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 […]
Booktalk: Ella Morton, co-author of “Atlas Obscura”
Booktalk: Ella Morton, co-author of “Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide To The World’s Hidden Wonders” Dear Explorers, this is not your usual travel guide. Ella describes […]
Booktalk: Historian Hampton Sides’ “On Desperate Ground”
Hampton Sides’ sixth book is On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle. He gives an account of the extraordinary feats […]
Booktalk: Elaine Weiss’s “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote”
Elaine Weiss’s The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote is the true story of the suffragettes. These are the female leaders who—in the […]
Booktalk: Science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi and “The Water Knife”
This Colorado author who lives in Paonia lays out a thriller version of possible future water wars in the American Southwest. Is this an impossible scenario […]
Booktalk: Dan Buettner’s “The Blue Zones Kitchen, 100 Recipes to Live To 100”
My Minnesota-based guest, Dan Buettner, is the author of “The Blue Zones Kitchen, 100 Recipes to Live To 100,” as well as several other books about […]
Booktalk: Luke Geddes’s “Heart of Junk”
Debut novelist Luke Geddes’s Heart of Junk takes us to the Heart of American Antique Mall in Wichita, Kansas. Vacant booths and dwindling shoppers foreshadow a […]
Booktalk: Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Leadership: In Turbulent Times”
Pulitzer Prize-winning Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times, is one of America’s best known and most award-winning biographers of presidents. She’s written 7 […]