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Episode 465
After their mother dies, Jackson Jones is too busy selling drugs and bedding young women to pay attention to his two motherless children. Sienna and …
1 year, 4 months ago
Caroline Topperman, "Your Roots Cast a Shadow: One Family's Search across History for Belonging" (HCI, 2024)
Episode 464
NBN host Hollay Ghadery interviews Toronto author Caroline Topperman about her new book, Your Roots Cast a Shadow: One Family's Search Across History…
1 year, 4 months ago
Natasha Ramoutar, "Baby Cerberus" (Buckrider Books, 2024)
Episode 463
Ethereal, soul-stirring, and playful, Baby Cerberus (Buckrider Books, 2024) by Natasha Ramoutar traces joy and kinship across a multitude of lives. F…
1 year, 4 months ago
Tova Mirvis, "We Would Never" (Avid Reader Press, 2025)
Episode 462
After her husband Jonah asks for a divorce, Hailey Gelman’s difficult life in Binghamton turns into six weeks of litigation and custody battles in To…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ayelet Tsabari, "Songs for the Brokenhearted" (Random House, 2024)
Episode 461
On this NBN podcast, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with acclaimed author Ayelet Tsabari about gorgeous debut novel, Songs for the Broken Hearted (Random…
1 year, 4 months ago
Emily E K Murdoch on the Governess Bureau Series
Episode 35
When the nobility and gentility of England are at their wits end, they send a discrete note to Miss Vivienne Clarke’s Governess Bureau. Only acceptin…
1 year, 4 months ago
Adam Ross, "Playworld: A Novel" (Knopf, 2025)
Episode 151
“In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty-six, a mother of two, and mar…
1 year, 4 months ago
Saad T. Farooqi, "White World" (Cormorant Books, 2024)
Episode 460
Today I talked to Saad T. Farooqi about his new novel White World (Cormorant Books, 2024).
Allah has burned the sky away. A mysterious snow falls over…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jamie Tennant, "River, Diverted" (Palimpsest Press, 2022)
Episode 459
River, Diverted is a wild and wonderfully dark and campy novel by Jamie Tennant, published by Palimpsest Press in 2022.
River Black found cult success…
1 year, 4 months ago
Badiucao and Mellissa Chan, "You Must Take Part in Revolution" (Street Noise Books, 2024)
Episode 60
You Must Take Part In Revolution is a mind-bending graphic novel by award-winning journalist Melissa Chan and acclaimed dissident artist Badiucao. A …
1 year, 4 months ago