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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Literary Fiction
February 2, 2021
The Merciful
Jon Sealy
In The Merciful (Haywire Books, 2021) by Jon Sealy nineteen-year-old Samantha James is killed while riding her bike home from work in a small coastal town one dark summer night in South Carolina. It’s a hit and run, and when they learn who did it, the townspeople want Daniel Hayward, the alleged driver, to pay for his crime.
January 19, 2021
Song of the Sisters
C. P. Lesley
Everywhere young Russian noblewoman Darya Sheremeteva turns, someone in her circle of family and friends reminds her that she exists to serve a single purpose: to marry a powerful man selected by her male relatives and bear children, preferably sons, to continue his line. But after years in isolation nursing her elderly father, Darya questions whether marriage and motherhood constitute the best, never mind the only, future for a woman of twenty-five.
January 12, 2021
The Tenth Muse
Catherine Chung
Katherine recalls being young and friendless. While growing up in the 40’ and 50’s, she remembers when her mother packed up and left, her father remarried, and she was left to focus on her studies – she was an exceptional mathematician. But she’d been wrong about her family – she later learned that the woman who gave birth to her had been murdered by the Nazis during WWII.
January 5, 2021
Art Is Everything
Yxta Maya Murray
Written as a series of web posts, Instagram essays, Snapchat posts, rejected Yelp reviews, Facebook screeds, and streams-of-consciousness that merge volcanic confession with eagle-eyed art criticism, Art Is Everything is about a woman who has to grapple with being derailed.
September 28, 2021
Jillian in the Borderlands
Beth Alvarado
Jillian can see ghosts – in the first story a dead child-bride saves her from the clutches of a predatory neighbor. These dark stories introduce faith healers, talking animals, and spirits of the dead.
October 19, 2021
Beneficence
Meredith Hall
A beautiful family is torn apart by a shocking loss, and three of its members blame themselves. It’s the middle of the twentieth century, their farm in Maine needs tending, and the seasons move swiftly with specific chores and tasks.
November 2, 2021
The Weary God of Ancient Travelers
Jessica Stilling
Lydia Warren has a particular kind of amnesia. She vaguely recalls arriving in Santorini with a one-armed man whom she calls David Copperfield, who takes care of her. Lydia spends her days watching the sea and the changing light, trying to remember who she is.
December 21, 2021
Night Came With Many Stars
Simon Van Booy
A Kentucky father treats Carol, his thirteen-year-old motherless daughter like a servant up to the moment he loses her in a poker game. It’s 1933, and Carol’s aching heart begins a novel of stories filled with heartache or joy that weaves back and forth across decades.
January 11, 2022
Down a Dark River
Karen Odden
n Karen Odden’s latest mystery it’s 1878 in London, and Scotland Yard inspector Michael Corravan, a former thief and bare-knuckles boxer, is battling demons, including his urge to drown his troubles in drink.
January 25, 2022
The Singing Forest
Judith McCormack
Two children stumble upon a mass grave in the forest outside of Minsk in Belarus where the NKVD, Stalin’s secret police, buried tens of thousands of innocent victims of torture.
March 8, 2022
The Almond in the Apricot
Sara Goudarzi
Emma lives in New Jersey, works as a civil engineer, has a reliable boyfriend, and had a wonderful best friend from college who she always secretly loved even.
March 22, 2022
Life Sentences
Billy O'Callaghan
In lyrical, moving prose, with characters that reach across the years, Billy O’Callaghan describes births, deaths, war, and the life of his family.
April 26, 2022
Live Caught
R. Cathey Daniels
We meet Lenny after he’s stolen money and a skiff in an attempt to escape his abusive older brothers and ride the rivers until reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
May 3, 2022
Constellations of Eve
Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood
Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood has created a swiftly mutating story about a woman who is either a loving mother, a famous artist, or a teacher.
August 9, 2022
The Extraordinary
Brad Schaeffer
The story of a family that is forced to confront both autism and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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