Best Janet Forbes Podcasts (2025)

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David Giuliano, "The Upending of Wendall Forbes" (Latitude 46, 2025) 37:17

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews David Giuliano about his novel, The Upending of Wendall Forbes (Latitude 46, 2025). Wendall and Ruby Forbes are confronting the vagaries of aging boomers: – sleeplessness, loneliness, memory loss, and the fear Ruby is showing signs of dementia. A blizzard hits their small town of Twenty-Six Mile H…

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Harini Nagendra, "Into the Leopard's Den: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery" (Pegasus Crime, 2025) 36:55

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Into the Leopard’s Den (Pegasus / Hachette India: 2025), the latest novel in the Bangalore Detective Club series by Harini Nagendra, opens with a home invasion gone wrong: An elderly woman in 1920s India, murdered by a mystery assailant during a robbery. Kaveri Murthy, amateur detective, takes on the case–and soon uncovers a whole array of other my…

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Erin Somers, "The Ten Year Affair: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2025) 37:36

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When Cora meets Sam at a baby group in their small town, the chemistry between them is undeniable. Both are happily married young parents with two kids, and neither sees themselves as the type to engage in an affair. Yet their connection grows stronger, and as their lives continue to intertwine, the romantic tension between them becomes all-consumi…

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Lorne Daniel, "What Is Broken Binds Us" (U Calgary Press, 2025) 45:32

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews poet Lorne Daniel about his poetry collection, What is Broken Binds Us (University of Calgary Press, 2025). What is Broken Binds Us is a collection of poems of the disruptions and emotional tremors that shape us: enslaved families broken and dispersed, histories hidden, addiction and estrangement,…

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Maya Arad, "The Hebrew Teacher" (New Vessel Press, 2024) 27:24

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Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins the faculty, she finds his post-Zionist politics pose a threat to her life’s work. Miriam, whose …

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Janet Burroway, "Simone in Pieces" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025) 26:10

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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. From 1940 to 2000, we see 9-year-old Simone standing through the long voyage and later through various perspectives of those whose lives she touches. From Sussex, she reaches New York and ends up across t…

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Tamara Jong, "Worldly Girls" (Book Hug*Press, 2020) 39:32

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author Tamara Jong about her memoir, Worldly Girls (Book*hug Press, 2025). Tamara Jong’s powerful memoir documents the slow unravelling of her connection to her faith and the tragic history of her fractured family, shining a light into the dark corners of memory that have haunted her well into ad…

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Brian Evenson, "Further Reports" (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2024) 52:35

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Brian Evenson is the author of over a dozen books of fiction, most recently Good Night Sleep Tight (Coffeehouse Press 2024). His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other …

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Marcy Dermansky, "Hot Air" (Knopf, 2025) 35:22

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Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad Marie, and Twins. She has received fellowships from McDowell and the Edward F Albee Foundation. She lives with her daughter in Montclair, NJ. Today we are discussing Hot Air (Knopf, 2025) Recommended Books: Emily Adrian, Seduction Theory Jes…

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Theresa Muñoz, "Archivum" (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025) 39:33

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Archivum (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025) by Dr. Theresa Muñoz is a book – wise, funny and inventive by turn – that explores what it means to look at artefacts in an archive, and how these objects resonate with events in our lives. Imagined as a walk across Edinburgh, landmarks such as the Balmoral clock, National Library of Scotland, Meado…

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Sadiqa de Meijer, "In the Field" (Palimpsest Press, 2025) 41:13

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Governor General Award-winning author Sadiqa de Meijer about her new essay collection, In the Field (Palimpsest Press, 2025). In The Field, Sadiqa de Meijer's follow up to the Governor General's Award winning alfabet/alphabet, brings us essays that move searchingly through their central questions…

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Howard Lovy, "Found and Lost: The Jake and Cait Story" (Vine Leaves Press, 2025) 39:49

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Howard Lovy is a journalist, book editor, and author with forty years of experience covering everything from Jewish issues and the Mideast conflict to nanotechnology and the auto industry. His work has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Longreads, The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Daily Forward, and other publications. Howard’s debut novel, Found and Lost…

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Aamir Hussain, "Under the Full and Crescent Moon" (Dundurn, 2025) 37:56

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Aamir Hussain about his debut novel, Under the Full and Crescent Moon (Dundurn, 2025). In a battle of words and beliefs, a young woman must defend her city against zealotry during the Islamic Golden Age. After his long-time scribe retires, Khadija’s father, the city’s leading jurist, offers his i…

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Gretchen Felker-Martin, "Black Flame" (Tor Nightfire, 2025) 19:09

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One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame (Tor Nightfire, 2025) from the USA Today bestselling author of Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin. A cursed film. A haunted past. A deadly secret. The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years l…

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Hari Krishna Kaul, "For Now, It Is Night: Stories" (NYRB, 2024) 50:38

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Hari Krishna Kaul’s short stories, shaped by the social crisis and political instability in Kashmir, explore – with a sharp eye for detail, biting wit, and empathy – themes of isolation, alienation, corruption, and the social mores of a community that experienced a loss of homeland, culture, and language. His characters navigate their ever-changing…

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Brandon Taylor, "Minor Black Figures" (Riverhead, 2025) 1:04:28

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Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels Minor Black Figures (Riverhead, 2025), The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His …

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Caskey Russell, "The Door on the Sea" (Solaris, 2025) 35:55

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Caskey Russell’s novel The Door on the Sea (Solaris, 2025) follows Elan, the youngest member of once revered Flicker Clan, on a journey to find a weapon that can defend his people from the shapeshifting Koosh invaders threatening their existence. To reach his goal, Elan must captain a canoe crewed by an unlikely team and force the cooperation of a …

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Mary Birk, "Violent Seed" (Rookwood, 2025) 24:01

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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. Reid’s parents have also been invited to spend the week an…

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Shane Peacock, "A Place of Secrets" (Cormorant Books, 2025) 44:24

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A TRAGIC DOUBLE HOMICIDE, OR A HIDDEN SERIAL KILLER? SERGEANT ALICE MORROW IS DETERMINED TO SOLVE A MYSTERY SPANNING SIXTY YEARS. When Evelyn Massey is found dead in her home, it seems like an open-and-shut case: Evelyn was one hundred years old — natural causes. But Sergeant Alice Morrow learns that traces of poison were found in Mrs. Massey’s blo…

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Bruce Hunter, "In the Bear's House" (Frontenac House, 2025) 50:58

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews award-winning author Bruce Hunter about his CanLit masterpiece, In the Bear's House (Frontenac House Press, 2025). So many different worlds emerge and converge in this lyrical, expansive novel from Bruce Hunter that we need two narrators: Trout, the deaf boy from Ogden, whose vivid imagination and…

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Philip Graubart, "Here There Is No Why" and Philip Graubart "Here There Is No Why" 1:08:29

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In this double interview I talked to Michael Kinnamon, author of A Rooftop in Jerusalem and Philip Graubart author of Here There Is No Why. A Rooftop In Jerusalem: When Daniel Jacobs decides to spend his junior year abroad in Israel, he never dreams he'll fall in love with both Jerusalem's Old City and an Israeli woman, Shoshana. It's the year reli…

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Kasia Jaronczyk, "Voices in the Air" (Palimpsest Press, 2025) 45:59

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author Kasia Jaronczyk about her novel, Voices in the Air (Palimpsest Press, 2025). What would drive women to risk the lives of their children and innocent people to leave their mother country forever? On April 30, 1982, two women and their families hijack a Polish passenger plane flying from Bre…

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Jemimah Wei, "The Original Daughter" (Doubleday/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025) 44:25

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Genevieve Yang, the protagonist of Jemimah Wei’s debut novel The Original Daughter (Doubleday/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025) works a dead-end job in Singapore, living in the shadow of her adopted younger sister, Arin, a rising movie star. Genevieve’s dying mother asks her to call Arin; Genevieve refuses. Jemimah’s novel then teases out the history of…

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Aisha Sasha John, "total: poems" (Random House, 2025) 26:41

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Aisha Sasha John about her poetry collection, total: poems (McClelland & Stewart, 2025). "John is brilliant at communicating. She's also really funny. Poems don't get more direct and precise and unforgettable than this." —National Post The highly anticipated new collection from Griffin Poetry Pri…

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Taylor Byas, "Resting Bitch Face: Poems" (Catapult, 2025) 1:01:13

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The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from object, artistic muse, and victim to subject, critic, and master of her story. Resting Bitch Face (Soft Skull Press, 2025) is a book for women, for Black women, for lovers of art and …

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David Giuliano, "The Upending of Wendall Forbes" (Latitude 46, 2025) 37:17

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Harini Nagendra, "Into the Leopard's Den: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery" (Pegasus Crime, 2025) 36:55

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Erin Somers, "The Ten Year Affair: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2025) 37:36

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Lorne Daniel, "What Is Broken Binds Us" (U Calgary Press, 2025) 45:32

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Maya Arad, "The Hebrew Teacher" (New Vessel Press, 2024) 27:24

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Janet Burroway, "Simone in Pieces" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025) 26:10

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Tamara Jong, "Worldly Girls" (Book Hug*Press, 2020) 39:32

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Brian Evenson, "Further Reports" (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2024) 52:35

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Marcy Dermansky, "Hot Air" (Knopf, 2025) 35:22

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Theresa Muñoz, "Archivum" (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025) 39:33

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Sadiqa de Meijer, "In the Field" (Palimpsest Press, 2025) 41:13

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Howard Lovy, "Found and Lost: The Jake and Cait Story" (Vine Leaves Press, 2025) 39:49

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Aamir Hussain, "Under the Full and Crescent Moon" (Dundurn, 2025) 37:56

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Gretchen Felker-Martin, "Black Flame" (Tor Nightfire, 2025) 19:09

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Hari Krishna Kaul, "For Now, It Is Night: Stories" (NYRB, 2024) 50:38

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Brandon Taylor, "Minor Black Figures" (Riverhead, 2025) 1:04:28

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Caskey Russell, "The Door on the Sea" (Solaris, 2025) 35:55

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Mary Birk, "Violent Seed" (Rookwood, 2025) 24:01

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Shane Peacock, "A Place of Secrets" (Cormorant Books, 2025) 44:24

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Bruce Hunter, "In the Bear's House" (Frontenac House, 2025) 50:58

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Philip Graubart, "Here There Is No Why" and Philip Graubart "Here There Is No Why" 1:08:29

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Kasia Jaronczyk, "Voices in the Air" (Palimpsest Press, 2025) 45:59

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Jemimah Wei, "The Original Daughter" (Doubleday/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025) 44:25

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Aisha Sasha John, "total: poems" (Random House, 2025) 26:41

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Taylor Byas, "Resting Bitch Face: Poems" (Catapult, 2025) 1:01:13