Brantley Hargrove, author of The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras, describes Tim’s life and interests, his key weather invention, and how he died in the world’s worst known tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma, […]
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 the book’s beginnings and how it came to be filled with some 700 sights […]
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 of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle […]
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 face of enormous opposition—fought for and won American women’s right to vote in 1920. […]
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 or is it likely? (previously aired on on April 15, 2015) Top authors are […]
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 these unusual places. The Blue Zones are five small areas in the world […]
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 bleak fate for this mall. But an upcoming visit from the famed television show Pickin’ […]
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 books about US presidents over five decades. She says that examining these men (Abraham […]