DO YOU HATE NATURE AND AUTHORS WHO WRITE ABOUT IT?
IF SO, DON’T JOIN US FOR THIS EVENT.
MONDAY, JUNE 2ND @ 6:00PM IN BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS
DONALD CLARK WILL BE SIGNING HIS NEW BOOK “AUTHORS AND POETS WHO CELEBRATE THE EARTH: NATURE’S WRITERS, MENTORED BY THE LAND”
Officer Brody Young of Moab, Utah will be sharing his heroic story of faith and survival with us at Star Hall on Tuesday, June 10th at 7pm. This event is FREE to the public.
Join us for a live music event in the store with Roger Ramsey!
Friday, May 9th @ 7pm
Roger Ramsey is a western-country songwriter based out of Southwest Virginia, by way of the Northeastern riverlands. His songs echo the bygone era of true frontiersmen, encapsulating life at the foot of the Rocky Mountains through rose-colored tones and vaquero traditions. Understated, timeless stories are translated into gentle ballads that speak freely– to those on the open range and within the concrete jungle, alike. While living life on the highway– working as a busker, a chuckwagon cook, and a ranch hand – Ramsey shared his music and collaborated with acts like Amythyst Kiah , Jon Langston , Camp Howard , Adam Bolt and Boy Named Banjo. Now, as a Troubadour of the American West, he seeks to share these stories with others through his guitar and his voice.
Come check out Back of Beyond Books’ booth at the annual Green River Rocks Geology Festival in Green River, Utah!
Saturday, April 5th, 2025 from 9am-4pm
Join us for a weekend of free field trips with Utah’s finest geologists, paleontologists, and archaeological conservationists. Meet the organizations that preserve and protect our public lands while discovering a bounty of rocks and minerals from vendors at our pop-up market outside the John Wesley Powell River History Museum.
Local author Brooke Williams presents his latest book “Encountering Dragonfly: Notes on the Practice of Re-enchantment”.
Wednesday, May 14th @ 7:00PM
Join us for Music in the back of Back of Beyond with D Jean – Baptiste who will be sharing their eclectic array of folk, electronic, and contemporary rock influences to create an electro-acoustic melange of debris and hoarded things from which to draw energy, presented in their most transcendent forms.
Be sure to stop in the store Thursday, May 22nd anytime between 5-7pm for a meet and greet with Roderick Nash! He’ll be in the store signing copies of his book “Wilderness and the American Mind”.
Friday, May 23rd @ 6:30pm
Grand County Public Library
Join author and poet Maggie Dewane for a nature-inspired poetry workshop. Maggie will discuss the benefits of nature journaling and guide participants through using haiku poetry as a tool of nature-based creative expression. By the end of the workshop, participants will have written their own haiku drawing inspiration from their favorite places. Maggie will also discuss her book, Haiku and Hope: 50 States of Climate Change, an exploration of the U.S. — places beloved and unfamiliar — and the changes to our homes we are likely to see, as well as some of the good work being done to combat climate change.
Moab’s Uranium Boom: A Story That Shaped the World
Join the Moab Museum on Monday, March 25, at 6:30 PM at Star Hall as we welcome Tom Zoellner, author of Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World. Zoellner will explore how the 1952 uranium discovery south of Moab catapulted our town into global significance—for better or worse.
This is the first program in conjunction with our newest exhibition, U92: Moab’s Uranium Legacy. Don’t miss this insightful discussion!
Suggested donation: $15 (available online or at the door)
https://moabmuseum.org/
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After an upstate New York childhood and a bartending stint in New Orleans’ French Quarter, seasonal resort work led R. E. Burrillo to the desert Southwest, whose redrock landscapes were a source of stability through mental and physical illness. In The Backwoods of Everywhere, archaeologist Burrillo excavates his past, examining Indigenous and tourist cultures, the complexities of American archaeology, and what it means to be a local. In the vein of Bill Bryson, Tim Cahill, and Ellen Meloy, Burrillo’s is a fresh voice in humor-spiked nature writing and cultural commentary.
Originally published over twenty-five years ago, Stone Desert brings the wonder and wildness of one of our nation’s most geologically and culturally unique national parks to readers everywhere. With a new introduction by the author, this edition includes Craig Childs’s original journal—written over a winter in Canyonlands National Park and complete with pen-and-ink sketches—from which Stone Desert originated. Join Childs as he hikes the high mesas, navigates the winding canyons, and witnesses the ancient rock art of Utah’s most inscrutable and remote slickrock desert.
Suzanne Roberts is the author of the award-winning essay collection Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (March 2022), the award-winning travel memoir in essays Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (2020), and the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award), as well as four books of poems. Named “The Next Great Travel Writer” by National Geographic’s Traveler, Suzanne’s work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays and included in The Best Women’s Travel Writing. Suzanne holds a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno, teaches in the low residency MFA program in creative writing at UNR-Tahoe, and splits her time between South Lake Tahoe, California and an old green van named Shrek.
Amy Irvine is the author of numerous essays and four nonfiction books addressing environmental, Indigenous and feminist concerns. She is a contributing editor for Orion Magazine, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Outside, Orion, Pacific Standard, Best American Science & Nature Writing, and Best American Food Writing. Her first memoir, Trespass, received the Orion Book Award, and the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award. Her second memoir, Almost Animal, is forthcoming by Spiegel & Grau in Spring 2023. Irvine, a Mountainview MFA alumnus, lives, writes, and teaches off-grid on a remote mesa in southwest Colorado.
Please join Back of Beyond Books in New Mexico this St. Patrick’s Day weekend!
Back of Beyond Books will be present at this event to sell copies of Brinkley’s new book, Silent Spring Revolution.
