Radio Book Club

This month Radio Book Club speaks with Kimi Eisele, author of Lightest Object in the Universe. Her new novel highlights love in a post-apocalyptic landscape, still surviving even in the darkest times. Then, your hosts from Back of Beyond Books and the Grand County Public Library delve into their latest...

The Radio Book Club hosts are joined by Heather Hansman, author of Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West. She’s a former raft guide and environmental reporter who documented a recent journey down the Green River with an eye towards its present and future. Learn more about her...

Join the Radio Book Club hosts as they talk with Luke Mehall of the independent print publication and website The Climbing Zine. Luke chats with the group about the intersection of writing and climbing, the gym to crag movement, and his thoughts on protecting wilderness while writing about it. It’s...

Get the latest on upcoming literary events and fresh reads from your hosts at Back of Beyond Books and the Grand County Library. Plus, an interview with author Megan Griswold, who wrote The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies. Her narrative – spanning four decades and six continents – involves...

Join the Radio Book Club hosts as they discuss Across the Continent: The Union Pacific Photographs of Andrew Joseph Russell with author Daniel Davis. The book celebrates the photographer who documented the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, including the Golden Spike ceremony of 1869. Radio Book Club hosts also...

Radio Book Club is back with more local literary events and conversation on books capturing our hosts’ attention. Listen in for thoughts on the relationship between an idea and a concept in Haruki Murakami’s new book Killing Commendatore, the starkness of class divisions in Sara Smarsh’s Heartland, and a personal...

It’s a new year and that means fresh new book recs from your hosts at Radio Book Club. Tune in for a lively discussion showcasing young women finding their voices, medical experiments during WWII, a mythic-like story set in Northern Ireland during “The Troubles,” and the art of memoir. You’ll...

Join the Radio Book Club hosts as they review their favorite recent reads – a profile of a famous musician, a delightful children’s book, a dark new western, and a “creepy but charming” gothic novel all top their lists. The hosts, all voracious readers and staff from Grand County Public...

Author Amy Irvine joins KZMU’s Radio Book Club to talk about her forthcoming novel, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness. Irvine and the book club crew discuss her work, its origins, and how she “celebrates and wrestles with” Edward Abbey’s classic environmental novel, Desert Solitaire. Through her new...

Marty Durlin, Andy Nettell, and Shari Zollinger speak to Jaimie Bernstein; artist, writer,  broadcaster, filmmaker, concert narrator, and the daughter of the composer/conductor/teacher Leonard Bernstein, about her new memoir, “Famous Father Girl.”

Marty Durlin, Andy Nettell and Shari Zollinger discuss rare books and papers, Lisa See’s new novel “The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane,” and commemorations of the 50th anniversary of Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire.”