From The Archives: A 2008 Conversation With Barbara Walters
A conversation from the archives with Barbara Walters about her 2008 memoir "Audition," a story of family challenges, celebrity gossip and blazing a trail in TV news.
"Cloud Cuckoo Land" was a finalist for this year's National Book Award.
Novelist Anthony Doerr achieved a level of success few writers can claim with his book, “All the Light We Cannot See.” Not only did it win the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, it remained on the bestseller list for years.
In September, Doerr released a new work titled “Cloud Cuckoo Land.” In it, he weaves together the lives of five main characters from three very different time periods.
In present day Idaho, young Seymour plants a bomb at the fictional Lakeport public library as the elderly Zeno rehearses a play with children upstairs. Years in the future, a girl named Konstance lives aboard an intergalactic ship, fleeing from the devastation of climate change. And in Constantinople in the 1400s, teenagers Anna and Omeir brace for battle on either side of the city’s walls. A story within a story connects them all – and keeps many of them going when it feels like their worlds are ending.
Anthony Doerr joined Diane as part of her monthly virtual book club and author interview series. He explained how the great defensive walls of Medieval Constantinople inspired “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” and why he says his job as a writer is to reveal our interconnectedness as people, and as a planet.
Find out more about The Diane Rehm Book Club and Author Interview Series here.
A conversation from the archives with Barbara Walters about her 2008 memoir "Audition," a story of family challenges, celebrity gossip and blazing a trail in TV news.
A conversation from the archives with former President Jimmy Carter. In January 1993 he joined Diane in the studio for his first of twelve appearances on the Diane Rehm Show.
Foreign policy expert David Rothkopf on the war in Ukraine, relations with China and the challenges ahead for the Biden administration.
In 2014 Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel wrote in The Atlantic that he planned to refuse medical treatment after age 75. Now 65, he and Diane revisit his provocative essay.
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