Alphabetical Author Archive
Acevedo, Mario – “Jailbait Zombie” – (AOT #167, June 22, 2009)
Agatston, Arthur M.D., – “The South Beach Heart Program” – (AOT #65, August 6, 2007)
Albright, Madeleine – “Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation & Leadership” – (AOT #93, January 28, 2008)
Alexander, Karl – “Jaclyn the Ripper” – (AOT #195, January 4, 2010)
Ali, Monica – “In the Kitchen” – (AOT #171, July 20, 2009)
Allende, Isabel – “The Sum of Our Days” – (AOT #105, April 21, 2008)
Andersen, Kurt – “Heyday” – (AOT #91, January 14, 2008)
Anderson, Pam – “The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great” – (AOT #103, April 7, 2008)
Arellano, Gustavo – “Orange County: A Personal History” – (AOT #133, October 27, 2008)
Arntz, Will – “What the Bleep Do We Know!?” – (AOT #17, April 4, 2006)
Bacevich, Andrew – “Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War” – (AOT #229, August 30, 2010)
Banks, Russell – “The Reserve” – (AOT #98, March 3, 2008)
Bantock, Nick – “Windflower” – (AOT #60, May 10, 2007)
Barker, Clive – “Visions of Heaven and Hell” – (AOT #12, March 13, 2006)
Barnes, Julian – “Arthur & George” – (AOT #29, July 10, 2006)
Barron, T.A. – “Merlin’s Dragon: Doomraga’s Revenge” – (AOT #197, January 18, 2010)
Barron, T.A. – “The Great Tree of Avalon: The Eternal Flame” – (AOT #53, January 18, 2007)
Barry, Dave – “Money Secrets” – (AOT #28, June 22, 2006)
Beckwith, Elizabeth – “Raising the Perfect Child through Guilt and Manipulation” – (AOT #196, January 11, 2010)
Berendt, John – “The City of Falling Angels” – (AOT #48, November 16, 2006)
Berg, Elizabeth – “Dream When You’re Feeling Blue” – (AOT #71, September 18, 2007)
Berg, Elizabeth – “We Are All Welcome Here” – (AOT #46, November 1, 2006)
Bernstein, Carl – “A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton” – (AOT #84, November 13, 2007)
Black, Benjamin – “The Silver Swan” – (AOT #102, March 31, 2008)
Blackstone, Charles – “The Week You Weren’t Here” – (AOT #14, March 23, 2006)
Bowden, Mark – “The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL” – (AOT #113, June 13, 2008)
Brashares, Ann – “3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows” – (AOT #155, March 30, 2009)
Brice, Carleen – “Children of the Waters” – (AOT #174, August 10, 2009)
Brice, Carleen – “Orange Mint and Honey” – (AOT #99, March 10, 2008)
Brown, Douglas – “Just Do It: How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their Sex Lives for 101 Days (No Excuses!)” – (AOT #130, October 6, 2008)
Browne, Jill Conner – “The Sweet Potato Queens’ Wedding Planner/Divorce Guide” – (AOT #30, July 13, 2006)
Burroughs, Augusten – “Possible Side Effects” – (AOT #45, October 26, 2006)
Burstyn, Ellen – “Lessons in Becoming Myself” – (AOT #47, November 10, 2006)
Bush, Jenna – “Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope” – (AOT #89, December 25, 2007)
Bushnell, Candace – “One Fifth Avenue” – (AOT #134, November 3, 2008)
Byrn, Anne – “What Can I Bring?” – (AOT #95, February 11, 2008)
Crais, Robert – “The First Rule” – (AOT #203, March 1, 2010)
Canedy, Dana – “A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor” – (AOT #160, May 4, 2009)
Cannell, Stephen – “Three Shirt Deal” – (AOT #94, February 4, 2008)
Carr, David – “The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own” – (AOT #125, September 1, 2008)
Carr, Nicholas – “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains” – (AOT #228, August 23, 2010)
Carwile, Mary – “Fear of Flying-Tips and Tales from a Pro” – (AOT #86, November 27, 2007)
Chabon, Michael – “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son” – (AOT #188, November 16, 2009)
Chevalier, Tracy – “Burning Bright” – (AOT #66, August 8, 2007)
