AOT #41: John Perkins Podcasts Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins discusses and reads from the new paperback edition of his internationally bestselling and controversial book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

Perkins’ story is an in-depth look at one man’s experiences inside the intrigue, greed, corruption and little-known government and corporate activities that America has been involved in since World War II, and which have dire consequences for the future of democracy and the world.

($15.00) Penguin ISBN #0-452-28708-1. Please visit John Perkins’ official web site as well.

books, author podcasts, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

AOT #40: William Haywood Henderson Podcasts Augusta Locke

William Haywood Henderson, reads from and discusses his soaring new novel set in the West, Augusta Locke.

Set primarily in Wyoming, Henderson’s new novel chronicles a woman’s troubled and short-lived relationships with both her mother and her daughter. Redolent with myth, humor, strange landscapes and stark reality, Augusta Locke is an indelible portrait of a woman who, through great spirit and toughness of character, blazes her own trail. Of his previous novel, The Rest of the Earth, Annie Proulx remarked that “Henderson writes some of the most evocative and transcendently beautiful prose in contemporary Ameircan literature.”

($24.95) Viking ISBN #0-670-03491-6. Please visit William Haywood Henderson’s official web site as well.

books, author podcasts, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts

AOT #39: Anne Lamott Podcasts Plan B

Anne Lamott, bestselling author of Traveling Mercies and six novels including Crooked Little Heart, reads from and discusses the paperback edition of Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.

Filled with Lamott’s trademark wisdom, humor and honesty, Plan B is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.

($14.00) Penguin ISBN #1-59448-157-1.

AOT #38: Jonathan Safran Foer Podcasts Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer reads from and discusses his bestelling novel on 9/11, now in paperback, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.

Foer’s novel has been one of the most discussed, acclaimed and debated novels in recent memory. And with good reason — as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted, “Jonathan Safran Foer has done something both masterful and absoluetely necessary: he has written the first great novel about September 11.”

($13.95) Houghton Mifflin ISBN #0-618-71165-1. Please visit Jonathan Safran Foer’s official web site, known as the Project Museum, as well — and explore!

books, author podcasts, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, 9/11, September 11

AOT #37: Christopher Moore Podcasts A Dirty Job

Christopher Moore shines his comic light on the toughest of subjects — death and dying — in A Dirty Job.

Moore, the man whose novel Lamb served up Jesus’ “missing years” (with the funny parts left in) and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers’ lives, discusses his new novel — A Dirty Job — and other items of interest ranging from moose in Colorado to the “beta-male” theory. In A Dirty Job, Moore focuses his keen comic eye on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore — death and dying. His novel is hilarious, heartwarming and a hell of a lot of fun.

($24.95) Harper Collins ISBN # 0-06-059027-0. Please visit Christopher Moore’s official web site as well.

books, author podcasts, podcasts, podcasting, book podcasts, Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job