Authors On Tour – Live!
31 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsWeekly 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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Best of AOT: Roger Stone on the “Underbelly of American Politics”
March 04, 2019 18:56 - 31 minutes - 14.4 MBUnless you live under a rock, you know the name Roger Stone. But before his name was synonymous with Robert Mueller, WikiLeaks and Donald Trump, Stone was best known as a Washington, D.C. insider and political "dirty trickster." When Stone visited the Tattered Cover back in 2014, there was no mention of hacked emails or Hillary Clinton. On that day, his targets were John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and John Dean, the former White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon. The post Best of ...
After Love Leaves by Michelle Alstead
March 28, 2017 17:34 - 5 minutes - 2.63 MBWhen Brad Sorenson crossed paths with Zoe O’Loughlin at a high school graduation party, the connection was undeniable. He noticed her when no one else did; she inspired him to want more out of life. But it would be years before they’d meet again…and in the most unlikely of places. Brad was looking for a […] The post After Love Leaves by Michelle Alstead first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #539: Donald Ray Pollock Podcasts The Heavenly Table
August 01, 2016 16:13 - 39 minutes - 18.1 MBDonald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, brings us a dark, gritty, and electrifying new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. The Heavenly Table tells the story of two hardworking men, Pearl Jewett and Ellsworth Fiddler, whose paths collide on a surprising, unforgettable, and […] The post AOT #539: Donald Ray Pollock Podcasts The Heavenly Table first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #538: Bonnie Nadzam Podcasts Lions
July 26, 2016 14:52 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MBBonnie Nadzam is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning novel Lamb, and now she returns with Lions. Set on the high plains of Colorado, a young couple find their love and – and everything they know to be true – threatened by the arrival of an unwelcome stranger. A story of awakening, Lions is […] The post AOT #538: Bonnie Nadzam Podcasts Lions first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #537: Fernanda Santos Podcasts The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting
July 21, 2016 22:17 - 50 minutes - 23 MBFernanda Santos covers Arizona and New Mexico as the Phoenix bureau chief for The New York Times. Santos reads from and discusses her book The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting about one of the deadliest fires in American history and the twenty […] The post AOT #537: Fernanda Santos Podcasts The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting first appeared...
AOT #536: Brad Thor Podcasts Foreign Agent
July 11, 2016 15:12 - 25 minutes - 11.7 MBBrad Thor is the New York Times bestselling author of Full Black (one of Suspense Magazine‘s best political thrillers of 2011), Foreign Influence (one of Suspense Magazine‘s best political thrillers of 2010), The Last Patriot (nominated best thriller of the year by the International Thriller Writers Association), Blowback (recognized as one of the Top 100 […] The post AOT #536: Brad Thor Podcasts Foreign Agent first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #535: Amy Haimerl Podcasts Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home
July 05, 2016 16:58 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBJournalist Amy Haimerl and her husband were priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decided to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for $35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy. Haimerl discusses Detroit Hustle: A Memoir […] The post AOT #535: Amy Haimerl Podcasts Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #534: Elizabeth Church Podcasts The Atomic Weight of Love
June 27, 2016 15:14 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBLawyer and debut author Elizabeth Church was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Her father, a research chemist, was drafted out of Carnegie Mellon University, and was sent to join other scientists working in secret on the Manhattan Project. Church’s mother, a biologist, eventually joined her husband in Los Alamos. Church discusses her sweeping, beautiful […] The post AOT #534: Elizabeth Church Podcasts The Atomic Weight of Love first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #533: Matteson Perry Podcasts Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch
June 20, 2016 19:26 - 25 minutes - 11.9 MBColorado native Matteson Perry is a screenwriter, performer, two-time winner of the Moth GrandSlam storytelling championship, and the host of the monthly Moth StorySlam in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, McSweeney’s, College Humor, and other publications, and his work has been featured on NPR and Funny or Die. Perry […] The post AOT #533: Matteson Perry Podcasts Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #532: Gina Wohlsdorf Podcasts Security
June 13, 2016 14:51 - 17 minutes - 8.13 MBDenver author Gina Wohlsdorf reads from and discusses her chilling, pulse-racing debut thriller Security. Riveting to the final sentence, Security is fierce, wry, and impossible to put down. With a deep bow to the literary tradition of Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Daphne du Maurier, Wohlsdorf’s razor-wire prose blitzes readers with quick twists, sharp […] The post AOT #532: Gina Wohlsdorf Podcasts Security first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #531: Governor John Hickenlooper Podcasts The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics
