Authors On Tour – Live!

Adam Johnson reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son. In this epic, critically acclaimed tour de force, Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. “An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.”-Pulitzer Prize citation ($15.00) Random House ISBN # 9780812982626. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Temple Grandin is one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. She is a professor at Colorado State University and the author of several best-selling books including Animals Make Us Human and Animals in Translation. Grandin discusses her new book The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, a cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism. ($28.00) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN # 9780547636450. You can visit Temple Grandin‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

The success of Craig Johnson‘s Walt Longmire series that began with The Cold Dish continues to grow after A&E’s hit show Longmire introduced new fans to the Wyoming sheriff. Johnson joins us to read from and discuss his ninth Western mystery, A Serpent’s Tooth, in which Longmire stares down his most dangerous foes yet. ($26.95) Viking ISBN # 9780670026456. You can visit Craig Johnson‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Daniel Smith is the author of Muses, Madmen, and Prophets and a contributor to The Atlantic, New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and Slate. Smith discusses his new book Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety, a stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxiety’s demonic layers, Smith defangs the disorder with great humor and evocatively expresses its self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence. ($16.00) Simon & Schuster ISBN # 9781439177310. You can visit Daniel Smith‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

David Morrell is best known for his 1972 debut novel First Blood, which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. Morrell reads from and dicusses his new mystery Murder as a Fine Art, which recreates gaslit London as a battleground between a literary luminary and a master killer.

Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reads from and discusses his new history Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution, the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution. With passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the revolutionary landscape-geographic and ideological-in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America. ($32.95) Viking ISBN # 9780670025442. You can visit Nathaniel Philbrick‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Joe Hill, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, reads from and discusses his new novel NOS4A2. Disturbing, mesmerizing, and full of twisting thrills, Hill’s phantasmagoric, devilishly playful masterpiece is a terrifying high-octane ride. ($28.99) William Morrow ISBN # 9780062200570. You can visit Joe Hill‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Rory Freedman, the co-author of the New York Times mega-seller Skinny Bitch, discusses her new book Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals. Freedman’s book is an unapologetically sappy “ode” to how animals can enrich our lives, as well as a no holds-barred treatise on how we can better protect them. Just as Skinny Bitch inspired millions to change their diets to improve the lives of factory farm animals, Beg will galvanize readers to return some of the love, trust, and loyalty they receive from their pets, and to change their choices and actions to improve the lives of ALL domestic animals. ($18.00) Running Press ISBN # 9780762449545. You can visit Rory Freedman‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Humorous science writer Mary Roach, author of the bestsellers Stiff and Packing for Mars, reads from and discusses her newest in-depth look at an unlikely subject, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. “Roach’s approach is grounded in science, but the virtuosic author rarely resists a pun, and it’s clear she revels in giving readers a thrill-even if it is a queasy one. Adventurous kids and doctors alike will appreciate this fascinating and sometimes ghastly tour of the gastrointestinal system.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) ($26.95) W.W. Norton ISBN # 9780393081572. You can visit Mary Roach‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Philip Kerr, the bestselling author of Prague Fatale, reads from and discusses A Man Without Breath, a powerful new thriller that returns sardonic Berlin cop Bernie Gunther to the Eastern Front in search of a cunning and savage killer who has left a trail of bloody victims. “The author pulls the reader down into the dark underground of Der Führer’s rabbit hole of totalitarian horror . . . [A Man Without Breath] masterfully explores morality’s shadowy gray edge.”-Kirkus ($26.95) Penguin ISBN # 9780399160790. You can visit Philip Kerr‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

For more than twenty-five years, John Thavis held one of the most fascinating journalistic jobs in the world: reporting on the inner workings of the Vatican. Thavis discusses his timely new book The Vatican Diaries: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Power, Personalities and Politics at the Heart of the Catholic Church, which offers a revealing look at the reign of Pope Benedict, the conclave, the papal election process by the cardinals, and the history of one of the world’s oldest and most mysterious institutions. ($27.95) Viking ISBN # 9780670026715. You can visit John Thavis‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Indira Ganesan reads from and discusses her new novel As Sweet as Honey.”The imaginary Indian coastal island of Pi, where Ganesan has set her previous fiction, works beautifully as the setting for this East Asian homage to To the Lighthouse, both the nostalgic recreation of a lost perfect moment and an exploration into Woolf’s ‘thousand shapes of love.’ The novel is masterful at exploring the difficulty of cultural identity and integration. There’s also a bit of magical realism in the shape of a ghost. But ultimately, this is a novel about the many permutations of both love and family…. The characters’ genuine charm and the girlish, witty energy of the storytelling are irresistible.”-Kirkus (starred review) ($25.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780307960443. You can visit Indira Ganesan‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Kristopher Jansma reads from and discusses his novel The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, an inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe. “Light and airy, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards is a funhouse of a novel about the outsized ambitions of authors and the sneaky power of storytelling. Kristopher Jansma’s debut is a whimsical round-the-world tour that recalls Calvino, Millhauser and The Confidence Man.” – Stewart O’Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster ($26.95) Penguin ISBN # 9780670026005. You can visit Kristopher Jansma‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Award-winning journalist Dan Schultz, who until recently co-managed the Aspen, Colorado independent bookstore Explore Booksellers, discusses his new book Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West. Evoking Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, Schultz tells the true story of desperado survivalists, a brutal murder, and vigilante justice set against the harsh backdrop of the Colorado wilderness. ($25.99) St. Martin’s ISBN # 9780312681883. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver reads from and discusses her new novel Mary Coin. In 1936, in the midst of the Great Depression, photographer Dorothea Lange took a photograph for the Federal Resettlement Program that would become the most iconic image of that unforgettable time in American history. Her subject was Florence Owens Thompson, a thirty-two-year-old Native American and mother of seven, whose arresting face became the defining symbol of American poverty. Mary Coin is a novel inspired by that photograph. ($26.95) Blue Rider Press ISBN # 9780399160707. You can visit Marisa Silver‘s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!