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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Booktalk: New Yorker staffer John Colapinto’s "This is the Voice"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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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 a...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 09:58
Booktalk: Novelist Sanjena Sathian's "Gold Diggers"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“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...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 08:46
Booktalk: Journalist Sarah Maslin Nir’s “Horse Crazy"
From: Diana Korte
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“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 g...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 08:42
Booktalk: Sam Turnbull’s “Fast Easy Cheap Vegan”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“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 eatin...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 09:50
Booktalk: Novelist Flynn Berry’s “Northern Spy”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Flynn Berry’s third thriller, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, is “Northern Spy.” It's a thriller about the contemporary IRA, and two sisters who find the...

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 09:56
Booktalk: Jory Fleming’s “How to Be Human. An Autistic Man’s Guide to Life”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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As a child, Jory Fleming was wracked by uncontrollable tantrums, had no tolerance for people, and couldn’t manage the outside world. Slightly more ...

  • Added: May 21, 2021
  • Length: 09:57
Booktalk: Journalist and Film Maker Sebastian Junger’s “Freedom”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“The change was immediate. The country opened up west of Harrisburg and suddenly we could drink from streams and build fires without getting caught...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2021
  • Length: 09:17
Booktalk: Boulder historian Silvia Pettem’s “Cold Case Chronicles. Mysteries, Murders & The Missing”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“Cold Case Chronicles” tells the stories of victims – some missing, some murdered and some with changed identities. All are true, and each are myst...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 09:54
Booktalk: Novelist Hilma Wolitzer’s “Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now ninety-one years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best f...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 09:54
Novelist Alex Michaelides’s “The Maidens”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2021
  • Length: 09:59
Zakiya Dalila Harris’s “The Other Black Girl”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Zakiya Dalila Harris’ debut novel, "The Other Black Girl," takes readers into the corporate world of publishing where few people of color are empl...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2021
  • Length: 09:53
Did you ever misplace your keys? Forget someone's name? I've got good news for you.
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Neurologist Scott Small, author of “Forgetting. The Benefits of Not Remembering,” is an expert on the memory losses of old age and Alzheimer’s dis...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2021
  • Length: 09:51
  • Purchases: 1
Ever wonder why some parents don’t get their kids vaccinated? How reliable are childhood and Covid-19 vaccines anyway? Tune in…
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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It's not often that a book published five years ago is more pertinent today. But University of Colorado Denver Professor Jennifer Reich’s “Calling...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 09:53
Art Crime Fighter and Historian Noah Charney's "The Devil in the Gallery. How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Made the Art World”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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"The Devil in the Gallery” is a lavishly illustrated book, the latest of more than a dozen books by Noah Charney. It’s a guided tour of the history...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 09:30
“Gastro Obscura A Food Adventurer’s Guide” by World Traveler Dylan Thuras
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Dylan Thuras is co-author of "Gastro Obscura A Food Adventurer’s Guide," a book with 500 entries that span all seven continents and fifty states. C...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 09:49
Magician Joshua Jay’s “How Magicians Think. Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This book, “How Magicians Think. Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters,” is my love letter to magic,” says Jay, ”and it answers the questi...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 09:51
Historian Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Travels with George. In Search of Washington and His Legacy”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Bestselling, award-winning historian Nathaniel Philbrick's "Travels with George" is a blended account of two road trips separated by about 230 year...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 08:47
Need a little pandemic-times cheering up? Todd Doughty’s “Little Pieces of Hope. Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World” is for you.
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Prompted by the onset of Covid, Doughty has created a book that is a charming collection of lists, musings, prompts, and illustrations—from the ext...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 09:35
Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“Cloud Cuckoo Land” takes readers on a 600-year epic journey. There are three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable ci...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 10:20
Could a world war happen again? British novelist Ken Follett asks that question in NEVER
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Prolific (36 books) storyteller Ken Follett, author of the contemporary thriller NEVER, says, “When I was doing the research for “Fall of Giants” I...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 09:36

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