Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMariam Pirbhai, "Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2023)
Episode 40
In Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak and Wynn, 2023), author Mariam Pirbhai looks carefully at the pocket of land …
1 year, 9 months ago
Jami Nakamura Lin, "The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir" (Mariner Books, 2023)
Episode 452
Jami Nakamura Lin spent much of her life feeling monstrous for reasons outside of her control. As a young woman with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, mu…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ariel Gordon, "Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024)
Episode 450
Both personal and entertaining, Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) is the highly anticipated second book of a trilogy and sho…
1 year, 9 months ago
Fiona Davis, "The Stolen Queen" (Dutton, 2025)
Episode 1518
Charlotte Cross has built a satisfying career as assistant curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at New York’s Metropolitan Museum. It’s 1978, th…
1 year, 9 months ago
Barbara Nickless, "The Drowning Game" (Thomas and Mercer, 2025)
Episode 450
Today I talked to Barbara Nickless about The Drowning Game (Thomas and Mercer, 2025).
Two sisters are heirs to a company that builds yachts for the su…
1 year, 10 months ago
Anna 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago