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Aired Sept. 3. In "The Peanuts Papers," 33 writers and artists, including Ira Glass and Ann Patchett, reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture.

Today we’ll talk with writer Pam Houston about her new book Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom.

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, 12 have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee.

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things.

In "Cypria," named after a lost Cypriot epic which was the prequel to "The Odyssey," British Cypriot writer Alex Christofi writes a deeply personal, lyrical history of the island of Cyprus, from the era of goddesses and mythical beasts to the present day.

Part elegy, part ode, part investigative science journalism, Jonathan Thompson's book "River of Lost Souls" tells the story of the 2015 disaster that turned the Animas River in southwestern Colorado orange with sludge and toxic metals.

On this episode we revisit our conversation with novelist, feminist, and philanthropist Isabel Allende about her latest book.

Anthony Doerr’s' All the Light We Cannot See' was published in May 2014 and in September of that year Anthony Doerr visited Utah for several events as a part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. We revisit our conversation from then.

A relatively short, deep canyon near the Utah-Colorado state line has become one of the most popular river-running destinations in the Southwest. We talk about Westwater and its lasting significance to the Upper Colorado River.

In "Riding Like the Wind," biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb. It was Babb's field notes and oral histories of migrant farmworkers that John Steinbeck relied on to write "The Grapes of Wrath."