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Wednesday, Bob Boilen of NPR's All Songs Considered joins us to talk about his favorite albums of 2011. You know the kind of album we're talking about.…

A new report tries to cut through some of the confusion surrounding Utah’s air-pollution problems. Shawn Teigen says he stepped back to take an...

In 1975, author Edward Abbey published "The Monkey Wrench Gang." The novel – along with Abbey's anarchist environmentalism – helped create a blueprint for…

Tuesday, we're exploring the life of Joseph Alsop, a journalist whose syndicated newspaper column ran for some five decades. Arrogant yet beloved, Alsop…

Friday, we’re broadcasting a conversation we had with NPR’s Melissa Block when she was in Utah this past February. Block was of course co-host of NPR’s…

A good book could be the gift your loved one actually remembers. Local booksellers join us Tuesday to offer the best novels, poetry, non-fiction, and…

Many people have suggested that books are a sort of passport to another world, and as the writer Neil Gaiman reminds us, "it's much cheaper to buy…

At nearly 40, Tova Mirvis left her marriage … and Orthodox Judaism. Tuesday, we’ll talk about leaving the world that shaped her and the journey to…

Thursday, local booksellers Betsy Burton of The King’s English, Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Rare Books, and Catherine Weller of Weller Book Works are…

In a new book, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik profiles the world’s most influential media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch. As Folkenfilk shows, Murdoch…