Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDorothea Heiser and Stuart Taberner, eds., "My Shadow in Dachau: Poems" (Camden House, 2014)
Poems by and biographies of inmates of the Dachau Concentration Camp, testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual…
1 year, 2 months ago
Minrose Gwin, "Beautiful Dreamers" (Hub City Press, 2024)
Memory Feather, who was born with a misshapen hand and was able to communicate with animals, looks back to when she was a child living with her newly…
1 year, 3 months ago
Vidyan Ravinthiran, "Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir" (Icon Books, 2025)
Episode 275
Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir was published in January 2025 by Icon Books. The book considers the political and psychological d…
1 year, 3 months ago
Michael David Lukas, "More to the Story," The Common Magazine (Fall, 2025)
Episode 64
Michael David Lukas speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his essay “More to the Story,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. Michael ta…
1 year, 3 months ago
Charlie Petch, "Why I Was Late" (Brick Books, 2021)
NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) about their phenomenal debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books, 20…
1 year, 3 months ago
Donna Besel, "The Unravelling: Incest and the Destruction of a Family" (U Regina Press, 2021)
In this NBN episode host Hollay Ghadery talks to bestselling author Donna Besel about her staggering memoir, The Unravelling: Incest and the Destruct…
1 year, 3 months ago
rob mclennan, "On Beauty: Stories" (U Alberta Press, 2024)
Episode 475
NBN host and CanLit fangirl extraordinaire Hollay Ghadery speaks with rob mclennan about his collection of stories, On Beauty (University of Alberta …
1 year, 3 months ago
Emma Pattee, "Tilt" (Marysue Rucci Books, 2025)
Episode 157
Set over the course of a single day, an electrifying debut novel from “a powerful new literary voice” (Vogue) following one woman’s journey across a …
1 year, 3 months ago
Ronald Okuaki Lieber, "The Long Journey Out" (Wipf and Stock, 2023)
Episode 150
Today I spoke with Ronald Okuaki Lieber about his new book, The Long Journey Out (Resource Publications, 2023)
These poems are arranged in four sectio…
1 year, 3 months ago
CS Richardson, "All the Colour in the World" (Knopf Canada, 2023)
Episode 474
Shortlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize, All the Colour in the World by CS Richardson tells the story of the restorative power of art in one man’s life…
1 year, 3 months ago