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.

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.

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

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

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!

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).

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!

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!