AOT #124: J. Maarten Troost Podcasts Lost on Planet China

J. Maarten Troost is the author of Getting Stoned with Savages and The Sex Lives of Cannibals, and his essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, and the Prague Post. Troost reads from and discusses his new travel tale Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid.

($22.95) Broadway ISBN #978-0-7679-2200-5.

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AOT #123: Kate Veitch Podcasts Without a Backward Glance

Australian journalist Kate Veitch reads from and discusses her debut novel Without a Backward Glance, a deeply felt novel of family, choices, and coming to terms with the past. On a stifling Christmas Eve in 1967 the lives of the McDonald children–Deborah, Robert, James, and Meredith–changed forever. Their mother, Rosemarie, told them she was running out to buy some lights for the tree and she never came back. The children were left with their father, and a gnawing question: why had their mother abandoned them? Veitch’s family portrait reveals the joys and sorrows, the complexity and ambiguity of family life, and poignantly probes what it means to love and what it means to leave.

($14.00) Plume ISBN #0-425-28947-5. You can visit Kate Veitch’s official web site as well.

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AOT #122: Lisa Lillien Podcasts Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World

Lisa Lillien is not a nutritionist, she’s just hungry. She is the founder of www.hungry-girl.com, and close to half a million loyal fans receive her daily emails containing guilt-free recipes, food and product reviews, dieting news, shockers, and more. Lillien will discusses her new book Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World. From breakfast ideas and chopped salads to guilt-free junk food and cocktails, Hungry Girl recipes taste great but are low in fat and calories.

($17.95) St. Martin’s ISBN #0-312-37742-8. You can visit Lisa Lillien’s official web site as well.

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AOT #121: David Iglesias Podcasts In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration

David Iglesias served as United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico from 2001 to 2007. He headed a panel that advised former Attorney General John Ashcroft on border security issues. A former White House Fellow, he is also a captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Iglesias discusses his new book In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration. The Bush administration’s drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration’s other political debacles. David Iglesias was one of those federal prosecutors, and now he tells his story.

($25.95) Wiley ISBN #0-470-26197-8.

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