This spring, Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colo., partnered with local radio station KGNU to start the KGNU Radio Book Club, Boulder Weekly reported. The book club is the brainchild of Boulder Book Store head buyer Arsen Kashkashian and KGNU news director Maeve Conran. Each month, Kashkashian chooses a book, and then several weeks later he joins Conran and the book's author on-air to discuss the title.
The club's first pick was American Ghost by Hannah Nordhaus, an author in the Boulder area, like most of the Kashkashian's selections so far. Most recently, Kashkashian and Conran had Peter Heller on to discuss his novel The Painter. In July, Conran and Kashkashian welcomed Laird Hunt to talk about his book Neverhome, and in early June TaraShea Nesbit discussed her novel The Wives of Los Alamos. The selection for next month is Red Lightning by Laura Pritchett, who will be in the studio on September 24. All of the book club's discussions are archived on KGNU's website, so readers can participate entirely at their own pace.