Discover fascinating magical realism author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb. Dive into NBN Podcast Episodes for magical realism insights today! NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Magical Realism December 3, 2024 Mirror Me Lisa Williamson Rosenberg Today I talked to Lisa Williamson Rosenberg about Mirror Me (Little a, 2024) Listen to Episode Buy Book November 26, 2024 Dazzling Chikodili Emelumadu Today I talked to Chikodili Emelumadu about Dazzling (Harry N. Abrams, 2023). Listen to Episode Buy Book October 24, 2023 Indigo Field Marjorie Hudson A sweeping picture of family trauma, Native American and Black history, and the earth’s vengeance on human pettiness. A retired colonel’s wife dies, leaving him alone in a snooty North Carolina senior community. Reba, an elderly Black woman who speaks to the ghosts of her family, takes in the white child whose father killed her beloved niece. The colonel mistakenly causes damage to Reba’s old car and unleashes a torrent of spirits, while his son guards the bones that have been unearthed in what was once “Indian Field.” This is a stunning debut about race relations, land use, history, and memory. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 3, 2023 Dry Land B. Platek It's 1917 during WWI, and Rand Brandt is living with two dangerous secrets, either of which could destroy him: 1) he can grow any plant or tree, but everything he grows will die within days, and 2) he is gay during a time when the army does not accept homosexuality. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 15, 2019 The Forgetting Flower Karen Hugg Renia has built a secret nook to store an unusual plant whose blossoms make people forget just about everything. The plant belonged to her twin sister, still in Crakow, and it turns out that there are lots of people interested in getting their hands on it - questionable people with guns, and drugs to sell. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 26, 2020 The Rocky Orchard Barbara Monier Sitting on the porch swing at her family’s vacation house, Mazie sees an old woman cutting through the orchard across the way and offers her a glass of water. Before long, they are playing cards every morning, and Mazie, triggered by the place that holds many childhood memories, begins sharing stories with her new friend, Lula. Listen to Episode Buy Book May 29, 2020 The Moon Always Rising Alice C. Early At the dawn of the new millennium, Els Gordon finds herself adrift – she’s in mourning for her fiancé and her father, she’s lost the inheritance of her Scottish Highlands estate, her mother left when she was two-years-old but it her only living relative... Listen to Episode Buy Book May 22, 2020 Arroyo Chip Jacobs Two guys named Nick Chance, both with clairvoyant dogs named Royo, both inventors living in Pasadena, California – in 1913 and 1993. There’s some magical realism, lots of fascinating historical detail about Pasadena and southern California, and lots of eating. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 8, 2020 Timeless Sisters Shelly Hoover Janene, Cora, and Amadahy live on the banks of the river in a small North Carolina town, but they live centuries apart. Janene, a modern-day high school teacher, loses her career and identity in the face of a devastating disease. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 1, 2020 Reinhardt's Garden Mark Haber Ten men have already died while searching the jungles of Uruguay for a reclusive writer, Emiliano Gomez Carrasquilla, who Jacov Reinhardt believes knows the key to understanding melancholy. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 19, 2018 The Promise of Pierson Orchard Kate Brandes How do families decide when financial relief outweighs the risks of drilling for natural gas on their land? In Kate Brandes' novel Promise of Pierson Orchard, a big energy company comes to Minden, Pennsylvania and hires the long-estranged brother of orchard owner Jack Pierson. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 15, 2020 Zahara and the Lost Books of Light Joyce Ruth Yarrow Seattle journalist Alienor Crespo flies to Spain to apply for citizenship as a descendant of Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula during the Inquisition, in 1492. She meets a long-lost cousin and begins to discover her family’s history. A strong and self-aware woman, Alienor is also invited into the hidden tunnels of a fantastic library, which for half a century has been preserving medieval Jewish and Muslim scholarly books that were saved from the Inquisition’s fires. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 29, 2020 Dreaming the Marsh Elizabeth McCulloch A giant sinkhole begins swallowing an enormous swath of a marsh-like ecosystem that has been slated for development, along with parts of a highway and a large lake. The citizens of Opakulla, Florida struggle to understand what is happening as the land is sucked under. They’re also perplexed by un-erasable writing that appears on their new town hall. The sinkhole starts wreaking havoc with their lives and nobody knows what to do about it. Listen to Episode Buy Book September 7, 2021 Harvesting the Sky Karen Hugg Botonist Andre Damazy undertakes a perilous exploration into the mountains of Kazakhstan to retrieve a sapling from a rare apple tree in the mountains of Kazakhstan. At great cost, he manages to retrieve a sapling, and brings it to his hidden greenhouse in Paris. