Reader's Corner

Interview With Ron Powers About His Mark Twain Biography 30.03.2012 29:30 ↓

Host, Bob Kustra and Author Ron Powers discuss the book "Mark Twain: A Life"

Interview with Don Carleton About "Conservations With Cronkite" 23.03.2012 28:44 ↓

Co-author of "Conversations with Cronkite"

Interview with Mia Bay About Her Book "To Tell The Truth Freely" 16.03.2012 29:30 ↓

Author of "To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells"

Interview with Deborah Blum About "The Poisoner's Handbook" 09.03.2012 29:17 ↓

Author of "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York"

Interview With Neil Lanctot About His Book "Campy" 24.02.2012 29:00 ↓

Author of "Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella"

Interview With Tim Woodward About His Book "Destination Idaho" 10.02.2012 29:10 ↓

Guest: Tim Woodward, longtime Idaho Statesman columnist and author of “Destination Idaho”

Interview with Donovan Hohn 03.02.2012 29:30 ↓

Author of “Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author,Who Went in Search of Them”

Interview with Joseph A. McCartin 27.01.2012 29:41 ↓

Author of “Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers and the Strike that Changed America”

Interview With Mark Adams About His Book "Turn Right At Macchu Piccu" 20.01.2012 29:16 ↓

Author of “Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time”

Interview with Michael Mandelbaum 14.01.2012 29:29 ↓

Co-author of "That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back."

Interview with Mitchell Zuckoff About His Book "Lost In Shangri-La" 03.01.2012 29:05 ↓

Author of “Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II”

Charles C. Mann Uncovers The New World Columbus Created in His Book "1493" 16.12.2011 29:01 ↓

Author of "1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created"

Interview With Raj Patel About His Book "Stuffed and Starved" 30.09.2011 29:18 ↓

Author of "Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System"

Interview with Matthew Algeo 16.09.2011 29:31 ↓

Author of "The President is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth"

Interview With Tracy Kidder About His Book "The Strength In What Remains" 15.07.2011 28:30 ↓

Author of "Strength in What Remains"

Jason Turbow On His Book "The Baseball Codes" 27.05.2011 28:31 ↓

Jason Turbow is the author of "The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime"

Interview With Christopher McDougall About His Book "Born to Run" 25.03.2011 28:54 ↓

Author of "Born to Run" part I

Interview with Scott Simon 18.03.2011 29:36 ↓

Scott Simon is well known to public radio listeners as the host of NPR’s Weekend Edition. He also is the author of several well-received books, including, Baby We Were Meant For Each Other: In Praise of Adoption, published in 2010.

David Grann On His Bestseller "Lost City of Z" 11.02.2011 29:21 ↓

In 1925, former spy and acclaimed British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett walked into the Amazon rainforest in search of the fabled lost city of El Dorado — and disappeared. In the decades that followed, scores of adventurers tried, and failed, to retrace his steps. Many died. Others faced harrowing encounters with native tribes, poisoned arrows, cannibalism, dense rainforest, flesh-eating piranha...

Interview With Bruce Barcott Author Of "The Last Fight Of The Scarlet Macaw" 07.05.2010 29:32 ↓

Author of "The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird"

Interview With Scott Yenor 14.12.2007 29:32 ↓

Boise State political science professor, on the state of civic education.