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Back to SearchNaomi Xu Elegant, "Gingko Season: A Novel" (W. W. Norton, 2025)
Episode 1653
Naomi Xu Elegant’s debut novel, Gingko Season (W. W. Norton: 2025), stars Penelope Lin, a young Chinese woman living in New York in the faraway year …
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Kay Sohini, "This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)
Episode 1652
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Kay Sohini about her graphic memoir, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir (publishe…
1 year, 4 months ago
Tie Ning, Annelise Finegan trans., "My Sister's Red Shirt" (Sinoist Books, 2025)
Episode 1651
Growing up in a glittering new decade of possibility, Anran is radically different to her sister. Outspoken and idealistic, she relishes in challengi…
1 year, 4 months ago
Kathryn Mockler, "Anecdotes" (Book*hug Press, 2023)
Episode 1650
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Kathryn Mocker about her wildy acclaimed award-winning collection of hyrbrid fiction/prose poetr…
1 year, 4 months ago
Simon Tolkien, "The Palace at the End of the Sea: A Novel" (Lake Union Publishing, 2025)
Episode 1649
A young man comes of age and crosses continents in search of an identity--and a cause--at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War in a thrilling, timely, a…
1 year, 4 months ago
Alice Fitzpatrick, "A Dark Death" (Stonehouse Publishing, 2025)
Episode 1648
In this NBN interview, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Toronto author Alice Fitzpatrick about new her mystery, A Dark Death (Stonehouse Publishing, 2…
1 year, 4 months ago
Kevin Nguyen, "My Documents" (One World, 2025)
Episode 1646
Kevin Nguyen, My Documents (One World, 2025)
Kevin Nguyen is the author of the novel New Waves, published in 2020. He is the features editor at The V…
1 year, 4 months ago
Christy Climenhage, "The Midnight Project" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
Episode 1647
NBN host Hollay Ghadery interviews Christy Climenhage, the author of the highly-anticipated science fiction thriller, The Midnight Project (Wolsak & …
1 year, 4 months ago
Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
Episode 1644
Children’s picture books are some of the most transparently ideological materials available to parents and educators, and as cultural objects they ar…
1 year, 4 months ago
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
Episode 1643
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction …
1 year, 4 months ago