Turkey Hotline

NPR | By Diane Roberts

Published November 24, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Essayist and "part-time" hotline operator Diane Roberts has tips on how to cure those turkey woes.

Diane Roberts

Diane Roberts is a commentator on Weekend Edition Sunday. An eighth-generation Floridian, she is Professor of English at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where she pulls weeds in the spring and attends FSU football games in the fall. She went to Oxford University courtesy of a Marshall Scholarship in 1980 and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature and a doctorate in American literature.

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