Check Your Shelves
This podcast is made possible in partnership with Utah Humanities as part of the annual Utah Humanities Book Festival.
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Episodes
Monday Sep 23, 2024
Monday Sep 23, 2024
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 Chris Cokinos.
10/12/25; Star Hall: 159 E. Center St. Moab, Utah.
Monday Sep 23, 2024
Monday Sep 23, 2024
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 during the week of 10/14-10/19 in Cedar City and St. George.
Monday Sep 23, 2024
Monday Sep 23, 2024
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. What a great half hour.
Please join Carr in Utah in October for a free event and book signing:
October 26th: 2:00pm, Park City Library Auditorium
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Friday Sep 20, 2024
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 you exactly how to steal famous art.
10/19/2024: 6:30pm, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
10/21/2024: 6:00pm, Park City Library, Auditorium
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
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 had a ball but ran out of time!
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Monday Apr 22, 2024
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 to talk about life and writing and research. This episode is so full of interesting insights into all of these things that you have to listen.
NOTE: Chris' Moab date will be 10/10 and 10/11 (not 10/12 as noted in the podcast).
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
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 partnership in bringing back the Utah Book Award, and many other great things, including how LUW serves its writers and how it is such an amazing resource statewide, nationally, and internationally!
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
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 puns and funs never stop throughout. Get a glimpse into Zuniga's insights about the long-running show and the writers who competed in Ogden 2023!
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
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 Award in Poetry, and so much more.
You can find the full text of the book and videos that accompany each poem and translation at westtrain.org. We encourage you to buy the book and experience the multi-media art on your own.
As always, an enlightening podcast with Rekdal.
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
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 infrastructure along the Colorado River and Glen Canyon. Such a great listen. You'll learn something. We did!
Erika will be speaking at two events this week. Join her!
Oct 5, 2023, 11:00 am -
BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
The Charles Redd Center for Utah Humanities Reading with Erika Bsumek, author of The Foundation of Glen Canyon Dam, Infrastructures of Dispossession on The Colorado Plateau
366 Spencer W Kimball TowerProvo , UT 84602-4702Map [+]
Oct 6, 2023, 4:00 pm --
Salt Lake City Public Library, Main Branch
Glen Canyon Institute presents Erika Bsumek, author of The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau, and Andrew Curley, Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment at the University of Arizona.
210 E 400 SSalt Lake City , UT 84111-2804Map [+]
Utah Humanities Book Festival:
A Lasting Legacy
The Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival is Utah’s oldest and only statewide book festival and has become Utah’s signature literary event. Each year, the festival is a chance for book lovers of all types to enjoy some great, free-of-charge literary events at locations throughout Utah.
Since 1998, we've inspired Utah communities by offering the state's largest annual book festival. Our inaugural festival, known then as The Great Salt Lake Book Festival was a one-day event featuring 30 authors at Westminster College. Twenty years later, our annual Utah Humanities Book Festival is now a month-long celebration in October's National Book Month. We've grown to scores of events in communities throughout the state, and consistently feature many relevant authors. We've expanded our reach by partnering with libraries, community centers, cultural organizations, and more to serve upwards of 12,000 Utahns every fall.
Each year, we hear very personal stories about how an author or book has generated conversation, insight, and understanding. We hear about communities coming together and collectively immersing in books of all types - everything from historical fiction to comedy to poetry. We listen to individuals talk about how their personal or professional lives were affected in life-changing ways by talking with an author who inspired them. We hear about how we've helped to improve Utah communities through books, reading, and the resulting conversations . . . in short, through the humanities.
Many thanks to the Book Festival’s sponsors: The George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks Fund, Weber County RAMP, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, The King’s English Bookshop, Weller Book Works, Under the Umbrella Bookstore, The Book Bungalow, the B.W. Bastian Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, ESRR Endowments, the Salt Lake Tribune, and SLUG Magazine.