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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. Listeners stream from around the world and on many community & public radio stations across the U.S. The show, hosted by Diana and engineered by her husband Gene Korte, has been in production for nearly 30 years. Together they've traveled in more than 100 countries, sometimes interviewing authors along the way.
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Women's Advocate Manal al-Sharif’s “Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening”
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 lived for a while in Boston, learned to drive and became a women’s rights advocate.
Back home she was the first Saudi woman who defied the ban on driving and immediately put the video on YouTube. And, yes, she was arrested.
This interview originally aired June 23, 2017. One year later the Saudi government made it legal for women to drive. Yet several years later, the number of women who have licenses to drive is only a few percent.
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Literary Powerhouse Joyce Carol Oates and “The Sacrifice”
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 false.
When we spoke about this book in 2015, JCO was already the author of more than 100 books—novels, short story collections, a memoir, children’s books, poetry, plays, even a libretto for an opera.
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Adventurer Michael Benanav's HIMALAYA BOUND
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’s Quest to Save Their Animals–And an Ancient Way of Life” he travels to northern India to journey with the Van Gujjars, a tribe of forest-dwelling nomadic water buffalo herders during their annual spring migration into the Himalayas.
In a book laced with stories of tribal cultures from India to Yellowstone, from Jordan to Kenya, Benanav deftly wends through the controversial terrain where Western ways of protecting the environment clash with indigenous understandings of nature.
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Crime Novelist Tracy Clark’s FALL (2nd in Series)
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 on high alert when two city aldermen are found dead: one by apparent suicide, one brutally stabbed in his office, and both with thirty dimes left on their bodies—a betrayer’s payment. With no other clues, the question is, Who else has a debt to pay?
Detective Harriet Foster is on the case before the killer can strike again. But even with the help of her partner, Detective Vera Li, and the rest of their team, Harriet has little to go on and a lot at risk. There’s no telling who the killer’s next target is or how many will come next.
TUNE IN for why Tracy Clark writes crime novels, what she likes best about Harriett Foster. and her advice for new writers.
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Native American Scholar R. David Edmunds's "Voices in the Drum: Narratives from the Native American Past"
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 Mound City, AL as it existed a century or so before Columbus to what it was like for a job-hunting family in the 1950s to move from a reservation in the Dakotas to Denver CO.
TUNE IN for misconceptions non-Natives have about Indians, what it takes to be counted as a member of a tribe, and who are the unsung heroes in Native American history.
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Writer & explorer Douglas Preston’s “The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder"
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 Island in Nova Scotia and a cannibal site in the American Southwest.
Listeners might be familiar with some of his other 40 books including "Lost City of the Monkey God" and his co-authored fiction series featuring FBI special agent Pendergast.
TUNE IN for, what he found when he was the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that had been sealed for millennia, why many of his books include archeologists, and his one piece of advice for would be writers that might be quite difficult to accomplish.
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