AOT #40: William Haywood Henderson Podcasts Augusta Locke
September 21, 2006 by Rob
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William Haywood Henderson, reads from and discusses his soaring new novel set in the West, Augusta Locke.
Set primarily in Wyoming, Henderson’s new novel chronicles a woman’s troubled and short-lived relationships with both her mother and her daughter. Redolent with myth, humor, strange landscapes and stark reality, Augusta Locke is an indelible portrait of a woman who, through great spirit and toughness of character, blazes her own trail. Of his previous novel, The Rest of the Earth, Annie Proulx remarked that “Henderson writes some of the most evocative and transcendently beautiful prose in contemporary Ameircan literature.”
($24.95) Viking ISBN #0-670-03491-6. Please visit William Haywood Henderson’s official web site as well.
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AOT #39: Anne Lamott Podcasts Plan B
September 14, 2006 by Rob
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Anne Lamott, bestselling author of Traveling Mercies and six novels including Crooked Little Heart, reads from and discusses the paperback edition of Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.
Filled with Lamott’s trademark wisdom, humor and honesty, Plan B is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times.
($14.00) Penguin ISBN #1-59448-157-1.
AOT #38: Jonathan Safran Foer Podcasts Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
September 7, 2006 by Rob
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Jonathan Safran Foer reads from and discusses his bestelling novel on 9/11, now in paperback, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.
Foer’s novel has been one of the most discussed, acclaimed and debated novels in recent memory. And with good reason — as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted, “Jonathan Safran Foer has done something both masterful and absoluetely necessary: he has written the first great novel about September 11.”
($13.95) Houghton Mifflin ISBN #0-618-71165-1. Please visit Jonathan Safran Foer’s official web site, known as the Project Museum, as well — and explore!
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AOT #37: Christopher Moore Podcasts A Dirty Job
September 3, 2006 by Rob
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Christopher Moore shines his comic light on the toughest of subjects — death and dying — in A Dirty Job.
Moore, the man whose novel Lamb served up Jesus’ “missing years” (with the funny parts left in) and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers’ lives, discusses his new novel — A Dirty Job — and other items of interest ranging from moose in Colorado to the “beta-male” theory. In A Dirty Job, Moore focuses his keen comic eye on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore — death and dying. His novel is hilarious, heartwarming and a hell of a lot of fun.
($24.95) Harper Collins ISBN # 0-06-059027-0. Please visit Christopher Moore’s official web site as well.
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AOT #36: Jodi Picoult Podcasts The Tenth Circle
August 31, 2006 by Rob
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Jodi Picoult reads from and discusses her new novel, The Tenth Circle.
Picoult, the New York Times bestselling author of Vanishing Acts, offers in her new book a powerful chronicle of an American family. The Tenth Circle looks at the delicate moment when a child learns that her parents don’t know all of the answers, and when being a good parent means letting go of your child. It asks whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime or if your mistakes are carried forever – if life is, as in any good comic book, a struggle to control good and evil, or if good and evil control you.
($26) Atria ISBN # 0-7434-9670-1. Please visit Jodi Picoult’s official web site as well.
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AOT #35: John Grogan Podcasts Marley & Me
August 21, 2006 by Rob
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John Grogan reads from and discusses his wildly best-selling Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog.
Award-winning journalist John Grogan writes a heartwarming and unforgettable story about a family in the making, and tells of the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life.
($21.95) Harper Collins ISBN # 0-06-081708-9 Please visit John Grogan’s “Marley & Me” official web site as well.
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AOT #34: Allegra Goodman Podcasts Intuition
August 19, 2006 by Rob
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Allegra Goodman, National Book Award finalist, reads from and discusses her new novel, Intuition.
Set in the high-stakes atmosphere of a prestigious research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Intuition is an intricate mystery and rich human drama that brilliantly explores the complex mixture of workplace intrigue, scientific ardor, and the moral consequences of a rush to judgment. Goodman’s acclaimed previous works inlcude The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls.
($25.00) Dial Press ISBN # 0-385-33612-8. Please visit Allegra Goodman’s official web site as well.
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AOT #33: Gary Hart, George McGovern and Richard Lamm Podcast on Key Social, Political Issues
August 7, 2006 by Rob
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In this special podcast, we feature three of our most thoughtful political leaders – former Senator Gary Hart, former Presidential candidate and Senator George McGovern and former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, each talking about their provocative new book.
As part of its illustrious Speaker’s Corner series, Fulcrum Publishing has released three new books. Former Senator Hart talks about God and Caesar in America: An Essay on Religion and Politics ($9.95 Fulcrum ISBN 1-55591-577-9) as well as another book he has just written on terrorism, Shield and the Cloak ($22.00 Oxford University Press ISBN 10-19-530616-3); former Senator McGovern talks about Social Security and the Golden Age: An Essay on the New American Demographic ($9.95 Fulcrum ISBN 1-55591-589-2); and former Governor Lamm talks about his controversial book, Two Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race and Community in America ($9.95 Fulcrum ISBN 1-55591-585-x).
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AOT #32: Sister Helen Prejean Podcasts The Death of Innocents
July 30, 2006 by Rob
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Sister Helen Prejean, author of the national bestseller Dead Man Walking, discusses and reads from the new paperback edition of her important second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions.
The Death of Innocents is a brave and firecely argued book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we’re executing innocent men? As Sister Prejean recounts several cases of innocent men being executed, and takes us through their terrible last moments, she brilliantly dismantles the legal and religious arguments that have been used to justify the death penalty.
($14.00) Vintage ISBN # 0-679-75948-4.
You can visit Sister Helen Prejean’s official web site as well.
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AOT #31: John Hodgman Podcasts The Areas of My Expertise
July 19, 2006 by Rob
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John Hodgman (accompanied by his personal troubador, Jonathan Coulton), provides a hilarious look into his first book, The Areas of My Expertise, which is a brilliant (and funny) compendium of trivia and wisdom on topics large and small. Make sure you stay tuned for the author’s theme song (performed by Coulton) and the Q&A by walkie talkie, which has to be a podcasting first!
Hodgman lives in NYC where he curates and hosts “The Little Gray Book Lectures,” a monthly colloquium of readings, songs and dubious scholarship. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, a frequent guest on TV shows and a voice on public radio’s This American Life. Hodgman’s book, The Areas of My Expertise, assembles handy reference tables, fascinating trivia and sage widsom, all sifted through the singular, illuminating imagination of John Hodgman (in other words, he made it all up).
($22.00) Penguin ISBN # 0-525-94908-9.
You can visit The Areas of My Expertise official web site or you can also visit Hodgman at his Little Gray Books web site.
And if you liked the music of Hodgman’s personal troubador, Jonathan Coulton, please go to his site where you can hear, subscribe to or buy more wonderful, witty and whimsical songs.
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