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Discover memoir author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb. Dive into engaging memoir author interviews on our NBN Podcast Episodes page today! NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Memoir 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 22, 2024 The Adventures of Cancer Bitch S.L. Wisenberg It’s 2006, and S. L. Wisenberg is teaching writing at one of Chicago’s great universities and living a busy life when she’s gobsmacked by a sudden cancer diagnosis. In small but powerful journal entries, she bemoans friends who’ve died, expresses disdain for her body, worries about her future, recalls previous adventures, and jokes about the seriousness of her illness. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 25, 2024 Life Span Molly Giles Molly Giles looks back at moments of her childhood, her mistakes and missteps, getting pregnant at eighteen, marrying her boyfriend and having a second child, divorcing, marrying a second time but failing to find the happiness she knows she deserves. As the decades passed, she edited many well-known novels and popped out four story collections, two novels, and this brutally honest memoir. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 20, 2024 Secrets of the Sun Mako Yoshikawa Mako Yoshikawa's Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir (Mad Creek Books 2024) contains a host of essays about her difficult, brilliant father. Shoichi Yoshikawa grew up in a wealthy family in 1930s Japan, but his mother died when he was five, and he died alone on the eve of Mako’s wedding. Listen to Episode Buy Book September 5, 2023 I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975 Kathleen M. Osberger In 1975, Kathleen Osberger, who’d just graduated from Notre Dame University, flew to Chile to teach in a Catholic school in Santiago. She was assigned to live with several religious women, and when she arrived, was told that they would sometimes shelter dissidents who were wanted by the secret police. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 27, 2023 Set Adrift: A Mystery and A Memoir Sarah Conover When racing yacht “The Revonoc” went down in the Bermuda Triangle’s Sargasso Sea during a freakish storm in January of 1958, the sailing world was dumbfounded. The boat and five people on board, all well-known in the sailing world, completely vanished. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 6, 2023 Dreaming in Spanish Sara Alvarado Sara Alvarado tells the story of growing up in Madison, studying Spanish, and escaping alcoholism, substance abuse, men, and sexual assault by moving to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Listen to Episode Buy Book March 21, 2023 The Field Victoria Garza Victoria Garza begins her poetic memoir with her ten-year-old self learning that her little sister and cousin have died in a car accident. She painstakingly recalls lovely moments with her sister as they faced their parents’ divorce, their new lives surrounded by family members, their Mexican American culture and celebrations. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 4, 2023 The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home S.L. Wisenberg As a child, S. L. Wisenberg worried about being outside, not being able to breathe, and Nazis coming through the window of her Houston home. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 22, 2022 Hysterical Elissa Bassist For two years author Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical specialists for pain that none of them managed to diagnose or resolve. Some of their treatments led to other medical problems but never relief. Then an acupuncturist suggested that she simply needed to take control of her voice, and Bassist was shocked when it worked. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 1, 2022 Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman Eileen Pollack Eileen Pollack covers her life in snippets or by delving into history, but the overall picture is of an extremely talented writer, a brilliant woman with a degree in physics and a long list of respected publications who is still somewhat bewildered to find herself alone. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 27, 2021 The Thin Ledge Daniel Shapiro Daniel Shapiro was a successful attorney in his early forties when his wife, Susan, suffered a brain bleed and a diagnosis that her future was uncertain. Stunned, and with three young children, the couple made the most of the few years that followed, before a massive second hemorrhage changed everything. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Explore captivating global fiction author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb. Discover diverse stories in our global fiction author interviews podcast. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Global Fiction November 19, 2025 If the Owl Calls Sharon White As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the north of the country to investigate sabotage on a damn. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 11, 2025 Happy New Years Maya Arad After finishing her teaching degree in Israel, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book September 30, 2025 Isabella's Way Barbara Stark Nemon In early-seventeenth-century Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany, dangers are plentiful—especially for those of Jewish heritage. Non-Catholics have been expelled from Spain, and the Inquisition has come to Portugal to impose its prohibitions. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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). Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 26, 2024 Dazzling Chikodili Emelumadu Today I talked to Chikodili Emelumadu about Dazzling (Harry N. Abrams, 2023). Listen to Episode Buy Book October 15, 2024 The Last Whaler Cynthia Reeves After losing their young son in a tragic accident, Astrid, a Norwegian botanist specializing in Arctic flora, decides to join her husband, Tor, at a remote whaling station in the Arctic, where he spends every whaling season hunting belugas. In heartfelt journal entries, Astrid describes being stranded in a whaling hut through the dark season of 1937-38. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Discover engaging immigrant fiction author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb. Explore unique stories in our immigrant fiction author interviews series. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Immigrant 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 8, 2024 Blood on the Brain Esinam Bediako Today I talked to Esinam Bediako about here novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024). Listen to Episode Buy Book September 24, 2024 Down Here We Come Up Sara Johnson Allen In Sara Johnson Allen's novel Down Here We Come Up (Black Lawrence Press 2023), Kate Jessup’s mother lures her back home to North Carolina. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 23, 2024 Nadiia Christine Evans Nadia is a young Bosnian refugee who has lost everyone she’s loved. In 1997 she gets into England on a fake passport and finds temp work in a shady office that might be doing something illegal. A new temp shows up and Nadia knows he’s from her country even though he says he’s Armenian. She can tell that he’s Serbian, perhaps the kind that hunted down Bosnians like her. Nadia sees danger everywhere. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 19, 2023 American Ending Mary Kay Zuravleff It’s the early 1900s in an Appalachian town filled with immigrants, and Yelena is the first American born to her Old Believer Russian Orthodox parents. She can cook, clean, and take care of her baby siblings by age nine, but she loves school and wants something different that all the other girls, who get married by 13 or 14, and start having more babies than they can feed. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 5, 2023 The Shining Mountains Alix Christie Angus McDonald had to escape from Scotland or risk arrest. In 1838, he contracted with the Hudson Bay Company to trade in the Pacific Northwest. There he discovers majestic mountains, raging rivers, and buffalo. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 1, 2023 Kantika Elizabeth Graver Rebecca Cohen and her family live in Istanbul, until they lose all their wealth and are forced to leave. It’s also no longer safe for Jews, and many are trying to find a place to go. Rebecca’s father, once a successful businessman, now cleans a synagogue in Barcelona. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 4, 2023 Shadows We Carry Meryl Ain Meryl Ain's Shadows We Carry (Sparkspress, 2023) is a follow-up to the author’s 2020 novel, The Takeaway Men, focuses on fraternal twins Bronka and JoJo Lubinski, now in college and figuring out what to do with their lives. Listen to Episode Buy Book May 16, 2023 Hotel Cuba Aaron Hamburger Two sisters fleeing the horror of the Soviet Revolution and aftermath of WW1 are disappointed when American policy prevents them from joining their older sister in New York. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 18, 2023 Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi’s novel Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories (Amistad 2022), is a moving and unforgettable collection of stories that span a lifetime. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 14, 2019 Lucky Boy Shanthi Sekaran An optimistic young Mexican woman gets pregnant while trying to cross the border into the states. An Indian-American woman struggles with infertility. When undocumented Solimar is detained by the state, Kavya and her husband foster and then fall in love with her little boy. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 6, 2020 A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son Sergio Troncoso Troncoso fills these 13 linked stories with the struggles and triumphs of Mexican/American immigrants or their children who’ve settled in the United States. In a nod to philosophical perspectivism, the view that perception changes according o the viewer’s interpretation... Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the north of the country to investigate sabotage on a damn. < Back If the Owl Calls Sharon White November 19, 2025 As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the north of the country to investigate sabotage on a damn. Then a body is discovered, and Sorensen has to delve into his own past and heritage. He is Sami but no longer immersed in the culture, and Sorensen is also mourning the recent death of his wife, so he’s hesitant to return to his hometown. He ends up following the trail of two women, a journalist and a musician, and discovers the writings of a relative, a real-life Sami author who wrote about his struggle to survive. If the Owl Calls (Sharon White, WTAW Press 2025) is a fascinating mystery filled with Norwegian and Sami history, about identity and memory. Sharon White is an award-winning author whose work spans nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. She has written extensively about nature, place, and memory, bringing a lyrical and reflective voice to her storytelling. Her books include Vanished Gardens, the AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction winner; Boiling Lake, winner of the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction; and Minato Sketches, a Rosemary Daniell Prize winner. White received her BA in English Literature from Colby College and spent a year studying at Manchester College, Oxford University. She has an MFA from Goddard College, where she was a member of the first class of graduates in Ellen Bryant Voigt’s innovative program. