KGNU Radio Book Club

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 us previously to talk about Neverhome and The Evening Road.   Hear more of the conversation on our Afterhours edition. […]

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 sea, surrounded by her family. Not an easy task considering Henry’s ne’er-do-well father is in debtor’s prison […]

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 his day job as an engineer with being a novelist.   Listen to our broadcast interview. [bookclub-podcast]   New! Listen on Stitcher […]

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 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 […]

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 their favorite books of 2018 in our annual end of year Best Books of the year show. This show was broadcast on KGNU […]

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 friends in 1980s Chicago and traces its aftermath 30 years later. December 1st was World Aids Day and The Great […]

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 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 […]

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 Angie Glass who is living an idyllic life in her Wisconsin hometown at 1960. She is a new mom of 21 years […]

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 is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore. Every month Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Bookstore, selects a book to […]

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 River follows the inhabitants of a Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart. https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/kgnu-news/2018/10/10-25-18%20Leif%20Enger.mp3   Hear more of the […]

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 reggae music on her writing.   The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore. Every month Arsen Kashkashian, […]

Marcia Douglas, who teaches creative writing at CU Boulder, joins us at the Radio Book Club to talk about her latest novel The Marvelous Equations of the Dread – A Novel in Bass Riddim, which imagines Bob Marley reincarnated as homeless man who sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in […]

The Jaipur Literature Festival runs from September 21st to September 23rd 2018 at the Boulder Public Library. It’s the fourth year that the festival has come to Boulder. In this edition of the After Hours at the Radio Book Club Podcast co-hosts Maeve Conran of KGNU and Arsen Kashkashian of the Boulder Bookstore speak with […]

The Jaipur Literature Festival runs from September 21st to September 23rd 2018 at the Boulder Public Library. It’s the fourth year that the festival has come to Boulder. In this special After Hours at the Radio Book Club, co-hosts Maeve Conran of KGNU and Arsen Kashkashian of the Boulder Bookstore catch up with Amitava Kumar, […]

Author Karen Auvinen joins us for Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub in which she talks about her new book Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living, and her attachment to mountain living. Auvinen also shares stories of her time as the cookbook buyer at Boulder’s iconic Peppercorn store.   Listen to our broadcast interview. The […]

Local author Karen Auvinen joins us at the radio bookclub to talk about her new book Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living, a record of her experiences living alone at 8,500 feet. After a cabin fire incinerates every word she has ever written and all of her possessions — except for her dog Elvis […]

Hear more of the conversation with Rebecca Makkai as she talks more about her new novel The Great Believers and the AIDS crisis and its impact on Chicago in the 1980s. https://kgnu-news.objects-us-east-1.dream.io/2018/07/07-26-18%20AfterHoursBookclubMakkai.mp3   Listen to our broadcast interview. The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore. Every month Arsen Kashka...

Ramona Ausubel joins us in the radio bookclub to talk about her new collection of short stories Awayland, a collection of globe spanning short stories that explore love, childhood, and parenthood with an electric mix of humor and emotion. This interview broadcast on KGNU on Thursday June 28 at 9am.   Hear more of the […]

Hear more of the conversation with Ramona Ausubel as she talks more about the process of writing her short story collection Awayland and touches on a variety of subjects from the prospect of humans colonizing Mars, to the responsibility of choosing a name for your child.   Listen to our broadcast interview. The Radio Bookclub […]

We spoke more with author Elizabeth Hyde about her new novel Go Ask Fannie at a live taping of After Hours at the Radio Bookclub at the Boulder Bookstore on April 28th and we took audience questions. We also spoke with Stephanie Schindhelm, marketing manager at the bookstore on the recent award where Boulder Bookstore was recognized by […]

Elizabeth Hyde joins us in the radio bookclub to talk about her new novel Go Ask Fannie. This interview was taped at the Boulder Bookstore on April 28th as part of the bookstore’s celebrations of Independent Bookseller Day.   Hear more of the conversation with Elizabeth Hyde, and hear why the Boulder Bookstore was chosen as […]

Author Tayari Jones talks more about her new book An American Marriage as well as growing up in Atlanta in this After Hours at the Radio Bookclub edition. Hear more of the conversation with Tayari Jones in our Bookclub edition.     The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore. Every month Arsen Kashkashian, […]

In May we bring you a special extra edition of the Radio Bookclub with author Tayari Jones talking about her new book An American Marriage which explores what happens to a marriage when someone is incarcerated.   Hear more of the conversation with Tayari Jones in our After Hours edition. The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore. […]

Musician and author Willie Vlautin joined us at the radio bookclub for our April installment to talk about his new book Don’t Skip Out on Me. Vlautin writes about working class protagonists trying to get by in America in his novels and also his songs (Richmond Fontaine, The Delines.) His latest book follows protagonist Horace Hopper as […]

Author and musician Willy Vlautin breaks out his guitar in this After Hours at the Radio Bookclub edition, playing songs and talking about the relationship between music and writing.   Hear the broadcast interview The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore. Every month Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder […]