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Back to SearchKern Carter, "Boys and Girls Screaming" (Dancing Cat Books, 2022)
Episode 489
In this episode, NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Kern Carter about his acclaimed YA novel, Boys and Girls Screaming (Dancing Cat Books, 2022).
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1 year, 1 month ago
“That In Between Time,” Fernanda Trías and Heather Cleary (MAT)
Episode 62
Fernanda Trías’s Pink Slime (Scribner, 2024) was first published in Spanish in October 2020, several months into a global pandemic that had bent our …
1 year, 1 month ago
Joanna Miller, "The Eights" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2025)
Episode 200
Joanna Miller’s The Eights (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2025) follows four women attending the University of Oxford in 1920. They are not the first female u…
1 year, 1 month ago
Kyle Flemmer, "Supergiants" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
Episode 163
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Calgary poet Kyle Flemmer about his collection of poetry, Supergiants (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025).
Fo…
1 year, 1 month ago
Lauren K. Watel, "Book of Potions" (Sarabande Books, 2024)
Lauren k. Watel's Book of Potions (Sarabande Books, 2025) is the winner of the 2023 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky. Wri…
1 year, 1 month ago
Linda Trinh, "Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non) Buddhist Memoir" (Miroland, 2025)
Episode 484
Join NBN host Hollay Ghadery for a thought-provoking conversation with Linda Trihn about her memoir, Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoi…
1 year, 2 months ago
John Copenhaver, "Hall of Mirrors" (Pegasus Crime, 2025)
Episode 482
Hall of Mirrors (Pegasus Crime 2025) was selected as a New York Times Crime Novel of the Year. It opens with a fire – it’s May 1954 and Lionel Kane i…
1 year, 2 months ago
Michael Blouin, "Hard Electric" (Anvil Press, 2024)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Michael Blouin about his poetry collection, Hard Electric (Anvil Press, 2024). Hard Electric is …
1 year, 2 months ago
Ted Levin, "The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World" (Green Writers Press, 2025)
Episode 209
In The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World (Green Writers Press, 2025), a former Bronx Zoo zoologist and award-winning nature writer…
1 year, 2 months ago
Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)
Episode 61
In Season 9, Novel Dialogue set out to find the Venn diagram intersection of tech and fiction—only to realize that Kim Stanley Robinson had staked hi…
1 year, 2 months ago