All Pieces for Diana Korte

 
What the Prez Reads Every Day: Author Eli Saslow
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Eli, a staff reporter for The Washington Post and author of “Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President,” chronicles the personal stor...

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  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Author Susan Orlean and a famous Hollywood dog, "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A dog-loving journalist, Susan brings to life Rin Tin Tin, the orphaned German Shepherd found on a battlefield in Europe who became the most famous...

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  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
Author Paul French and "Midnight in Peking"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A UK author who has lived in China for decades tells a true-crime tale of the unsolved murder of a young British girl in 1937 in colonial Peking, a...

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  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Author Andre Dubus III and "Townie"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Although Andre is perhaps best known for his novel, "House of Sand and Fog," this is a memoir about tough times growing up in Massachusetts. This i...

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  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Afropolitan Taiye Selasi and "Ghana Must Go"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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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 m...

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  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 1
Author Robert Hicks and a Civil War cemetery
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Caption: McGavock Confederate Cemetery, Credit: Gene Korte
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
  • Purchases: 1
Author Michael Moss and "Salt Sugar Fat"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Moss describes “bliss point” and “mouth feel,” two of the terms common in the trillion-dollar processed food industr...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 3
Author Anthony Brandt and "The Man Who Ate His Boots"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
Author Siobhan Fallon and “You Know When the Men Are Gone”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
Irish Author Roddy Doyle and "The Last Republic"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Winner of the Booker Prize, former teacher and one of Ireland’s most famous authors, Roddy talks about his last book in a trilogy, "The Last Republ...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
Why Fred Astaire was a King of Jazz: Author Todd Decker
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Todd is a professor of music at Washington University in St. Louis where he teaches popular music in American culture. The interview took place in ...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Author Alexandra Fuller and "Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In her first memoir, “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” British-born Alexandra introduced us to her family and her early y...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Author Philip Connors and "Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A small-town farm boy turned big-city journalist, Phil chucked his staff job at the Wall Street Journal to spend his summers in a 7-foot-by-7-foot ...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 1
Thriller writer Linda Stasi and "The Sixth Station"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Linda’s debut novel is an irreverent religious thriller with lots of controversy that touches on the Vatican, history books and international poli...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Author Anthony Swofford and Getting Past Fame and Fortune
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony’s latest book, “Hotels, Hospitals and Jails” describes his life after the pluses and minuses of the fame of "Jarhead." In that book he chro...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Voice of Sports: Author Frank Deford
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Frank has a 50-year sports writing career dating back to the beginnings of Sports Illustrated, and his NPR program, Sweetness and Light, has aired ...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 3
Author Madeleine Albright: "Prague Winter," a memoir
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Madeleine Albright is a former US Secretary of State and the first woman to hold that position. In an interview shortly before the 2012 election, s...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 1
Author Kathryn Stockett and "The Help"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Kathryn's debut novel, "The Help," is a black-white history lesson that's never been told quite like this before. Through the lives of several wome...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change Activist Al Gore and "The Future"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Former US Vice President Al Gore is perhaps the best known poster boy for climate change. Both a winner of a Nobel prize along with an Oscar, he ta...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 1

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