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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Literary Fiction
November 4, 2025
Simone in Pieces
Janet Burroway
Simone Lerrante is a Belgian orphan whose memory is damaged by the trauma of her father being shot by Nazis and her subsequent escape to England.
September 9, 2025
Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser
Mona’s Eyes (Europa Editions, 2025) is an enchanting debut novel written by art historian Thomas Schlesser. It tells the story of a 10-year-old girl living in Paris who briefly loses her vision.
September 2, 2025
The Beauty and The Hell of It and Other Stories
Lynda Williams
The Beauty and the Hell of It and Other Stories (Guernica, 2025) conjures up images of women who struggle through difficult transitions, unpleasant encounters, or ghastly boyfriends and husbands.
August 26, 2025
Go On Pretending
Alina Adams
Rose Janowitz is surprised to get a production job with a radio soap opera and stunned to fall in love with the show’s African American leading man.
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 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.
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.
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.
December 3, 2024
Mirror Me
Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
Today I talked to Lisa Williamson Rosenberg about Mirror Me (Little a, 2024)
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