June 09, 2016 15:13 - 20 minutes - 9.5 MBJohn Hickenlooper was inaugurated as the governor of Colorado in 2011. The first professional geologist to become a governor in the history of the nation and the first brewer since Sam Adams in 1792, he previously served as mayor of Denver, an administration for which Time magazine named him one of the five top big-city […] The post AOT #531: Governor John Hickenlooper Podcasts The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #530: J. Kael Weston Podcasts The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
May 30, 2016 06:01 - 52 minutes - 24.1 MBJ. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working for the U.S. State Department in some of the most dangerous frontline locations. Upon his return home, while traveling the country to pay respect to the dead and wounded, he began to ask himself many questions about the costs and legacies […] The post AOT #530: J. Kael Weston Podcasts The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #529: Anna Newell Jones Podcasts The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living
May 27, 2016 16:37 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MBAnna Newell Jones, creator of the popular blog AndThenWeSaved.com, reads from and discusses her helpful, timely new guidebook The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living: How a Spending Fast Helped Me Get from Broke to Badass in Record Time. ($16.99) Morrow ISBN # 9780062367181. You can visit Anna Newell Jones‘s official web site as well. The post AOT #529: Anna Newell Jones Podcasts The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #528: Ken Ilgunas Podcasts Trespassing Across America
May 20, 2016 21:17 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MBKen Ilgunas, author of the frank and witty memoir about living in a van to save costs while attending grad school Walden on Wheels, reads from and discusses his new personal adventure story Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland. Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Trespassing […] The post AOT #528: Ken Ilgunas Podcasts Trespassing Across America first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #527: Douglas Brinkley Podcasts Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
May 09, 2016 18:11 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MBMultiple award-winning author Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University, the CNN Presidential Historian, a member of the Society of American Historians and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Audubon. Brinkley discusses his critically acclaimed new history Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land […] The post AOT #527: Douglas Brinkley Podcasts Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America first a...
AOT #526: Paolo Bacigalupi Podcasts The Water Knife
May 02, 2016 14:00 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBColorado author Paolo Bacigalupi, the New York Times bestselling author of The Windup Girl and a National Book Award finalist, reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his critically acclaimed novel The Water Knife. “A fresh cautionary tale classic, depicting an America newly shaped by scarcity of our most vital resource. The pages […] The post AOT #526: Paolo Bacigalupi Podcasts The Water Knife first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #525: Governor Bill Ritter Podcasts Powering Forward: What Everyone Should Know about America’s Energy Revolution
April 25, 2016 13:51Bill Ritter, Jr., the 41st governor of Colorado and one of America’s key thought leaders on sustainable energy, reads from and discusses his new book Powering Forward: What Everyone Should Know about America’s Energy Revolution, which is written in partnership with the Center for a New Energy Economy. A historic energy revolution is underway in […]
AOT #525: Governor Bill Ritter Podcasts Powering Forward: What Everyone Should Know about America’s Energy Revolution
April 25, 2016 13:51 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBBill Ritter, Jr., the 41st governor of Colorado and one of America’s key thought leaders on sustainable energy, reads from and discusses his new book Powering Forward: What Everyone Should Know about America’s Energy Revolution, which is written in partnership with the Center for a New Energy Economy. A historic energy revolution is underway in […] The post AOT #525: Governor Bill Ritter Podcasts Powering Forward: What Everyone Should Know about America’s Energy Revolution first appeared ...
AOT #524: David Schmader Podcasts Weed: The User’s Guide: A 21st Century Handbook for Enjoying Marijuana
April 19, 2016 19:13 - 21 minutes - 9.85 MBFrom 1999-2014, David Schmader served as associate editor at Seattle’s Pulitzer-winning news weekly the Stranger, writing the column “Last Days: The Week in Review.” In 2015, Schmader became creative director of the award-winning nonprofit writing center the Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas, where he also serves as writer-in-residence. Schmader reads from and discusses his […] The post AOT #524: David Schmader Podcasts Weed: The User’s Guide: A 21st Century Handbook for Enjoying Mar...
