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An interview on NPR’s Morning Edition has sent Richard Reeves’s forthcoming book, Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Probl...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/06/01/order-alert-dream-hoarders/

The author of one of the season’s most heavily anticipated new cookbooks, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (S&S; OverDrive Sample), Samin Nosrat was featured ye...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/31/holds-alert-salt-fat-acid-heat/

Pamela Paul who oversees all of the New York Times book coverage, including the Book Review, was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air yesterday, ostensibly to talk about her new book My Life with ...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/24/reading-life-revealed/

Add the billionaire philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft to those with summer reading recommendations. Bill Gates posts five picks to his blog, gatesnotes, saying that “The books on this...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/23/bill-gates-summer-reading-2/

ABC News chief national correspondent and Nightline co-anchor Byron Pitts just published a book about teens who overcome horrible circumstances ranging from bullying to abuse, addiction, and ge...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/19/be-the-one-rises/

The first trailer was just released for the film adaptation of the bestselling memoir by Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle (S&S/Scribner, 2005): Starring Academy Award winner Brie Larson as Wall...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/19/glass-castle-first-trailer/

NPR’s All Things Considered featured Michael Ruhlman’s Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America (Abrams; RH Audio/BOT), moving the book up Amazon’s rankings and driving holds. Li...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/17/holds-alert-grocery/

Bill Gates took to Twitter on Monday and sent Steven Pinker’s 2010 book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (PRH/Penguin; RH Audio; OverDrive Sample), soaring to the top...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/17/bill-gates-bookseller/

If the conversation around “adulting” hits a nerve, meet Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska. Sasse is concerned with what he regards as the slow-to-nonexistent development of independe...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/15/dont-want-grow/

Presidential aide Ivanka Trump’s Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success, (PRH/Portfolio; Penguin Audio/BOT) is technically a #1 best seller, having hit that number on the Wall Stre...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/15/technically-a-best-seller/

Journalist and former Random House publisher Harold Evans entertained NPR’s Scott Simon on Weekend Edition Saturday, with his pet peeves about the misuse of the English language. As a result ...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/15/death-zombie-words/

Professor and author Barbara Oakley gets a double lift from The Wall Street Journal. An article titled “How a Polymath Mastered Math – and So Can You,” explores how Oakley, after flunkin...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/15/learning-to-learn/

The film adaptation of the beloved and bestselling memoir by Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle (S&S/Scribner, 2005), finally has a debut date, set to open in wide release on August 11. The film...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/08/glass-castle-gets-premiere-date/

Kate Moore’s The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Sourcebooks; HighBridge Audio; OverDrive Sample) is catching on. Holds are topping 7:1 ratios and spiking as high as ...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/08/holds-alert-radium-girls/

One of the autopsies of the 2016 election might be made into a limited TV series reports the NYT. Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes (PRH/Crow...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/07/possible-tv-series-shattered/

The great-great grandchildren of Henry H. Holmes, the serial killer featured in the best seller, The Devil in the White City, have received permission to exhume his body to confirm whether he...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/05/new-chapter-devil-white-city/

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee and David John (HC/William Collins; HarperAudio; OverDrive Sample) published in 2015 got a sudden boost on Amazon’s ...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/05/defectors-story-rises/

Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Richard Ford was featured on Fresh Air yesterday, discussing his new memoir, Between Them: Remembering My Parents (HC/Ecco; HarperAudio; OverDrive Sample) with ...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/03/my-parents-my-self/

A forthcoming book by Jackie Kennedy’s longtime assistant is getting wide media coverage, Jackie’s Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family by Kathy McKeon (S&S/Gallery; S&S Audio; out May 9). ...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/05/02/inside-ruins-camelot/

The 2017 James Beard Media Awards have been announced. The Book of the Year, as well as the winner in the American Cooking category, is Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes by Ronni Lu...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/04/27/foodie-oscars-announced/

Mindy Kaling has optioned the rights to Alyssa Mastromonaco’s recently released memoir, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the W...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/04/27/tv-thought-good-idea/

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (PRH/Doubleday; RH Large Print; RH Audio/BOT; OverDrive Sample) debuts on the USA Today Bestseller list at #...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/04/27/flower-moon-blossoms/

The news media is focused on Trump’s first 100 days, but it seems people still want to know about the campaigns that preceded it. Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign by Jon...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/04/27/shattered-soars-bestseller-status/

Gretchen Carlson is at work on a new memoir,  Be Fierce: Stop Harassment And Take Your Power Back (Hachette/Center Street Books), scheduled for publication on September 26. The announcement co...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/04/25/print-gretchen-carlson/

Mozart owned a pet starling bird, one he bought in 1784 just after finishing his Piano Concerto No. 17 in G. It could sing part of his new composition. The story of that bird and Mozart’s relat...

http://www.earlyword.com/2017/04/24/bird-song/