Best Simon Elia Podcasts (2025)

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Booksellers Best of 2025 54:34

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Lisa Swayze has been the General Manager at Buffalo Street Books for 8 years and will transition to becoming the Executive Director of the bookstore’s new literary nonprofit in 2025. Lisa is on the board of directors of the American Booksellers Association and the Downtown Ithaca Alliance. Laura Larson is the owner of Odyssey Bookstore. In 2019 Lau…

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Sean Minogue, "Prodigals" (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025) 38:17

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Sean Minogue about this play, Prodigals (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025). When a big-city dreamer from a small northern Ontario city returns to his hometown to testify in a murder trial, he faces old uncovered wounds in his circle of friends and discovers that his missed opportunities are more than…

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David Elias, "Into the D-Ark" (Radiant Press, 2025) 54:50

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In this NBN episode, NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with acclaimed Manitoba author David Elias about his new novel, Into the D/Ark (Radiant Press, 2025). Rose Martens struggles with the aftermath of a terrible fire that has left her sons, Jake and Isaac, horribly disfigured. The boys have gone to live in an abandoned house they’ve named Bachelor’s …

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Brad Smith, "Billy Crawford's Double Play" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025) 38:08

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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 Crawford is a hero. The star of the Rose City Rounders, the baseball player has been thrilling fans of the city for years. But Billy’s not as young as he us…

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Diane Botnick, "Becoming Sarah" (She Writes Press, 2025) 28:37

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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 Writes Press 2025) grapples with identity, memory, belonging, and reinventing oneself. Sarah’s trajectory is filled with both happiness and extreme loss,…

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Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025) 49:54

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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 late-night hosts, sketch comedians, television producers, and standup stars. As they disrupt industry norms and transgress cultural boundaries, they ha…

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Somia Sadiq, "Gajarah" (GFB, 2025) 37:36

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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, mischievous, and larger than life. Born in the Arabian Gulf, she spends extended summers with her grandparents, aunties, and cousins on the rooftops …

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Stephanie Reents, "We Loved to Run" (Hogarth, 2025) 50:01

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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 themselves through every punishing workout and skipped meal to achieve their goal. But Kristin, the team’s star, is hiding a secret about what happened over t…

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Daria Lavelle, "Aftertaste" (Simon & Schuster, 2025) 23:50

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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, he advertises for a roommate and finds a chef who becomes his best friend. Kostya starts to realize that although he doesn’t see ghosts, he can taste t…

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Caitlin Galway, "A Song for Wildcats: Stories" (Dundurn Press, 2025) 44:34

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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 stories capturing the complexity of intimacy and the depths of the unravelling mind. Infatuation and violence grow between two girls in the enchanting wild…

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Playing Dare 2 Share With My Wife - Bonus Episode 29:04

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In this episode, my Wife Sarah and I sat down to play a fun game called Dare 2 Share live on camera to give a bit of a deeper insight into our values to demonstrate authenticity and congruency. Enjoy JGBy Jason Graystone

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Michael Kardos, "Fun City Heist" (Severn House, 2025) 21:51

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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. When the singer from his old band shows up and begs Mo to reunite for a final gig at the beachfront amusement park where they first started, Mo is ske…

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Eileen Myles, "Pathetic Literature" (Grove Press, 2022) 31:59

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“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 theater scripts to prose to anything in between, all exploring the so-called “pathetic” or awkwardly-felt moments and revelations around which lives are bot…

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Emily Hunt Kivel, "Dwelling" (FSG, 2025) 37:03

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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 institutionalized in a psychiatric hippie commune in Colorado. Certainly at some point over the last year, as New York City spun down the tubes, as bedbug…

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Yvonne Blomer, "Death of Persephone: A Murder" (Caitlin Press, 2024) 37:56

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Yvonne Blomer about her stunning narrative poetry, Death of Persephone: A Murder (Caitlin Press, 2024). In Death of Persephone, the patriarchal myth of the maiden taken, raped, and made the potent and sexualized queen of the underworld is questioned, altered, flipped. Instead, we have Stephanie, …

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Aviva Rubin, "White: A Novel" (RE: Books, 2024) 29:17

