AOT #45: Augusten Burroughs Podcasts Possible Side Effects

Augusten Burroughs, bestselling author of Running with Scissors, Dry and Magical Thinking, reads from — no, performs from — his new collection of stories, Possible Side Effects.

Burroughs, who has been named one of the 15 funniest people in America by Entertainment Weekly, has written another highly entertaining and provocative book based on his wild personal life. Possible Side Effects is a collection of true, and mostly-true, stories that Burroughs uses to enlighten his readers on the concept of cause and effect, all told in his amusing and anecdotal style.

($23.95) St. Martin’s Press ISBN # 0-3123-1596-1. You can visit Augusten Burrough’s raucous official web site as well.

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AOT #44: Nando Parrado Podcasts Miracle in the Andes

Nando Parrado survived 72 days in the Andes mountains after a plane, carrying him and his rugby teammates, crashed into the wintery mountains. Miracle in the Andes is his story, told for the first time since the accident 34 years ago.

In 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes. Nando Parrado, one of the survivors of the crash, tells his story in Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, and for the first time discusses how and why he survived. Piers Paul Read wrote, “Given up for dead after an air crash…Parrado not only survived but showed the strength and determination that saved his own life and that of his fifteen friends. Now he gives his own account of his ordeal — enthralling, enlightening, modest and moving. An impressive testimony to what love can achieve.”

($25.00) Crown ISBN #1-40009-767-3. You can visit Nando Parrado’s official web site as well.

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AOT #43 – Rick Reilly Podcasts Shanks for Nothing

Rick Reilly reads from and discusses his hilarious new novel, Shanks for Nothing, while riffing on anything else that comes to mind.

Bestselling author Rick Reilly, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, has been voted National Sportswriter of the Year ten times. Reilly discusses, rants and reads from his new book Shanks for Nothing, the hilarious sequel to his beloved golf novel, Missing Links.

($24.95) Doubleday ISBN #0-385-50111-0. If you want to read Rick’s columns at SI, please visit Life of Reilly as well.

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AOT #42: James Fallows Podcasts Blind Into Baghdad

James Fallows reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his provocative book, Blind Into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq.

American Book Award-winning author James Fallows is The Atlantic Monthly’s national correspondent, and has worked for the magazine for more than twenty years. In Blind Into Baghdad, Fallows take us from the planning of the war through the struggles of reconstruction. With unparalleled access and incisive analysis, he shows us how many of the difficutlites were anticipated by experts whom the Administration ignored. Fallows examines how the war in Iraq undercut the larger “war on terror” and why Iraq still had no army two years after the invasion.

($13.95) Vintage ISBN #0-307-27796-8. Please visit James Fallows’ official web site as well.

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