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AOT #229: Andrew Bacevich Podcasts Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War

Andrew Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of colonel. He is the author of The Limits of Power and The New American Militarism, and his writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Bacevich discusses his important new book Washington Rules: America’s Path... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #228: Nicholas Carr Podcasts The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Nicholas Carr, the best-selling author of The Big Switch, reads from and discusses his new book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, his explosive look at technology’s effect on the mind. “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #227: Barry Petersen Podcasts Jan’s Story: Love Lost to the Long Goodbye of Alzheimer’s

Acclaimed CBS News reporter Barry Petersen discusses his memoir Jan’s Story: Love Lost to the Long Goodbye of Alzheimer’s. “I thought I knew my long time CBS News colleague Barry Petersen, one of the best and most admired reporters in the business, through his unforgettable coverage of important events in far away places all over the world. Now in Jan’s Story he uses all his writing and reporting skills to tell the story... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #226: Allegra Goodman Podcasts The Cookbook Collector

Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Goodman reads from and discusses her eagerly anticipated new novel The Cookbook Collector, in which she weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment.... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #225: Justin Cronin Podcasts The Passage

Award-winning author Justin Cronin reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed novel The Passage. In his book, Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction. ($26.00) Ballantine ISBN #978-0-345-50496.... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #224: Sloane Crosley Podcasts How Did You Get This Number

Sloane Crosley, the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There’d Be Cake, reads from and discusses her new book of personal essays How Did You Get This Number. In Crosley’s first book, readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley’s life in New York City and to a literary voice that mixed Dorothy Parker with David Sedaris and became something all its own. In her new book, her voice is still fueled by the perfect... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #223: Brando Skyhorse Podcasts The Madonnas of Echo Park

Brando Skyhorse reads from and discusses his debut novel The Madonnas of Echo Park, which takes us into the unseen world of Los Angeles, following the men and women who cook the meals, clean the homes, and struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. Like the Academy Award-winning film Crash, The Madonnas of Echo Park follows the intersections of its characters and cultures in Los Angeles. In the footsteps of Junot... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #222: Linda Greenlaw Podcasts Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea

Linda Greenlaw hadn’t been bluewater fishing for ten years–not since the events chronicled in the books The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger and her memoir The Hungry Ocean–but when her lobster traps aren’t paying off, her truck is on its last gasp, and the bills are piling up, she decides to take a friend up on his offer and captain a boat for a season of swordfishing. Greenlaw discusses her new memoir Seaworthy: A Swordboat... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #221: Robin Oliveira Podcasts My Name is Mary Sutter

Robin Oliveira reads from and discusses her debut novel My Name is Mary Sutter, an enthralling historical novel about a young woman’s struggle to become a doctor during the Civil War. In this stunning first novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine-and eager to run away from a recent heartbreak-Mary leaves home... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #220: Sebastian Junger Podcasts War

Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and A Death in Belmont. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. Junger reads from and discusses his new book War, in which he turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat-the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends... [Listen to this podcast]

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