“I didn’t know I enjoyed thinking so much,” says science writer Roxanne Khamsi when asked what surprised her most about writing her first book Beyond Inheritance. “I thought I enjoyed interviewing people and reading research papers and the process of finding the right verb in a sentence. What’s hard for me is once I get into that thinking space, I can’t let go of it.” In this episode we talk about how she made the leap from writing articles to writing a book—and why they are so different. We talk about creating an arc for a book of essays, what to do when the structure for your book isn’t working, letting go of a project once its over, meeting our self critic, the role of obsession in writing a book, the art of going for “the big idea” and how to carry that in a nonfiction book, how writing reflects the author’s personality.

Montana writer Todd Wilkinson spent seven years writing the definitive biography of Ted Turner, who died recently at age 87. Turner was a complicated and accomplished man, he says, not just for starting CNN and 24-hour news, building a major league baseball team, his hometown Atlanta Braves, and starting a foundation run by former Colorado Senator Tim Wirth to strengthen the United Nations.Above all else, Wilkinson says Turner loved the West’s open lands and wanted to protect them for bison and all wildlife. As his former wife Jane Fonda put it, he wanted to be known as “a good guy."

KVNF's weekly call-in gardening show. As the Worm Turns is now on Wednesday's @ 5 PM.

Your local almanac for gardening, landscaping, and much more for your home and valley living.

KVNF’s James Barrs spoke with guitarist and composer Marisa Anderson ahead of her upcoming concert at the Bross Hotel in Paonai on July 23rd at 7pm.Her latest project, The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music is a collection of nearly one thousand songs culled from the private record collection of the late Harry Smith. The Anthology focuses on music from places that the United States has been in conflict with since 1970. In Volume 1 which was released in May, Anderson presents her own deeply personal iterations of nine songs from the Anthology.

The final part of a three part series on using mindfulness to heal from our mistakes.

What happens when a light switch disrupts billions of years of evolution?

Sierra Hull grew up in the smallest county in Tennessee, learning how to play music at only 8 years old. Hull describes how her family shaped her life trajectory and what the Bluegrass community means ahead of her return to Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

This panel explores what it means to produce, consume and share information and news in a world of rapid technological change and artificial content generation. The film, Steal This Story, Please! Is an urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny documentary that tells the story of America’s trailblazing and most fearless and inspiring independent journalist, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!