Chiaverini, Jennifer – “The Lost Quilter” – (AOT #168, June 29, 2009)
Childs, Craig – “House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the Southwest” – (AOT #70, September 13, 2007)
Chopra, Deepak – “Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment” – (AOT #74, September 28, 2007)
Clarke, Norm – “Vegas Confidential: Sinsational Celebrity Tales” – (AOT #153, March 16, 2009)
Clarke, Susanna – “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” – (AOT #2, January 2, 2006)
Claypool, Les – “South of the Pumphouse” – (AOT #57, March 9, 2007)
Cleave, Chris – “Little Bee” – (AOT #207, March 29, 2010)
Coben, Harlan – “Caught” – (AOT #211, April 26, 2010)
Colfer, Eoin – “And Another Thing…” – (AOT #192, December 14, 2009)
Connelly, Michael – “The Scarecrow” – (AOT #170, July 13, 2009)
Connelly, Michael – “The Lincoln Lawyer” – (AOT #7, February 8, 2006)
Connelly, Michael – “The Overlook” – (AOT #78, October 12, 2007)
Conover, Ted – “The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today” – (AOT #209, April 12, 2010)
Coonts, Stephen – “The Assassin” – (AOT #128, September 22, 2008)
Cronin, Justin – “The Passage” – (AOT #225, August 2, 2010)
Crosley, Slone – “How Did You Get This Number” – (AOT #224, July 26, 2010)
Cross, David – “I Drink for a Reason” – (AOT #185, October 26, 2009)
Cruz Smith, Martin – “Stalin’s Ghost” – (AOT #72, September 21, 2007)
Daily, Lisa – “Fifteen Minutes of Shame” – (AOT #104, April 14, 2008)
Davidson, Sara – “Leap! What Will We Do with the Rest of our Lives?” – (AOT #69, August 30, 2007)
Dewey, William – “Without a Soul to Move” – (AOT #127, September 15, 2008)
Didion, Joan – “The Year of Magical Thinking” – (AOT #19, April 16, 2006)
Doyle, Roddy – “The Dead Republic” – (AOT #214, May 17, 2010)
Dubus III, Andre – “The Garden of Last Days” – (AOT #118, July 14, 2008)
Durrow, Heidi – “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky” – (AOT #208, April 5, 2010)
Eagleman, David – “SUM: 40 Tales from the Afterlives” – (AOT #159, April 27, 2009)
Elliott, Chris – “The Shroud of the Thwacker” – (AOT #24, May 25, 2006)
Ellis, Joseph – “His Excellency: George Washington” – (AOT #26, June 13, 2006)
Ellroy, James – “Blood’s a Rover” – (AOT #191, December 7, 2009)
Enger, Leif – “So Brave, Young, and Handsome” – (AOT #111, May 26, 2008)
Evans, Nicholas – “The Divide” – (AOT #11, March 8, 2006)
Fairstein, Linda – “Death Dance” – (AOT #27, June 18, 2006)
Fallows, James – “Blind Into Baghdad” – (AOT #42, October 5, 2006)
Feiffer, Jules – “Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips 1956-1966″ – (AOT #132, October 20, 2008)
Ferris, Joshua – “The Unnamed” – (AOT #205, March 15, 2010)
Foer, Jonathan Safran – “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” – (AOT #38, September 7, 2006)
Folsom, Allan – “The Machiavelli Covenant” – (AOT #61, June 18, 2007)
Ford, Jamie – “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” – (AOT #163, May 25, 2009)
Franken, Al – “The Truth (with Jokes)” – (AOT #10, February 28, 2006)
Fulghum, Robert – “What On Earth Have I Done? Stories, Observations, and Affirmations” – (AOT #79, October 16, 2007)
Gabaldon, Diana – “An Echo in the Bone” – (AOT #184, October 19, 2009)
Gabaldon, Diana – “Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade” – (AOT #73, September 25, 2007)
Gaiman, Neil – “Anansi Boys” – (AOT #5, January 23, 2006)
George, Elizabeth – “Careless in Red” – (AOT #109, May 19, 2008)
Giovanni, Nikki – “Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship and Hip Hop Speaks to Children ” – (AOT #136, November 17, 2008)
Glass, Julia – “I See You Everywhere” – (AOT #137, November 24, 2008)
Goodman, Allegra – “Intuition” – (AOT #34, August 19, 2006)
