Access Utah Books

Today we’ll talk with Christopher Cokinos about his book Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow.

Avremi Zippel always knew his life would be different, with a commitment to follow in his father's footsteps and serve as the Rabbi in Salt Lake City, he knew his life would defy stereotypes. However, nothing could prepare him for the truly unexpected twists and turns reality had in store. We revisit our interview with Zippel on todays Access Utah.

In Tyranny of the Gene, James Tabery exposes the origin story of personalized medicine—essentially a marketing idea dreamed up by pharmaceutical executives—and traces its path from the Human Genome Project to the present. James Tabery joins us for this episode.

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.

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.