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Denver. An Associate Professor Emerita at Temple University, White has dedicated her career to writing and teaching. A passionate traveler, she draws inspiration from diverse landscapes and cultures. In Scandinavia she researched the life of Danish painter Emilie Demant Hatt, and in 2019, as an artist-in-residence in Dunedin, New Zealand, she immersed in the region’s literary and artistic culture. She has also taught creative writing at Temple University Japan. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, Scott Masker. When not working or traveling, she loves to garden and take walks around the city. She also enjoys skiing and biking. Listen to Episode Buy Book Previous Next

Dive into captivating mystery author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb on NBN Podcast Episodes. Uncover the secrets behind mystery author interviews. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Mystery November 19, 2025 If the Owl Calls Sharon White As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the north of the country to investigate sabotage on a damn. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 14, 2025 Violent Seed Mary Price Birk Lady Anne is in the Cotswolds with her 8-month-old son, there to restore a famous walled garden. The magnificent home has been hosting a television cooking special over the summer, and Anne’s husband, Lord Terrence Reid, is there to enjoy a “Summer of Chefs” week with his wife and baby son. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 11, 2025 We Would Never Tova Mirvis Hailey Gelman just learned that her soon-to-be ex-husband was murdered in his home. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 1, 2024 Anyone But Her Cynthia Swanson In 1979 during her freshman year at Denver East High School in 1979, Suzanne’s mother was murdered by an armed robber while working in her record store. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 7, 2023 The Good Time Girls Get Famous KT Blakemore It’s 1905, and there’s a bounty on the heads of Ruby Calhoun and Pip Quinn for trumped-up crimes they didn’t commit in Kansas. When a wannabe movie producer convinces them to star in a moving picture about their exploits, everyone’s lives are put in danger, but Ruby and Pip refuse to back down in this charming, light-hearted series about 1900s life in the west, the early movie industry, and the bonds of friendship. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 18, 2023 The Isolated Seance Jeri Westerson It’s 1895, and Tim Badger, who is quite familiar with the inside of a jail cell, and his intuitive friend Ben Watson, who is Black in a society that is weary of difference, are unlikely detectives. But Tim was once one of the Baker Street Irregular urchins who ran errands and spied for the great Sherlock Holmes, and the two young men are trying to be detectives. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 4, 2023 Charred: A Whipped and Sipped Mystery G.P. Gottlieb In Charred, the third of G. P. Gottlieb’s Whipped and Sipped Mysteries, her heroine, Alene Baron, has a lot on her mind. Chicago is in lockdown, a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, complicating Alene’s already hectic life. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 6, 2022 The Dead Won't Tell S.K. Waters (aka Sue Arroyo 1966-2024) “July 25, 1969 12:41am Hunts Landing. Acrid sulfur from the fireworks faded with the nighttime breeze. Dr. Theodore Wexler held up his glass-red flashes from the police cars on the Quad pulsed chestnut in the bourbon. Pulse. Pulse. The cadence matched his heartbeat, steadier now, settled after this disrupted day of jubilee.“ Listen to Episode Buy Book November 15, 2022 The Lindbergh Nanny Mariah Fredericks Charles Lindbergh and his wife were out on the night of the kidnapping, but the nanny was home. After the baby disappeared from his bed, that nanny, Betty Gow, became a prime suspect, and her life was never the same. She was known thereafter as the Lindbergh Nanny. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 11, 2019 The Flavia de Luce Mystery Series Alan Bradley This book introduced the intrepid 11-year-old protagonist, Flavia de Luce, who lives in an enormous manor house in England, with her widowed father and two sisters. It’s 1950, and England is still rebuilding itself after WWII. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 4, 2019 The Best of Crimes K. C. Maher Later, as his marriage crumbles and his wife takes their daughter with her to Maine, Walter finds himself more and more drawn to his young neighbor. This is a novel about family dynamics, growing older, struggling with loneliness, and forbidden love. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Discover captivating women's fiction author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb. Dive into NBN Podcast Episodes for in-depth women's fiction insights. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Women's Fiction 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 11, 2025 We Would Never Tova Mirvis Hailey Gelman just learned that her soon-to-be ex-husband was murdered in his home. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 26, 2024 Dazzling Chikodili Emelumadu Today I talked to Chikodili Emelumadu about Dazzling (Harry N. Abrams, 2023). Listen to Episode Buy Book November 5, 2024 The Causative Factor Megan Staffel Sparks fly in Megan Staffel’s novel, The Causative Factor (Regal House 2024), when Rachel is randomly paired with Rubiat, a fellow student, for an assignment in their college art class. