Authors On Tour – Live!

Lawyer 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 novel The Atomic Weight of Love, the story of many of the women who sacrificed their careers so that their husbands could pursue unique opportunities in scientific research. TaraShea Nesbit, author of The Wives of Los Alamos, joins Elizabeth in conversation about their unique backgrounds and books. ($25.95) Algonquin ISBN # 9781616204846. You can visit Elizabeth Church‘s official web site as well. The post AOT #534: Elizabeth Church Podcasts The Atomic Weight of Love first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!. The post AOT #534: Elizabeth Church Podcasts The Atomic Weight of Love first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.

Colorado 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 discusses his hilarious new book Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch, a real-life romantic comedy about an unexpected break-up, one self-imposed year of being single, and how a nice guy survived dating in the twenty-first century. ($24.99) Scribner ISBN # 9781501101434. You can visit Matteson Perry‘s official web site as well.

Colorado 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 discusses his hilarious new book Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch, a real-life romantic comedy about an unexpected break-up, one self-imposed year of being single, and how a nice guy survived dating in the twenty-first century. ($24.99) Scribner ISBN # 9781501101434. You can visit Matteson Perry‘s official web site as well. The post AOT #533: Matteson Perry Podcasts Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!. The post AOT #533: Matteson Perry Podcasts Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.

Denver 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 turns, and gasp-inducing terror. ($25.95) Algonquin ISBN # 9781616205621. You can visit Gina Wohlsdorf‘s official web site as well.

Denver 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 turns, and gasp-inducing terror. ($25.95) Algonquin ISBN # 9781616205621. You can visit Gina Wohlsdorf‘s official web site as well. The post AOT #532: Gina Wohlsdorf Podcasts Security first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!. The post AOT #532: Gina Wohlsdorf Podcasts Security first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.

John 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 mayors in America. He chairs the National Governor’s Association and was named one of Esquire‘s “Americans of the Year 2012.” Governor Hickenlooper reads from and discusses his new memoir The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer & Politics, his candid, and very funny story, from early loss to college on the ten-year plan, to remarkable business and political success. ($30.00) Penguin Press ISBN # 9781101981672. You can visit Governor John Hickenlooper‘s official web site as well.

John 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 mayors in America. He chairs the National Governor’s Association and was named one of Esquire‘s “Americans of the Year 2012.” Governor Hickenlooper reads from and discusses his new memoir The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer & Politics, his candid, and very funny story, from early loss to college on the ten-year plan, to remarkable business and political success. ($30.00) Penguin Press ISBN # 9781101981672. You can visit Governor John Hickenlooper‘s official web site as well. 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!. 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!.

J. 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 of the wars. Weston discusses The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan, his powerfully written firsthand account of the human costs of conflict. ($28.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780385351126. You can visit J. Kael Weston‘s official web site as well.

J. 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 of the wars. Weston discusses The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan, his powerfully written firsthand account of the human costs of conflict. ($28.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780385351126. You can visit J. Kael Weston‘s official web site as well. 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!. 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!.

Anna 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.

Anna 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!. The post AOT #529: Anna Newell Jones Podcasts The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.

Ken 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 Across America is both a fascinating account of one man’s remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves both physically and mentally. ($27.00) Blue Rider Press ISBN # 9780399175480. You can visit Ken Ilgunas‘s official web site as well.

Ken 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 Across America is both a fascinating account of one man’s remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves both physically and mentally. ($27.00) Blue Rider Press ISBN # 9780399175480. You can visit Ken Ilgunas‘s official web site as well. The post AOT #528: Ken Ilgunas Podcasts Trespassing Across America first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!. The post AOT #528: Ken Ilgunas Podcasts Trespassing Across America first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.

Multiple 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 of America. In his book The Wilderness Warrior, Brinkley celebrated Theodore Roosevelt’s spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision to protect 234 million acres of wild America. Now, in Rightful Heritage, he turns his attention to another indefatigable environmental leader, Theodore’s distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to chronicle his essential yet undersung legacy as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the premier protector of America’s public lands. ($35.00) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780062089236. You can visit Douglas Brinkley‘s official web site as well. The post AOT #527: Douglas Brinkley Podcasts Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!. The post AOT #527: Douglas Brinkley Podcasts Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.

Multiple 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 of America. In his book The Wilderness Warrior, Brinkley celebrated Theodore Roosevelt’s spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision to protect 234 million acres of wild America. Now, in Rightful Heritage, he turns his attention to another indefatigable environmental leader, Theodore’s distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to chronicle his essential yet undersung legacy as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the premier protector of America’s public lands. ($35.00) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780062089236. You can visit Douglas Brinkley‘s official web site as well.