Booktalk

Series produced by Diana Korte

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Top authors are interviewed for this 10-minute program that captures their words about their books and often the story behind the story. Booktalk also airs in a podcast, BOOKTALK WITH DIANA KORTE, and on KGNU in Colorado on most Friday afternoons. The show, hosted by Diana Korte and engineered by Gene Korte, has been in production for over 25 years.

Diana has interviewed hundreds of authors from national politicians and scientists to novelists and storytellers of all kinds. Notable among them are Madeline Albright, Buzz Aldrin, Isabel Allende, Bill Bryson, James Lee Burke, Hillary Clinton, Frank Deford, Ken Follett, Diana Gabaldon, William Gibson, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Al Gore, Sue Grafton, Temple Grandin, Paul Krugman, Daniel J Levitin, David McCullough, Senator George Mitchell, Roger Penrose, Michael Pollan, Karen Pryor, Lisa See, Daniel Silva, Gloria Steinem, Alexander McCall Smith, Amy Tan, Andrew Weil and Don Winslow.


198 Pieces

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Author Adam Johnson, an American obsessed with North Korea
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “The Orphan Master’s Son,” this Stanford University creative writing teacher introduces us to the people of modern-day North Korea. Johnson spe...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
Author of the Wild West -- Mark Lee Gardner
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In "Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape" Mark recounts a famous robbery gone awry for Jesse Ja...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2013
  • Length: 09:46
  • Purchases: 2
Crime novelist Sophie Hannah and "Kind of Cruel"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A crime novelist and poet talks about where in England her books are set, why she chose a hypnotherapist as a character in this novel, "Kind of Cru...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2013
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 1
Crime novelist Neely Tucker and "The Ways of the Dead"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This first in a new mystery series is written by a veteran Washington Post reporter and is based on a true crime, the Princeton Place Murders, that...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
Climate Change Activist Al Gore and "The Future"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Former US Vice President Al Gore is perhaps the best known poster boy for climate change. Both a winner of a Nobel prize along with an Oscar, he ta...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 1
Afropolitan Taiye Selasi and "Ghana Must Go"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This debut novel opens up in west Africa with a death and is a portrait of a modern family. Listen in for Taiye’s timely comments on the biggest m...

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  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 1
Western crime writer CJ Box and “Vicious Circle”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In this 17th book in the Joe Pickett series, the past comes back to haunt Joe who is a Wyoming game warden. His troubles begin in this story when D...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 09:25
Author Anthony Brandt and "The Man Who Ate His Boots"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
What the Prez Reads Every Day: Author Eli Saslow
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Eli, a staff reporter for The Washington Post and author of “Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President,” chronicles the personal stor...

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  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Author David McCullough and "1776"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
The First Comedian in Congress unveils “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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The author has plenty to say about Washington and the day-to-day life of a senator, along with stories about growing up in Minnesota & his years on...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 09:48
Thriller writer Linda Stasi and "The Sixth Station"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Linda’s debut novel is an irreverent religious thriller with lots of controversy that touches on the Vatican, history books and international poli...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Author Michael Korda and "Ike: An American Hero"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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An author many times over and former editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster, a major publishing company, Michael wrote this biography, “Ike: An Americ...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Senator George Mitchell: Peace in the Middle East?
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This American statesman's newest book is "The Negotiator." He knows a thing or two about heated negotiations from his role as Senate majority leade...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Author Susan Orlean and a famous Hollywood dog, "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A dog-loving journalist, Susan brings to life Rin Tin Tin, the orphaned German Shepherd found on a battlefield in Europe who became the most famous...

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  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
Beach-read favorite Dorothea Benton Frank and “The Last Original Wife”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Leslie Anne Greene Carter is the only first wife remaining among her husband’s tight-knit group of friends in Atlanta. The author talks about Lesli...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Author Paul French and "Midnight in Peking"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A UK author who has lived in China for decades tells a true-crime tale of the unsolved murder of a young British girl in 1937 in colonial Peking, a...

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  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Historian Richard Rhodes, author of “John James Audubon: The Making of an American”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 1
Author Andre Dubus III and "Townie"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Although Andre is perhaps best known for his novel, "House of Sand and Fog," this is a memoir about tough times growing up in Massachusetts. This i...

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  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Author Michael Pollan and "Cooked"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Food guy Michael Pollan’s new book is “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.” He is a personable, well-spoken walking encyclopedia of Ameri...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2

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