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 29, 2024 The Waters Bonnie Jo Campbell Hermine “Herself” Zook is a healer who rules over an island in a swampy area of Michigan known as “The Waters.” People, including her three grown daughters, fear her, but her powerful herbal and plant-based medicines have cured the townspeople for decades of viruses, pains, and unwanted pregnancies. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 8, 2024 Blood on the Brain Esinam Bediako Today I talked to Esinam Bediako about here novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024). Listen to Episode Buy Book October 1, 2024 Anyone But Her Cynthia Swanson In 1979 during her freshman year at Denver East High School in 1979, Suzanne’s mother was murdered by an armed robber while working in her record store. Listen to Episode Buy Book September 24, 2024 Down Here We Come Up Sara Johnson Allen In Sara Johnson Allen's novel Down Here We Come Up (Black Lawrence Press 2023), Kate Jessup’s mother lures her back home to North Carolina. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Explore engaging historical fiction author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb. Dive into NBN Podcast Episodes for insightful historical fiction author interviews. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Historical Fiction 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 18, 2023 The Isolated Seance Jeri Westerson It’s 1895, and Tim Badger, who is quite familiar with the inside of a jail cell, and his intuitive friend Ben Watson, who is Black in a society that is weary of difference, are unlikely detectives. But Tim was once one of the Baker Street Irregular urchins who ran errands and spied for the great Sherlock Holmes, and the two young men are trying to be detectives. Listen to Episode Buy Book May 23, 2023 After the Barricades Jessica Stilling After her mother dies in a tragic accident, Anna cleans out her closet and finds a striking painting that she’d never seen before. She also finds a trove of letters from Stefan Terre, a name she’s never heard. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 17, 2023 I Meant to Tell You Fran Hawthorne I Meant to Tell You, by Fran Hawthorne (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022) opens during a conversation between Miranda Isaacs and her fiancé, Russ, who is going through an FBI security check as a prelude to getting his dream job in the U.S. Attorney’s office. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 29, 2022 We are All Together Richard Fulco Stephen Cane is a guitarist – he’s already walked out on one band to join another one that subsequently falls apart. He gets himself to New York City to try to rejoin his first band, the one headed by his best friend and former bandmate, Dylan John. It’s 1967, drugs and girls are everywhere, Dylan is on the verge of becoming a rock n’ roll star, and Stephen makes some extremely poor choices. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 15, 2022 The Lindbergh Nanny Mariah Fredericks Charles Lindbergh and his wife were out on the night of the kidnapping, but the nanny was home. After the baby disappeared from his bed, that nanny, Betty Gow, became a prime suspect, and her life was never the same. She was known thereafter as the Lindbergh Nanny. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 11, 2019 The Flavia de Luce Mystery Series Alan Bradley This book introduced the intrepid 11-year-old protagonist, Flavia de Luce, who lives in an enormous manor house in England, with her widowed father and two sisters. It’s 1950, and England is still rebuilding itself after WWII. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 8, 2022 Under a Veiled Moon Karen Odden When the Princess Alice pleasure boat collides with a huge iron-hulled cargo ship on the Thames River, it’s split in half, and only 130 of the 650 passengers and crew members survive. It’s 1878, and clues point to sabotage by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which has already used violence in hopes of restoring Home Rule. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 17, 2020 The Anglophile's Notebook Sunday Taylor Californian Claire Easton, who writes a magazine column called “The Anglophile’s Notebook,” travels to England to do research for a book about Charlotte Brontë. She’s already in love with England, where her late mother grew up and where she plans to find some healing now that her marriage of twenty years is imploding. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 27, 2020 Death of the Chinese Field Hands Anne Louise Bannon When Anne Louise Bannon heard her husband, then archivist for the City of Los Angeles, speak about the how early Angelenos dug a large ditch (a zanja) to cull water from the Porciuncula River (now known as the Los Angeles River), her first thought was that the Zanja would be an interesting place to find a dead body. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 12, 2020 Road to Delano John DeSimone In John DeSimone's Road to Delano (Rare Bird Books, 2020), it's 1968, and Cesar Chavez is organizing the United Farm Workers to fight for decent working conditions and basic human rights, while growers get increasingly violent in trying to prevent unionization. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 31, 2020 Pale Edward A. Farmer It’s 1966, and Bernice’s husband has either died or abandoned her. Her brother Floyd invites her to join him as a servant working for white owners of an old plantation house in Mississippi. Floyd warns Bernice about the housekeeper, Silva, who lives there with her two young sons. The owner and his wife don’t speak much and there seem to be secrets hidden in every corner. