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.


197 Pieces

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"THE STEAL. The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It," co-authored by Mark Bowden, concentrates in week-by-week, sta...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Bob Shea has written and illustrated over a dozen children's picture books. His newest is the award-winning “CHEZ BOB,” a story about a lazy yellow...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2022
  • Length: 09:55
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Brit Bennett’s “THE VANISHING HALF”, like her first title, “The Mothers,” has been a smash hit in the world of books. ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 09:48
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ANGELS OF THE PACIFIC by Elise Hooper (her fourth novel) tells the powerful story of American Army and Navy nurses kept as prisoners for nearly thr...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 09:36
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In WAYS & MEANS. Lincoln and his Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, author Roger Lowenstein not only spells out how each side in very diff...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 10:26
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After dozens of travel guidebooks under his belt, Brandon Presser’s newest title is THE FAR LAND: 200 YEARS OF MURDER, MANIA, AND MUTINY IN THE SOU...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 08:50
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Colorado-based Paul Holes, author of UNMASKED, specializes in cold case and serial predator crimes. He began his career in the Contra Costa County ...

  • Added: May 06, 2022
  • Length: 09:52
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As this book begins V.I. is on her way home from an all-night surveillance job in Chicago and is led by her dogs on a mad chase that ends when they...

  • Added: May 20, 2022
  • Length: 10:14
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“I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.” Bill McKibben is an educator, en...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 09:53
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David Gergen has been a White House adviser to four presidents (Nixon, Ford, Reagan & Clinton) of different parties, CNN senior political analyst, ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 09:54
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Colorado-based Mark Lee Gardner’s ninth book, THE EARTH IS ALL THAT LASTS, is a dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legend...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2022
  • Length: 09:39
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Ryan Busse, author of “GUNFIGHT. My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America” is a proud gun owner, sportsman, environmentalist, and co...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2022
  • Length: 11:03
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With INVISIBLE STORM Jason Kander has written the book he himself needed in his darkest moments of PTSD. After Afghanistan, his day job was politic...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 10:01
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An American retired judge of the Superior Court of California, LaDoris Hazzard Cordell was also the first black female judge in the northern part o...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2022
  • Length: 09:21
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Kimberly Garza’s debut novel explores modern, diverse south Texas. She takes readers to the salty aired streets of Galveston where a tight-knit co...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2022
  • Length: 09:52
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Patricia Schultz of “1000 Places to See Before You Die” fame has authored a different kind of book this time. “WHY WE TRAVEL: 100 Reasons to Get Up...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 10:25
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Richard Osman is an author, a well-known television personality and comedian in the UK. His newest book is THE BULLET THAT MISSED in the popular “T...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 10:51
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RIVER OF THE GODS by bestselling historian Candice Millard is her fourth book. Known for her meticulously researched work, her newest book is an ad...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 10:08
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“I feel lucky to do what I do. I write about real people, often by living their lives for a while—visiting their lives, you might say. Trying them ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 08:47
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LONGPATH by futurist Ari Wallach is about a mindset that looks at a future where new ways aren’t quite here yet and the old ways don’t work anymor...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 10:13