KGNU Radio Book Club
The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore. Every month, Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Bookstore, selects a book to inspire listeners to read along together. The author will then join Maeve Conran and Arsen Kashkashian for a discussion that airs the fourth Thursday of every month at 9am.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 215
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
After Hours at the Book Club: Edward Hamlin
This month we’re introducing a new segment called After Hours at the Book Club, where we have an extended conversation with the author. This month Edward Hamlin talks about adventures in Belfast and…
00:22:05 |
Thu 25 Aug 2016
Radio Book Club: Stephen Graham Jones and Mongrels.
The July selection for the bookclub is Mongrels by Boulder based author Stephen Graham Jones. It’s a book that’s set in the deep South, about a teenage boy as he comes of age under the care of his au…
00:30:04 |
Thu 21 Jul 2016
Radio Book Club: The Finest Traditions of My Calling
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. Nu…
00:31:58 |
Wed 06 Jul 2016
Radio Book Club: “Father’s Day” Author Simon Van Booy
The May selection for the radio bookclub was Father’s Day by Simon Van Booy. The novel moves between past and present and weaves together the story of Harvey’s childhood on Long Island and her life …
00:29:18 |
Thu 26 May 2016
Radio Book Club: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock’s “The Smell of Other People’s Houses”
In this month’s Radio Book Club, we spoke with Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock about her debut Young Adult (YA) novel The Smell of Other People’s Houses. About the book: In Alaska, 1970, being a teenager here i…
00:32:22 |
Thu 28 Apr 2016
Radio Book Club: Gregory Hill and “The Lonesome Trials of Johnny Riles”
In this month’s bookclub, Denver author Gregory Hill joins KGNU’s Maeve Conran and Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Bookstore, to talk with them about his latest book The Lonesome Trials …
00:26:28 |
Thu 24 Mar 2016
Radio Bookclub: BK Loren joins us to talk about her latest novel Theft
On this month’s Radio Bookclub, BK Loren joins KGNU’s Maeve Conran and Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Bookstore to talk about her book Theft. About Theft: Willa Robbins is a master tr…
00:28:10 |
Thu 11 Feb 2016
January Radio Book Club: Western Lonesome Society by Robert McBrearty
McBrearty joined us live on Thursday January 7th to talk about his debut novel Western Lonesome Society. He has written three previous collections of stories. In this hilarious, poignant, over-the-…
00:25:48 |
Thu 07 Jan 2016
Radio Book Club – Hampton Sides: In The Kingdom of Ice
This month, Hampton Sides joins us to talk about his new book In The Kingdom of Ice, our first non-fiction Bookclub selection! KGNU is partnering with the Boulder Bookstore for our radio book club.…
00:29:11 |
Thu 03 Dec 2015
Bonnie Jo Campbell’s “Mothers, Tell Your Daughters”
On October 29th we spoke with Bonnie Jo Campbell about her new book of short stories, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters.
00:27:57 |
Thu 29 Oct 2015
Radio Book Club: Laura Pritchett and “Red Lightning”
This month on our Radio Book Club, Colorado author Laura Pritchett speaks with KGNU’s Maeve Conran and Arsen Kashkashian from The Boulder Bookstore to talk about her latest book “Red Lightning“. Ou…
00:29:00 |
Thu 24 Sep 2015
Radio Bookclub: Peter Heller’s “The Painter”
Peter Heller joined on August 20th to talk about his novel The Painter. KGNU is partnering with the Boulder Bookstore for our radio book club.
00:28:08 |
Thu 20 Aug 2015
Radio Book Club: Laird Hunt’s Neverhome
Laird Hunt joined us live Thursday July 16th, 2015 at 9am to discuss Neverhome. KGNU spoke with Hunt about the book in previously in December, 2014.
00:28:12 |
Thu 16 Jul 2015
Radio Book Club: TaraShea Nesbit’s “Wives of Los Alamos”
TaraShea Nesbit joined us live on KGNU on Thursday June 4th, 2015 to talk about The Wives of Los Alamos. “In 1943, families of mathematicians and scientists, escorted under high security, move to…
00:28:10 |
Wed 24 Jun 2015
Radio Book Club: Hannah Nordhaus and American Ghost
The first pick was American Ghost by Boulder author Hannah Nordhaus. We spoke with Nordhaus live on on April 30th 2015. Her last book was The Beekeepers Lament, a nonfiction look at a beekeeper and t…
00:29:43 |
Thu 30 Apr 2015
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