AOT #120: David Sirota Podcasts The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington

Political organizer and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist David Sirota‘s first book, Hostile Takeover, was a New York Times bestseller. Sirota blogs at credoaction.com/sirota, and his column runs weekly in the Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle Times, as well as in other newspapers. He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future and the founder of the Progressive States Network-both nonpartisan research institutions. Sirota discusses his new book The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington.

($25.95) Crown Publishing Group ISBN #0-307-39563-4. You can visit David Sirota’s official web site as well.

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AOT #119: Darin Strauss Podcasts More Than It Hurts You

Darin Strauss, the acclaimed author of Chang and Eng, discusses his new novel More Than It Hurts You. This literary showstopper is a beautifully realized novel that at its heart is the story of a woman who will risk everything to feel something; a doctor whose diagnosis brings her entire life into question; and a man who suddenly realizes that being a good husband and a good father can no longer comfortably coexist.

“Darin Strauss’s latest is an eviscerating portrayal of contemporary American life, surgical and exact. At turns funny and disturbing, unsparing in its insights yet generous with understanding, More Than It Hurts You is a relentlessly rewarding piece of art.”-Colson Whitehead, author of Apex Hides the Hurt

($24.95) Dutton ISBN #978-0-525-95070-7. You can visit Darin Strauss’s official web site as well.

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AOT #118: Andre Dubus III Podcasts The Garden of Last Days

Andre Dubus III, the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog, reads from and discusses his new novel The Garden of Last Days. This big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel, set in the seamy underside of American life, juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It is filled with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized House of Sand and Fog-and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart

($24.95) W. W. Norton ISBN #0-393-04165-4.

AOT #117: David Guterson Podcasts The Other

David Guterson, the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, reads from and discusses his long-awaited new novel The Other. Riveting and deeply humane, this dazzling new novel is about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life.

($24.95) Random House ISBN #0-307-26315-0.

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AOT #116: David Sedaris Podcasts When You Are Engulfed in Flames

David Sedaris is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Public Radio International’s This American Life, and is the bestselling author of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Barrel Fever. Sedaris reads from and discusses his new book When You Are Engulfed in Flames. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, Sedaris’s sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from “a writer worth treasuring” (Seattle Times).

($25.99) Little, Brown ISBN #0-316-14347-2.

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AOT #115: Jeff Shaara Podcasts The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara, America’s premier author of military historical fiction, reads from and discusses his new book The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II, the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War. Taking us from G.I. to general, this story carries the reader through the war’s most crucial juncture-the invasion that altered the flow of the war, and, ultimately, changed history.

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($28.00) Random House ISBN #0-345-46142-8. You can visit Jeff Shaara’s official web site as well.

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AOT #114: David Wroblewski Podcasts The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Colorado author David Wroblewski reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes create a riveting family saga, a brilliant exploration of the limits of language, and a compulsively readable modern classic. “I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying. I don’t re-read many books, because life is too short. I will be re-reading this one.”-Stephen King

($26.95) Ecco ISBN #978-0-06-137422-7. You can visit David Wroblewski’s official web site as well.

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AOT #113: Mark Bowden Podcasts The Best Game Ever

Mark Bowden, the bestselling author of Black Hawk Down, discusses his new book The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the game, this remarkable story of the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Colts and the Giants-considered by many to be the greatest football game ever played-delivers a brilliant narrative on the game itself, the story behind the key players in that game, and the effect the contest had on the modern game of football and today’s NFL.

($23.00) Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN #0-87113-988-x.

AOT #112: Simon Winchester Podcasts The Man Who Loved China

Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa, discusses his new book The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Winchester brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world’s most technologically advanced country.

($27.95) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-088459-8. You can visit Simon Winchester’s official web site as well.

AOT #111: Leif Enger Podcasts So Brave, Young, and Handsome

Leif Enger, the acclaimed, bestselling author of Peace Like a River, reads from and discusses his new novel So Brave, Young, and Handsome, a touching, nimble, and rugged story of an aging train robber on a quest, and the failed writer who goes with him. With its smooth mix of romanticism and gritty reality, Enger’s novel often recalls the Old West’s greatest cowboy stories. But it is also about an ordinary man’s determination as he risks everything in order to understand what it’s all worth, and follows an unlikely dream in the hope it will lead him back home.

($24.00) Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN #978-0-87113-985-6. You can visit Leif Enger’s official web site as well.

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