Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBefore He Was Red with Christina Ståhle (Pebble Press, 2025)
Episode 1961
Few things delight a historical novelist more than true stories of forgotten individuals remembered, if they are remembered at all, for one dramatic …
7 hours ago
Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey: Doctor, Humanitarian, Writer with Jonathan Cole (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 1960
Chekhov liked to joke that he was a doctor by profession and merely did literary work in his spare time. Behind the joke lies an intriguing truth. We…
1 day, 7 hours ago
Bullet Holes with Norrin M Ripsman (Next Chapter, 2026)
Episode 1959
Norrin M. Ripsman (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1997) is the Monroe J. Rathbone Distinguished Professor of International Relations at Lehigh Un…
3 days, 7 hours ago
The Rhyl Poster with Tom McCarthy (NYRB, 2026)
Episode 1958
Describing the plot of a Tom McCarthy novel requires some caveats about the scale and the projection of the thing. One might begin with a description…
6 days, 7 hours ago
Tom Lin, "Babylon, South Dakota" (Little Brown and Co, 2026)
Episode 1939
When Saul Keng Hsiu and his wife, Mei Lee, move from China to the United States to take possession of a 160-acre homestead bequeathed to them by a di…
1 week ago
Sutra Americana with Monona Wali (U Wisconsin Press, 2026)
Episode 1957
Sharma and Sushila were ahead of their time in marrying for love and across castes in early 1950s India. When their oldest daughter is nine, they lea…
1 week, 1 day ago
American Flash Fiction: Brilliant Brevities & Miniature Masterpieces
Episode 1956
Wednesday, Oct. 7—Over in the blink of an eye, the best flash fiction lingers long after we finish reading it. The incandescent works collected in Li…
1 week, 3 days ago
The Instrument Must Not Matter with Christine Fischer Guy (Buckrider Books, 2026)
Episode 1954
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Christine Fischer Guy about her novel, The Instrument Must Not Matter (Wolsak & Wynn, 2026).
She…
1 week, 6 days ago
Radioland with Matt Cahill (Buckrider Books, 2022)
Episode 1955
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Matt Cahill about Radioland, his mesmerizing 2022 literary thriller where music, fame and magic …
1 week, 6 days ago
The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories with Judith Dancoff (Finishing Line Press, 2024)
Episode 1947
The seven stories and novella that comprise The Calamity of Desire, Judith Dancoff’s debut collection of short fiction, each focus on a famous painte…
2 weeks, 1 day ago