Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWilliam Cooper and Michael McKinley, "A Quiet Life" (Arcade, 2024)
Episode 480
Michael Housen is living a typical, white-collar American life at a security company when he falls for a phishing campaign with dire implications. On…
1 year, 2 months ago
Stedmond Pardy, "Beached Whales" (Mosaic Press, 2024)
NBN host Hollay Ghadery is delighted to speak with Toronto area poet Stedmond Pardy about his newest book, Beached Whales (Mosaic Press, 2024).
Stedmo…
1 year, 2 months ago
Your Devotee in Rags
Episode 157
NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with cultural icons, Anne Waldman (The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment) and Andrew Whiteman (Bro…
1 year, 2 months ago
Betsy Lerner, "Shred Sisters" (Grove Press, 2024)
Episode 160
It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight unt…
1 year, 2 months ago
Tolu Oloruntoba, "Unravel" (McClelland & Stewart, 2025)
Episode 153
On this episode of NBN, host Hollay Ghadery interviews Griffin and Governor General Award winning poet, Tolu Oloruntoba, whose highly-anticipated poe…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nicholas Jubber, "Monsterland: A Journey Around the World’s Dark Imagination" (Scribe, 2025)
Episode 53
Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from?
In Monsterland…
1 year, 2 months ago
Colum McCann, "Twist" (Random House, 2025)
Episode 159
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human …
1 year, 2 months ago
Michael Backus, "The Heart Is Meat: An 80s Memoir" (Oil on Water Press, 2025)
Episode 277
In the early 80s, New York City’s Gansevoort Meatpacking District, a small irregular patch of the West Village, was a wild confluence of meat market …
1 year, 2 months ago
Elana Wolff, "Faithfully Seeking Franz" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
Episode 478
The itinerary of Faithfully Seeking Franz comprises an irregular quest for dead mentor, modernist author Franz Kafka--in places he lived, worked, vac…
1 year, 2 months ago
Lauren Elkin, "Scaffolding" (FSG, 2024)
Paris, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work. Inste…
1 year, 2 months ago