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Back to SearchMarie Léticée, "Camille's Lakou" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
Episode 1888
Camille’s Lakou (Vanderbilt UP, 2025), a novel by Guadeloupean writer and educator Marie Léticée, tells the story of Camille, a young Caribbean gi…
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Christy Wilhelmi, "Bolting to Seed: A Garden Variety Novel" (Gardenerd Press, 2026)
Episode 1887
Lizzie Raju is back in Christy Wilhelmi's sequel Bolting to Seed (Garden Nerd Press, 2026) and she has "Six Reasons Not to Have Kids." Finding a corp…
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April Howells, "The Unforgettable Mailman" (Alcove Press, 2026)
Episode 1886
In the midst of texting and cell phones, online websites and GPS, it can be difficult to remember an era when almost all communication took place by …
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John Burt, "A Moment's Surrender" (Press Americana, 2026)
Episode 1885
It’s 1980, a decade after he dropped out of grad school, and Paul Bishop is a lowly writing instructor at a college in Nevada. His former best fri…
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Molly Fader, "Lady X: A Novel" (Random House, 2026)
Episode 1884
In Molly Fader's latest novel, Lady X: A Novel (Random House, 2026), the search for a notorious vigilante exposes the secrets between three generat…
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Juliet McShannon “Rescue” (Spring, 2026)
Episode 1883
Juliet McShannon speaks to Emily Everett about her story “Rescue,” which appears in The Common’s spring issue. The story follows a woman on her searc…
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Andrew Martin, "Down Time" (FSG, 2026)
Episode 1882
Andrew Martin is the author of the novel Early Work, a New York Times Notable book of 2018, and the story collection Cool for America, longlisted for…
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Judith Starkston, "Achilles's Wife: A Novel of Greek Myth Retelling" (Bronze Age Books, 2026)
Episode 1881
In an ancient kingdom, a princess takes inspiration from a visiting young woman to challenge her father's views and reach for leadership-and then dis…
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Matthew Del Papa and Andy Taylor, "Supercanucks: An Anthology of Canadian Small-Town Superheroes" (Latitude 46, 2026)
Episode 1880
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Matthew D. Del Papa, one of the editors of SuperCanucks: An Anthology of Canadian Small-Town Sup…
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Annakeara Stinson, "Nerve Damage: A Novel" (Knopf, 2026)
Episode 1879
Annakeara Stinson's Nerve Damage: A Novel (Knopf, 2026) is a riotous revenge novel about a woman’s quest to escape her stalker ex-boyfriend—by stal…
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