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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Host Bob Kustra interviews Anderson about his book about the complex reasons behind MIddle East upheavals.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:58
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Glenn Frankel, author of "High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic."

  • Added: Sep 11, 2017
  • Length: 30:21
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A special edition of our show, featuring Bob Kustra's conversation with former Idaho Governor and Secretary of State Cecil Andrus, who died Aug. 24...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy about her bestseller about two brothers, a kidnapping and a mother's quest.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 30:31
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Lyanda Lynn Haupt about her book, "Mozart's Starling."

  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 30:31
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Host Bob Kustra talks with John Dvorak about the science, history and lore of eclipses.

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 30:31
  • Purchases: 2
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Mary Ellen Hannibal about the contributions made by ordinary people to scientific discovery.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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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: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Shawn Vestal about his debut novel.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Elizabeth Letts about the true story of a daring U.S. mission to rescue the priceless stallions captured by the Nazis.

  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:16
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Host Bob Kustra interviews historian H.W. Brands about his book about MacArthur and Truman.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 30:01
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Host Bob Kustra talks with New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer about the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 30:05
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Alden about his book about how America got left behind in the global economy.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews New York Times columnist David Brooks about his bestselling book.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 30:29
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Greg Mitchell, author of "The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films that the JFK White House Tri...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Charles Fountain, author of "The Betrayal: the 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball."

  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Noah Isenberg, author of “We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie.”

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Marc Levinson,, author of “An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy.”

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Aaron David Miller, author of "The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President."

  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 30:31
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy, author of "Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South."

  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 30:00