Literature

We talk with Jay Neugeboren about caring for a brother with mental illness, a posthumous lunch with Oliver Sacks, and a thwarted kiss at a teenage summer camp where he was a young Jewish man in exile.

We compile a community book list with help from Elaine Thatcher, Anne Holman, and some program listeners.

On Thursday, June 18, UPR mistakenly posted a story from The Utah Investigative Journalism Project without permission.

Following an author spotlight by the Logan Library, Tom Williams talked with four Cache Valley authors about their various published books and what's in the works.

Laura Tohe, who is Diné, has dedicated her life to Indigenous literature, but doesn't want that identity to dominate her tenure as Arizona's second-ever state poet.

We talk with critically acclaimed MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Tony Award–nominated playwright and author Sarah Ruhl about her new book.

Host Evelyn Funda explores comfort food in literature. Specifically from a scene from Willa Cather's novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop."

Award-winning author Ling Ma was recently chosen as a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, granting her an $800,000 fellowship in honor of her creative work.

Today our guest is writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times."

Sticky tar seeps near Great Salt Lake’s Spiral Jetty entrap unsuspecting wildlife. One author found wisdom about life, healing and our impacts to the planet in the goo.