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 28, 2020 Into the Suffering City Bill LeFurgy Sarah Kennecott is a brilliant young doctor who cares deeply about justice for murder victims after her own family is murdered. She’s not like other people; she doesn’t like noises and smells, she doesn’t understand chit chat, and she cannot interpret inflection or nuance. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 30, 2020 Tea by the Sea Donna Hemans A new father walks out of the hospital with his day-old baby while the mother recuperates from giving birth. He tells a series of lies and moves houses or countries whenever the truth gets too close. The young, broken-hearted mother devotes herself to searching for her missing daughter. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Contact mystery author and recipe creator, G. P. Gottlieb and follow her on social media. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Short Story Collections 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 4, 2024 Displaced Persons: Stories Joan Leegant Set around the globe in the U.S., Europe, and Israel, Leegant’s characters face loneliness, illness, difficult relationships, horrible memories, unfaithful husbands, and uncaring or dying parents. These are moving stories about recognizable people, all facing displacement in one way or another, trying to live their lives. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 16, 2024 The Forgetters Greg Sarris Greg Sarris, PhD and tribal leader serving his sixteenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, about his latest story collection, The Forgetters. The stories are connected to two sister crows who sit all day and night on Sonoma Mountain talking about the creation of the world, human frailty, silliness, and suffering. One crow sister can only ask the questions, and one can only answer in tales about Native American Indians struggling to remember the stories that made them who they are. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 13, 2024 Cravings Garnett Kilberg Cohen Garnett Kilberg Cohen’s 4th story collection is about people of all kinds who confront past failures, previous mistakes, or moments they wish they could do over. A man recalls a fall that changed his family’s life, a woman thinks about an abortion that went bad, an aging hippie confronts the death of his best friend – these are detailed, well-told, poignant stories that will stay with you. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 30, 2024 The Half-White Album Cynthia Sylvester Cynthia Sylvester's The Half-White Album (University of New Mexico Press 2023) is a collection of stories, flash fiction, and poems revolving around the journey of a travelling band, The Covers. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 18, 2023 Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi’s novel Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories (Amistad 2022), is a moving and unforgettable collection of stories that span a lifetime. Listen to Episode Buy Book May 27, 2019 The Book of Jeremiah Julie Zuckerman Julie Zuckerman’s moving and engrossing debut novel-in-stories, The Book of Jeremiah, tells the story of awkward but endearing Jeremiah Gerstler—the son of immigrants, brilliant political science professor, husband, and father. Listen to Episode Buy Book May 1, 2019 The Genuine Stories Susan Smith Daniels The Genuine Stories is a linked collection centered around Genevieve “Genuine” Eriksson, a woman with an uncanny ability to heal people. Her gift begins to unfold at the age of eight despite the lingering disbelief of her parents. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 14, 2019 To Lay to Rest our Ghosts Caitlin Hamilton Summie Caitlin Hamilton Summie’s award-winning collection of short stories is peopled with characters who leave home, return home, or dream of home. The stories alternate between sweet, thoughtful, and sad, all expressing a universal longing for family, friendship and connection. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 5, 2019 Grace: Stories and a Novella Dan Burns Personal and insightful stories about our connections to each other and the world, our attempts to weave the past and present into a meaningful future, and our varying ways of seeking redemption. Unforgettable characters encounter gorgeous landscapes, nasty betrayals, shocking technology, a heartless future, and a decaying city neighborhood. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 6, 2020 A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son Sergio Troncoso Troncoso fills these 13 linked stories with the struggles and triumphs of Mexican/American immigrants or their children who’ve settled in the United States. In a nod to philosophical perspectivism, the view that perception changes according o the viewer’s interpretation... Listen to Episode Buy Book May 17, 2022 Geographies of the Heart Caitlin Hamilton Summie Three members of a loving Minnesota family have a voice in Caitlin Hamilton Summie’s new thought-provoking novel-in-stories. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Dive into NBN Podcast Episodes for exclusive historical mystery author interviews. Discover insights and stories from top historical mystery author interviews. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Historical Mystery 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 18, 2023 The Isolated Seance Jeri Westerson It’s 1895, and Tim Badger, who is quite familiar with the inside of a jail cell, and his intuitive friend Ben Watson, who is Black in a society that is weary of difference, are unlikely detectives. But Tim was once one of the Baker Street Irregular urchins who ran errands and spied for the great Sherlock Holmes, and the two young men are trying to be detectives. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 15, 2022 The Lindbergh Nanny Mariah Fredericks Charles Lindbergh and his wife were out on the night of the kidnapping, but the nanny was home. After the baby disappeared from his bed, that nanny, Betty Gow, became a prime suspect, and her life was never the same. She was known thereafter as the Lindbergh Nanny. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 11, 2019 The Flavia de Luce Mystery Series Alan Bradley This book introduced the intrepid 11-year-old protagonist, Flavia de Luce, who lives in an enormous manor house in England, with her widowed father and two sisters. It’s 1950, and England is still rebuilding itself after WWII. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 8, 2022 Under a Veiled Moon Karen Odden When the Princess Alice pleasure boat collides with a huge iron-hulled cargo ship on the Thames River, it’s split in half, and only 130 of the 650 passengers and crew members survive. It’s 1878, and clues point to sabotage by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which has already used violence in hopes of restoring Home Rule. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 17, 2020 The Anglophile's Notebook Sunday Taylor Californian Claire Easton, who writes a magazine column called “The Anglophile’s Notebook,” travels to England to do research for a book about Charlotte Brontë. She’s already in love with England, where her late mother grew up and where she plans to find some healing now that her marriage of twenty years is imploding. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 27, 2020 Death of the Chinese Field Hands Anne Louise Bannon When Anne Louise Bannon heard her husband, then archivist for the City of Los Angeles, speak about the how early Angelenos dug a large ditch (a zanja) to cull water from the Porciuncula River (now known as the Los Angeles River), her first thought was that the Zanja would be an interesting place to find a dead body. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 12, 2020 Road to Delano John DeSimone In John DeSimone's Road to Delano (Rare Bird Books, 2020), it's 1968, and Cesar Chavez is organizing the United Farm Workers to fight for decent working conditions and basic human rights, while growers get increasingly violent in trying to prevent unionization. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 28, 2020 Into the Suffering City Bill LeFurgy Sarah Kennecott is a brilliant young doctor who cares deeply about justice for murder victims after her own family is murdered. She’s not like other people; she doesn’t like noises and smells, she doesn’t understand chit chat, and she cannot interpret inflection or nuance. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 10, 2021 Devil by the Tail Jeanne Matthews It’s 1867, and a 20-something civil war widow has just set up a detective agency with a former rebel soldier named Gabriel Garnick. She uses a professional name, Mrs. Paschal, so nobody connects her with the former in-laws who are trying to stop her from receiving her dead husband’s estate. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 3, 2021 A Child Lost Michelle Cox Fifth in the Henrietta and Inspector Howard Mystery Series, A Child Lost (She Writes Press, 2020) begins in 1935, with Henrietta’s younger sister, Elsie, falling in love with Gunther, a German refugee. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 16, 2021 The Lost Shtetl Max Gross Imagine a Jewish village hidden in the forests of Poland that somehow escapes the Holocaust. Eighty years later, a young woman divorces her husband and runs into the surrounding forest. The town sends a young man to find her. He’s an orphan and expendable because he’s not that good a marriage prospect, but suddenly he finds himself in modern-day Poland. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 16, 2021 The Cry of the Hangman Susanna Calkins It’s December 1667 and London is still recovering both from the Plague and the Great Fire. Lucy Campion visits retired judge Master Hargrave and discovers that he’s been attacked and robbed in his home. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 7, 2021 Gone Missing in Harlem Karla FC Holloway The Mosbys leave their life in Sedalia within hours after six-year-old Percy loudly notes that his father’s boss has made a mistake in calculating what is owed. Percy’s parents know what would happen if they stayed. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Contact mystery author and recipe creator, G. P. Gottlieb and follow her on social media. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Eco-Fiction 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 29, 2024 The Waters Bonnie Jo Campbell Hermine “Herself” Zook is a healer who rules over an island in a swampy area of Michigan known as “The Waters.” People, including her three grown daughters, fear her, but her powerful herbal and plant-based medicines have cured the townspeople for decades of viruses, pains, and unwanted pregnancies. Listen to Episode Buy Book March 19, 2024 The Stark Beauty of Last Things Céline Keating The Stark Beauty of Last Things (She Writes Press, 2023) is set in Montauk, the far reaches of the famed Hamptons, an area under looming threat from a warming climate and overdevelopment. Now outsider Clancy, a thirty-six-year-old claims adjuster scarred by his orphan childhood, has inherited an unexpected legacy: the power to decide the fate of Montauk’s last parcel of undeveloped land. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 3, 2023 Dry Land B. Platek It's 1917 during WWI, and Rand Brandt is living with two dangerous secrets, either of which could destroy him: 1) he can grow any plant or tree, but everything he grows will die within days, and 2) he is gay during a time when the army does not accept homosexuality. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 24, 2023 The Kudzu Queen Mimi Herman Kudzu salesman James T. Cullowee arrives in Cooper County, North Carolina in the spring of 1941 to spread the gospel of kudzu. It can apparently feed cattle, improve soil, grow with no effort, be turned into jam, and cure headaches. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 20, 2022 Starling Sarah Jane Butler "Starling is 19 and was raised in a camper van by a strong-willed mother who cut them off from their community of fellow travelers. Starling, who has never gone to school or to the dentist, knows the nomadic life of trapping rabbits, foraging for food, and getting kicked out by local police." Listen to Episode Buy Book October 31, 2019 Pigs Johanna Stoberock In her new novel Pigs, Johanna Stoberock has written a lyrical fable about an island that receives all the world’s garbage. That garbage, both physical and psychological in the forms of dreams and memories, is consumed by six enormous, voracious pigs. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 30, 2019 Kickdown Rebecca Clarren Two sisters are struggling to save their land when a gas well explodes on a neighboring ranch in western Colorado, setting off a disturbing chain of events. This is a moving debut novel about family, land, and the preservation of both in rural America. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 15, 2020 Watershed Mark Barr It’s 1937 and rural Tennessee is still recovering from the Great Depression. The construction of a huge dam brings job seekers, fortune hunters, and the promise of electricity to the area. Claire, a young mother of two, realizes her marriage is over when she wakes up with a sexually transmitted disease brought home by her husband. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 8, 2020 No Entry Gila Green Yael’s parents originally emigrated to Canada from South Africa years before and have returned while mourning the tragic death of Yael’s brother. Yael, also in mourning, but busy learning everything from medic training to driving on the left side of the road, uncovers a deadly elephant poaching ring. After witnessing some horrible violence, she just isn’t sure what to do about it. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 29, 2020 Dreaming the Marsh Elizabeth McCulloch A giant sinkhole begins swallowing an enormous swath of a marsh-like ecosystem that has been slated for development, along with parts of a highway and a large lake. The citizens of Opakulla, Florida struggle to understand what is happening as the land is sucked under. They’re also perplexed by un-erasable writing that appears on their new town hall. The sinkhole starts wreaking havoc with their lives and nobody knows what to do about it. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 23, 2021 Just River Sara B. Fraser The Otis River flows through the once bustling city of Wattsville, a few hours north of NYC, reminding the remaining residents of better days. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 18, 2022 What Storm, What Thunder Myriam J. A. Chancy At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 5, 2022 Speed of Dark Patricia Ricketts Mosely Albright works in a Mission house helping drug addicts, alcoholics and those who are down on their luck. The reverend has asked him to search for one of the men who isn’t capable of surviving in the freezing cold. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 19, 2022 The Displacements Bruce Holsinger Bruce Holsinger’s novel The Displacements is a gripping saga about what might happen in a world in which climate change can wreak havoc on life, even for those who have everything. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Dive into NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb for engaging dystopian author interviews. Discover unique insights from dystopian author interviews. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Dystopian Fiction November 12, 2024 Next Stop Benjamin Resnick Today I talked to Benjamin Resnick about his novel Next Stop (Simon and Schuster, 2024) Listen to Episode Buy Book May 14, 2024 The Truth Against the World David Corbett The Truth Against the World (Square Tire Books, 2023) is a brilliant literary fantasy about a divided, dystopian America on the verge of war. Shane, a former Irish combat soldier with a murky past, wants to save his young friend Georgie O’Halloran, who turned his stories of Celtic history and folklore into a beautifully illustrated book. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 31, 2019 Pigs Johanna Stoberock In her new novel Pigs, Johanna Stoberock has written a lyrical fable about an island that receives all the world’s garbage. That garbage, both physical and psychological in the forms of dreams and memories, is consumed by six enormous, voracious pigs. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 19, 2022 This Place That Place Nandita Dinesh A nameless young woman from This Place, and a nameless young man from That Place are stuck together when That Place, the occupying force, imposes another curfew on This Place. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More