TOTN Summer Book Program

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

I heard  about 2/3 of the show, and, as you were, I was waiting
 for them to get to M & D--but unconscionably, no mention did I hear. 
 I don't know about you Peter, but I found the tone of the show
 extremely offensive--the deadliest kind of eliitest bookchat of
 the sort dear Gore Vidal skewers so deliciously.  Didja catch all the gush
 about *this is a true story of a true love*--or *this one is a tell-all memoir*! 
 or *what a page turner*!  Then Stamberg has the gall to drop F.
Scott's name--like she was the first person ever to notice how great GATSBY is. 
 Did it ever occur to any of these fabulously well-educated and articulate minds to point 
out how far from the other criteria they'd been so mindlessly endorsing this novel is?  
Did anyone say, *now there's a book that's the OPPOSITE of a page turner or a tell-all 
memoir?*
 nooooo, not a thought in sight , just schmooze.

I was too depressed even to stick it out to see if they ever threw our boy a sop. 
 I suspect M & D just isn't enough of a page turner for NPR flacks.

I grow more disgusted with NPR by the week.
john m
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Peter P. writes:


>
>I happened to be in the car yesterday when NPR's Talk of the Nation program
>on summer books was on. I only heard a little more than a third of it, but
>during that time they managed to ignore our man. I heard each of the
>principals, Alan Cheuse, Susan Stamberg, and Corey Flintoff (sp's?) give
>their opening pitches.

<snip>>

>Did anyone here hear the whole show? Was TRP mentioned? I'm just curious.