Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKirby, "She" (Knife, Fork, Book, 2024)
Episode 151
In this episode of NBN host, Hollay Ghadery speaks with the incomparable Toronto poet Kirby in an exclusive sampler of spectacular Kirby poetry.
Kirby…
1 year, 7 months ago
Su Chang, "The Immortal Woman" (House of Anansi Press, 2025)
Episode 471
Lemai never forgets the humiliation of her teachers and the burning of books during the Cultural Revolution. She uses her position as a student Red G…
1 year, 7 months ago
Cristina Leport, "Change of Heart: A Miner & Mulville Medical Thriller" (Bancroft, 2025)
Episode 470
In the bustling heart of New York City, a young medical student’s life is tragically cut short, though her heart continues to beat, holding the promi…
1 year, 7 months ago
George Elliott Clarke, "Canticles II (MMXX)" (Guernica, 2020)
Episode 149
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with one of her “favourite poets in the galaxy”, Canada’s 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Ell…
1 year, 7 months ago
Joseph Earl Thomas, "God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer" (Grand Central Publishing, 2024)
Episode 156
After a deployment in the Iraq War dually defined by threat and interminable mundanity, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral…
1 year, 7 months ago
Margaret Nowaczyk, "Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery" (James Street North Books, 2024)
Episode 469
Margaret Nowaczyk’s Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery is a touching collection of personal essays exploring the impact of genetics, ancestry, and im…
1 year, 7 months ago
Paul Lisicky, "Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell" (HarperOne, 2025)
Episode 271
Paul Lisicky remembers when he first heard Joni Mitchell on the radio, and when he found one of her records in a bin at Korvettes. He was inspired by…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jason Pargin, "I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Episode 468
I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom is a darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestsellin…
1 year, 8 months ago
Gray Davidson Carroll, "Silent Spring," The Common magazine
Episode 63
Poet Gray Davidson Carroll speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about their poem “Silent Spring,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. Gray t…
1 year, 8 months ago
Lisa F. Rosenberg, "FIne, I'm a Terrible Person" (Sibylline Press, 2025)
Episode 467
Today I talked to Lisa F. Rosenberg about Fine, I'm a Terrible Person (Sibylline Press, 2025).
The pain of 73-year-old Aurora’s divorce over thirty ye…
1 year, 8 months ago