Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnthony Bidulka, "Home Fires Burn" (Stonehouse Publishing, 2025)
NBN host Hollay Ghadery has a wonderful conversation with many-time award-winning author, Anthony Bidulka.
Bidulka’s books have been shortlisted for…
1 year ago
Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature" (LSU Press, 2019)
In light of recent conversations about the crisis of masculinity, let's revisit Dr. Andy Oler's book Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and …
1 year ago
Jacob McArthur Mooney, "The Northern: A Novel" (ECW Press, 2025)
NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Jacob McArthur Mooney about his debut novel, The Northern, published by ECW Press in 2025.
“The Northern is both …
1 year ago
Andrew Forbes, "McCurdle's Arm: A Fiction" (Invisible Publishing, 2024)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Andrew Forbes about his phenomenal novella, McCurdle’s Arm: A Fiction (Invisible Publishing, Jul…
1 year ago
Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi, "One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature" (U Arkansas Press, 2010)
Since 9/11 there has been a cultural and political blossoming among those of the Afghan diaspora, especially in the United States, revealing a vibran…
1 year ago
Jeff Nania, "River Gold: A Northern Lakes Mystery" (Feet Wet Writing, 2025)
In River Gold (Feed Wet Writing, 2025) Sheriff John Cabrelli is pulled into a murder investigation after a nationally known Great Lakes historian is …
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Emily Everett, "All That Life Can Afford" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2025)
Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. But whe…
1 year, 1 month ago
Gina Leola Woolsey, "Fifteen Thousand Pieces" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author Gina Leola Woolsey about her stunning biography, Fifteen Thousand Pieces (Guernica Editio…
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Lucas Schaefer, "Tuesday" The Common Magazine (Spring, 2025)
Lucas Schaefer speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Tuesday,” which appears in The Common’s brand new spring issue. “Tuesday” is …
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Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)
Episode 167
For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he rei…
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