AOT #250: Signe Pike Podcasts Faery Tale: One Woman’s Search for Enchantment in a Modern World

Editor and writer Signe Pike reads from and discusses her book Faery Tale: One Woman’s Search for Enchantment in a Modern World. In search of something to believe in once more, Signe Pike left behind a career in Manhattan to undertake a magical journey-literally. In a sweeping tour through Mexico, England, Ireland, Scotland, and beyond, she takes readers to dark glens and abandoned forests, ancient sacred sites, and local pubs, seeking people who might still believe in the elusive beings we call faeries. As Pike attempts to connect with the spirit world-and reconnect with her sense of wonder and purpose-she comes to view both herself and the world around her in a profoundly new light. Captivating, full of heart, and unabashedly whimsical, Faery Tale is more than a memoir-it’s the story of rekindling that spark of belief that makes even the most skeptical among us feel like a child again.

($23.95) Perigee ISBN #978-0-399-53617-5. You can visit Signe Pike’s official web site as well.

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AOT #249: Peter Decker Podcasts Saving the West

Colorado rancher, historian, professor, and journalist Peter Decker reads from and discusses his new book Saving the West. The clash of rural values with those of urban culture serves as the backdrop for Decker’s first novel. This gentle satire is filled with mayhem – telling the story of eastern bankers, industrialists, and philanthropists being pitted against long-time local residents, Indians, and a narrow-gauge train in Durango, Colorado.

($14.95) Western Slope Press ISBN #978-1-887805-32-2.

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AOT #248: Simon Winchester Podcasts Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Acclaimed historian Simon Winchester‘s many books include The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, Krakatoa, and A Crack in the Edge of the World. Winchester discusses his new book Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories. Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue sea’s epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind’s intellectual evolution, telling not only the story of an ocean, but the story of civilization.

($27.99) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-170258-7. You can visit Simon Winchester’s official web site as well.

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AOT #247: Thomas McGuane Podcasts Driving on the Rim

Thomas McGuane, one of America’s most acclaimed literary figures (“an important as well as brilliant novelist”-New York Times Book Review), reads from and discusses his new book Driving on the Rim. This major new novel is a “marvelous book, funny, elegiac, and profound, from a clear-eyed observer of modern life.”-Keir Graff, Booklist, starred review

($26.95) Knopf ISBN #978-1-4000-4155-8. You can visit Thomas McGuane’s official web site as well.

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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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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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