HeyJaredBooktalk with Diana Korte
Top authors are interviewed on this 10-minute program about their books and often the story behind the story. Diana has spoken with hundreds of authors from national politicians and scientists to novelists and storytellers of all kinds.
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Prize-winning fiction writer Jim Shepard’s THE QUEEN OF BAD INFLUENCES (opens the original)
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Host Diana Korte speaks with fiction writer Jim Shepard , author of 14 books. His newest title, “The Queen of Bad Influences” is a collection of 12 short stories spanning six centuries and multiple catastrophes. We read the 1864 letters between Lucy in Boon, North Carolina and her great love, William, on his Civil War march in Tennessee. What it was like from multiple points of view at the devastating Labor Day hurricane of 1935 in Florida and the book title story of two women as their devotion
Romance novelist Lia Louis’s THE PHONE SWAP (opens the original)
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Host Diana Korte speaks with England-based writer Lia Louis, author of 6 books. In her newest rom com, THE PHONE SWAP, an accidental phone swap finds a celebrity heartthrob falling in love with an ordinary girl. But falling in love in private is not as simple as falling in love in reality. Especially if the world is somehow still watching. As two very different worlds collide, is the chance for true love even possible? After all, you can’t escape reality forever. Right?
Mary D Williams’s “Mahalia Jackson, Moving On Up A Little Higher” (opens the original)
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Host Diana Korte speaks with Mary D Williams ’s, a gospel singer, historian, educator and co-author of “Mahalia Jackson, Moving On Up A Little Higher, The Story of a American Civil Rights Pioneer.” If Americans today still recognize the name Mahalia Jackson, they might recall that she was perhaps the greatest gospel singer who ever lived. But for many people, there's no awareness at all. Not even for an entertainer whose “Move On Up A Little Higher,” sold 8 million copies, headlined two Newport
Novelist Alexander McCall Smith’s “In the Time of Five Pumpkins” (#26) (opens the original)
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Host Diana Korte speaks with Alexander McCall Smith , the author of 120 books in 46 languages sold around the world. These include the “No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency” novels plus other series and stand-alone titles. His 26th book in this series is “In the Time of Five Pumpkins” featuring Precious Ramotswe and her world of familiar characters. In this newest installment Mma Ramotswe takes on a number of perplexing situations, and while she tries to maintain her usual impartiality, it’s difficult
Retired Naval Aviator Dan Pedersen’s “TOPGUN. AN AMERICAN STORY” (opens the original)
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Host Diana Korte speaks with naval aviator Dan Pedersen , author of “TOPGUN. An American Story,” who was the boss of the group that formed the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School. Also known as the TOPGUN program, it began in Miramar, California 57 years ago. CLASSIC. I’m re-airing this 2019 conversation with Dan in 4th of July week because his advice at the end of it, in particular, is a good reminder of the wages of war. In this fast-paced memoir Dan, who enlisted in the US Navy in 1953, accumul
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