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PR Operative Phil Elwood is a man who used to pull the strings, but who is now pulling back the curtain in his DC tell-all book, ALL THE WORST HUMANS.After nearly two decades in the Washington PR business, Elwood wants to come clean, by exp
Host Diana Korte speaks with James Lee Burke who is the author of about 40 books written over more than 50 years. He’s best known for two series. One is about the Holland family that’s featured in this program about “The House of the Rising S
Host Diana Korte speaks with Daniel Handler--perhaps better known for 25 years as his alter ego Lemony Snicket--who has authored his 30th book, “And Then? And Then? What Else?"It’s a fully engaging memoir from who’s that guy in the cafe weari
Host Diana Korte speaks with Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, a Swan of Harlem herself who is one of the dancers featured in "The Swans of Harlem. Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years Of Sisterhood, And Their Reclamation Of A Groundbreaking History” writ
Host Diana Korte speaks with David Coggins, author of his fourth book, "THE BELIEVER".He brings readers along for an enchanting year of fly fishing in Patagonia, Cuba, Belize, Spain, Scotland, Norway, and the U.S. And of course, it’s about mor
Host Diana Korte speaks with US Senator Tim Kaine from VA and former Democratic vice-presidential candidate. He is the author of a new memoir-- Walk, Ride, Paddle that describes a bit of history along with adventures and misadventures on the r
Host Diana Korte speaks with Don Winslow, bestselling author of CITY IN RUINS, the last book in a trilogy featuring crime boss Danny Ryan.The lesson for him is as hard as it is true: sometimes you must become what you hate to protect what you
Host Diana Korte speaks with Manal al-Sharif, author of DARING TO DRIVE, who grew up in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city. In her teens she was a religious radical, by her twenties she was a college-educated computer security engineer. Then she liv
Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce Carol Oates’ “The Sacrifice” is based on the story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made headlines in the late 1980s with allegations of kidnapping and rape that were later proven
Host Diana Korte speaks with New Mexico-based Michael Benanav, a photo-journalist known for searching out and living with nomadic tribes and bringing their compelling stories and images back from distant places. In “Himalaya Bound: One Family
Tracy Clark is an award-winning author of 6 crime novels including the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series. FALL is her newest book and second in the Detective Harriett Foster thriller series. In this page-turner of a book, the Chicago PD is
Host Diana Korte speaks with R. David Edmunds, author of 12 books about Native Americans. His newest title is “VOICES IN THE DRUM that features 9 stories about these people spanning hundreds of years of history. Times and places range from Mou
Host Diana Korte speaks with Douglas Preston, author of "THE LOST TOMB." Some of the stories in this book have taken him from the haunted country of Italy and the largest tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings to the booby-trapped Money Pit on Oak
Cary Elwes, who was then age 23, played the dashing character known as Westley in this cult movie classic. He talked about the behind-the-scenes making of the movie in his book, “As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess
Today I spoke with the James Beard Award-winning Fuchsia Dunlop about her 7th book, “Invitation To A Banquet. The Story of Chinese Food.” Based in London, she speaks, reads, and writes Chinese and has traveled, often writing down recipes, f
Author of more than a dozen books, historian Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War” details the perilous ocean crossing the European pilgrims made. Imagine the struggle of moving 2 mph for 3,000 miles over two
Host Diana Korte speaks with Alexander McCall Smith, the author of more than 100 books sold around the world in 40 languages. This includes the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels, plus other series and stand-alone books. His newest title i
At age 84 Madeleine Albright passed away last year. She was the first woman US Secretary of State, US Ambassador to the United Nations, and author of numerous books including PRAGUE WINTER. She came to the US with her family as a poli
Taras Grescoe, author of “THE LOST SUPPER”, his eighth book, explores an understanding that is quickly spreading among chefs, food producers, and scientists: that the key to sustainable eating lies not in looking forward, but in looking back t
Craig Johnson, author of a Wyoming mystery series featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire is back with his 19th in the series, THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE. This long running string of books is not only a bestseller in the book world, but continues as a popul
In 2018 former Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor, author of BLOWBACK: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump wrote an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times from inside the Trump administration. He reve
James McBride’s newest book is THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.As the story begins, it’s 1972. Workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania are digging the foundations for a new development
“I Have Something to Tell You” by Chasten Buttigieg is the young adult adaptation of his candid bestselling memoir about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town. This version is completely rewritten with new stories, including resources fo
Jake Tapper regularly interviews world leaders and other newsmakers, but he also brings his knowledge of politics and the past to his political thrillers that are historically accurate. “All The Demons Are Here” is set in 1977. The story revol
The latest historical novel, LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN, from writer Lisa See who is the author of 12 books, is inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China whose remedies are still used today some 500 years later.Ac
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