AOT #92: Joanne Harris Podcasts Runemarks

Joanne Harris, the bestselling author whose adult books include Chocolat and Five Quarters of the Orange, reads from and discusses her new novel for young readers Runemarks. Seven o’clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and...

AOT #91: Kurt Andersen Podcasts Heyday

Kurt Andersen, the co-founder of Spy magazine, and author of the brash and brilliant debut novel Turn of the Century, reads from and discusses the paperback edition of his new novel Heyday. A fresh, impeccable portrait of an era startlingly reminiscent of our own...

AOT #90: Paula Kamen Podcasts Finding Iris Chang

Paula Kamen discusses her new book Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind. Iris Chang’s mysterious suicide in 2004, at age thirty-six, didn’t seem to make any sense. Some even wondered if the controversial author of The...