Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMargaret Nowaczyk, "Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery" (James Street North Books, 2024)
Episode 469
Margaret Nowaczyk’s Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery is a touching collection of personal essays exploring the impact of genetics, ancestry, and im…
1 year, 3 months ago
Paul Lisicky, "Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell" (HarperOne, 2025)
Episode 271
Paul Lisicky remembers when he first heard Joni Mitchell on the radio, and when he found one of her records in a bin at Korvettes. He was inspired by…
1 year, 3 months ago
Jason Pargin, "I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Episode 468
I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom is a darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestsellin…
1 year, 3 months ago
Gray Davidson Carroll, "Silent Spring," The Common magazine
Episode 63
Poet Gray Davidson Carroll speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about their poem “Silent Spring,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. Gray t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Nora Lange, "Us Fools" (Two Dollar Radio, 2024)
Episode 155
Joanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents' volatile relationship and mounting…
1 year, 4 months ago
Lisa F. Rosenberg, "FIne, I'm a Terrible Person" (Sibylline Press, 2025)
Episode 467
Today I talked to Lisa F. Rosenberg about Fine, I'm a Terrible Person (Sibylline Press, 2025).
The pain of 73-year-old Aurora’s divorce over thirty ye…
1 year, 4 months ago
Tim Blackett, "Grandview Drive" (Nightwood, 2024)
Episode 466
NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Tim Blacket about his award-winning debut short story collection, Grandview Drive (Nightwood Editions, 2024). Gra…
1 year, 4 months ago
Cynthia Weiner, "A Gorgeous Excitement" (Crown, 2025)
Episode 154
There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her mother’s depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity befo…
1 year, 4 months ago
Janet Sherfund, "Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me" (Worth, 2024)
Episode 272
Adoption is often painted as a happy, inspirational act—a baby finds a family and lives happily ever after. But the truth is that adopted children ex…
1 year, 4 months ago
Elyse Durham, "Maya & Natasha" (Mariner Books, 2025)
Episode 464
As Nazi tanks roll toward Leningrad in August 1941, an unmarried nineteen-year-old ballerina gives birth to twin girls in the soon-to-be besieged cit…
1 year, 4 months ago