2021 Fall Read

I’m Hannes Zacharias from Lenexa for High Plains Public Radio, Radio Reader’s Book Club. The book is “Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River” by Max McCoy.As George Frazier says “McCoy floats through a valley haunted by gold-not only in mines along the Continental Divide, but also in corporate wheat farms that bleed the Ogallala aquifer”

This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR, Radio Reader’s Book Club. The book is “Elevations” by Max McCoy.Where do you go with meandering rivers, one of water - sometimes - and another of thought? Journalist Max McCoy follows the track of the Arkansas River...

Hi I’m Valerie a radio reader from Topeka and I just finished Elevations: a Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River by Max McCoy. The volume was chosen as a 2019 Kansas Notable book and I can see why. I really enjoyed this book. Elevations fits into this fall’s Radio Readers theme of Rivers: Meandering Meanings as it is an intimate telling of the histories of the land and communities surrounding McCoy’s by-water-voyage of the Arkansas River...

I’m Hannes Zacharias from Lenexa for High Plains Public Radio, Radio Reader’s Book Club. The book is “Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River” by Max McCoy.As Patrick Dobson says, “Max McCoy’s Elevations is a sensitive, in-depth view of a river and its human and natural history…as fluid and adsorbing as the river itself.”

Hello, Radio Readers – I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas. It’s great to be back with our Fall 2021 Book Read: “Rivers and Meandering Meanings.”In his genre-defying book Elevations, Max McCoy, who directs the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State, recounts his journey – by kayak, on foot, and by Jeep—following the Arkansas River from its headwaters in Leadville, Colorado, through southwestern and on to southeastern Kansas.

I've been asked to say a few words about my book, "Elevations." It was published in 2018 by the University Press of Kansas and the subtitle is, "A Personal Exploration of the Ark River." That just about says it all.

I’m Hannes Zacharias from Lenexa for High Plains Public Radio, Radio Reader’s Book Club. The book is “Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River” by Max McCoy.As Dan Flores says “it is a Blue Highway kind of book about a swipe of America…a riverline biography”.The book encourages me to reflect on my similar two solo kayak trips on the “Ark,” -- one in 1976, the other in 2018.

I’m Denise Low reading poems about rivers as part of The Radio Readers Book Club’s 2021 Fall Read Rivers – Meandering Meaning. Rivers make me meander back to some of the first poetry I ever read, like this poem about the Nile by an unnamed Egyptian, translated by Ezra Pound,Nothing, nothing can keep me from my loveStanding on the other shore...

This is Leslie VonHolten traveling through the High Plains of Kansas, with another HPPR Radio Readers Book Byte.I love the metaphor of rivers when we consider our life experiences, the way our days and our stories ebb and flow. Some spots are rough, too fast for us to steer the kayak. Others are languid, slow and easy. And like life, we never know what is around the bend.

I’m Hannes Zacharias from Lenexa for High Plains Public Radio, Radio Reader’s Book Club. The book is “Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River” by Max McCoy.This book, written by Max in 2018, covers his travels on the upper Arkansas River and his 742-mile journey through Colorado and Kansas…