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Booktalk with Diana Korte
Top authors are interviewed on this 20-minute program about their books and often the story behind the story. Diana has spoken with hundreds of authors from national politicians and scientists to novelists and storytellers of all kinds. Listeners stream from around the world and on many community & public radio stations across the U.S. The show, hosted by Diana and engineered by her husband Gene Korte, has been in production for 30 years. Together they've traveled in, sometimes reporting from…
Episodes
Booktalk with Diana KorteDebut novelist and former book editor Zakiya Dalila Harris’s “The Other Black Girl”
“Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and…
Booktalk with Diana KorteJournalist and film maker Sebastian Junger’s "Freedom"
“The change was immediate. The country opened up west of Harrisburg and suddenly we could drink from streams and build fires without getting caught and sleep…
Booktalk with Diana KorteJory Fleming’s “How to Be Human. An Autistic Man’s Guide to Life”
As a child, Jory Fleming was wracked by uncontrollable tantrums, had no tolerance for people, and couldn’t manage the outside world. Slightly more than a…
Booktalk with Diana KorteNovelist Flynn Berry’s thriller “Northern Spy”
“Tessa, born and raised in Belfast, is a news producer for the BBC. She is also the single mother of a six-month-old son, who she is raising in the shadow of…
Booktalk with Diana KorteDebut Novelist Sanjena Sathian’s “Gold Diggers”
“A floundering second-generation teen growing up in Atlanta’s suburbs, Neil Narayan doesn’t have the same drive as everyone around him. His parents’…
Booktalk with Diana KorteSam Turnbull’s “Fast Easy Cheap Vegan”
“I grew up in a family of foodies, chefs, butchers, and hunters (yes, it’s true). My household had a flock of chickens (both for eggs and for eating), the…
Booktalk with Diana KorteNew York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir’s “Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal”
“In the decade I’ve worked for the New York Times, I’ve reported from terrorist hot spots in West Africa, to wildfire ravaged California, and the globe. And as…
Booktalk with Diana KorteNew Yorker staffer John Colapinto’s "This is the Voice"
New Yorker staff writer John Colapinto is the author of five books and numerous science-linked articles. This is the Voice begins with a story about how he…