Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
David Ignatius is foreign affairs columnist at The Washington Post and author of 11 spy novels.
This month, On My Mind will be sharing conversations from the Diane Rehm Book Club and Author Interview Series. Today we bring you a conversation with Washington Post foreign affairs columnist – and novelist — David Ignatius.
Diane selected Ignatius’s book “The Paladin” as the November 2022 read. This high-tech thriller explores the question what happens when bad actors move beyond hacking and disinformation campaigns, to creating false realities?
As part of the book club event Diane first welcomed a panel of guests to discuss the novel– and the spy thriller genre. You can find a recording of that here. Then David Ignatius joined her on Zoom to talk about what inspired the story, as well as his decades long career moving between fact and fiction.
Guests
- David Ignatius Foreign affairs columnist at The Washington Post and author of 11 spy novels
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