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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb

July 1, 2025
Port Anna

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
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