The Cost of Free Land investigates how 20th-century federal policies gave Rebecca's ancestors - Jews fleeing oppression in Russia - free land on the South Dakota prairie and examines the cost of that free land to her ancestors' neighbors, the Lakota people.

Writer Jessica Lee joins Taya Jae to talk about metaphor, language and we can learn from the history of plants.

Join 8 local storytellers as they share tales of the road.

Colorado Author Laura Pritchett joins Taya Jae on The Pen and The Sword to discuss latest book, Playing with (Wild) Fire, out now from Torrey House Press.

Author Rebecca Boyle joins Taya Jae to talk about her new book, Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are. Taya and Rebecca discuss how the moon has shaped our daily rhythms, how science fiction informed space exploration and some important things to consider as our relationship with the moon evolves.

KVNF's Taya Jae and Cynthia Hines sat down with Margo to discuss her new book, Deep Inside the Blues, a collection of oral histories and 160 intimate photographs.

In his new book, Cheap Land Colorado, Off-Gridders at America's Edge, Ted Conover immerses himself amongst the landscape and people of "the flats" — a broad swath of land in the San Luis Valley.

Local photographer, filmmaker and graphic designer Bodhi Gilroy joins Taya Jae to discuss his new book, Creative Spaces - Artists of the North Fork Valley.

Erika Howsare discusses her new book, The Age of Deer, Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors.

Today on the Pen and The Sword, we bring you a conversation with NPR's Andrew Limbong followed by the highlights from this years author interviews.