AOT #376: Kristopher Jansma Podcasts The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

Kristopher Jansma reads from and discusses his novel The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, an inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe. “Light and airy, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards is a funhouse of a novel about the outsized ambitions of authors and the sneaky power of storytelling. Kristopher Jansma’s debut is a whimsical round-the-world tour that recalls Calvino, Millhauser and The Confidence Man.” – Stewart O’Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster

($26.95) Penguin ISBN # 9780670026005. You can visit Kristopher Jansma‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #375: Dan Schultz Podcasts Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West

Award-winning journalist Dan Schultz, who until recently co-managed the Aspen, Colorado independent bookstore Explore Booksellers, discusses his new book Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West. Evoking Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, Schultz tells the true story of desperado survivalists, a brutal murder, and vigilante justice set against the harsh backdrop of the Colorado wilderness.

($25.99) St. Martin’s ISBN # 9780312681883.

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AOT #374: Marisa Silver Podcasts Mary Coin

Critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver reads from and discusses her new novel Mary Coin. In 1936, in the midst of the Great Depression, photographer Dorothea Lange took a photograph for the Federal Resettlement Program that would become the most iconic image of that unforgettable time in American history. Her subject was Florence Owens Thompson, a thirty-two-year-old Native American and mother of seven, whose arresting face became the defining symbol of American poverty. Mary Coin is a novel inspired by that photograph.

($26.95) Blue Rider Press ISBN # 9780399160707. You can visit Marisa Silver‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #373: Taiye Selasi Podcasts Ghana Must Go

Taiye Selasi reads from and discusses her critically acclaimed debut novel Ghana Must Go. Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku’s death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. Ghana Must Go is their story. Electric, exhilarating, beautifully crafted, Selasi’s book is a testament to the transformative power of unconditional love, from a debut novelist of extraordinary talent.

($25.95) Penguin ISBN # 9781594204494. You can visit Taiye Selasi‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #372: Hugh Howey Podcasts Wool

Former bookseller Hugh Howey reads from and discusses his debut science fiction novel Wool. In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Now, the Silo’s inhabitants are about to learn just how badly their world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper.

“Howey’s Wool is an epic feat of imagination. You will live in this world.” – Justin Cronin, bestselling author of The Passage and The Twelve

($26.00 – Hardcover / $15.00 – Paperback) Simon & Schuster ISBN # 9781476735115 / 9781476733951. You can visit Hugh Howey‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #371: Dan Baum Podcasts Gun Guys: A Road Trip

Colorado author Dan Baum, a former staff writer for The New Yorker, reads from and discusses his new book Gun Guys: A Road Trip. In his book, Baum, both a lifelong gun guy and a Jewish Democrat, grabs his licensed concealed handgun and hits the road to meet some of the 40 percent of Americans who own guns. Written equally for avid shooters and those who would never touch a firearm, Gun Guys is more than a travelogue. It gives a fresh assessment of the heated politics surrounding guns, one that will challenge and inform people on all sides of the issue.

($26.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780307595416. You can visit Dan Baum‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #370: Kent Haruf Podcasts Benediction

Kent Haruf, the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide, reads from and discusses his new novel Benediction, a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, Benediction captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it, including its extinction, as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way. In his new novel, Haruf gives us his most indelible portrait yet of this small town and reveals, with grace and insight, the compassion, the suffering and, above all, the humanity of its inhabitants.

($25.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780307959881.

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AOT #369: David Burstein Podcasts Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World

David Burstein is the founder and executive director of Generation18 and director of the documentary 18 in ’08. A frequent contributor to Fast Company, Burstein has appeared as a commentator on youth and politics for a range of publications and media outlets, including CNN, ABC, NPR, and the New York Times. Burstein discusses his new book Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World.

($25.95) Beacon Press ISBN # 9780807044698. You can visit David Burstein‘s official web site as well.

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AOT #368: Margot Berwin Podcasts Scent of Darkness

Margot Berwin, author of the bestselling debut Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, reads from and discusses her new novel Scent of Darkness. In this eagerly anticipated second novel, Berwin takes readers deep into the bayous of Louisiana, to a world of fortune-tellers, soothsayers, and potent elixirs. Scent of Darkness is a magical, seductive story about the power of scent, and about what happens when a perfume renders a young woman irresistible.

($25.00) Pantheon ISBN # 9780307907523.

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AOT #367: Deb Perelman Podcasts The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

Deb Perelman is a self-taught home cook and photographer; and the creator of SmittenKitchen.com, an award-winning blog with a focus on stepped-up home cooking through unfussy ingredients. Perelman discusses her bestselling new book The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook.

($35.00) Knopf ISBN # 9780307595652. You can visit Deb Perelman‘s official web site as well.

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