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
Radio Bookclub: Blake Crouch ‘Recursion’
Blake Crouch joins us at the Radio Bookclub to talk about his latest science-fiction thriller Recursion, which has at its heart False Memory Syndrome — a mysterious affliction that drives its victims…
00:30:18 |
Thu 25 Jul 2019
Radio Bookclub: Sarah Blake ‘The Guest Book’
Sarah Blake joins us at the Radio Bookclub in June to talk about her latest work The Guest Book, a novel about three generations of the power Milton family and their vacation home on an island in Mai…
00:30:28 |
Thu 27 Jun 2019
Radio Bookclub: Peter Heller’s “The River”
Peter Heller’s latest novel The River tells the tale of Jack and Wynn, two college students on a wilderness canoe trip. The book is a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and vi…
00:30:18 |
Thu 23 May 2019
Radio Bookclub: Gregory Hill and ‘Zebra Skin Shirt’
Our April selection is Zebra Skin Shirt, A Strattford County Yarn, the third book in Colorado author Greg Hill’s trilogy that includes East of Denver and The Lonesome Trials of Johnny Riles, previous…
00:32:26 |
Thu 25 Apr 2019
Afterhours at the Bookclub: Gregory Hill
Author Greg Hill tells us more about the process of writing the Strattford County trilogy and the soundtrack he composed to accompany the Zebra Skin Shirt audio book. Gregory Hill lives, writes, and …
00:25:22 |
Thu 25 Apr 2019
Radio Bookclub: Mark Mayer – The Aerlialists
Our March selection is Aerialists, a new collection of short stories from Colorado author Mark Mayer. This is a collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits…
00:29:39 |
Thu 28 Mar 2019
Afterhours at the Bookclub: Mark Mayer
Author Mark Mayer tells us more about the process of writing short stories and some of the real Colorado locations featured in Aerialists. Hear the broadcast interview with Mark Mayer.[…]
00:23:12 |
Thu 28 Mar 2019
Radio Book Club: Pam Houston – Deep Creek – Finding Hope in the High Country
A special edition of the Radio Bookclub featuring author Pam Houston speaking about her memoir Deep Creek – Finding Hope in the High Country. This interview was recorded in front of a live audience a…
00:48:52 |
Mon 25 Mar 2019
Afterhours at the Bookclub: Laird Hunt
Author Laird Hunt tells us more about the process of writing his latest novel In the House in the Dark of the Woods and the fine line between writing a fairy tale and a horror story. Hear the broad…
00:25:10 |
Thu 28 Feb 2019
Radio Bookclub: Laird Hunt and “In the House of the Dark of the Woods”
Our February 28th selection is In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt. This is part horror story, part fairy tale, set in Puritanical New England. This is Laird’s third visit, he joined …
00:30:22 |
Thu 28 Feb 2019
Radio Bookclub: Mad Boy
Denver author Nick Arvin sets his latest book Mad Boy during the war of 1812. The young protagonist is young Henry Phipps who is on a quest to realize his dying mother’s last wish: to be buried at se…
00:32:03 |
Thu 24 Jan 2019
Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub: Nick Arvin – Mad Boy
Denver author Nick Arvin tells us more about the process of writing his latest novel Mad Boy and talks about the challenges and opportunities in writing historical fiction and shares how he balances …
00:30:53 |
Thu 24 Jan 2019
After Hours at the Radio Bookclub: How to Set Yourself on Fire
Listen to more of our conversation with Michelle Dotter, the editor and publisher of Dzanc Books. Listen to our broadcast interview. The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Bou…
00:26:57 |
Thu 27 Dec 2018
Best Books of the Year 2018
Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer, Liesl Freudenstein, head of children’s books at the Boulder Bookstore and Nicole Sullivan of the Book Bar in Denver join Maeve Conran of KGNU in the studio to share the…
00:30:01 |
Wed 12 Dec 2018
Radio Bookclub: Rebecca Makkai – The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai joins us in the radio bookclub to talk about her new novel The Great Believers, that chronicles the AIDS epidemic from its outbreak to the present through the lens of a group of friend…
00:29:14 |
Mon 03 Dec 2018
After Hours at the Radio Bookclub: Cynthia Swanson
Listen to more of our conversation with local author Cynthia Swanson about the Glass Forest. Listen to our broadcast interview. The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bo…
00:25:50 |
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Radio Bookclub: Cynthia Swanson – The Glass Forest
The November selection for the Radio Bookclub is The Glass Forest by local author Cynthia Swanson which tells the story of three women whose lives are interconnected in different ways. We first meet …
00:29:07 |
Thu 22 Nov 2018
After Hours at the Radio Bookclub: Leif Enger
Hear more of the conversation with Leif Enger as he describes life in small-town America and the joys to be had in watching classic movies. Listen to our broadcast interview. The Radio Bookclub i…
00:14:13 |
Thu 25 Oct 2018
Radio Bookclub: Leif Enger – Virgil Wander
The October selection for the Radio Book Club is Leif Enger’s new novel Virgil Wander. This is the first novel in ten years from the award-winning, million-copy bestselling author of Peace Like a Riv…
00:30:37 |
Thu 25 Oct 2018
After Hours at the Radio Book Club: Marcia Douglas
Listen to more of the conversation with Marcia Douglas in our After Hours edition, in which she talks about growing up in Jamaica and the legacy of Bob Marley and his music and the influence of regga…
00:30:59 |
Thu 27 Sep 2018
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