AOT #523: Joyce Maynard Podcasts Under the Influence
April 13, 2016 15:26 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBJoyce Maynard, the New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her, reads from and discusses her new novel Under the Influence. This provocative, complex, and relentlessly gripping novel contains a story about emotional seduction and betrayal, asking: Where do the boundaries of friendship lie? And at what point does generosity become a […] The post AOT #523: Joyce Maynard Podcasts Under the Influence first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #522: Jeffery Deaver Podcasts The Steel Kiss
April 04, 2016 16:25 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBJeffery Deaver, the international bestselling author of more than twenty-seven suspense novels, including The Bone Collector, which was made into a film starring Denzel Washington, discusses The Steel Kiss. In this new blockbuster thriller, forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme, and his colleague Amelia Sachs find themselves up against one of their most formidable opponents ever: a […] The post AOT #522: Jeffery Deaver Podcasts The Steel Kiss first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #521: Len Vlahos Podcasts Scar Girl
March 28, 2016 15:12 - 26 minutes - 12.4 MBTattered Cover co-owner, former punk-rocker, and young adult author Len Vlahos performs and discusses his new novel Scar Girl, the sequel to his bestselling debut novel The Scar Boys. Love, music, and heartbreak take the stage in this critically-acclaimed second novel. Told as an interview with the band after they reach the pinnacle of success, […] The post AOT #521: Len Vlahos Podcasts Scar Girl first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #520: Randy Henderson Podcasts Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free
March 21, 2016 13:56 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MBRandy Henderson is a first-place winner of Writers of the Future, a Clarion West graduate, and a member of SFWA and Codex. His short fiction has appeared in places like Penumbra, Escape Pod, and Realms of Fantasy, as well as several anthologies. Henderson reads from and discusses his second novel Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free: […] The post AOT #520: Randy Henderson Podcasts Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #519: Colten Moore Podcasts Catching the Sky
March 14, 2016 17:03 - 17 minutes - 8.09 MBX-Games champion snowmobile racer Colten Moore reads from and discusses his memoir Catching the Sky, a transcendent story about risk and the pursuit of happiness, family, and the bond between brothers. In this vivid, page-turning narrative, Moore offers a profound and deeply moving perspective on his life and that of his brother, the late Caleb […] The post AOT #519: Colten Moore Podcasts Catching the Sky first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #518: Greg Jobin-Leeds Podcasts When We Fight, We Win
March 07, 2016 14:50 - 39 minutes - 17.9 MBLongtime social activist Greg Jobin-Leeds discusses the new collection When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World. Same-sex marriage, #BlackLivesMatter, the DREAM Act, the People’s Climate March, End the New Jim Crow, Occupy Wall Street, the fight for a $15 minimum wage – these are just a […] The post AOT #518: Greg Jobin-Leeds Podcasts When We Fight, We Win first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #517: Tom LaMarr Podcasts Geezer Dad
February 29, 2016 16:56 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MBColorado writer Tom LaMarr, author of the novels October Revolution and Hallelujah City, reads from and discusses his memoir Geezer Dad. The median age for starting a family has climbed, and Tom LaMarr is the reason. The Geezer Dad author was nearly 48 when he met his daughter, which makes him even older now. The […] The post AOT #517: Tom LaMarr Podcasts Geezer Dad first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #516: Stewart O’Nan Podcasts West of Sunset
February 22, 2016 17:13 - 41 minutes - 19.2 MBStewart O’Nan‘s award-winning fiction includes Snow Angels, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, Emily, Alone, and The Odds, which was hailed by The Boston Globe as a gorgeous fable, a stunning meditation and a hope-filled Valentine. O’Nan reads from and discusses the new paperback edition of his bestselling novel West of […] The post AOT #516: Stewart O’Nan Podcasts West of Sunset first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #515: Amy Cuddy Podcasts Presence
February 16, 2016 23:50 - 1 hour - 28.9 MBAmy Cuddy is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School who studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments affect people. Her research has been published in top academic journals and covered by NPR, New York Times, Wired, Fast Company, and more. Cuddy has been named a Game Changer by Time, one of 50 Women […] The post AOT #515: Amy Cuddy Podcasts Presence first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #514: Juan Thompson Podcasts Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson
February 08, 2016 16:01 - 57 minutes - 26.6 MBDenver author Juan Thompson, who grew up in Woody Creek, Colorado with his father, Hunter S. Thompson, reads from and discusses his new memoir Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson. “A tender but tough tale of growing up as the son of the fearsome, charismatic and unrestrained writer, Hunter S. Thompson. […] The post AOT #514: Juan Thompson Podcasts Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #513: Chris Bohjalian Podcasts The Guest Room
February 02, 2016 19:02 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBChris Bohjalian, the New York Times bestselling author whose books include Midwives (an Oprah Book Club pick), and The Sandcastle Girls, reads from and discusses his new novel The Guest Room. “A good man’s momentary moral lapse plunges his happy, prosperous life into a nightmare of murderous gangsters and remorseless sex traffickers. Bohjalian’s deftness as […] The post AOT #513: Chris Bohjalian Podcasts The Guest Room first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.
AOT #512: Adam Makos Podcasts Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
January 25, 2016 15:33 - 56 minutes - 26 MBAdam Makos discusses his new book Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice, an unforgettable tale of courage from America’s forgotten war in Korea. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom Hudner passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi, Jesse Brown became […] The post AOT #512: Adam Makos Podcasts Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice first appeared on Authors On Tou...