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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Literary Fiction
December 3, 2024
Mirror Me
Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
Today I talked to Lisa Williamson Rosenberg about Mirror Me (Little a, 2024)
November 12, 2024
Next Stop
Benjamin Resnick
Today I talked to Benjamin Resnick about his novel Next Stop (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 17, 2024
Trust Me
Scott Nadelson
Set mostly in a remote cabin in the foothills of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains, Trust Me is about a divorced dad who drives forty-five minutes to work and back each day.
September 10, 2024
Songs for the Brokenhearted
Ayelet Tsabari
A beautiful dual-timeline novel about the Yemenite community struggling in overcrowded immigrant camps in 1950’s Israel, family bonds, mother-daughter relationships, political realities in 1995 Israel, and a young woman learning to be honest with herself.
August 20, 2024
This Room is Made of Noise
Stephen Schottenfeld
Don Lank is a newly divorced handyman who spots an imitation Tiffany lamp in the front window of a house and offers the elderly owner $800 for it. He’s shocked to get a check for fifteen thousand and returns to the house to give 95-year-old Millie most of the money.
June 11, 2024
The Maiden of Florence
Katherine Mezzacappa
At the end of the 16th century, the powerful Medici family demanded that before marrying into the family, Vincenzo I Gonzaga, the Duke of Mantua, had to show his prowess by deflowering a virgin. This is her story.
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.
May 28, 2024
Your Presence is Mandatory
Sasha Vasilyuk
In 2007 Ukraine, following the death of her husband, Yefim Shulman, Nina finds a letter he wrote to the KGB confessing the secret he’d kept for over 50 years. If it came out that his unit was wiped out and he was taken as a prisoner of Germany during WWII, he would have been considered a traitor to the USSR.
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.
May 7, 2024
The Blameless
Ryan Kenedy
Virginia is a single mother of an autistic child with a disinterested ex-husband and a demeaning, dead ended job as an adjunct professor on three different college campuses. She struggles, barely able to get by with no end in sight. Then she learns that the man who murdered her father when she was a little girl, has just gotten paroled despite his life sentence. Virginia remembers the day her life changed because of Travis Hilliard and decides to confront him. She brings her gun.
April 9, 2024
No More Empty Spaces
D.J. Green
No More Empty Spaces (She Writes Press, 2024) opens with Will Ross, an engineering geologist, who shares custody of his three children with his ex-wife, taking his 1953 Cessna up for a spin. It’s 1973, and he’s decided to take his children to a remote area of Turkey where he’s been hired to analyze the site of a damn.
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