Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSomia Sadiq, "Gajarah" (GFB, 2025)
With stunning lyricism, Somia Sadiq's Gajarah (GFB, 2025) tells the story of a fearless woman torn between two worlds-Pakistan and Canada-whose life …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Stephanie Reents, "We Loved to Run" (Hogarth, 2025)
At Frost, a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts, the runners on the women’s cross country team have their sights set on the 1992 New England …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Daria Lavelle, "Aftertaste" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
In Aftertaste (Simon & Schuster, 2025) Konstantin Duhovny’s father died when he was young, and his mother is too anguished to raise him, so he raise…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Caitlin Galway, "A Song for Wildcats: Stories" (Dundurn Press, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Caitlin Galway about her short fiction collection, A Song for Wildcats (Dundurn Press, 2025).
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6 months, 3 weeks ago
Michael Kardos, "Fun City Heist" (Severn House, 2025)
Mo Melnick has perfect pitch, which didn’t help him in his career as a drummer, but he used to be in a rock band and now his job is sitting on the Je…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Eileen Myles, "Pathetic Literature" (Grove Press, 2022)
Episode 135
“Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature (Grove Press, 2022), a breathtak…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Emily Hunt Kivel, "Dwelling" (FSG, 2025)
Episode 192
The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did the ending begin? Perhaps when Evie’s mother died, or when her father died soon after…
7 months ago
Yvonne Blomer, "Death of Persephone: A Murder" (Caitlin Press, 2024)
Episode 190
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Yvonne Blomer about her stunning narrative poetry, Death of Persephone: A Murder (Caitlin Press,…
7 months ago
Aviva Rubin, "White: A Novel" (RE: Books, 2024)
Sarah Cartell, who grew up in a White Supremacist family controlled by a violent grandfather who preaches hate and violence, learns from books and a …
7 months ago
Sharon White, "If the Owl Calls" (WTAW Press, 2025)
Episode 556
As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the …
7 months, 1 week ago