New Books in Literature Podcast
1) Brad Smith, "Billy Crawford's Double Play" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Brad Smith about his new novel, Billy Crawford's Double Play (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025). Everything is legal – if you can get away with it. Billy Cra...Show More
2) Diane Botnick, "Becoming Sarah" (She Writes Press, 2025)
Sarah Vogel was born in Auschwitz and liberated at age three, but she has no memories of being there and nobody to tell her the story of her birth or her mother. Becoming Sarah (Diane Botnick, She Wri...Show More
3) Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)
The landscape of comedy has undergone a seismic shift in recent years with an increasing number of female comedians breaking through to mainstream audiences. Women are claiming high-profile roles as l...Show More
4) Somia Sadiq, "Gajarah" (GFB, 2025)
With stunning lyricism, Somia Sadiq's Gajarah (GFB, 2025) tells the story of a fearless woman torn between two worlds-Pakistan and Canada-whose life is upended by sexual violence. Emahn is big haired,...Show More
5) Stephanie Reents, "We Loved to Run" (Hogarth, 2025)
At Frost, a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts, the runners on the women’s cross country team have their sights set on the 1992 New England Division Three Championships and will push themselv...Show More
6) Daria Lavelle, "Aftertaste" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
In Aftertaste (Simon & Schuster, 2025) Konstantin Duhovny’s father died when he was young, and his mother is too anguished to raise him, so he raises himself, but not very well. After a sad breakup, ...Show More
7) Caitlin Galway, "A Song for Wildcats: Stories" (Dundurn Press, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Caitlin Galway about her short fiction collection, A Song for Wildcats (Dundurn Press, 2025).  An arresting, vividly imaginative collection of st...Show More
8) Michael Kardos, "Fun City Heist" (Severn House, 2025)
Mo Melnick has perfect pitch, which didn’t help him in his career as a drummer, but he used to be in a rock band and now his job is sitting on the Jersey Shore renting out chairs and beach umbrellas. ...Show More
9) Eileen Myles, "Pathetic Literature" (Grove Press, 2022)
“Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature (Grove Press, 2022), a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging from poems to theate...Show More
10) Emily Hunt Kivel, "Dwelling" (FSG, 2025)
The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did the ending begin? Perhaps when Evie’s mother died, or when her father died soon after. Perhaps when her sister, Elena, was forcibly inst...Show More