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Authors and the stories behind their stories. This podcast is made possible in partnership with Utah Humanities as part of the annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. Produced by The Banyan Collective.
Utah Humanities hosts Check Your Shelves, a arts show with 18 episodes published.
The Utah Humanities Program Staff joined the Check Your Shelves Podcast to share, in depth, what we do statewide and what we stand to lose if Utah Humanities does not survive DOGE's cuts and the attack on the humanities.
Author Karin Anderson and publisher Torrey House Press join us on this episode of Check Your Shelves. This was a great conversation about writing, about publishing, and about Utah and the west. Find Torrey House Press an
Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath - Barbara Jones Brown Barbara Jones Brown, co-author of Vengeance is Mine, and Executive Director of Signature Books joined us to talk about aftermath of
Utah Humanities Executive Director Jodi Graham and Special Projects Manager Emily Grubby joined Kase on the first 2025 Check Your Shelves Podcast. This year, we will focus on two things during our podcasts. We will conti
Kevin Fedarko, A Walk In The Park - Check Your Shelves Ep. 13 Amazing talk with Kevin Fedarko. You can catch him at the Moab weekend of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. 10/11/25: Back of Beyond Books, conversation with
Daria Peoples - Check Your Shelves Ep. 12 We are so lucky to have Daria Peoples join us in Cedar City for the Southern Utah Book Festival, as part of the 2024 Utah Humanities Book Festival. Peoples is the keynote guest d
Jack Carr, Targeted: Beirut - Check Your Shelves Ep. 12 Check Your Shelves had the amazing opportunity to chat with Utah Humanities Book Festival Keynote Speaker Jack Carr. We talked about his new book Targeted Beirut. W
Michael Finkel, The Art Thief - Check Your Shelves Ep. 11 Such a great interview with author Michael Finkel about his new book: The Art Thief! Michael Finkel's dates for the Utah Humanities Book Festival when he'll tell
Check Your Shelves Ep. 10 - Artes de Mexico We had such a great opportunity to chat with the Executive Director of Artes de Mexico, Fanny Guadalupe Blauer, and poets Aaron Garcia and Lina Vega-Morrison on the show. We ha
Check Your Shelves Ep. 9 - Christopher Cokinos Still as Bright Chris Cokinos, author of Still is Bright, joined the Check Your Shelves to talk about the book, to talk about the sky, to talk about time in a simulator, and
Check Your Shelves Ep. 8 - Rachael Bush, League of Utah Writers President We sat down with Rachael Bush, the current President of the League of Utah Writers. We talked about the upcoming conferences, about our partnershi
Literary Death Match with Adrian Todd Zuniga Presented by Utah Humanities. This episode of Check Your Shelves brought together the host of Literary Death Match, Adrian Todd Zuniga and an ensemble cast of writers, and the
Paisley Rekdal joined us in studio to talk about her newest book, West: A Translation. West: A Translation was Utah and Utah Humanities’ Adult selection for the 2023 Library of Congress, long listed for the National Book
We got the very cool opportunity to chat with author, researcher, and writer Erika Bsumek on the Check Your Shelves Podcast. She delves so deeply into the dispossession of indigenous people's through architecture and inf
Natalie Padilla Young, author of the amazing collection of poetry This Was Once All Under Water, talked with us from southern Utah about her new collection. This was so Utah, and so fitting for the upcoming 2023 Utah Hum
Check Your Shelves sat down with Betsy Gaines Quammen to talk about her forthcoming book, TRUE WEST, forthcoming for Torrey House Press this October. This book tackles the western mythologies that have damaged so many li
Rebecca Clarren, author of The Cost of Free Land, joined Utah Center for the Book’s 'Check Your Shelf’ Podcast to talk about her research, The Lakota, and her grappling with her family history in relation to land grants
Ruben Degollado, author of the acclaimed The Family Izquierdo and more, joined Utah Center for the Book’s 'Check Your Shelf’ Podcast to talk about The Family Izqierdo, the writer life, and much more. Degollado will be at
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