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Unless 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 AOT: Roger Stone on the “Underbelly of American Politics” first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.

When 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!.

Donald 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!.

Bonnie 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!.

Fernanda 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 on Authors On Tour - Live!.

Brad 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!.

Journalist 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!.

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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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. 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 […] 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 […] The post AOT #527: Douglas Brinkley Podcasts Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.

Colorado 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!.

Bill 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 on Authors On Tour - Live!.

From 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 Marijuana first appeared on Authors On Tour - Live!.

Joyce 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!.

Jeffery 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!.