“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 soon as I file each story, I do one thing before I […]
Booktalk: New 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 blew out his own voice singing in a band. Along the way, he […]
Booktalk: Afropolitan Taiye Selasi, author of “Ghana Must Go”
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 misunderstandings Americans have about Africans and vice versa. This interview originally aired […]
Booktalk: Pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha’s “What The Eyes Don’t See”
Pediatrician and public health advocate Mona Hanna-Attisha, author of “What The Eyes Don’t See. A Story Of Crisis, Resistance, And Hope In An American City,” put the recent lead-tainted public water supply in Flint, Michigan on the national news. […]
Booktalk: Boulder Bike Wizard Lennard Zinn
Boulder Bike Wizard Lennard Zinn and “The Haywire Heart: How Too Much Exercise Can Kill You, And What You Can Do To Protect Your Heart” Lennard, who has been riding and fixing bikes for 50 years, is the author of 8 […]
Booktalk: Will McGrath’s “Everything Lost is Found Again”
Will McGrath, author of Everything Lost is Found Again, tells the story of the twenty months he & his wife spent in Lesotho, a small high-altitude kingdom that is surrounded by South Africa. While his cultural anthropologist wife’s job in AIDS […]
Booktalk: Martin Walker’s “The Body in the Castle Well”
A former foreign correspondent, Martin Walker is the author of The Body in the Castle Well. This is the 12th installment of Walker’s Bruno: Chief of Police series set in the fictional town of St. Denis in the foodie paradise of […]
Booktalk: Patricia McConnell and “The Education of Will”
This week on Booktalk, Diana Korte speaks with zoologist & animal behaviorist Patricia B. McConnell, author of The Education of Will: A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog. McConnell, who describes herself as “stupid in love with dogs”, […]