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Back to SearchMegan Cummins, "Atomic Hearts" (Ballentine Books, 2025)
Episode 169
Sixteen and living in a small Michigan town, Gertie is harboring a secret heavy enough to fracture her closest friendship. She and Cindy have been bo…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Michelle De Kretser, "Theory & Practice" (Catapult, 2025)
Episode 526
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Australia on unceded Gadigal land. She writes fiction but has also published a short book abou…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)
Episode 314
A bold, unforgettable novel of war, imagination, and survival. Thirteen-year-old Kamiran is fleeing the collapse of Syria when his body begins to har…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst & Co., 2025)
In the 200 years since Blake's death, the visionary artist, poet and writer has become a household name, often beloved. Yet many struggle to comprehe…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Aatish Taseer, "A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile" (Catapult, 2025)
Episode 249
In 2019, famed journalist and writer Aatish Taseer was thrown out of India. Soon after he wrote a cover article for Time calling Prime Minister Naren…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Rehearsals for Dying
Episode 278
Deena stepped out of the shower and opened her towel in the steam. “Does my breast look weird?” These words irrevocably change the lives of writer Ar…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Therí Alyce Pickens, "What Had Happened Was" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 175
In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topi…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Benoit Berthelier and Immanuel Kim, "Hidden Heros: Anthology of North Korean FIction" (Anthem, 2025)
Episode 17
Hidden Heroes (Anthem Press, 2025) offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the lives of ordinary North Koreans through a collection of short stories …
11 months ago
Saad Omar Khan, "Drinking the Ocean" (Buckrider Books, 2025)
Episode 523
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery chats with the wonderful Saad Omar Khan about his debut novel, Drinking the Ocean (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025).
The…
11 months ago
Mariah Rigg, "Target Island," The Common (Spring, 2025)
Episode 67
Mariah Rigg speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story “Target Island,” which appears in The Common’s spring issue. “Target Island” is a…
11 months ago