AOT #350: Randall Stross Podcasts The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Most Exclusive School for Startups

Acclaimed journalist Randall Stross discusses his new book The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Most Exclusive School for Startups. Investment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after home for startups in Silicon Valley. Twice a year, it funds dozens of just-founded startups and provides three months of guid­ance from Paul Graham, YC’s impresario and his partners. The Launch Pad is the definitive story of a seismic shift that’s occurred in the business world, in which coding skill trumps employment experience, pairs of undergraduates confidently take on Goliaths, tiny startups working out of an apartment scale fast, and investors fall in love.

($26.95) Penguin ISBN # 9781591845294. You can visit Randall Stross’s official web site as well.

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AOT #349: Justin Cronin Podcasts The Twelve

Justin Cronin is the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Passage, in which he constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Cronin reads from and discusses his new novel The Twelve, the eagerly awaited second book in The Passage trilogy. A heart-stopping thriller rendered with masterful literary skill, Cronin’s new story is a grand and gripping tale of sacrifice and survival.

($28.00) Random House ISBN # 9780345504982. You can visit Justin Cronin’s official web site as well.

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AOT #348: Jess Walter Podcasts Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets, reads from and discusses his new novel Beautiful Ruins, the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962, and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.

($25.99) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780061928123. You can visit Jess Walter’s official web site as well.

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AOT #347: Damien Echols Podcasts Life After Death

Damien Echols was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1993, only to be found innocent upon appeal and released in 2011. Westword journalist Alan Prendergast joins Damien in conversation in honor of his beautifully written memoir Life After Death, “Damien Echols spent eighteen years on death row for murders he did not commit. Somehow, in the depths of his unspeakable nightmare, he found the courage and strength not only to survive, but to grow, to create, to forgive, and to understand. Life After Death is a brilliant, haunting, painful, and uplifting narrative of a hopeless childhood, a wrongful conviction, a brutal incarceration, and the beginning of a new life.”-John Grisham

($26.95) Blue Rider Press ISBN # 9780399160202. You can visit Damien Echols’s official web site as well.

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AOT #346: Matthew Inman Podcasts How To Tell if Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You

Brilliantly whimsical yet oddly informative, The Oatmeal is an entertainment web site full of comics, quizzes, and stories. The site gets more than 5 million unique page views a month; 250,000 blogs and web sites have linked to it. The Oatmeal is written, drawn, and coded by Matthew Inman, a king of all trades when it comes to the Web. Inman discusses his hilarious new collection, How To Tell if Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You.

($14.99) Andrews McMeel ISBN # 9781449410247. You can visit Matthew Inman’s official web site as well.

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AOT #345: Jasper Fforde Podcasts The Last Dragonslayer

Jasper Fforde, the author of the bestselling Thursday Next mysteries and the Nursery Crime books, reads from and discusses his first novel for young readers The Last Dragonslayer. In his witty, effervescent new novel Fforde introduces fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, who runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away. But when visions of the death of the world’s last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer-and Big Magic!

($16.99) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN # 9780547738475. You can visit Jasper Fforde’s official web site as well.

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AOT #344: Will Schwalbe Podcasts The End of Your Life Book Club

Will Schwalbe is the founder and CEO of Cookstr.com. Prior to that, he was editor-in-chief of Hyperion Books and a journalist, writing for such publications as the New York Times and Business Traveller. Schwalbe reads from and signs his new book The End of Your Life Book Club, a memoir about the two years he spent reading and discussing books with his mother as she was dying from pancreatic cancer. Schwalbe’s book is a profoundly moving tale of loss that is also a joyful, and often humorous, celebration of life: Will’s love letter to his mother, and theirs to the printed page.

($25.00) Knopf ISBN # 9780307594037. You can visit Will Schwalbe’s official web site as well.

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AOT #343: Hedrick Smith Podcasts Who Stole the American Dream?

Hedrick Smith is a bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and Emmy Award-winning producer. His books The Russians and The Power Game were critically acclaimed bestsellers and are widely used in college courses today. Smith discusses his important new book Who Stole the American Dream?, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.

($30.00) Random House ISBN # 9781400069668. You can visit Hedrick Smith’s official web site as well.

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AOT #342: Tony La Russa Podcasts One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season

Legendary baseball manager Tony La Russa discusses his new book One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season. In addition to his fifty years in baseball, La Russa, the winner of four Manager of the Year awards-who led his teams to six Pennant wins and three World Series crowns-chronicles the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals’ World Series win, one of the most exciting end-of-season runs in baseball history.

($27.99) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780062207388.

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AOT #341: Stephen Tobolowsky Podcasts The Dangerous Animals Club

Stephen Tobolowsky is a character actor – one of the most prolific screen and stage presences of our time – having appeared in productions that range from Deadwood to Glee, from Mississippi Burning to Groundhog Day. Tobolowsky discusses his new collection of essays and stories The Dangerous Animals Club. “Stephen Tobolowsky has found his true calling as a storyteller. He is candid, insightful, often profound, and very, very funny, especially when he recounts his adventures in show business. By blending sharp memories of his childhood with astute, adult observations of the world around him, he weaves a spell not unlike Jean Shepherd or Garrison Keillor… but he has a voice all his own, and I love it.” – Leonard Maltin, film critic and author

($24.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN # 9781451633153. You can visit Stephen Tobolowsky’s official web site as well.

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