Goodman, Allegra – “The Cookbook Collector” – (AOT #226, August 9, 2010)
Gottlieb, Eli – “Now You See Him” – (AOT #97, February 25, 2008)
Grandin, Temple – “Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals” – (AOT #152, March 9, 2009)
Gray, John – “Why Mars and Venus Collide” – (AOT #96, February 18, 2008)
Greenberg, Peter – “Don’t Go There: The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World” – (AOT #147, February 2, 2009)
Greenlaw, Linda – “Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea” – (AOT #222, July 12, 2010)
Grier, Pam – “Foxy: My Life in Three Acts” – (AOT #216, June 1, 2010)
Grogan, John – “Marley & Me” – (AOT #35, August 21, 2006)
Grogan, John – “Longest Trip Home: A Memoir” – (AOT #140, December 15, 2008)
Grossman, Lev – “The Magicians” – (AOT #179, September 14, 2009)
Guerin, Gene – “The Song of Jonah” – (AOT #145, January 19, 2009)
Guterson, David – “The Other” – (AOT #117, July 7, 2008)
Harris, Joanne – “Runemarks” – (AOT #92, January 22, 2008)
Hart, Gary – “God and Caesar in America: An Essay on Religion and Politics” – (AOT #33, August 27, 2006)
Heat-Moon, William Least – “Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey” – (AOT #142, December 29, 2008)
Hedges, Chris – “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America” – (AOT #62, July 12, 2007)
Henderson, William Haywood – “Augusta Locke” – (AOT #40, September 21, 2006)
Henderson, William Haywood – “Native” – (AOT #219, June 21, 2010)
Henry, Michael J. – “No Stranger Than My Own” – (AOT #150, February 23, 2009)
Hiaasen, Carl – “Flush” – (AOT #6, February 3, 2006)
Hicks, Robert – “The Widow Of The South” – (AOT #3, January 10, 2006)
Hodgman, John – “The Areas of My Expertise” – (AOT #31, July 19, 2006)
Hunter, Stephen – “I, Sniper” – (AOT #201, February 15, 2010)
Huston, Allegra – “Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found” – (AOT #161, May 11, 2009)
Iglesias, David – “In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration” – (AOT #121, August 4, 2008)
Isay, Dave – “Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps” – (AOT #213, May 11, 2010)
Johnson, Rachel – “Notting Hell” – (AOT #67, August 15, 2007)
Junger, Sebastian – “War” – (AOT #220, June 28, 2010)
Kamen, Paula – “Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind” – (AOT #90, January 7, 2008)
Kanon, Joseph – “Stardust” – (AOT #187, November 9, 2009)
Keillor, Garrison – “Pontoon” – (AOT #75, October 2, 2007)
Kimball, Christopher – “The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook” – (AOT #190, November 30, 2009)
Kinney, Kathy & Ratzlaff, Cindy – “Queen of Your Own Life” – (AOT #212, May 3, 2010)
Kinsella, Sophie – “Shopaholic and Baby” – (AOT #64, August 1, 2007)
Kirn, Walter – “Mission to America” – (AOT #15, March 27, 2006)
Klosterman, Chuck – “Downtown Owl ” – (AOT #131, October 13, 2008)
Korda, Michael – “Ike” – (AOT #80, October 19, 2007)
Krugman, Paul – “The Conscience of a Liberal” – (AOT #88, December 11, 2007)
Lamb, Wally – “The Hour I First Believed” – (AOT #148, February 9, 2009)
Lamm, Richard – “Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race and Community in America” – (AOT #33, August 27, 2006)
Lamott, Anne – “Plan B” – (AOT #39, September 14, 2006)
Larsen, Reif – “The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet” – (AOT #169, July 6, 2009)
Larson, Erik – “Thunderstruck” – (AOT #54, January 28, 2007)
Lazar, Zachary – “Evening’s Empire” – (AOT #199, February 1, 2010)
Lee, Sandra – “Semi-Homemade Cookbooks” – (AOT #141, December 22, 2008)
Lehrer, Jim – “The Phony Marine” – (AOT #59, April 20, 2007)
Lethem, Jonathan – “Chronic City” – (AOT #193, December 21, 2009)
Lethem, Jonathan – “You Don’t Love Me Yet” – (AOT #68, August 24, 2007)
