Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnna Moschovakis, "An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth" (Soft Skull, 2024)
Episode 149
After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk …
1 year, 6 months ago
Harman Burns, "Yellow Barks Spider" (Radiant Press, 2024)
Episode 443
Up-and-coming Vancouver trans author Harman Burns joins NBN host Hollay Ghadery to talk about Burns’ novella, Yellow Barks Spider (Radiant Press, 202…
1 year, 6 months ago
Kim Fahner, "The Donoghue Girl" (Latitude 46, 2024)
Episode 448
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024) is heart-wrenching historical fiction from beloved Canadian author, Kim Fahner. .With her incomparable ability …
1 year, 6 months ago
Steven Mayoff, "The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief" (Radiant Press, 2023)
Episode 445
PEI author Steven Mayoff's newest book, The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief (Radiant Press, 2023) masterfully disrupts the idyllic picture of…
1 year, 6 months ago
Aruni Kashyap, "The Way You Want to Be Loved: Short Stories" (Gaudy Boy, 2024)
Episode 447
At a New Delhi conference, an Assamese writer is interrogated on why he writes about magical folktales instead of the insurgencies. A mother splashes…
1 year, 6 months ago
Suzy Krause, "I Think We've Been Here Before" (Radiant Press, 2024)
Episode 445
Suzy Krause’s latest speculative fiction novel, I Think We’ve Been Here Before (Radiant Press, 2024) is a compulsively readable and cosy story.
Marlen…
1 year, 6 months ago
Rob Osler, "The Case of the Missing Maid" (Kensington, 2024)
Episode 442
Set in 1898, Harriet Morrow is 21, supports her 16-year-old brother, and has been accepted as the first female detective at the Prescott Agency. She’…
1 year, 6 months ago
Peter Darbyshire, "The Mona Lisa Sacrifice" (Poplar Press, 2024)
Episode 444
With this dry observance Peter Darbyshire introduces us to Cross, a man who has lived thousands of years, though he’d prefer not to have, and who is …
1 year, 6 months ago
Serkan Görkemli, "Sweet Tooth and Other Stories" (UP of Kentucky, 2024)
Episode 443
Queerness, labels, and allyship are central themes in this moving collection of stories set in Turkey, where Middle Eastern and Euro-American express…
1 year, 6 months ago
Emily A. Weedon, "Autokrator" (Cormorant Books, 2024)
Episode 441
Born nameless, in a rigid, autocratic society that has relegated all women to non-person status — Unmales — two women fight against their invisibilit…
1 year, 6 months ago