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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
August 12, 2025
The Dime Museum
Joyce Hinnefeld
The Dime Museum is a novel told in stories that span from the 1920s, when Dime Museums were a way for people to gawk at human differences, through 2020, during the ravages of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
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July 8, 2025
Yankeeland
Lacy Fewer
Lacy Fewer inherited sacks of letters from a great aunt who emigrated from Ireland to America in 1908 and turned the letters into a novel.
July 1, 2025
Port Anna
Libby Buck
Port Anna tells the story of a quiet town on the Maine coast that has attracted the attention of wealthy investors seeking a picturesque, windswept summer cottage overlooking the ocean.
June 24, 2025
The Palace at the End of the Sea
Simon Tolkien
Theo Sterling is eleven when his grandfather kidnaps him, just for the afternoon. He learns that his father had shed his Jewish identity, married a very Catholic woman from Mexico, and stopped talking to either of his parents.
June 17, 2025
Not From Here: the Song of America
Leah Lax
When Leah Lax was asked to write an opera to celebrate local immigrants, she began by spending a year listening to accounts of upheaval, migration, and arrival told her in confidence by people from around the globe. She felt she had discovered America, found its great beating heart.
May 29, 2025
River Gold
Jeff Nania
In River Gold (Feet Wet Writing, 2025) Sheriff John Cabrelli is pulled into a murder investigation after a nationally known Great Lakes historian is robbed of his briefcase and shot in the leg.
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.
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