Lewycka, Marina – “Strawberry Fields” – (AOT #82, October 30, 2007)
Lillien, Lisa – “Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World” – (AOT #122, August 11, 2008)
Lukins, Sheila – “Ten: All the Foods We Love and Ten Recipes for Each” – (AOT #149, February 16, 2009)
Markoe, Merrill – “Nose Down, Eyes Up” – (AOT #154, March 23, 2009)
Mathews, Francine – “The Alibi Club” – (AOT #49, November 21, 2006)
McCourt, Frank – “Teacher Man” – (AOT #20, April 24, 2006)
McGovern, George – “Abraham Lincoln: The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865″ – (AOT #181, September 28, 2009)
McGovern, George – “Social Security and the Golden Age: An Essay on the New American Demographic” – (AOT #33, August 27, 2006)
McGreevey, James – “The Confession” – (AOT #50, December 1, 2006)
Meltzer, Brad – “Heroes for My Son” – (AOT #217, June 7, 2010)
Meltzer, Brad – “The Book of Lies” – (AOT #129, September 29, 2008)
Mitchell, Stephen – “The Second Book of the Tao” – (AOT #166, June 15, 2009)
Moehringer, J.R. – “The Tender Bar” – (AOT #1, December 12, 2005)
Moore, Christopher – “Bite Me” – (AOT #210, April 19, 2010)
Moore, Christopher – “A Dirty Job” – (AOT #37, September 3, 2006)
Moore, Christopher – “Fool” – (AOT #158, April 20, 2009)
Nader, Ralph – “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” – (AOT #186, November 2, 2009)
Naisbitt, John – “Mind Set!” – (AOT #55, February 8, 2007)
Naslund, Sena Jeter – “Abundance” – (AOT #51, December 6, 2006)
Neville, Katherine – “The Fire” – (AOT #146, January 26, 2009)
Niffenegger, Audrey – “Her Fearful Symmetry” – (AOT #202, February 22, 2010)
Niffenegger, Audrey – “The Three Incestuous Sisters” – (AOT #9, February 22, 2006)
Oates, Joyce Carol – “The Gravedigger’s Daughter” – (AOT #77, October 9, 2007)
Obama, Barack – “The Audacity of Hope” – (AOT #52, December 15, 2006)
Oliveira, Robin – “My Name is Mary Sutter” – (AOT #121, August 6, 2010)
Ondaatje, Michael – “Divisadero” – (AOT #76, October 5, 2007)
Oppenheim, Noah – “The Intellectual Devotional: American History” – (AOT #87, December 5, 2007)
Packer, Ann – “Songs Without Words” – (AOT #83, November 7, 2007)
Pelosi, Nancy – “Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters” – (AOT #126, September 8, 2008)
Parrado, Nando – “Miracle in the Andes” – (AOT #44, October 19, 2006)
Petersen, Barry – “Jan’s Story: Love Lost to the Long Goodbye of Alzheimer’s” – (AOT #227, August 16, 2010)
Perkins, John – “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” – (AOT #41, September 30, 2006)
Perlman, Elliot – “The Reasons I Won’t Be Coming” – (AOT #25, June 5, 2006)
Philbrick, Nathaniel – “The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn” – (AOT #218, June 14, 2010)
Picoult, Jodi – “The Tenth Circle” – (AOT #36, August 31, 2006)
Pratchett, Terry – “Making Money” – (AOT #81, October 23, 2007)
Prejean, Sister Helen – “The Death of Innocents” – (AOT #32, July 30, 2006)
Reid, T. R. – “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care” – (AOT #182, October 5, 2009)
Reilly, Rick – “Shanks for Nothing” – (AOT #43, October 12, 2006)
Reilly, Rick – “Sports from Hell: My Search for the World’s Dumbest Competition” – (AOT #215, May 24, 2010)
Richey, Frances – “The Warrior: A Mother’s Story of a Son at War” – (AOT #107, May 5, 2008)
Roach, Mary – “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex” – (AOT #108, May 12, 2008)
Robbins, Liz – “A Race Like No Other: 26.2 Miles Through the Streets of New York” – (AOT #144, January 12, 2009)
Roberts, Monty – “The Horses In My Life” – (AOT #4, January 17, 2006)
Rollins, James – “The Doomsday Key” – (AOT #173, August 3, 2009)
Russo, Richard – “Bridge of Sighs” – (AOT #85, November 20, 2007)
