KGNU Radio Book Club

Our March selection for the radio bookclub was David Philipps and his new book Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang. David Philipps joined us on the radio bookclub on Thursday March 22nd at 9am.   Hear more of the conversation with David in Afterhours at the Bookclub The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between […]

David Philipps spoke more about his research into wild horses for his book Wild Horse Country, as well as his work as a New York Times reporter covering veterans issues and the military in this edition of After Hours at the Radio Bookclub.   Listen to our broadcast interview here. The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between […]

Hear more of the conversation with Finn Murphy as he describes life on the open road and his experiences as a high-end mover and long haul trucker, which he writes about in his new memoir The Long Haul. Finn talks about what he sees from his vantage point, high up in a truck as well […]

In his first book The Long Haul, Boulder author Finn Murphy, chronicles his adventures as a long-haul trucker who has covered more than a million miles packing, loading, and hauling people’s belongings all over America. Finn joined us at the radio bookclub to talk about his observations of America, families and things we keep.

Author Matthew Sullivan shares real-life stories from his experience as a bookseller at the Tattered Cover in Denver, that inspired him for his new novel, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore. https://kgnu-news.objects-us-east-1.dream.io/2018/01/01-25-18%20AfterHoursMatthewSullivan.mp3   KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore are partners for our radio bookclub. Every month Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer...

The January 2018 selection for the radio book club was Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore. Author Matthew Sullivan draws on his experience as a bookseller at the Tattered Cover in Denver for his new novel about a Denver bookstore clerk who, in the wake of the suicide of one of her regular patrons, must […]

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 White Plains, just published through Conundrum, to talk about publishing in the Rocky Mountain West. https://kgnu-news.objects-us-east-1.dream.io/2017/12/12-21-17%20After%20Hours%20Bookclub.mp3   The radio...

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 west to find himself in Colorado. https://kgnu-news.objects-us-east-1.dream.io/2017/12/12-21-17%20bookclub.mp3   KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore are partners for our radio bookclub. Every month Arsen Kas...

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 Bookstore, co-hosts of the Radio Bookclub, to reflect on more than 40 years of book buying and book selling.     […]

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 and book seller at the Tattered Cover, join us to review the top sellers and their personal favorite books of 2017.

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 bookclub. Every month Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Bookstore, will select a book to inspire the KGNU listening audience to read along together. We will […]

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-old truck driver, Ben’s route takes him back and forth across one of the most desolate and beautiful regions of the Utah desert. https://kgnu-news.objects-us-east-1.dream.io/2017/11/11-23-17%20Anderso...

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 Bookstore and is co-hosted by KGNU News Director Maeve Conran and Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Bookstore. Each month, Arsen selects a book to […]

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 creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical […]

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”, which movingly document both Indians in India and the Indian-American immigrant experience. His latest book, “A Life of Adventure and Delight”, plunges the reader into the unpredictable […]

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”, which movingly document both Indians in India and the Indian-American immigrant experience. His latest book, “A Life of Adventure and Delight”, plunges the reader into the unpredictable […]

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 Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Prize and the Mumbai Film Festival Word to Screen Market, is currently being developed into a screenplay. […]

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, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. In After Hours at the Bookclub from the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival […]

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 buyer at the Boulder Bookstore, selects a book to inspire listeners to read along together. The author will then join us in-studio for a discussion.[…]

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 untouched—not the boy who loved her too much; not the girl who wanted her perfect life; not the officer assigned to investigate her murder. In the […]

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 Rhodesia), recognizes the ongoing state-supported violence inflicted on Native Americans.[…]

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 cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson who find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their […]

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, and explains how nature reacts in the aftermath of flames. […]

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 bookclub is a special podcast that accompanies the monthly radio bookclub.

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 his new book Celine.