Radio Book Club

Have you ever read a passage so good you just wanted to eat it? Maybe internalize it in some way, or make it your own? The experience of reading – transformative, sensory, memory-making – is the topic of the latest Radio Book Club. Hosts from the Grand County Public Library...

Explorations in identity, privilege, and figurative wormholes are the recurring themes of this month’s captivating Radio Book Club. Hosts from the Grand County Public Library and Back of Beyond Books pick up books influenced by the current global pandemic and racial justice movement. The crew reviews their reading list full...

Radio Book Club gets into the meat of the memoir with two amazing authors – Ginger Gaffney of Half Broke and Pam Houston of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country. The pair discuss their creative process as well as the cathartic and healing work that comes with delving...

It’s a recommendations and reviews episode of Radio Book Club – hosts Andy Nettell, Jessie Magleby, and Shari Zollinger bring out fresh stacks of the books that hooked them and those that well…didn’t. You’ll hear reviews of thrillers, young adult novels, and evocative stories with notes of magical realism. Plus,...

The Radio Book Club hosts are back with another jam-packed show of reviews, upcoming events, and literary conversation. Joining the program is local author Christian Wright, of the forthcoming Carbon County, USA: Miners for Democracy in Utah and the West.  Host Andy Nettell describes the novel as “a narrative of...

What’s better than hearing an amazing literary dialogue between engaged readers and an amazing author? That conversation with two amazing authors! On the latest Radio Book Club, your hosts from Back of Beyond Books and the Grand County Library engage in a lively discussion with Stephen Trimble, editor of The...

Does your Fall reading list need an upgrade? Add some page-turning reads to your book pile by tuning in for reviews and recommendations by your hosts at Radio Book Club. In their latest episode, Andy Nettell and Julia Buckwalter from Back of Beyond Books discuss the latest titles that caught...

It’s a power-packed Radio Book Club with two author interviews – Jack Loeffler of Headed Into the Wind: A Memoir, and Rebecca Lawton of The Oasis This Time: Living and Dying with Water in the West. First (14 min), the hosts and Loeffler discuss his new memoir, which expands upon...

Take a trip to a rural Southwest filled with greed and obstinacy, love and violence as the Radio Book Club hosts interview author C. Joseph Greaves about his new novel, Church of the Graveyard Saints. Greaves likens the book to a Shakespearean tragedy – an intimate, personal love story in...

On the latest Radio Book Club, your hosts interview author David Roberts about his most recent title – Escalante’s Dream: On The Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest. In the book, Roberts blends the historical and the personal as he re-traces the steps of the Franciscan Dominguez-Escalante 1776...