Welcome to Reader’s Corner, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by Boise State University president emeritus and former Illinois Lieutenant Governor Bob Kustra. Reader's Corner features lively conversations with leading writers, including Pulitzer, National Book Award, and Nobel Prize winners and many best-selling authors. Listen each week for thoughtful interviews about issues and ideas that matter.
Upcoming Programs:
- December 25 & 27: IF YOU LIVED HERE, YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW: WHY WE TRADED THE COMMUTING LIFE FOR A LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, by Christopher Ingraham (encore)
- January 1 & 3, 2020: COUNTRY MUSIC: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns (Part I encore)
- January 8 & 10: COUNTRY MUSIC: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns (Part II encore)
- January 15 & 17: EAT THE BUDDA: LIFE AND DEATH IN A TIBETAN TOWN, the award-winning book by Barbara Demick
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Ty Seidule's book, Robert E Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, offers a personal challenge to the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy, and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed. -
"Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration" examines the continent’s fraught history of repression and resistance and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.
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This is an encore presentation.The Imperiled Ocean is an exploration of the earth's last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories that explore a…
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In her bestselling memoir, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains, Ariana Neumann offers a moving story of personal discovery and a portrait of living, dying, and surviving in war-torn Berlin.
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Lydia Millet’s newest novel, A Children’s Bible, was nominated for the National Book Award, and called a masterly allegory for the climate crisis. The…
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This interview was originally broadcast in May, 2020. On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec…
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In her latest novel, The Mountains Sing, author Nguyen Phan Que Mai tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the…
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This is an encore presentation.In Erica Ferencik’s hypnotic, violent, and unsparing thriller -- named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the…
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In his latest book, Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party, Marc J. Johnson reexamines the defeat of…
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In an era of rising corporate profits and anemic wage gains, low-paid jobs and blighted blue-collar communities have become an all-too-common feature of…
