Podcast Episodes

John DeVore, "Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway" (Applause, 2024)

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with John Devore about his phenomenal memoir, Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway (Applause…

1 year ago

Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods" (Milkweed Editions, 2025)

Hello, my name is Eric LeMay, a host on New Books in Literature, a channel on the New Books Network. Today I interview Jennifer Kabat. Kabat is write…

1 year ago

Pria Anand "The Elephant's Child" The Common Magazine (Spring, 2025)

Pria Anand speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story “The Elephant’s Child,” which appears in The Common’s spring issue. The piece is a…

1 year ago

Naomi Xu Elegant, "Gingko Season: A Novel" (W. W. Norton, 2025)

Naomi Xu Elegant’s debut novel, Gingko Season (W. W. Norton: 2025), stars Penelope Lin, a young Chinese woman living in New York in the faraway year …

1 year ago

Tie Ning, Annelise Finegan trans., "My Sister's Red Shirt" (Sinoist Books, 2025)

Growing up in a glittering new decade of possibility, Anran is radically different to her sister. Outspoken and idealistic, she relishes in challengi…

1 year ago

Kay Sohini, "This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Kay Sohini about her graphic memoir, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir (publishe…

1 year ago

Simon Tolkien, "The Palace at the End of the Sea: A Novel" (Lake Union Publishing, 2025)

A young man comes of age and crosses continents in search of an identity--and a cause--at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War in a thrilling, timely, a…

1 year ago

Kathryn Mockler, "Anecdotes" (Book*hug Press, 2023)

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Kathryn Mocker about her wildy acclaimed award-winning collection of hyrbrid fiction/prose poetr…

1 year ago

Alice Fitzpatrick, "A Dark Death" (Stonehouse Publishing, 2025)

In this NBN interview, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Toronto author Alice Fitzpatrick about new her mystery, A Dark Death (Stonehouse Publishing, 2…

1 year ago

Kevin Nguyen, "My Documents" (One World, 2025)

Kevin Nguyen, My Documents (One World, 2025)

Kevin Nguyen is the author of the novel New Waves, published in 2020. He is the features editor at The V…

1 year ago