Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNora Lange, "Us Fools" (Two Dollar Radio, 2024)
Episode 155
Joanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents' volatile relationship and mounting…
1 year, 8 months ago
Tim Blackett, "Grandview Drive" (Nightwood, 2024)
Episode 466
NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Tim Blacket about his award-winning debut short story collection, Grandview Drive (Nightwood Editions, 2024). Gra…
1 year, 8 months ago
Cynthia Weiner, "A Gorgeous Excitement" (Crown, 2025)
Episode 154
There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her mother’s depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity befo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Janet Sherfund, "Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me" (Worth, 2024)
Episode 272
Adoption is often painted as a happy, inspirational act—a baby finds a family and lives happily ever after. But the truth is that adopted children ex…
1 year, 8 months ago
Janna Brooke Wallack, "Naked Girl" (2024)
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, 8 months ago
Elyse Durham, "Maya & Natasha" (Mariner Books, 2025)
Episode 464
As Nazi tanks roll toward Leningrad in August 1941, an unmarried nineteen-year-old ballerina gives birth to twin girls in the soon-to-be besieged cit…
1 year, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago