AOT #180: Carlotta Walls LaNier Podcasts A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School

When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America. Carlotta Walls LaNier will discuss and sign her remarkable memoir A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School, which includes a forward by President Bill Clinton. Complete with compelling photographs of the time, A Mighty Long Way shines a light on this watershed moment in civil rights history and shows that determination, fortitude, and the ability to change the world are not exclusive to a few special people but are inherent within us all.

($26.00) Ballantine ISBN #978-0-345-51100-3.

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AOT #179: Lev Grossman Podcasts The Magicians

Lev Grossman, the book critic for Time magazine, and author of the bestselling novel Codex, reads from and discusses his new novel The Magicians, a thrilling and original coming-of-age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world. At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.

($25.95) Viking ISBN #978-0-670-02055-3. You can visit Lev Grossman’s official web site as well.

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AOT #178: Greg Schwipps Podcasts What This River Keeps

Greg Schwipps reads from and discusses his debut novel What This River Keeps. “What This River Keeps bears comparison to the best work of Steinbeck–in this case we’re given the vivid portrayal of the common working men and women of rural Indiana juxtaposed against great forces, without pity or hope, but without true defeat, though they may well lose all in the end. Schwipps also gives us, in full measure, the ancient father and son story, reinvented and made new; the complications of family; the friendship between men; the long tested love between married people; the discovery of the responsibilities of love; the love and care of the land; the love of a river; the keen life of the outdoors; the close attention to the earth in its seasons and myriad variousness. This is a very fine first novel. I read it compelled and fascinated to the last word.” –Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong

($19.95) Ghost Road Press ISBN #978-0-9816525-5-9.

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AOT #177: Stephen White Podcasts The Siege

Colorado author Stephen White–author of over a dozen New York Times bestsellers–reads from and discusses his new thriller, The Siege. White’s Alan Gregory novels are beloved by both fans and critics–the most recent, Dead Time, was a USA Today and Book Sense bestseller. In The Siege, Gregory’s longtime friend Sam Purdy takes center stage in a story that feels ripped from tomorrow’s headlines. From the first page on, readers need to be buckled in for a nonstop ride full of terror and pathos.

($25.95) Dutton ISBN #0-525-95122-9. You can visit Stephen White’s official web site as well.

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AOT #176: Anne Waldman Podcasts Manatee/Humanity

Internationally renowned poet Anne Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she still teaches. Waldman reads from and discusses her new work Manatee/Humanity. This new investigative hybrid-poem explores the nuances of inter-species communication and compassion. It draws on animal lore, animal encounters (with grey wolf and manatee), dreams, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and Buddhist ritual to render a text of remarkable sympathy, reciprocity, and power.

($18.00) Penguin ISBN #978-0-14-311521-2.

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AOT #175: Jason Sheehan Podcasts Cooking Dirty

Jason Sheehan, the food writer for Denver’s Westword, won a James Beard Award in 2003. His essay “There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Barbecue” was reprinted in the book This I Believe, and his work has appeared in Best American Food Writing for the past five years. Sheehan reads from and discusses his new memoir Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, his rollicking account of life “on the line” in the restaurants, far from culinary school, cable TV, and the Michelin Guide-where most of us eat out most of the time. It takes the kitchen memoir to a rough and reckless place.

($26.00) Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN #978-0-374-28921-8.

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AOT #174: Carleen Brice Podcasts Children of the Waters

Colorado author and former Tattered Cover staff member Carleen Brice was recently named 2008 “Breakout Author of the Year” by The African American Literary Awards Show for her debut novel Orange Mint and Honey, which was also a selection of the Essence Book Club. Brice reads from and discusses her second novel Children of the Waters. “I was exhausted and singing the blues the hour I began Carleen Brice’s new novel, Children of the Waters. Five hours later, I’d finished this fresh, free-rein novel about mothers’ secrets and children’s sorrows and was shouting ‘Hurray!'” – Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean

($14.00) Random House ISBN #0-345-49907-7. You can visit Carleen Brice’s official web site as well.

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AOT #173: James Rollins Podcasts The Doomsday Key

James Rollins, the New York Times bestselling master of nail-biting suspense and historical mystery, discusses his new thriller The Doomsday Key. Combining cutting-edge biotechnology with a centuries-old secret, Rollins has created an apocalyptic story that reveals where humankind is truly headed.

($27.95) HarperCollins ISBN #0-06-123140-1. You can visit James Rollins’s official web site as well.

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AOT #172: Ali Sethi Podcasts The Wish Maker

Ali Sethi reads from and discusses his debut novel The Wish Maker, a sweeping story of love, friendship, and family ties that brings to life the turbulent world of modern Pakistan.

“The Wish Maker, in Ali Sethi’s mature and sure-handed prose, is an engaging family saga, an absorbing coming-of-age story, and an illuminating look at one of the world’s most turbulent regions. Ali Sethi steadfastly resists the usual clichés about both Islam and his native country. Instead, he offers a nuanced, often humorous, and always novel look at life in modern day Pakistan.”–Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

($25.95) Putnam ISBN #978-1-59448-875-7. You can visit Ali Sethi’s official web site as well.

AOT #171: Monica Ali Podcasts In the Kitchen

British author Monica Ali, whose novel Brick Lane was nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, reads from and discusses her follow-up novel In the Kitchen. Readers and reviewers have been stunned by the breadth of humanity in Monica Ali’s fiction. She is compared to Dickens and called one of three British novelists who are “the voice of a generation” by Time magazine. In the Kitchen is utterly contemporary, yet has all the drama and heartbreak of a great nineteenth-century novel

($27.00) Scribner ISBN #978-1-4165-7168-1.

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