AOT #120: David Sirota Podcasts The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington

Political organizer and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist David Sirota‘s first book, Hostile Takeover, was a New York Times bestseller. Sirota blogs at credoaction.com/sirota, and his column runs weekly in the Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle Times, as well as in other newspapers. He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future and the founder of the Progressive States Network-both nonpartisan research institutions. Sirota discusses his new book The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington.

($25.95) Crown Publishing Group ISBN #0-307-39563-4. You can visit David Sirota’s official web site as well.

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AOT #119: Darin Strauss Podcasts More Than It Hurts You

Darin Strauss, the acclaimed author of Chang and Eng, discusses his new novel More Than It Hurts You. This literary showstopper is a beautifully realized novel that at its heart is the story of a woman who will risk everything to feel something; a doctor whose diagnosis brings her entire life into question; and a man who suddenly realizes that being a good husband and a good father can no longer comfortably coexist.

“Darin Strauss’s latest is an eviscerating portrayal of contemporary American life, surgical and exact. At turns funny and disturbing, unsparing in its insights yet generous with understanding, More Than It Hurts You is a relentlessly rewarding piece of art.”-Colson Whitehead, author of Apex Hides the Hurt

($24.95) Dutton ISBN #978-0-525-95070-7. You can visit Darin Strauss’s official web site as well.

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AOT #118: Andre Dubus III Podcasts The Garden of Last Days

Andre Dubus III, the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog, reads from and discusses his new novel The Garden of Last Days. This big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel, set in the seamy underside of American life, juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It is filled with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized House of Sand and Fog-and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart

($24.95) W. W. Norton ISBN #0-393-04165-4.

AOT #117: David Guterson Podcasts The Other

David Guterson, the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, reads from and discusses his long-awaited new novel The Other. Riveting and deeply humane, this dazzling new novel is about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life.

($24.95) Random House ISBN #0-307-26315-0.

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