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 #164: Abraham Verghese Podcasts Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, the author of The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book, and My Own Country, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, discusses his first novel Cutting for Stone. This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel is an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and pati …
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AOT #163: Jamie Ford Podcasts Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Cards Literary Boot Camp. Ford reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. A tender and satisfying novel se …
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AOT #162: Jacqueline Winspear Podcasts Among the Mad
New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear reads from and discusses Among the Mad, her thrilling new mystery in which Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale. In Among the Mad, Winspear combines a heart-stopping story with a rich evocation of a f …
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AOT #161: Allegra Huston Podcasts Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found
Allegra Huston reads from and discusses her fascinating memoir Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found. When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon after, she was introduced to her father, the legendary film director John Huston. Then, at the age of twelv …
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AOT #160: Dana Canedy Podcasts A Journal for Jordan
Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and journalist Dana Canedy reads from and discusses A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor. In 2005, Canedys husband, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, began to write a journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed on …
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AOT #159: David Eagleman Podcasts SUM: 40 Tales from the Afterlives
Neuroscientist David Eagleman currently runs a research lab where he studies time perception, synesthesia, and how neuroscience will influence the legal system. At night he writes fiction. Eagleman reads from and discusses his new collection SUM: 40 Tales from the Afterlives, a dazzling exploration …
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AOT #158: Christopher Moore Podcasts Fool
Christopher Moore, whose bitingly witty and fantastical tales include the bestsellers Lamb, A Dirty Job, and You Suck, reads from and discusses his hilarious and raunchy new novel Fool. Taking on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect), Moores story is a twiste …
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AOT #157: David and Nic Sheff Podcast Beautiful Boy and Tweak
This father and son event offers a unique look at one familys struggle with drug addiction from two very different points of view. Author and journalist David Sheff discusses the new paperback edition of his bestselling book Beautiful Boy: A Fathers Journey Through His Sons Addiction, his fiercely c …
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AOT #156: Muhammad Yunus Podcasts Creating a World Without Poverty
Muhammad Yunus, a native of Bangladesh, was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University, and in 1972 he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, a pi …
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AOT #155: Ann Brashares Podcasts 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows
Ann Brashares, author of the phenomenally bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, reads from and discusses her new novel for younger readers 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows. Meet the new sisterhood, Polly, Jo, and Ama, spending their summers growing in ways they never imagined! ($18. …
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AOT #154: Merrill Markoe Podcasts Nose Down, Eyes Up
Merrill Markoe, the Emmy Award-winning writer and creator of Stupid Pet Tricks, reads from and discusses Nose Down, Eyes Up, her second fun-loving doggie novel, following Walking in Circles Before Lying Down. In this hilarious new story, Markoe offers uncanny insight into the bonds between hounds an …
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AOT #153: Norm Clarke Podcasts Vegas Confidential: Sinsational Celebrity Tales
Norm Clarke, the Las Vegas Review-Journals award-winning columnist, has spent years at the epicenter of Vegas sizzling celebrity scene writing his widely read Vegas Confidential column. Clarke reads from and discusses his second book Vegas Confidential: Sinsational Celebrity Tales, which offers an i …
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AOT #152: Temple Grandin Podcasts Animals Make Us Human
In her groundbreaking and bestselling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Grandin discusses her new book Animals Make Us …
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AOT #151: Scott Sigler Podcasts Contagious
Scott Siglers fiction podcasts have drawn a huge and devoted following, and his serialized stories have held the number one position in all the podcast indexes, including iTunes. Scotts first hardcover release, Infected, was translated into a dozen languages and is being adapted for film by Random H …
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AOT #150: Michael J. Henry Podcasts No Stranger Than My Own
The Lighthouse Writers join us in presenting poet Michael J. Henry, reading from and discussing his new collection No Stranger Than My Own. Michael Henrys poems are a skilled, luminous negotiation with the surfaces of life and the shapes of memory. A supple writer, equally at home in elegiac as he i …
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AOT #149: Sheila Lukins Podcasts Ten: All the Foods We Love and Ten Recipes for Each
Sheila Lukins is one of Americas best-known and best-loved food writers. She was cofounder of The Silver Palate take-out shop, which inspired a series of cookbooks and food products that changed the way we eat, and she is currently the food editor of Parade magazine. Lukins discusses her wonderful n …
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AOT #148: Wally Lamb Podcasts The Hour I First Believed
Wally Lamb, whose first two novels, Shes Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were both national bestsellers, reads from and discusses The Hour I First Believed. In this new novel, Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching …
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AOT #147: Peter Greenberg Podcasts Don’t Go There - The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the M …
Peter Greenberg is the travel editor for NBCs Today Show and America Online. Considered the nations preeminent expert on travel, his bestselling books include The Travel Detective, Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, The Travelers Diet, and The Complete Travel Detective Bible. Greenberg discuss …
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AOT #147: Peter Greenberg Podcasts Don’t Go There: The Travel Detective’s Essential Guide to the Mu …
Peter Greenberg is the travel editor for NBCs Today Show and America Online. Considered the nations preeminent expert on travel, his bestselling books include The Travel Detective, Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, The Travelers Diet, and The Complete Travel Detective Bible. Greenberg discuss …
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AOT #146: Katherine Neville Podcasts The Fire
Bestselling author Katherine Neville reads from and discusses her long anticipated new book The Fire. Nevilles groundbreaking novel The Eight dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Char …
Authors On Tour - Live!
