AOT #230: Mona Simpson Podcasts My Hollywood

Mona Simpson, the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Anywhere but Here and A Regular Guy, reads from and discusses My Hollywood, her first novel in ten years. This tender, witty, and resonant book tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood.

($26.95) Knopf ISBN #978-0-307-27352-9. You can visit Mona Simpson’s official web site as well.

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AOT #229: Andrew Bacevich Podcasts Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War

Andrew Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of colonel. He is the author of The Limits of Power and The New American Militarism, and his writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Bacevich discusses his important new book Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, a critical examination of the Washington consensus on national security and why it must change.

($24.00) Metropolitan Books ISBN #978-0-8050-9141-0. You can visit Andrew Bacevich’s official web site as well.

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AOT #228: Nicholas Carr Podcasts The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Nicholas Carr, the best-selling author of The Big Switch, reads from and discusses his new book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, his explosive look at technology’s effect on the mind. “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? In The Shallows, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published.

($26.95) W.W. Norton ISBN #978-0-393-07222-8. You can visit Nicholas Carr’s official web site as well.

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AOT #227: Barry Petersen Podcasts Jan’s Story: Love Lost to the Long Goodbye of Alzheimer’s

Acclaimed CBS News reporter Barry Petersen discusses his memoir Jan’s Story: Love Lost to the Long Goodbye of Alzheimer’s. “I thought I knew my long time CBS News colleague Barry Petersen, one of the best and most admired reporters in the business, through his unforgettable coverage of important events in far away places all over the world. Now in Jan’s Story he uses all his writing and reporting skills to tell the story of what happened to shatter his own world, and how Alzheimer’s Disease slowly and cruelly robbed his lovely wife Jan of her memory, and both of them of the most precious things in life.”-Charles Osgood, anchor, CBS News Sunday Morning

($15.95) Behler Publications ISBN #978-1-933016-44-3. You can visit Barry Petersen’s official web site as well.

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AOT #226: Allegra Goodman Podcasts The Cookbook Collector

Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Goodman reads from and discusses her eagerly anticipated new novel The Cookbook Collector, in which she weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment. Bicoastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can’t find what we’re looking for: reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.

($25.00) Dial Press ISBN #978-0-385-34085-4. You can visit Allegra Goodman’s official web site as well.

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AOT #225: Justin Cronin Podcasts The Passage

Award-winning author Justin Cronin reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed novel The Passage. In his book, Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.

($26.00) Ballantine ISBN #978-0-345-50496. You can visit Justin Cronin’s official web site as well.

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AOT #224: Sloane Crosley Podcasts How Did You Get This Number

Sloane Crosley, the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There’d Be Cake, reads from and discusses her new book of personal essays How Did You Get This Number. In Crosley’s first book, readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley’s life in New York City and to a literary voice that mixed Dorothy Parker with David Sedaris and became something all its own. In her new book, her voice is still fueled by the perfect witticism, buoyant optimism, flair for drama, and easy charm, but it has also become increasingly sophisticated, quicker and sharper to the point, more complex and lasting in the emotions it explores. And yet, Crosley remains the unfailingly hilarious young Everywoman, healthily equipped with intelligence and poise to fend off any potential mundanity in maturity.

($24.95) Riverhead ISBN #978-1-59448-759-0. You can visit Sloane Crosley’s official web site as well.

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AOT #223: Brando Skyhorse Podcasts The Madonnas of Echo Park

Brando Skyhorse reads from and discusses his debut novel The Madonnas of Echo Park, which takes us into the unseen world of Los Angeles, following the men and women who cook the meals, clean the homes, and struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. Like the Academy Award-winning film Crash, The Madonnas of Echo Park follows the intersections of its characters and cultures in Los Angeles. In the footsteps of Junot Díaz and Sherman Alexie, Brando Skyhorse in his first novel gives voice to one neighborhood in Los Angeles with an astonishing- and unforgettable-lyrical power.

($23.00) Free Press ISBN #978-1-4391-7080-9. You can visit Brando Skyhorse’s official web site as well.

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AOT #222: Linda Greenlaw Podcasts Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea

Linda Greenlaw hadn’t been bluewater fishing for ten years–not since the events chronicled in the books The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger and her memoir The Hungry Ocean–but when her lobster traps aren’t paying off, her truck is on its last gasp, and the bills are piling up, she decides to take a friend up on his offer and captain a boat for a season of swordfishing. Greenlaw discusses her new memoir Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea, which captures the moment-by-moment details of her journey. Greenlaw tells a story about human nature and the nature around us, about learning what can be controlled and when to let fate step in. Seaworthy is a compelling narrative about a person setting her own terms and finding her true self between land and water.

($25.95) Viking ISBN #978-0-670-02192-5. You can visit Linda Greenlaw’s official web site as well.

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AOT #221: Robin Oliveira Podcasts My Name is Mary Sutter

Robin Oliveira reads from and discusses her debut novel My Name is Mary Sutter, an enthralling historical novel about a young woman’s struggle to become a doctor during the Civil War. In this stunning first novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine-and eager to run away from a recent heartbreak-Mary leaves home and travels to Washington, D.C. to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded. Rich with historical detail, and full of the tragedies and challenges of wartime, My Name Is Mary Sutter is an exceptional novel. And in Mary herself, Oliveira has created a truly unforgettable heroine whose unwavering determination and vulnerability will resonate with readers everywhere.

($26.95) Penguin ISBN #978-0-670-02167-3. You can visit Robin Oliveira’s official web site as well.

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