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AOT #205: Joshua Ferris Podcasts The Unnamed

Joshua Ferris’s first novel, Then We Came to the End, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a National Book Award finalist. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, Prairie Schooner, and The Iowa Review. Ferris reads from and discusses his new novel The Unnamed, a dazzling novel about a marriage and a family and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both.... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #204: Connie Willis Podcasts Blackout

Connie Willis, who was recently inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, has received six Nebula Awards and ten Hugo Awards for her fiction. Her novel, Passage, was nominated for both awards, and her other acclaimed works include Doomsday Book, Lincoln’s Dreams, Bellwether, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and others. Willis discusses her new novel Blackout. In her first novel since 2002, Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #203: Robert Crais Podcasts The First Rule

Robert Crais, the New York Times-bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime-writing, reads from and discusses his new novel The First Rule, a blistering thriller featuring Joe Pike and Elvis Cole. This astonishing novel finds Pike and Cole on an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminality, and at the heart of it, an... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #202: Audrey Niffenegger Podcasts Her Fearful Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger, author of the acclaimed, bestselling debut novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, reads from and discusses her new novel Her Fearful Symmetry. An unnerving, unforgettable and enchanting ghost story, Niffenegger’s spectacularly compelling second novel is about love and identity, secrets and sisterhood and the tenacity of life-even after death. ($26.99) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-43916-539-3. You can visit Audrey... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #201: Stephen Hunter Podcasts I, Sniper

Award winning author Stephen Hunter reads from and discusses his new thriller I, Sniper. Filled with Hunter’s signature blend of brilliant plotting, vivid characters, razor-sharp dialogue, and extraordinary gunfights, this novel will satisfy Stephen Hunter’s legions of fans and win him droves of new ones. ($26.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN #978-1-41-656515-4 .    AOT #201: Stephen Hunter Podcasts I, Sniper [26:26m]: Play Now |... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #200: David Wroblewski Podcasts The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

David Wroblewski reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his extraordinary debut novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Filled with breathtaking scenes-the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a fateful vision rendered in the falling rain-The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a meditation on the limits of language and what lies beyond, a brilliantly inventive retelling of an ancient story, and an epic tale of devotion,... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #199: Zachary Lazar Podcasts Evening’s Empire

Zachary Lazar, whose novel Sway was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications, reads from and discusses his new book Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder. When he was just six years old, Lazar’s father, Edward, was shot dead by hit men in a Phoenix, Arizona, parking garage. The year was 1975, a time when, according to the Arizona Republic, “land-fraud artists... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #198: Lucinda Scala Quinn Podcasts Mad Hungry: Feeding Men & Boys

Born to a family that always cared about food, Lucinda Scala Quinn started cooking professionally as a teenager. She has worked as a chef, cooking teacher, caterer, and food writer. She is Executive Food Director for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and she appears regularly on NBC’s Today and Martha, as well as co-hosting PBS’s Everyday Food. Quinn discusses her new book Mad Hungry: Feeding Men & Boys. With four hungry brothers,... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #197: T. A. Barron Podcasts Merlin’s Dragon: Doomraga’s Revenge

T.A. Barron is the award-winning author of fantasy novels such as The Lost Years of Merlin epic–soon to be a major motion picture. He serves on a variety of environmental and educational boards including The Nature Conservancy and The Land and Water Fund of the Rockies, and is the founder of a national award for heroic children. Barron reads from and discusses his new book Merlin’s Dragon: Doomraga’s Revenge, in which Basil becomes... [Listen to this podcast]

AOT #196: Elizabeth Beckwith Podcasts Raising the Perfect Child through Guilt and Manipulation

Successful actress, stand-up comedienne, and television writer Elizabeth Beckwith reads from and discusses her hilarious first book Raising the Perfect Child through Guilt and Manipulation. A frequent guest on The Late, Late Show and one of seven comics featured in the Time magazine article, “Funny: The Next Generation,” Beckwith now puts forth a hilarious new parenting philosophy that would shock Dr. Spock and traumatize T. Berry Brazelton.... [Listen to this podcast]

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