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Jerome Charyn is the award-winning author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction. Today we’ll talk with him about his new book about opera singer Maria Callas titled, "Maria, La Divina."

Our guest today is folklorist Lynne McNeill. Lynne McNeill is an associate professor of folklore at Utah State University, as well as co-founder of and faculty advisor for the USU Folklore Club.

We talk with Jaxon Didericksen, Access to Justice program coordinator with the Transforming Communities Institute at USU, about the recent launch of their community justice advocate program.

We talk with historian Richard E. Turley Jr. about his Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture, titled "Team History: The Latter-day Saint Historical Enterprise, 1986–2025."

As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar was entranced by forest-like orchards of diverse and luscious fruit — especially apples.

Today we revisit our conversation from December 2018 with environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb, talking about his book "Eager: The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter."

Laura Tohe is a poet, writer, librettist, scholar of Indigenous American literature, and former Navajo Nation Poet Laureate.

We revisit our conversation from 2019 with writer Michele Anderson about her opinion piece in the New York Times titled, “Go Home to Your ‘Dying’ Hometown.”

"The Gift of Failure" focuses on the critical years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience disappointment and frustration so that they grow into successful, resilient adults.

"In a Rugged Land" examines the history and content of the two photographers' forgotten collaboration "Three Mormon Towns." We revisit our conversation from 2019 with author James Swenson.

Today we’ll talk with Matthew Wappett, executive director of the Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice at Utah State University.

We revisit our conversation from 2016 with James Balog about the film "Chasing Ice."

We revisit our conversation from November 2017 with author Ted Genoways about his book "This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm."

We revisit our conversation from 2019 with H.W. Brands on his book "Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants."

James Bacchus says the path to global sustainable development is participatory democratic global governance — the only truly effective path to confronting military conflict, climate change, and more.

We talk with Colorado rancher and mother of five, Lara Richardson, about her memoir "The Table: Seasons on a Colorado Ranch."

Martha Barnette has spent two decades as the co-host of "A Way with Words," lauded by Mary Norris in The New Yorker as “a virtual treasure house” and “‘Car Talk’ for Lexiphiles.”

We revisit our conversation with Utah writer Emily Wing Smith about her book, 'All Better Now'.

Carrie Sheffield grew up with a violent, mentally ill, street-musician father who believed he was a modern-day Mormon prophet destined to become U.S. president someday.

We talk with Margaret Brucia, author of "The Key to Everything: May Swenson, A Writer’s Life." May Swenson was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century.