Authors On Tour - Live!
Weekly Podcasts of Authors and Their Books, Live From The Tattered Cover Book Store. Authors ranging from Al Franken to Joan Didion read from and discuss their newest books.
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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 ...
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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 Glasss previous work, I ...
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AOT #136: Nikki Giovanni Podcasts Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship and Hip Hop Speaks t...
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: A ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 t ...
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AOT #132: Jules Feiffer Podcasts Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips 1956-1966
Cartoonist, novelist and playwright Jules Feiffers 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 h ...
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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 ...
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AOT #130: Douglas Brown Podcasts Just Do It: How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their S...
Doug Brown, a feature writer for The Denver Post, reads from and discusses his memoir Just Do It: How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their Sex Lives for 101 Days (No Excuses!). Creeping into middle-age and saddled with work deadlines, child-rearing, homemaking, and fourteen years of toge ...
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AOT #129: Brad Meltzer Podcasts The Book of Lies
Brad Meltzer, author of the New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate, reads from and discusses his new novel The Book of Lies, his most thrilling and emotionally powerful novel to date. What does Cain, historys greatest villain, have to do with Superman, the worlds greatest hero? And what do two m ...
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AOT #128: Stephen Coonts Podcasts The Assassin
Bestselling author Stephen Coonts discusses his new thriller The Assassin. Abu Qasim, the ruthless and cunning Al Qaeda leader who nearly succeeded in blowing up a meeting of the G-8 in Paris, has escaped from the grasp of the Americans and is plotting his next move. A small band of powerful men, hi ...
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AOT #127: William Dewey Podcasts Without a Soul to Move
Former Tattered Cover staff member William Dewey reads from and discusses his new novel Without a Soul to Move. In Denver, Colorado, three men are trying, with strange elegance, to extract meaning from their wilting lives: Howie struggles with the demise of a love that was never quite whole to begi ...
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AOT #126: Nancy Pelosi Podcasts Know Your Power: A Message to Americas Daughters
Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House in 2007 after serving twenty years in Congress. She and her husband Paul have been married for forty-five years, and she is the mother of five children and the grandmother of seven. Pelosi speaks with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper about her new book Know You ...
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AOT #125: David Carr Podcasts The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of Hi...
New York Times columnist David Carr reads from and discusses The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. In his book, Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular col ...
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AOT #124: J. Maarten Troost Podcasts Lost on Planet China
J. Maarten Troost is the author of Getting Stoned with Savages and The Sex Lives of Cannibals, and his essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, and the Prague Post. Troost reads from and discusses his new travel tale Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One M ...
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AOT #123: Kate Veitch Podcasts Without a Backward Glance
Australian journalist Kate Veitch reads from and discusses her debut novel Without a Backward Glance, a deeply felt novel of family, choices, and coming to terms with the past. On a stifling Christmas Eve in 1967 the lives of the McDonald childrenDeborah, Robert, James, and Meredithchanged forever. ...
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AOT #122: Lisa Lillien Podcasts Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating ...
Lisa Lillien is not a nutritionist, shes just hungry. She is the founder of www.hungry-girl.com, and close to half a million loyal fans receive her daily emails containing guilt-free recipes, food and product reviews, dieting news, shockers, and more. Lillien will discusses her new book Hungry Girl: ...
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AOT #121: David Iglesias Podcasts In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration
David Iglesias served as United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico from 2001 to 2007. He headed a panel that advised former Attorney General John Ashcroft on border security issues. A former White House Fellow, he is also a captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Iglesias discusses his new boo ...
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AOT #120: David Sirota Podcasts The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring W...
Political organizer and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist David Sirotas 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 newspa ...
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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 q ...
Authors On Tour - Live!
