Diana Korte

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  • Booktalk Host
  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent

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Neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin and “A Field Guide to Lies” (09:54)
From: Diana Korte

“An increasing number of people under the age of 25 get all their news, not just some of it, from Facebook.” The author points out that we are bombarded with more information ...
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Ohio novelist Donald Ray Pollock and "The Heavenly Table" (09:53)
From: Diana Korte

In Don’s third book it’s 1917 and the three Jewett brothers—Cane, Cob and Chimney—set off from their rural southern home for a life of crime. The author’s atmospheric ...
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Joseph Kanon and "Leaving Berlin" (09:58)
From: Diana Korte

Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book espionage, like the black ...
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What the Prez Reads Every Day: Author Eli Saslow (10:01)
From: Diana Korte

Eli, a staff reporter for The Washington Post and author of “Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President,” chronicles the personal stories of people who wrote to ...
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The Voice of Sports: Author Frank Deford (10:04)
From: Diana Korte

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 since the 1980s. This ...