Bob Kustra

Reader's Corner

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Welcome to Reader's Corner, a weekly radio show hosted by Boise State University president emeritus Bob Kustra that features lively conversations with some of the nation's leading authors about issues and ideas that matter today. Support for this podcast comes from Saint Alphonsus Sports Medicine

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Interview With Tracy Kidder About His Book "The Strength In What Remains" 15.07.2011 28:30

Author of "Strength in What Remains"

Jason Turbow On His Book "The Baseball Codes" 27.05.2011 28:31

Jason Turbow is the author of "The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime"

Interview With Christopher McDougall About His Book "Born to Run" 25.03.2011 28:54

Author of "Born to Run" part I

Interview with Scott Simon 18.03.2011 29:36

Scott Simon is well known to public radio listeners as the host of NPR’s Weekend Edition. He also is the author of several well-received books, including, Baby We Were Meant For Each Other: In Praise of Adoption, published in 2010.

David Grann On His Bestseller "Lost City of Z" 11.02.2011 29:21

In 1925, former spy and acclaimed British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett walked into the Amazon rainforest in search of the fabled lost city of El Dorado — and disappeared. In the decades that followed, scores of adventurers tried, and failed, to retrace his steps. Many died. Others faced harrowing encounters with native tribes, poisoned arrows, cannibalism, dense rainforest, flesh-eating piranha...

Interview With Bruce Barcott Author Of "The Last Fight Of The Scarlet Macaw" 07.05.2010 29:32

Author of "The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird"

Interview With Scott Yenor 14.12.2007 29:32

Boise State political science professor, on the state of civic education.