Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLesley Chamberlain, "The Mozhaisk Road" (Austin Macauley, 2025)
In The Mozhaisk Road (Austin Macauley, 2025) the time is 1978 and Moscow is still the capital of a Communist country. The political police contin…
5 months ago
Mia Tsai, "The Memory Hunters" (Erewhon Books, 2025)
Mia Tsai’s novel The Memory Hunters centers Kiana Strade, Key, a reckless young archaeologist and religious figure, who is capable of diving deeper i…
5 months, 1 week ago
Katie Welch, "Ladder to Heaven" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadert speaks with Kamloops, BC author Katie Welch about her novel, Ladder to Heaven (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025).
In 204…
5 months, 1 week ago
Linda Wilgus, "The Sea Child" (Ballantine, 2026)
Cornwall, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was best known for its smuggling. The combination of an insular and impoverished countryside, a…
5 months, 1 week ago
Booksellers Best of 2025
Episode 194
Lisa Swayze has been the General Manager at Buffalo Street Books for 8 years and will transition to becoming the Executive Director of the bookstore’…
6 months ago
Sean Minogue, "Prodigals" (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Sean Minogue about this play, Prodigals (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025).
When a big-city dreamer …
6 months ago
David Elias, "Into the D-Ark" (Radiant Press, 2025)
Episode 564
In this NBN episode, NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with acclaimed Manitoba author David Elias about his new novel, Into the D/Ark (Radiant Press, 20…
6 months, 1 week ago
Brad Smith, "Billy Crawford's Double Play" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Brad Smith about his new novel, Billy Crawford's Double Play (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025).
Everything …
6 months, 1 week ago
Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)
The landscape of comedy has undergone a seismic shift in recent years with an increasing number of female comedians breaking through to mainstream a…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Diane Botnick, "Becoming Sarah" (She Writes Press, 2025)
Sarah Vogel was born in Auschwitz and liberated at age three, but she has no memories of being there and nobody to tell her the story of her birth or…
6 months, 2 weeks ago