Radio Book Club – KGNU Community Radio

play_arrow After Hours at the Radio Book Club: Pam Houston Maeve Conran Listen to more of our conversation with author Pam Houston who answers questions from the audience at the live taping of the Radio Book Club at the Boulder Public Library on October 15th, 2026. Listen to our broadcast interview with Pam Houston where she talks about her new book Animals Taught Me Everything. Subscribe to our Radio Book Club Series on iTunes to get new editions and web-only content. Also on Spotify and Stitcher. The Radio Book Club 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.

play_arrow Radio Book Club: Animals Taught Me Everything Maeve Conran The October selection for the Radio Book Club is “Animals Taught Me Everything” by Pam Houston. The book explores the profound lessons that Pam Houston has learned from animals, both domestic and wild—from her beloved wolf hounds and donkeys at her ranch in Creed, Colorado, to the horses she has ridden across the Icelandic highlands and a herd of zebras at a watering hole in Namibia. This episode was recorded at the Boulder Public Library on October 15th, 2026. This interview will be broadcast on KGNU at 9 am on Wednesday, November 4, 2026. Listen to our special podcast Afterhours at the Radio Book Club, where Pam Houston answers questions from the audience. Subscribe to our Radio Book Club Series on iTunes to get new editions and web-only content. Also on Spotify and Stitcher. 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.

play_arrow Radio Book Club: The Correspondent Maeve Conran The September selection for the Radio Book Club is The Correspondent by author Virginia Evans. The book which follows the life of a retired lawyer Sybil, through her personal letters and emails, won the 2026 women’s prize for fiction. Today’s conversation was recorded on September 17, 2026, at the annual Boulder Library Foundation gala. This interview was broadcast on KGNU at 9 am on Thursday, September 24, 2026. Listen to our special podcast Afterhours at the Radio Book Club, where Virginia Evans answers questions from the audience. Subscribe to our Radio Book Club Series on iTunes to get new editions and web-only content. Also on Spotify and Stitcher. 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.

play_arrow After Hours at the Radio Book Club: Claire Boyles Maeve Conran Listen to more of our conversation with author Claire Boyles who talks more about some of the characters in her novel Appraisals, especially Paul, a billionaire who is buying up land and water rights in Weld County. She also talks about her experience as a writer, including the difference between writing screenplays and writing a novel. Listen to our broadcast interview with Claire Boyles where she talks about her new book Appraisals. Subscribe to our Radio Book Club Series on iTunes to get new editions and web-only content. Also on Spotify and Stitcher. The Radio Book Club 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.

play_arrow Radio Book Club: Appraisals Maeve Conran The August selection for the Radio Book Club is Appraisals by author Claire Boyles. The book follows four generations of women tied to a family farm in Weld County, Colorado. The story is set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crash and talks about land and family and what it takes to hold onto both. In Appraisals we meet Flora, whose granddaughter Maggie is a committed farmer, trying to pass her love of the land to her teenage daughter Ozzie. The family’s love for each other is put to the test when Maggie’s husband Fish takes a job with an oil and gas company, testing their marriage. This interview was broadcast on KGNU at 9 am on Thursday, August 27, 2026. Listen to our special podcast Afterhours at the Radio Book Club, where Claire Boyles talks more about the themes explored in Appraisals. Subscribe to our Radio Book Club Series on iTunes to get new editions and web-only content. Also on Spotify and Stitcher. 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.