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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
February 4, 2025
Isola
Allegra Goodman
Based on the true story of a 16th century heiress who is left to die on a deserted island off the coast of what was then called New France (now Canada).
January 14, 2025
The Anatomy of Exile
Zeeva Bukai
The Anatomy of Exile by Zeeva Bukai (Delphinium Books 2025) opens in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War, when Tamar Abadi’s sister-in-law is killed by what looks like a terrorist attack but turns out to be the tragic end of Hadas’s love affair with a Palestinian poet.
January 1, 2025
The Drowning Game
Barbara Nickless
Sisters Nadia and Cass are heirs to a company that builds yachts for the super wealthy, and both are excited about a commission that will introduce them to the huge Asian market.
December 24, 2024
The Case of the Missing Maid
Rob Osler
Set in 1898, Harriet Morrow is 21, supports her 16-year-old brother, and has been accepted as the first female detective at the Prescott Agency.
December 3, 2024
Mirror Me
Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
Today I talked to Lisa Williamson Rosenberg about Mirror Me (Little a, 2024)
November 26, 2024
Dazzling
Chikodili Emelumadu
Today I talked to Chikodili Emelumadu about Dazzling (Harry N. Abrams, 2023).
November 12, 2024
Next Stop
Benjamin Resnick
Today I talked to Benjamin Resnick about his novel Next Stop (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
November 5, 2024
The Causative Factor
Megan Staffel
Sparks fly in Megan Staffel’s novel, The Causative Factor (Regal House 2024), when Rachel is randomly paired with Rubiat, a fellow student, for an assignment in their college art class.
October 29, 2024
The Waters
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Hermine “Herself” Zook is a healer who rules over an island in a swampy area of Michigan known as “The Waters.” People, including her three grown daughters, fear her, but her powerful herbal and plant-based medicines have cured the townspeople for decades of viruses, pains, and unwanted pregnancies.
October 22, 2024
The Adventures of Cancer Bitch
S.L. Wisenberg
It’s 2006, and S. L. Wisenberg is teaching writing at one of Chicago’s great universities and living a busy life when she’s gobsmacked by a sudden cancer diagnosis. In small but powerful journal entries, she bemoans friends who’ve died, expresses disdain for her body, worries about her future, recalls previous adventures, and jokes about the seriousness of her illness.
October 15, 2024
The Last Whaler
Cynthia Reeves
After losing their young son in a tragic accident, Astrid, a Norwegian botanist specializing in Arctic flora, decides to join her husband, Tor, at a remote whaling station in the Arctic, where he spends every whaling season hunting belugas. In heartfelt journal entries, Astrid describes being stranded in a whaling hut through the dark season of 1937-38.
October 8, 2024
Blood on the Brain
Esinam Bediako
Today I talked to Esinam Bediako about here novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024).
October 1, 2024
Anyone But Her
Cynthia Swanson
In 1979 during her freshman year at Denver East High School in 1979, Suzanne’s mother was murdered by an armed robber while working in her record store.
September 24, 2024
Down Here We Come Up
Sara Johnson Allen
In Sara Johnson Allen's novel Down Here We Come Up (Black Lawrence Press 2023), Kate Jessup’s mother lures her back home to North Carolina.
September 17, 2024
Trust Me
Scott Nadelson
Set mostly in a remote cabin in the foothills of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains, Trust Me is about a divorced dad who drives forty-five minutes to work and back each day.
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