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NPR.org Expands Book Coverage
By Calvin Reid
National Public Radio has expanded the book coverage on its website, adding weekly book reviews, and has hired six new book reviewers—including a graphic novel reviewer—and added more features to an existing lineup of author podcasts, critics' lists and other book-focused content. Among the new slate of reviewers joining NPR.org are Jessa Crispin, founder of the literary blog Bookslut.com; John Freeman, book critic and a former president of the National Book Critics Circle; and Laurel Maury, freelance comics and graphic novel reviewer and a longtime contributor to PW Comics Week.  Read on »

SIBA Shoots for Consumers, Aims to Sell 100,001 Books
by Edward Nawotka
Wanda Jewell wants to sell 100,001 copies of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance’s annual book prize winners between the time the prizes are announced at the Decatur Book Festival over Labor Day weekend and the end of the year. “We’re going to have a publicity blitz for the nominees and winners prior to the awards, advertise afterwards, and put them in a center spread in the holiday catalog,” said Jewell. Read on »

Three Answers: Hodding Carter
By Dick Donahue
Three Answers from Hodding Carter, whose Off the Deep End: The Probably Insane Idea That I Could Swim My Way Through a Midlife Crisis—and Qualify for the Olympics was published earlier this month by Algonquin Books. Read on »

Web Exclusive Reviews
This week on the Web: death and what you can do about it, death and what a war zone reporter does about it, more speculative history from China enthusiast Gavin Menzies, an author's memoir of the tour supporting her last memoir, scientists examine the human-centric importance of all Earth's critters, and a classic of American photography turns fifty. Read on »

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Authors on the Air: Wanted; The Tom Hayden Reader; Our Daily Meds
Over the weekend, the movie Wanted opened, based on the graphic novel by Mark Millar and J. G. Jones (Top Cow/Image Comics, $19.99; deluxe "Director's Cut" hardcover edition, $29.99) and starring Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy. Read on »

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Stein Hits the Racetrack
The Art of Racing in the Rain author Garth Stein (r.) recently stopped by the Mosport International Raceway in Bowmanville, Canada. Stein stopped in to see Kevin York (l.), a semi-professional racer who partially inspired the character of Danny Swift in the novel. Submit your pictures here »

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