AOT #140: John Grogan Podcasts The Longest Trip Home

John Grogan, author of the international bestseller Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, reads from and discusses his new book The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir, a book about mortality and grace, spirit and faith, and the powerful love of family. With his trademark blend of humor and pathos that made Marley & Me beloved by millions, Grogan traces the universal journey each of us must take to find our unique place in the world.

($25.95) Morrow ISBN #0-06-171324-4. You can visit John Grogan’s official web site as well.

Listen to John Grogan Podcast Marley & Me.

AOT #139: Louis Sachar Podcasts Holes

Newbery Award-winning author Louis Sachar is the creator of the entertaining Marvin Redpost books as well as the much-loved There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, winner of 17 child-voted state awards. His book Holes, winner of the 1999 Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, is also an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick, an ALA Notable Book, and was made into a major motion picture. Sachar reads from and discusses the 10th anniversary edition of Holes.

($18.00) Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ISBN #978-0-374-33266-2. You can visit Louis Sachar’s official web site as well.

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AOT #138: Alice Schroeder Podcasts The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Alice Schroeder was a noted insurance industry analyst and writer who was a managing director at Morgan Stanley when she first met Warren Buffett. Schroeder discusses her new biography of her friend The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. This is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.”

($30.00) Bantam Dell ISBN #0-553-80509-6. You can visit Alice Schroeder’s official web site as well.

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AOT #137: Julia Glass Podcasts I See You Everywhere

Julia Glass is the critically acclaimed author of Three Junes, which won the National Book Award for Fiction, and The Whole World Over. Glass reads from and discusses her new novel I See You Everywhere. Alive with all the sensual detail and riveting characterization that mark Glass’s previous work, I See You Everywhere is a piercingly candid story of life and death, companionship and sorrow, and the nature of sisterhood itself.

($24.00) Random House ISBN #0-375-42275-7.

AOT #136: Nikki Giovanni Podcasts Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship and Hip Hop Speaks to Children

Nikki Giovanni is a world-renowned poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. She is the author of Rosa, which won a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award, as well many other books for children and adults. Giovanni reads from and discusses her two new books Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship, which offers a glimpse into the unusual friendship between two great American leaders, and Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat.

Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship
($16.95) Henry Holt ISBN #0-8050-8264-6.

Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat
($19.99) Sourcebooks ISBN #978-1-4022-1048-8.

You can visit Nikki Giovanni’s official web site as well.

AOT #135: Neal Stephenson Podcasts Anathem

Neal Stephenson, the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, reads from and discusses his new novel Anathem, a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable-yet strangely inverted-world.

($29.95) William Morrow ISBN #978-0-06-147409-5. You can visit Neal Stephenson’s official web site as well.

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AOT #134: Candace Bushnell Podcasts One Fifth Avenue

Author and journalist Candace Bushnell, creator of Sex and the City, and one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day, reads from and discusses her new novel One Fifth Avenue. Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York’s Gilded Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell’s New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past. But Bushnell is an original, and her novel is so fresh that it reads as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before.

($24.95) Hyperion ISBN #1-40130-161-4. You can visit Candace Bushnell’s official web site as well.

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AOT #133: Gustavo Arellano Podcasts Orange County: A Personal History

Nationally bestselling author and syndicated columnist Gustavo Arellano reads from and discusses his new book Orange County: A Personal History, the hilarious and poignant follow-up to ¡Ask a Mexican!, his critically acclaimed debut. Part personal narrative, part cultural history, Orange County is the outrageous and true story of the man behind the wildly popular and controversial column ¡Ask a Mexican! and the locale that spawned him. It is a tale of growing up in an immigrant enclave in a crime-ridden neighborhood, but also in a promised land, a place that has nourished America’s soul and Gustavo’s family, both in this country and back in Mexico, for a century.

($24.00) Scribner ISBN #1-41654-004-0.

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AOT #132: Jules Feiffer Podcasts Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips 1956-1966

Cartoonist, novelist and playwright Jules Feiffer‘s Pulitzer-winning comic strip has been influencing and entertaining readers for decades. His internationally syndicated cartoon ran for 42 years in the Village Voice, weaving the social, political, and personal into a perceptive, challenging, often hilarious mix. Feiffer discusses his work, including the new book Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips 1956-1966, the first of four volumes collecting Feiffer’s entire run of weekly strips from the Village Voice.

($28.99) Fantagraphics Books ISBN #978-1-56097-835-0. You can visit Jules Feiffer’s official web site as well.

AOT #131: Chuck Klosterman Podcasts Downtown Owl

Chuck Klosterman, the author of Fargo Rock City; Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs; and Killing Yourself To Live, is a columnist for Esquire and has written for GQ, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and others. Klosterman reads from and discusses his debut novel Downtown Owl. Like a colder, Reagan-era version of The Last Picture Show fused with Friday Night Lights, Klosterman’s Downtown Owl is the unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where rural mythology and violent reality are pretty much the same thing. Loaded with detail and unified by a (very real) blizzard, it’s technically about certain people in a certain place at a certain time, but it’s really about a problem: What does it mean to be a normal person? There is no answer, but in Downtown Owl, what matters more is how you ask the question.

($24.00) Scribner ISBN #1-41654-418-6.

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