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.