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
Afterhours at the Bookclub: David Hicks and White Plains
After Hours at the Radio Bookclub: Conundrum Press Caleb Seeling, publisher at Conundrum Press, joins Maeve Conran of KGNU, Arsen Kashkashian of the Boulder Bookstore, and David Hicks, author of Whit…
00:30:42 |
Fri 22 Dec 2017
Radio Bookclub: David Hicks and “White Plains”
David Hicks joins us to talk about his first novel White Plains which tells the story of Flynn Hawkins, an English literature professor who leaves an unhappy marriage and beloved children and heads w…
00:29:10 |
Fri 22 Dec 2017
After Hours at the Bookclub: Cathy Langer Reflects on a 4 Decade Spanning Career
Cathy Langer is getting ready to retire after 4 decades as a buyer at the iconic Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver. She joins KGNU’s Maeve Conran and Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Boo…
00:27:43 |
Tue 19 Dec 2017
Best Books of 2017
Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer of the Boulder Bookstore, Liesl Freudenstein – children’s buyer at the Boulder Bookstore and Cathy Langer, who is getting ready to retire after 4 decades as a book buyer…
00:33:58 |
Tue 05 Dec 2017
Afterhours at the Bookclub: James Anderson and “Never Open Desert Diner”
Our conversation with James Anderson about his debut novel “Never Open Desert Diner” continues. With Maeve Conran and Arsen Kashkashian. KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore are partners for our radio bo…
00:28:33 |
Thu 23 Nov 2017
Radio Bookclub: James Anderson and “Never Open Desert Diner”
The November selection for the radio bookclub is James Anderson’s Never Open Desert Diner. Ben Jones, the protagonist is on the verge of losing his small trucking company. A single, thirty-eight-year…
00:31:57 |
Thu 23 Nov 2017
Gabriel Tallent: Afterhours at the Book Club
Author Gabriel Tallent joins us for After Hours at the Radio Bookclub to further discuss his new novel My Absolute Darling. The radio bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookst…
00:22:58 |
Thu 26 Oct 2017
Radio Bookclub: Gabriel Tallent and “My Absolute Darling”
Our October selection is My Absolute Darling, the debut novel from Gabriel Tallent. It tells the story of 14 year old Turtle Alveston who roams the woods along the northern California coast. The cree…
00:30:13 |
Thu 26 Oct 2017
Afterhours at the Bookclub: Akhil Sharma
The September selection for the Bookclub is A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma. Sharma is an important voice in American fiction and the author of “An Obedient Father” and “Family Life”,…
00:15:44 |
Thu 28 Sep 2017
Radio Bookclub: Akhil Sharma and “A Life of Adventure and Delight”
The September selection for the Bookclub is A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma. Sharma is an important voice in American fiction and the author of “An Obedient Father” and “Family Life”,…
00:44:28 |
Thu 28 Sep 2017
After Hours at the Bookclub: ZEE JLF in Boulder – Saikat Majumdar
Saikat Majumdar is the author, most recently, of “Play House”, a novel about a young boy’s destructive obsession with theater and his mother’s life as a stage actress. The novel, a finalist for the B…
00:13:00 |
Mon 18 Sep 2017
After Hours at the Bookclub: ZEE JLF in Boulder – David Baron
David Baron, author of American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World, writes about an eclipse that happened in 1878 across the American West, d…
00:13:43 |
Mon 18 Sep 2017
Afterhours at the Bookclub: Danya Kukafka
More of the conversation with Danya Kukafka’s about her book Girl in Snow. The radio bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore and every month Arsen Kashkashian, head buy…
00:22:40 |
Thu 24 Aug 2017
Radio Bookclub – Danya Kukafka and “Girl In Snow”
The August selection for the radio bookclub is Danya Kukafka’s latest book Girl in Snow. When a beloved high schooler named Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her sleepy Colorado suburb is un…
00:31:44 |
Thu 24 Aug 2017
After Hours at the Bookclub: Alexandra Fuller
Hear more of the conversation with Alexandra Fuller as she describes her experiences on the Pine Ridge Reservation and how she, as an immigrant from an openly white supremacist country (Zimbabwe Rhod…
00:16:56 |
Thu 27 Jul 2017
Radio Bookclub: Alexandra Fuller and “Quiet Until The Thaw”
Alexandra Fuller is best known for her best-selling memoirs of her life growing up in Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Her latest book, Quiet Until the Thaw, is a novel that tells the tale of two Native American c…
00:32:05 |
Thu 27 Jul 2017
Radio Bookclub: Gary Ferguson and “Land on Fire”
Gary Ferguson’s new book is Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West. The award-winning nature writer brings to life the extraordinary efforts of those responsible for fighting wildfires…
00:31:23 |
Thu 22 Jun 2017
After Hours at the Bookclub: Gary Ferguson
After Hours at the Bookclub: Hear more of the conversation. Gary Ferguson joins us to further discuss his new book on the reality of wildfire in the western US. Land on Fire. After hours at the bookc…
00:24:07 |
Thu 22 Jun 2017
Radio Bookclub: Peter Heller and “Celine”
Peter Heller joined radio bookclub co-hosts Maeve Conran and Arsen Kashkashian for a live taping of the radio bookclub at the Boulder Bookstore in April for Independent Bookstore day. He discussed hi…
00:29:49 |
Thu 25 May 2017
Afterhours at the Bookclub: Peter Heller
Peter Heller talks about his mother, the inspiration for the title character in his new novel Celine, and her various encounters with Hollywood movie stars from Bruce Willis to Matthew McConaughey. A…
00:18:17 |
Thu 25 May 2017
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