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Back to SearchLinda Trinh, "Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non) Buddhist Memoir" (Miroland, 2025)
Episode 484
Join NBN host Hollay Ghadery for a thought-provoking conversation with Linda Trihn about her memoir, Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoi…
1 year, 6 months ago
John Copenhaver, "Hall of Mirrors" (Pegasus Crime, 2025)
Episode 482
Hall of Mirrors (Pegasus Crime 2025) was selected as a New York Times Crime Novel of the Year. It opens with a fire – it’s May 1954 and Lionel Kane i…
1 year, 6 months ago
Michael Blouin, "Hard Electric" (Anvil Press, 2024)
Episode 1599
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Michael Blouin about his poetry collection, Hard Electric (Anvil Press, 2024). Hard Electric is …
1 year, 6 months ago
Ted Levin, "The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World" (Green Writers Press, 2025)
Episode 209
In The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World (Green Writers Press, 2025), a former Bronx Zoo zoologist and award-winning nature writer…
1 year, 6 months ago
Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)
Episode 61
In Season 9, Novel Dialogue set out to find the Venn diagram intersection of tech and fiction—only to realize that Kim Stanley Robinson had staked hi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Chris Bailey, "Forecast: Pretty Bleak" (McClelland & Stewart, 2025)
Episode 160
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with PEI poet and commercial fisherman, Chris Bailey, about his collection, Forecast: Pretty Bleak (M…
1 year, 6 months ago
Diamond Forde, "Mother Body" (Saturnalia Books, 2021)
Episode 159
Mother Body (Saturnalia Books, 2021) is an intersectional exploration of the trauma and agency held within a body defined by its potential to mother.…
1 year, 6 months ago
Alka Joshi, "Six Days in Bombay" (Mira, 2025)
Episode 199
Sona Falstaff, a hospital nurse in Bombay, has things more or less where she wants them. Yes, she faces a certain discrimination, positive and negati…
1 year, 6 months ago
Erica Stern, "Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story" (Barrelhouse Inc., 2025)
Episode 280
Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story (Barrelhouse Inc., 2025) is a genre-bending expedition into childbirth. Seamlessly blending memoir, fiction, and…
1 year, 6 months ago
Tim Welsh, "Ley Lines" (Guernica Editions, 2025)
Episode 481
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with debut Toronto author Tim Welsh about his novel, Ley Lines, published by Guernica Editions, 2025.…
1 year, 6 months ago