Books on Access Utah

It’s time again for us to compile another UPR community booklist. So we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now?

Part travelogue, part memoir, part reporting, Robin Hemley’s book "Borderline Citizen" redefines notions of nationhood by exploring the arbitrariness of boundaries and what it means to belong.

On this episode, we talk with Robin Patten about her book "The Mountain: Journeys in High Places."

Brooke Williams writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness.

We talk with Dan Murphy, whose new collection of poems "Estate Sale" is being published by University of Utah Press. He is winner of the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry.

In these poems, Sunni Brown Wilkinson reckons with seismic losses such as a stillborn son and strained relationships, alongside more abstract and existential pains.

Today we talk with Felipe Torres Medina, a comedian and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror. Now, cutting-edge technologies allow scientists and explorers to dive miles beneath the surface.

We revisit our conversation with Utah author Sariah Wilson, who previewed her latest book and offered some writing advice.

Pico Iyer has visited a small, Benedictine hermitage in California more than 100 times in the last 30 years. He isn't religious, but his life has been transformed by these times spent in silence.