Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Series produced by Boise State Public Radio

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Reader’s Corner with Bob Kustra features lively interviews with today’s leading writers about ideas and issues that matter today. Join us each week for thoughtful interviews centered around books on a broad range of topics, from world politics and scientific discovery to the best in literary fiction.

Bob Kustra, president of Boise State University, hosts this 30-minute weekly interview program featuring today's leading writers talking about ideas and issues that matter today. Reader's Corner airs weekly on KBSX 91.5 FM. Previous shows are online and available for podcast at http://boisestatepublicradio.org/programs/readers-corner. To listen to previous shows anytime, download our free player from the iTunes App Store.


171 Pieces

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Michele Gelfand, author of "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers"
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Bob Kustra interviews Michele Gelfand about her book "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers"

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Hampton Sides, author of "On Desperate Ground"
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Bob Kustra interviews Hampton Sides about his book "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle"

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
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John Wray, author of "Godsend"
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Bob Kustra interviews John Wray about his novel "Godsend"

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2019
  • Length: 30:16
  • Purchases: 1
Brendan Koerner, author of "The Skies Belong To Us"
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Bob Kustra Interviews Brendan Koerner about his book "The Skies Belong To Us"

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
  • Purchases: 1
Bethany McClean, author of "Saudi America"
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Bob Kustra interviews Bethany McClean about her book "Saudi America"

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 1
Manuel Pastor, author of "State of Resistance"
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Bob Kustra interviews Manuel Pastor about his book "State of Resistance" about California's past and how it can inform America's future.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2018
  • Length: 30:11
Meghan O'Sullivan, author of "Windfall"
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Bob Kustra interviews Meghan O'Sullivan about global energy and her book "Windfall"

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2018
  • Length: 30:06
  • Purchases: 1
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, authors of "How Democracies Die"
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An interview about the downfall of creeping authoritarianism in Europe and Latin America and insight how American democracy could be undermined.

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:16
  • Purchases: 1
Randall Fuller, author of "The Book That Changed America"
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Bob Kustra interviews Randall Fuller who's written an historical take on how Darwin's Theory of Evolution ignited leaders and thinkers in the US in...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Peter Brannen, author of "The Ends of the World"
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Bob Kustra speaks with Peter Brannen about Earth's mass-extinctions and piecing together the details with the world's leading paleontologists and g...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Scott Eyman, Author of "Hank & Jim" Part II
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Bob Kustra and Scott Eyman continue their conversation about the biography "Hank & Jim"

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Scott Galloway, author of "The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google"
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Bob Kustra talks with Scott Galloway about his book "The Four"

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 30:15
  • Purchases: 1
Soner Cagaptay, Author of "The New Sultan"
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Bob Kustra Speaks with Soner Cagaptay about his book "The New Sultan"

  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 30:22
Blaire Briody, author of "The New Wild West"
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Blaire Briody about her book "The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown"

  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 30:10
Lisa Servon, author of "The Unbanking of America"
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Lisa Servon about her book "The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Scott Anderson, author of "Fractured Lands"
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Scott Anderson about his book "Fractured Lands."

  • Added: Apr 18, 2018
  • Length: 30:10
Sally Bedell Smith, author of "Prince Charles"
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Host Bob Kustra interviews New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith about her biography of Prince Charles.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 30:02
Tom Nichols, author of "The Death of Expertise"
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Tom Nichols about his book about the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2018
  • Length: 30:05
Craig Johnson, author of "The Western Star"
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Craig Johnson about his bestselling series of books featuring Sheriff Longmire of Absaroka County.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 30:15
Nancy Koehn, author of "Forged in Crisis"
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Harvard historian Koehn about courageous leaders throughout history and the attributes they share.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 30:01

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