Science writer Mary Roach has developed a career specializing in popular science and doing it with respect and wit. Since the publication of her first book “Stiff,” she’s written five more books including “Spook” and “Packing for Mars.” This originally […]
In his first book The Long Haul, Boulder author Finn Murphy, chronicles his adventures as a long-haul trucker who has covered more than a million miles packing, loading, and hauling people’s belongings all over America. Finn joined us at the […]
Orville and Wilbur, DIY scientists, were bicycle mechanics at the beginning of the 20th century in Dayton, Ohio before they changed our world. David McCullough, the preeminent historian and biographer, tells us why they were the guys who mastered flight. […]
This week on Booktalk, Philip Connors talks about his first book “Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout.” The author spends his summers perched in a tower looking for smoke high in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. His […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Helene Cooper and “Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Helene describes the journey of Liberia’s Sirleaf, honors the amazingly resilient Liberian women who put her into office, and poignantly tells us of her own […]
This month on the Radio Bookclub, we welcome investigative journalist Scott Carney and author of “What Doesn’t Kill Us“. In the book Carney talks about the limits of human endurance in harsh environments. After Hours at the Bookclub – More […]
An ape reality show, fact or fiction? This novel about six bonobo apes and the humans in their lives is based on the bonobos who live at The Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. Her newest book is “At the […]
The June 2016 selection for the radio bookclub is The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician’s Search for the Renewal of Medicine by Denver physician Abraham M. Nussbaum. In this book Dr. Nussbaum discusses the changes happening to patients and […]
