

This Is Pleasure: A Story by Mary Gaitskill

Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillip

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

LA Times:

Barking to the Choir : The Power of Radical Kinship by Gregory Boyle

The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt

NPR:

From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin’s Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin’s Secret War on the West by Heidi Blake

NYT:

Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir by Deirdre Bair

The Siberian Dilemma by Martin Cruz Smith

Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens

Blue moon: a Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century by Thant Myint-U

Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises by Jodie Adams Kirshner

USA Today:

The Andromeda Evolution by Michael Crichton

The Washington Post:

They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears by Johannes Anyuru

Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller

Authors on Air:

NPR:

by Carrie Goldberg

 

by Jenny Slate

 

PBS News Hour:

by Joel Stein

 

by Richard Powers

November 12:

NPR:

The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White

The Movie Musical! by Jeanine Basinger

 Space Invaders by Nona Fernández

The NYT:

The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism by Fintan O’Toole

People:

The Innocents by Michael Crummey

Little Weirds by Jenny Slate

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

USA Today:

The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson and Michael Crichton

A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller

The Innocents by Michael Crummey

The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony by Adam Platt

The Washington Post:

Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop by Thomas Travisano

Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law by Jeffrey Rosen

Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America by Sherrod Brown

A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan

Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation by Steve Vogel

The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor by Arthur Kleinman

Authors on Air:

CBS Sunday Morning:

by Irma S. Rombauer

NPR:

by Bernardine Evaristo

 

by Lindy West

 

by Lara Maiklem

 

PBS News Hour:

by Marie Kondo and Salina Yoon

November 05:

Esquire: 

The Witches are Coming by Lindy West

LibraryReads:

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

NPR:

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

People:

Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me) by Gary Janetti

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews

No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History by Gail Collins

Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer

Rachael Ray 50: Memories and Meals from a Sweet and Savory Life: A Cookbook by Rachael Ray

When Pies Fly: Handmade Pastries from Strudels to Stromboli, Empanadas to Knishes by Cathy Barrow

Authors of Air:

CBS This Morning:

by Elizabeth Strout

CBS Sunday Morning:

by Mo Rocca

Fresh Air:

by Allison Moorer

 

by David Owen

 

NPR:

 

PBS News Hour:

by Christopher Ingraham

 

by Richard Powers