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Latest episodes
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40 min
Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey: Doctor, Humanitarian, Writer with Jonathan Cole (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Chekhov liked to joke that he was a doctor by profession and merely did literary work in his spare time. Behind the joke lies an intriguing truth. We remember Chekhov as a towering…
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57 min
Bullet Holes with Norrin M Ripsman (Next Chapter, 2026)
Norrin M. Ripsman (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1997) is the Monroe J. Rathbone Distinguished Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University. His primary research…
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1 h 23
The Rhyl Poster with Tom McCarthy (NYRB, 2026)
Describing the plot of a Tom McCarthy novel requires some caveats about the scale and the projection of the thing. One might begin with a description of a man who after suffering a…
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46 min
Tom Lin, "Babylon, South Dakota" (Little Brown and Co, 2026)
When Saul Keng Hsiu and his wife, Mei Lee, move from China to the United States to take possession of a 160-acre homestead bequeathed to them by a distant relative, all they have a…
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22 min
Sutra Americana with Monona Wali (U Wisconsin Press, 2026)
Sharma and Sushila were ahead of their time in marrying for love and across castes in early 1950s India. When their oldest daughter is nine, they leave their home and family for Sh…
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59 min
American Flash Fiction: Brilliant Brevities & Miniature Masterpieces
Wednesday, Oct. 7—Over in the blink of an eye, the best flash fiction lingers long after we finish reading it. The incandescent works collected in Library of America’s American Fla…
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37 min
Radioland with Matt Cahill (Buckrider Books, 2022)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Matt Cahill about Radioland, his mesmerizing 2022 literary thriller where music, fame and magic wind together in an eerie myste…
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37 min
The Instrument Must Not Matter with Christine Fischer Guy (Buckrider Books, 2026)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Christine Fischer Guy about her novel, The Instrument Must Not Matter (Wolsak & Wynn, 2026). She sees the score for the Bach-Br…
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27 min
The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories with Judith Dancoff (Finishing Line Press, 2024)
The seven stories and novella that comprise The Calamity of Desire, Judith Dancoff’s debut collection of short fiction, each focus on a famous painter or well-known work of art. In…
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23 min
A Bunch of Fives with William Kely McClung (Falling Up Publishing, 2026)
Danny Bradigan survived brutal fighting in Afghanistan and fought as a professional boxer, but a bullet finally puts him in a coma. Part of his recovery involves heading to a small…
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47 min
How to Date A Fanatic with Aruni Kashyap (HarperVia, 2026)
In How to Date a Fanatic (HarperVia, 2026), a novel by Aruni Kashyap, a young professor searches for connection and love during a time of political and cultural upheaval.As polit…
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39 min
Butter Road with Jaclyn Gilbert (Acre Books, 2026)
Jaclyn Gilbert's Butter Road (Acre Books, 2026) is a searing novel about a community irrevocably transformed by gun violence. In 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse…
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48 min
A Real Animal with Emeline Atwood (Catapult, 2026)
Her clothes shredded and disrobed by her own teeth, Lucy finds herself draped over a high tree branch in the quad of her college, naked but unafraid, a wild leopard more than any h…
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53 min
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's March 1917 with Marian Schwartz and Dan Mahoney (U Notre Dame Press, 2017)
In this latest Books for Better Understanding video from Notre Dame Press, David Carlson facilitates a conversation between Marian Schwartz and Dan Mahoney about Aleksander Solzhen…
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39 min
Samantha: The Next Chapter with Fiona Davis (American Girl Publishing, 2026)
Samantha: The Next Chapter (American Girl Publishing, 2026). From American Girl and New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis comes the next chapter of Samantha Parkington's st…
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53 min
Mistranslation with Madeleine Moss (U Iowa Press, 2026)
In upstate New York in 2001, nine-year-old twins Sabina and Camilla spend the summer weathering the moods of their erratic mother while finding themselves pulled toward diverging i…
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1 h 04
Dish with Nancy Jo Cullen (Wolsak & Wynn, 2026)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with award-winning author Nancy Jo Cullen about her new novel, Dish (Wolsak & Wynn, 2026).In this smart, sexy romp of a novel, Nancy…
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38 min
11.1 Indie Presses and the Literary Ecosystem: Meg Reid and Will Evans
Meg Reid and Will Evans join Mesha Maren to consider what makes up a literary ecosystem. As leaders of two nonprofit independent presses,Hub City Writers Project and Deep Vellum…
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27 min
The Art of Conjuring with SL Carroll (Terrazzo Editions, 2026)
“I hear whispers: Have you seen her? The woman who is not a woman, she is a walking museum. Have you seen her wares?”The narrator of SL Carroll’s radiant debut leads an empty life…
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59 min
If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes and Other Stories with Malon Edwards (Fireside Fiction Company, 2023)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Malon Edwards about his book, If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes (Fireside Fiction Company, 2023). “Electric Resurrection. Born a…