Host Diana Korte speaks with New York Times bestselling author Caroline Paul, author of 8 books. Her newest title is “WHY FLY. Seeking Awe, Healing, and Our True Selves in the Sky.”

She’s been drawn to flying since she was twenty and learned to fly a single-engine plane for the first time. In her thirties, she moved to a paraglider, in her forties, a motorized hang glider. Now in her fifties, she flies an experimental gyrocopter.

Alongside her own experiences over decades of flight, WHY FLY explores the history, art, and science of aeronautics and the deep impact of flying on others. Arranged according to the five stages of a flight (Preflight, Taxi, Take-off, Flight, and Landing), WHY FLY shows the ways our society has been reaching for flight for centuries.

Host Diana Korte speaks with author Alia Hanna Habib this week whose debut book is “TAKE IT FROM ME, An Agent's Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career from Scratch.”

She’s the agent behind some of today’s most successful authors and has written a narrative guide geared specifically to the needs of aspiring and working nonfiction writers. She demystifies the world of publishing and offers a practical roadmap to getting your book published.

I wish this volume had been available to me back when I was writing non-fiction titles. If selling a non-fiction book is on your wish list and you didn’t know where in the world to begin, this could be the book for you.

Alia Hanna Habib is a Vice President and literary agent at The Gernert Company, where she represents MacArthur Fellows, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, National Book Award finalists, and numerous New York Times bestselling authors.

Host Diana Korte spoke with Ex-Evangelical Josiah Hesse this week about his fourth book, “ON FIRE FOR GOD. Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right—A Personal History.”

When asked why he wrote this book, Colorado-based Hesse said “I was tired of hearing my colleagues in journalism express their bafflement as to why working-class evangelicals would support a man like Donald Trump. Evangelicals make up a third of our country, and yet most journalists and editors know nothing about them.”

“I have yet to encounter any books (about evangelicals) written by someone whose family were desperately poor and susceptible to the con of prosperity gospel or multilevel marketing, who experienced the kinetic rush of a Pentecostal church service, or were taught creationist science in a rural Christian school.”