AOT #443: Anne Waldman & Laura Wright Podcast Cross Worlds, Eleni Sikelianos Podcasts You Animal Machine

Editor Anne Waldman is the author of more than forty collections of poetry, the editor of numerous anthologies, and, for The Iovis Trilogy, the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award and the USA PEN Center Award for Poetry. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Waldman reads from and discusses Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology, along with poet and translator Laura Wright, who co-edited the collection.

($18.95) Coffee House Press ISBN # 978-1-56689-358-9. You can visit Anne Waldman‘s official web site as well.

Eleni Sikelianos is the author of six previous books of poetry, most recently Body Clock and The California Poem; the hybrid memoir, The Book of Jon; and a translation of Jacques Roubaud’s Exchanges on Light. Sikelianos reads from and discusses You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek), a memoir of Melena, five-times married, mother, burlesque dancer, and “the hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.”

($18.95) Coffee House Press ISBN # 978-1-56689-360-2.

AOT #442: James Rollins Podcasts The 6th Extinction

New York Times bestselling thriller writer James Rollins discusses his new book The 6th Extinction: A SIGMA Force Novel. From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date: stopping the coming extinction of mankind.

($27.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780061784811. You can visit James Rollins‘s official web site as well.

AOT #441: Spencer Quinn Podcasts Paw and Order

Stephen King has called Chet “a canine Sam Spade full of joie de vivre,” and Robert B. Parker dubbed Spencer Quinn‘s writing “major league prose.” Listen to Quinn as he reads from and discusses his new book Paw and Order: A Chet and Bernie Mystery. In the seventh book in this brilliant bestselling mystery series, canine narrator Chet and P.I. Bernie journey to Washington, DC, and the dog-eat-dog world of our nation’s capital.

($25.00) Atria ISBN # 9781476703398. You can visit Spencer Quinn‘s official web site as well.

AOT #440: Deborah Harkness Podcasts The Book of Life

Deborah Harkness reads from and discusses The Book of Life, the highly anticipated finale to her New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Discovery of Witches. After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies.

($28.95) Viking ISBN # 9780670025596. You can visit Deborah Harkness‘s official web site as well.

AOT #439: Carrie La Seur Podcasts The Home Place

Carrie La Seur, an energy and environmental lawyer in Billings, Montana, reads from and discusses her remarkable debut novel The Home Place. A mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of The House Girl and A Land More Kind Than Home, The Home Place follows a successful lawyer as she is pulled back into her troubled family’s life in rural Montana in the wake of her sister’s death.

($25.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780062323446. You can visit Carrie La Seur‘s official web site as well.

AOT #438: Mira Jacob Podcasts The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing

Mira Jacob reads from and discusses her critically-acclaimed debut novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. Spanning India in the 1970s to New Mexico in the ’80s to Seattle in the ’90s, Jacob’s story is a winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past. “The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing seizes the reader early and never lets go. Its electricities reside in Mira Jacob’s acute details and the sadness, anger, and humor of her characters. This novel tells many wonderful stories while also telling, beautifully, the story that counts the most.” — Sam Lipsyte, author of The Fun Parts

($26.00) Random House ISBN # 9780812994780. You can visit Mira Jacob‘s official web site as well.

AOT #437: L.A. Campbell Podcasts Cartboy Goes to Camp

L.A. Campbell, author of the bestselling middle grade novel Cartboy and the Time Capsule, reads from and discusses her new book, Cartboy Goes to Camp. Filled with photos, drawings, and timelines, Hal’s (a.k.a. Cartboy) journal chronicles his hilarious adventures at Camp Jamestown — where nothing has changed in 400 years.

($12.99) Starscape ISBN # 9780765333278. You can visit L.A. Campbell‘s official web site as well.

AOT #436: C.J. Box Podcasts Shots Fired

C. J. Box, the New York Times-bestselling author of the Joe Pickett novels, reads from and discusses his new book Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country, a thrilling book of suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so well-and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there.

($26.95) Putnam ISBN # 9780399158582. You can visit C.J. Box‘s official web site as well.

AOT #435: Brad Thor Podcasts Act of War

Bestselling author Brad Thor reads from and discusses Act of War, his most frightening and pulse-pounding thriller to date. With the United States facing an imminent and devastating attack, America’s new president must turn to covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath to help carry out two of the most dangerous operations in the country’s history. Code-named “Gold Dust” and “Blackbird,” they are shrouded in absolute secrecy as either of them, if discovered, will constitute an act of war.

($27.99) Atria ISBN # 9781476717128. You can visit Brad Thor‘s official web site as well.

AOT #434: Aaron Gwyn Podcasts Wynne’s War

Aaron Gwyn is the author of a story collection Dog on the Cross (finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award), and a novel The World Beneath. His short stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, McSweeney’s, Glimmer Train, and other publications. Gwyn reads from and discusses his new novel of Iraq, Wynne’s War. Based on the author’s extensive interviews with Green Berets, Army Rangers, and other veterans, this taut page-turner brilliantly fuses the war novel and the Western into a compellingly original tale.

($25.00) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN # 9780544230279. You can visit Aaron Gwyn‘s official web site as well.

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