Access Utah Books

Today we’ll check in with Wyoming-based writer Craig Johnson, the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the Netflix series. His latest novel in the Longmire series is The Longmire Defense.

On this episode we discuss Darrell Hartman’s new book Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons. He joins us for the hour as we talk about North Pole Explorers, the Making of Modern Media, fake news and more.

The world is burning and the seas are rising. How do we navigate this new age of extremes? We're joined by David Gessner, author of A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World.

Morgan Sjogren is an author, explorer, and defender of wild places. She joins us on this episode to talk about the wild, as well as her new book, Path of Light: A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon.

On this episode we revisit our 2018 conversation with John Branch about cowboys, the rodeo, and traditions of the west.

At the height of the American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan, their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. On this episode we talk with Timothy Egan about his new book, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them.

On this episode we talk speech. We're joined by Valerie Fridland, professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno and author of Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English.

Our Guest for the hour is Lea Zikmund. Her new book For Crying Out Loud takes a close look at the intersection of grief, loss, and the everyday Americans’ social media use.

In her debut, American novelist Kristen Loesch delivers a timely and topical novel that spans three generations of Russian history, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union. She joins us on this Access Utah episode.

In her book The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War, USU History Professor Susan Grayzel traces the fascinating history of one object – the civilian gas mask.