AOT #47: Ellen Burstyn Podcasts Lessons in Becoming Myself

Ellen Burstyn, Academy and Tony Award-winning actress, discusses her life and her new memoir, Lessons in Becoming Myself.

In this powerful story of a woman’s search for a deeper understanding of herself, Burstyn explores the unexpected paths her life has taken in this unflinchingly honest, moving and inspirational memoir. For this podcast, Burstyn is interviewed by television critic-at-large and author, Greg Moody.

($25.95) Riverhead ISBN # 1-59448-929-7. You can visit Ellen Burstyn’s web site as well.

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AOT #46: Elizabeth Berg Podcasts We Are All Welcome Here

Elizabeth Berg, the New York Times bestselling author, reads from and discusses her new novel, We Are All Welcome Here.

In this novel, set during the summer of 1964 in Tupelo, Mississippi, Berg, who has a rare talent for revealing her characters’ hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely, tells the stories of three women – each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom.

($22.95) Random House ISBN # 1-40006-161-x. You can visit Elizabeth Berg’s web site as well.

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AOT #45: Augusten Burroughs Podcasts Possible Side Effects

Augusten Burroughs, bestselling author of Running with Scissors, Dry and Magical Thinking, reads from — no, performs from — his new collection of stories, Possible Side Effects.

Burroughs, who has been named one of the 15 funniest people in America by Entertainment Weekly, has written another highly entertaining and provocative book based on his wild personal life. Possible Side Effects is a collection of true, and mostly-true, stories that Burroughs uses to enlighten his readers on the concept of cause and effect, all told in his amusing and anecdotal style.

($23.95) St. Martin’s Press ISBN # 0-3123-1596-1. You can visit Augusten Burrough’s raucous official web site as well.

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AOT #44: Nando Parrado Podcasts Miracle in the Andes

Nando Parrado survived 72 days in the Andes mountains after a plane, carrying him and his rugby teammates, crashed into the wintery mountains. Miracle in the Andes is his story, told for the first time since the accident 34 years ago.

In 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes. Nando Parrado, one of the survivors of the crash, tells his story in Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, and for the first time discusses how and why he survived. Piers Paul Read wrote, “Given up for dead after an air crash…Parrado not only survived but showed the strength and determination that saved his own life and that of his fifteen friends. Now he gives his own account of his ordeal — enthralling, enlightening, modest and moving. An impressive testimony to what love can achieve.”

($25.00) Crown ISBN #1-40009-767-3. You can visit Nando Parrado’s official web site as well.

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AOT #43 – Rick Reilly Podcasts Shanks for Nothing

Rick Reilly reads from and discusses his hilarious new novel, Shanks for Nothing, while riffing on anything else that comes to mind.

Bestselling author Rick Reilly, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, has been voted National Sportswriter of the Year ten times. Reilly discusses, rants and reads from his new book Shanks for Nothing, the hilarious sequel to his beloved golf novel, Missing Links.

($24.95) Doubleday ISBN #0-385-50111-0. If you want to read Rick’s columns at SI, please visit Life of Reilly as well.

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AOT #42: James Fallows Podcasts Blind Into Baghdad

James Fallows reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his provocative book, Blind Into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq.

American Book Award-winning author James Fallows is The Atlantic Monthly’s national correspondent, and has worked for the magazine for more than twenty years. In Blind Into Baghdad, Fallows take us from the planning of the war through the struggles of reconstruction. With unparalleled access and incisive analysis, he shows us how many of the difficutlites were anticipated by experts whom the Administration ignored. Fallows examines how the war in Iraq undercut the larger “war on terror” and why Iraq still had no army two years after the invasion.

($13.95) Vintage ISBN #0-307-27796-8. Please visit James Fallows’ official web site as well.

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AOT #41: John Perkins Podcasts Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins discusses and reads from the new paperback edition of his internationally bestselling and controversial book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

Perkins’ story is an in-depth look at one man’s experiences inside the intrigue, greed, corruption and little-known government and corporate activities that America has been involved in since World War II, and which have dire consequences for the future of democracy and the world.

($15.00) Penguin ISBN #0-452-28708-1. Please visit John Perkins’ official web site as well.

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AOT #40: William Haywood Henderson Podcasts Augusta Locke

William Haywood Henderson, reads from and discusses his soaring new novel set in the West, Augusta Locke.

Set primarily in Wyoming, Henderson’s new novel chronicles a woman’s troubled and short-lived relationships with both her mother and her daughter. Redolent with myth, humor, strange landscapes and stark reality, Augusta Locke is an indelible portrait of a woman who, through great spirit and toughness of character, blazes her own trail. Of his previous novel, The Rest of the Earth, Annie Proulx remarked that “Henderson writes some of the most evocative and transcendently beautiful prose in contemporary Ameircan literature.”

($24.95) Viking ISBN #0-670-03491-6. Please visit William Haywood Henderson’s official web site as well.

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AOT #39: Anne Lamott Podcasts Plan B

Anne Lamott, bestselling author of Traveling Mercies and six novels including Crooked Little Heart, reads from and discusses the paperback edition of Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.

Filled with Lamott’s trademark wisdom, humor and honesty, Plan B is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.

($14.00) Penguin ISBN #1-59448-157-1.

AOT #38: Jonathan Safran Foer Podcasts Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer reads from and discusses his bestelling novel on 9/11, now in paperback, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.

Foer’s novel has been one of the most discussed, acclaimed and debated novels in recent memory. And with good reason — as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted, “Jonathan Safran Foer has done something both masterful and absoluetely necessary: he has written the first great novel about September 11.”

($13.95) Houghton Mifflin ISBN #0-618-71165-1. Please visit Jonathan Safran Foer’s official web site, known as the Project Museum, as well — and explore!

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