AOT #17: Will Arntz Podcasts What the Bleep Do We Know!?

Will Arntz, a research physicist and spirtual seeker, and co-creator of the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!?, discusses his book What The Bleep Do We Know!?: Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality.

With the help of more than a dozen research and theoretical scientists, this book takes readers through the looking glass of quantum physics into a universe that is more bizarre and alive than ever imagined. This science leads not just to the material world, but deep into the realm of spirituality, and offers mind stretching questions and details endless possibilities for individual reality.

($26.95) HCI Books ISBN 0-7573-0334-x. Go down the rabbit hole in the official What the Bleep!? web site as well.

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AOT #16: Lemony Snicket Podcasts The Penultimate Peril

Lemony Snicket, the popular and yet mysterious children’s book author, delighted nearly two-thousand people at a special reading and performance from his newest book “A Series of Unfortunate Events #12 – The Penultimate Peril.”

In this book in the series, after any harrowing struggle, it is nice to consider checking into a hotel for a rest. In fact, this might be just the break Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire could use after their wearying deep-sea adventure. A hotel can be a good choice for any family vacation. With so many floors, such a variety of rooms, and a curious array of guests, spending time in the safety of the right hotel can be the perfect learning environment for children of any age. A keen researcher like Klaus, an adept inventor like Violet, and a sharp-toothed culinary master like Sunny are all sure to find engaging diversions during their stay. Regardless of how they pass their time while at a hotel, the three siblings will be sure to take in all the interesting sights and sounds — and write them down — just in case this episode turns out to be the darkest yet in a series of unfortunate events.

This podcast recording is copyright (c) 2005 by Lemony Snicket.

($11.99) HarperCollins AuthorTracker for Lemony Snicket ISBN 0-064-410153. Visit Lemony Snicket’s web site as well.

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AOT #15: Walter Kirn Podcasts from Mission to America

Walter Kirn is a contributing editor to Time magazine, where he was nominated for a National Magazine Award in his first year, and a regular reviewer for the New York Times Book Review. The author of four previous works of fiction, including the novel Up in the Air, Kirn reads from and discusses his new novel Mission to America, a superb story about the collision between the forces of faith and an overstimulated, overfed, spiritually overextended America.

($23.95) Doubleday ISBN 0-385-50764-x. Check out Walter Kirn’s cool new serialized e-book The Unbinding exclusvely on Slate magazine’s web site as well.

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AOT #14: Charles Blackstone Podcasts The Week You Weren’t Here

Charles Blackstone reads from and discusses his debut novel The Week You Weren’t Here, a poignant and wry portrait of a young writer closing in on the last of his undergraduate days. “The Week You Weren’t Here is a witty and inventive deconstruction of a young-man-as-artist’s pursuit of love among a confusion of choices. It’s as if Kafka’s Joseph K had been commissioned to write a Dating for Dummies (the How-Not-To version) in the form of a postmodern novel. This is an auspicious debut.” — author Jonathan Baumbach

($15.00) Low Fidelity Press ISBN 0-9723363-4-6. Visit Charles Blackstone’s web site as well.

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AOT #13: Dan Savage Podcasts from The Commitment

Dan Savage, best-selling author and journalist, whose column "Savage Love," is a nationally-syndicated sex-advice column read by more than four million people each week, discusses and reads from his new book The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage and My Family. There is no hotter issue than gay marriage in the culture-war debate, and Dan Savage takes it on and makes it personal in this rollicking and wickedly funny memoir of coming to terms with sex, marriage, adoption and parenthood.

($23.95) Penguin ISBN 0-525-94907-0. Visit Dan Savage's The Stranger web site as well.

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AOT #12: Clive Barker Podcasts from Visions of Heaven and Hell

Clive Barker, acclaimed author, director and producer, podcasts from his new book, Visions of Heaven and Hell , an unbelievable collection of more than 300 of his most stunning drawings and oil paintings. Illuminated with new writings by Barker, this artwork renders with expressionist fervor some of our most primal passions — good, evil, and all that’s inbetween. “Barker has an unparalleled talent for envisioning other worlds,” Washington Post Book World.

($50.00) Rizzoli ISBN 0-8478-2737-2. Visit Clive Barker’s web site as well.

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AOT #11: Nicholas Evans Podcasts from The Divide

This week we podcast Nicholas Evans, the best-selling author of The Horse Whisperer. Evans reads from and discusses his new novel The Divide. In a journey of discovery and redemption, from the streets of New York to the daunting grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, The Divide delves into the dynamics of a fractured family and their struggle with the pain of lost happiness.

(Please note: the sound is a bit rough in the beginning of this podcast, but gets better after the first few minutes.)

($26.95) Putnam ISBN 0-399-15206-7. Visit Nicholas Evans’ web site as well.

AOT #10: Al Franken Podcasts from The Truth (with Jokes)

This week we podcast podcast Al Franken, comedian, liberal radio talk-show host, and author of the hilarious and insightful book Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. In this podcast, Franken will discuss and read from his follow-up book The Truth (with Jokes). Armed with an arsenal of facts and research (and of course comedy!), Franken takes the fight to the Bush administration and their right-wing cronies. Intelligent, insightful, inspiring and laugh-out-loud funny, Franken’s book is a hard-hitting work of political satire.

($25.95) Dutton ISBN 0-525-94906-2. Visit Al Franken’s web site as well.

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AOT #9: Audrey Niffenegger Podcasts The Three Incestuous Sisters

This week we podcast Audrey Niffenegger, artist and critically accalimed author of the best-selling The Time Traveler’s Wife.

Niffenegger’s wonderful new creation is The Three Incestuous Sisters, an evocative illustrated book reminiscent of the gothic style of Edward Gorey. It is a visually stunning tale — “a novel in pictures” — of three very different sisters, (one smart, one beautiful, one talented) affirming Niffenegger’s genius as a storyteller. The melodrama that follows of sibling rivalry escalates to a dizzying climax of passion, revenge, shame and despair.

($27.95) Abrams ISBN 0-8109-5297-5. Visit Audrey Niffenegger’s sumptuous web site as well.

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AOT #8: Zadie Smith Podcasts On Beauty

Zadie Smith, the critically acclaimed author of White Teeth and The Autograph reads from her new novel On Beauty, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Smith’s very funny third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people’s deceptions.

($25.95) Penguin ISBN 1-59420-063-7. Visit Zadie Smith’s page at the British Council for the Arts web site.

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