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Back to SearchJemimah Wei, "The Original Daughter" (Doubleday/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025)
Genevieve Yang, the protagonist of Jemimah Wei’s debut novel The Original Daughter (Doubleday/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025) works a dead-end job in Si…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Aisha Sasha John, "total: poems" (Random House, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Aisha Sasha John about her poetry collection, total: poems (McClelland & Stewart, 2025).
"John …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Taylor Byas, "Resting Bitch Face: Poems" (Catapult, 2025)
The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black fe…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Virginia Woolf, "The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories" (Princeton UP, 2025)
In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicli…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Barbara Stark-Nemon, "Isabela's Way: A Novel" (She Writes Press, 2025)
In early-seventeenth-century Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany, dangers are plentiful—especially for those of Jewish heritage. Non-Catholics have …
9 months ago
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, "Mutual Interest" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 184
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith is the author of the novels Mutual Interest (2025) and Glassworks, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel …
9 months ago
Zilla Jones, "The World So Wide" (Cormorant Books, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Zilla Jones about her debut novel, The World So Wide (Cormorant Books, 2025).
Felicity Alexander…
9 months ago
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, "The Creation of Half-Broken People" (House of Anansi, 2025)
In this NBN episode, NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu about her phenomenal novel, The Creation of Half-Broken People. (House…
9 months ago
Lucy Black, "A Quilting of Scars" (Now or Never Publishing, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews historical fiction legend Lucy E.M Black about her phenomenal new novel, A Quilting of Scars (Now…
9 months, 1 week ago
Karen Smythe, "A Town with No Noise" (Palimpsest Press, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Guelph, Ontario author Karen Smythe about Karen's novel, A Town With No Noise (Palimpsest Press,…
9 months, 1 week ago