AOT #246: Greg Graffin Podcasts Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God

Most people know Greg Graffin as the lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion, but few know that he also received a Ph.D. from Cornell University and teaches evolution at the University of California at Los Angeles. Graffin discusses his new book Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God, in which he argues that art and science have a deep connection. In this provocative and personal book, Graffin describes his own coming of age as an artist and the formation of his naturalist worldview on questions involving God, science, and human existence. While the battle between religion and science is often displayed in the starkest of terms, Anarchy Evolution provides fresh and nuanced insights into the long-standing debate about atheism and the human condition. It is a book for anyone who has ever wondered if God really exists.

($22.99) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-182850-8.

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AOT #245: Ming Tsai Podcasts Simply Ming One-Pot Meals

Renowned chef Ming Tsai, owner of the award-winning Blue Ginger restaurant, and currently battling on Food Network’s “The Next Iron Chef,” discusses his new cookbook Simply Ming One-Pot Meals. Chef Tsai believes there are four basic needs in everyday cooking today: taste, healthfulness, simplicity, and affordability. So in this groundbreaking cookbook, his first in five years, he tackles all four. Broken down into seven techniques of one-pot cooking-braising, wokking, sautéing, high-temperature cooking, roasting, tossing, and soups-Simply Ming One-Pot Meals offers 80 recipes with Ming’s well-known East-West approach.

($29.95) Kyle Books ISBN #1-906868-36-0. You can visit Ming Tsai’s official web site as well.

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AOT #244: Leslie Marmon Silko Podcasts The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir

Acclaimed Native American poet, memoirist and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko reads from and discusses her new book The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir. Silko’s new book, her first in ten years, combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the world, taking readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran desert in Arizona. The book is Silko’s first extended work of nonfiction, and its ambitious scope, clear prose, and inventive structure are captivating. The Turquoise Ledge will delight loyal fans and new readers alike, and it marks the return of the unique voice and vision of a gifted storyteller.

($25.95) Viking ISBN #978-0-670-02211-3.

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Best of AOT: Michael Chabon Waxes Poetic About Legos

As we polish off the final Thanksgiving leftovers and skate into the heart of the holiday season, we must acknowledge this is a time of year for the children. Thinking back to our own childhood, oftentimes our favorite toys take center stage.

For many, including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, that meant Legos. As he explains in this Best of AOT podcast, he was in for a rude awakening when Legos returned to his life when his oldest daughter began playing with them.

This story, taken from Chabon’s memoir Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, details his internal battle with the evolution of the world’s favorite Scandinavian plastic building blocks.

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This podcast was originally recorded on October 19, 2009.

AOT #243: Nicole Krauss Podcasts Great House

Nicole Krauss, author of the international bestseller The History of Love, reads from and discusses her critically acclaimed new novel Great House, a powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through. “This stunning work showcases Krauss’s consistent talent…. Much like in Krauss’s The History of Love, the sharply etched characters seem at first arbitrarily linked across time and space, but Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review

($24.95) W.W. Norton ISBN #978-0-393-07998-2. You can visit Nicole Krauss’s official web site as well.

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AOT #242: Condoleezza Rice Podcasts Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family

Condoleezza Rice was the sixty-sixth U.S. Secretary of State and the first black woman to hold that office. She was also the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor. She has served as provost of Stanford University and was the Soviet and East European Affairs adviser to the president of the United States during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Secretary Rice discusses her new book Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, her inspiring story of a life of great adversity and great achievement.

($27.00) Crown ISBN #978-0-307-58787-9.

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AOT #241: Christopher Kimball Podcasts Fannie’s Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook

Christopher Kimball, the founder of Cook’s Illustrated magazine, with a paid circulation of 900,000, is also the host of “America’s Test Kitchen” and “Cook’s Country,” the top-rated cooking shows on public television. Kimball discusses his wonderful new book Fannie’s Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook. “Chris’s ‘Fannie’ project is the most ambitious cooking undertaking I’ve ever witnessed outside of a restaurant opening. And as one of the devourers of the ultimate meal, I can tell you it was worth it, at least for me. (I would travel 200 miles for the jellies alone.) But the account of the making of the meal, told here in winning style, is just as impressive: part history and part contemporary journalism, it’s a fascinating story, and absolutely unique.”-Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything

($25.99) Hyperion ISBN #978-1-40132-322-6. You can visit Christopher Kimball’s official web site as well.

You can also listen to Christopher Kimball podcast The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook.

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AOT #240: Sara Gruen Podcasts Ape House

Sara Gruen, the master storyteller behind the bestselling novel Water for Elephants, discusses her wonderful new novel Ape House. “Sara Gruen knows things-she knows them in her mind and in her heart. And, out of what she knows, she has created a true thriller that is addictive from its opening sentence. Devour it to find out what happens next, but also to learn remarkable and moving things about life on this planet. Very, very few novels can change the way you look at the world around you. This one does.”-Robert Goolrick, author of A Reliable Wife

($26.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-385-52321-9. You can visit Sara Gruen’s official web site as well.

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AOT #239: Rita Mae Brown Podcasts A Nose for Justice

Rita Mae Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of the Mrs. Murphy mystery series (which she writes with her tiger cat, Sneaky Pie) and the Sister Jane novels, as well as Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day, Six of One, The Sand Castle, and the memoirs Animal Magnetism and Rita Will. Brown discusses A Nose for Justice, the first in a tail-wagging new series starring Baxter, an urbane wirehaired dachshund. Explosive sabotage and the startling unearthing of a hundred-year-old skeleton on a Nevada ranch offer a thrilling start to this new mystery.

($25.00) Random House ISBN #978-0-345-51181-2. You can visit Rita Mae Brown’s official web site as well.

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AOT #238: Lauren Weisberger Podcasts Last Night at Chateau Marmont

Lauren Weisberger is the author of The Devil Wears Prada, which spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller lists and was made into a feature film staring Meryl Streep. Weisberger reads from and discusses her new novel Last Night at Chateau Marmont, the story of a young marriage caught up in the heady whirlwind of new found fame and fortune.

($25.95) Atria ISBN #978-1-43913-661-4. You can visit Lauren Weisberger’s official web site as well.

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