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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
May 20, 2025
The Murmur of Everything Moving
Maureen Stanton
Maureen Stanton’s new memoir, The Murmur of Everything Moving (Columbus State University 2025) opens when she was in her early twenties, working at a bar saving for a backpacking trip through Europe.
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April 29, 2025
Hall of Mirrors
John Copenhaver
Hall of Mirrors (Pegasus Crime 2025) was selected as a New York Times Crime Novel of the Year.
April 15, 2025
Discipline
Debra Spark
Debra Spark’s latest novel was inspired by the life of Walt Kuhn, who introduced Americans to modern art, and also by an infamous east coast boarding school that was forcibly shut down in 2014. The novel twists and turns through the lives of an artist and his wife, a teenager forced to attend a horrifying boarding school, the artist and his wife’s lonely daughter after their deaths, and a divorced art appraiser studying the works of the dead artist.
April 1, 2025
Beautiful Dreamers
Minrose Gwin
Memory Feather, who was born with a misshapen hand and was able to communicate with animals, looks back to when she was a child living with her newly divorced mother in a dilapidated hotel far from home.
March 11, 2025
The Immortal Woman
Su Chang
Lemai never forgets the humiliation of her teachers and the burning of books during the Cultural Revolution.
March 4, 2025
Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell
Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky remembers when he first heard Joni Mitchell on the radio, and when he found one of her records in a bin at Korvettes.
February 25, 2025
Fine, I'm a Terrible Person
Lisa F. Rosenberg
The pain of 73-year-old Aurora’s divorce over thirty years before continues to reverberate – she’s eccentric, filled with schemes, and only able to function with help from her daughter.
February 18, 2025
Naked Girl
Janna Brooke Wallack
After their mother dies, Jackson Jones is too busy selling drugs and bedding young women to pay attention to his two motherless children.
February 11, 2025
We Would Never
Tova Mirvis
Hailey Gelman just learned that her soon-to-be ex-husband was murdered in his home.
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).
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