Sachar, Louis – “Holes” – (AOT #139, December 8, 2008)
Sanderson, Brandon – “Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm” – (AOT #194, December 28, 2009)
Savage, Dan – “The Commitment” – (AOT #13, March 17, 2006)
Scala Quinn, Lucinda – “Mad Hungry: Feeding Men & Boys” – (AOT #198, January 25, 2010)
Schwipps, Greg – “What This River Keeps” – (AOT #178, September 8, 2009)
Sedaris, David – “When You Are Engulfed in Flames” – (AOT #116, June 30, 2008)
See, Lisa – “Shanghai Girls” – (AOT #206, March 22, 2010)
Sethi, Ali – “The Wish Maker” – (AOT #172, July 27, 2009)
Schroeder, Alice – “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life” – (AOT #138, December 1, 2008)
Shaara, Jeff – “The Rising Tide” – (AOT #56, March 1, 2007)
Shaara, Jeff – “The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II” – (AOT #115, June 23, 2008)
Sheehan, Jason – “Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen” – (AOT #175, August 17, 2009)
Sheff, David – “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction” – (AOT #157, April 13, 2009)
Sheff, Nic – “Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines” – (AOT #157, April 13, 2009)
Siger, Jeffrey – “Murder in Mykonos” – (AOT #165, June 8, 2009)
Sigler, Scott – “Contagious” – (AOT #151, March 2, 2009)
Sirota, David – “The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington” – (AOT #120, July 28, 2008)
Skyhorse, Brando – “The Madonnas of Echo Park” – (AOT #223, July 19, 2010)
Smiley, Jane – “Ten Days in the Hills” – (AOT #106, April 28, 2008)
Smith, Zadie – “On Beauty” – (AOT #8, February 15, 2006)
Snicket, Lemony – “The Penultimate Peril” – (AOT #16, March 30, 2006)
Sparks, Nicholas – “At First Sight” – (AOT #18, April 10, 2006)
Spence, Gerry – “Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power” – (AOT #58, March 27, 2007)
Stephenson, Neal – “Anathem” – (AOT #135, November 10, 2008)
Steves, Rick – “Europe Through the Back Door 2008″ – (AOT #100, March 17, 2008)
Stewart, Kimberly – “Eating Between the Lines” – (AOT #63, July 27, 2007)
Strauss, Darin – “More Than It Hurts You” – (AOT #119, July 21, 2008)
Stross, Randall – “Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know” – (AOT #143, January 5, 2009)
Suri, Manil – “The Age of Shiva” – (AOT #101, March 24, 2008)
Thorpe, Helen – “Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America” – (AOT #183, October 12, 2009)
Troost, J. Maarten – “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” – (AOT #124, August 25, 2008)
Truss, Lynne – “Talk to the Hand” – (AOT #22, May 8, 2006)
Underwood, Blair – “Before I Got Here” – (AOT #23, May 13, 2006)
Veitch, Kate – “Without a Backward Glance” – (AOT #123, August 19, 2008)
Verghese, Abraham – “Cutting for Stone” – (AOT #164, June 1, 2009)
Waldman, Anne – “Manatee/Humanity” – (AOT #176, August 24, 2009)
Walls, Jeannette – “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel” – (AOT #189, November 23, 2009)
Walls LaNier, Carlotta – “A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School” – (AOT #180, September 21, 2009)
Weil, Andrew M.D. – “Healthy Aging” – (AOT #21, May 1, 2006)
White, Stephen – “The Siege” – (AOT #177, August 31, 2009)
Willis, Connie – “Blackout” – (AOT #204, March 8, 2010)
Winchester, Simon – “The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom” – (AOT #112, June 2, 2008)
Winspear, Jacqueline – “Among the Mad” – (AOT #162, May 18, 2009)
Wroblewski, David – “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” – (AOT #114, June 17, 2008)
Wroblewski, David – “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” – (AOT #200, February 8, 2010)
Yunus, Muhammad – “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism” – (AOT #156, April 6, 2009)



