Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNicholas Jubber, "Monsterland: A Journey Around the World’s Dark Imagination" (Scribe, 2025)
Episode 53
Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from?
In Monsterland…
1 year, 6 months ago
Colum McCann, "Twist" (Random House, 2025)
Episode 159
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human …
1 year, 6 months ago
Michael Backus, "The Heart Is Meat: An 80s Memoir" (Oil on Water Press, 2025)
Episode 277
In the early 80s, New York City’s Gansevoort Meatpacking District, a small irregular patch of the West Village, was a wild confluence of meat market …
1 year, 6 months ago
Elana Wolff, "Faithfully Seeking Franz" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
Episode 478
The itinerary of Faithfully Seeking Franz comprises an irregular quest for dead mentor, modernist author Franz Kafka--in places he lived, worked, vac…
1 year, 6 months ago
Lauren Elkin, "Scaffolding" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 1577
Paris, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work. Inste…
1 year, 7 months ago
Dorothea Heiser and Stuart Taberner, eds., "My Shadow in Dachau: Poems" (Camden House, 2014)
Episode 1576
Poems by and biographies of inmates of the Dachau Concentration Camp, testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual…
1 year, 7 months ago
Minrose Gwin, "Beautiful Dreamers" (Hub City Press, 2024)
Episode 1575
Memory Feather, who was born with a misshapen hand and was able to communicate with animals, looks back to when she was a child living with her newly…
1 year, 7 months ago
Vidyan Ravinthiran, "Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir" (Icon Books, 2025)
Episode 275
Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir was published in January 2025 by Icon Books. The book considers the political and psychological d…
1 year, 7 months ago
Michael David Lukas, "More to the Story," The Common Magazine (Fall, 2025)
Episode 64
Michael David Lukas speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his essay “More to the Story,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. Michael ta…
1 year, 7 months ago
Charlie Petch, "Why I Was Late" (Brick Books, 2021)
Episode 1573
NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) about their phenomenal debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books, 20…
1 year, 7 months ago