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Sarah Cartell, who grew up in a White Supremacist family controlled by a violent grandfather who preaches hate and violence, learns from books and a kind librarian that there’s another way to see the world. In White: A Novel (RE: Books 2024), Aviva Rubin’s protagonist starts researching her family’s history of intolerance and learns about a grandmo…

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Zoe Dubno, "Happiness and Love" (Scribner, 2025) 40:57

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Following a young woman over the course of one outrageous and insufferable downtown dinner party at the home of her estranged best friends—an artist and curator couple, whom she now realizes stands for everything she detests—Happiness and Love (Scribner, 2025) is a piercing debut novel about brazen materialism, self-obsession, and the empty careeri…

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Sharon White, "If the Owl Calls" (WTAW Press, 2025) 25:02

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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 Sorens…

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Ann Cavlovic, "Count on Me" (Guernica Editions, 2025) 47:13

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author Ann Cavlovic about her new novel, Count on Me (Guernica Editions, 2025). Count on Me exposes how a family can fracture when aging parents grow frail and debts from the past resurface. Tia is raising a baby when her older brother Tristan gradually takes over their ailing parents’ bank accou…

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Stephanie Wambugu, "Lonely Crowds" (Little, Brown and Co., 2025) 43:14

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In Lonely Crowds (Little, Brown and Co., 2025) Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the local Catholic girl's school on a scholarship. Maria, a beautiful orphan whose Panamanian mother dies by suicide and is taken care of by an ill, unloving aunt, is one of the only other students at…

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Maren Halvorsen, "The Bailiff’s Wife" (Cuidono Press, 2025) 38:15

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Despite the long-held perception that medieval and early modern women were as quiet, pious, and obedient as society expected them to be, the truth is more complex. The Bailiff’s Wife (Cuidono Press, 2025) builds on a historical event recorded in a seventeenth-century English broadsheet to create a picture of a society in flux, the result of far-rea…

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Paula Bomer, "The Stalker" (Soho Books, 2025) 42:06

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Paula Bomer is the author of The Stalker (Soho Books, 2025), which received a starred Publisher’s Weekly, calling it “dark and twisted fun”. She is also the author of Tante Eva and Nine Months, the story collections Inside Madeleine and Baby and other Stories, and the essay collection, Mystery and Mortality. Her work has appeared in Bomb Magazine, …

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How to Create a Lifestyle Business with Daniel Priestley 56:52

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In this episode, I catch up with Daniel Priestley to talk about his new book "Lifestyle Business Playbook". Grab a copy of it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lifestyle-Business-Playbook-Structure-Flexibility/dp/0857089927 Enjoy JGBy Jason Graystone

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Robert de la Chevrotiere, "Tall Is Her Body" (Kensington, 2025) 1:05:45

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In this NBN episode, Hollay Ghadery speaks with Robert de la Chevrotiere about his novel, Tall is Her Body (Kensington, 2025). Readers of Black Cake and Family Lore will be captivated by this sweeping, multicultural family story of keen observation and the supernatural in which one man’s journey to wholeness—both emotionally and physically—is shape…

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Maya Arad, "Happy New Years" (New Vessel Press, 2025) 22:01

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In Happy New Years (New Vessel Press, 2025), after finishing her teaching degree, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades. She keeps up with her old classmates in an annual new year’s letter that outlines mostly her triumphs, with brief allusions to her losses, her failur…

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Booksellers Best of 2025 54:34

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Sean Minogue, "Prodigals" (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025) 38:17

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David Elias, "Into the D-Ark" (Radiant Press, 2025) 54:50

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Brad Smith, "Billy Crawford's Double Play" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025) 38:08

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Diane Botnick, "Becoming Sarah" (She Writes Press, 2025) 28:37

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Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025) 49:54

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Somia Sadiq, "Gajarah" (GFB, 2025) 37:36

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Stephanie Reents, "We Loved to Run" (Hogarth, 2025) 50:01

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Daria Lavelle, "Aftertaste" (Simon & Schuster, 2025) 23:50

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Caitlin Galway, "A Song for Wildcats: Stories" (Dundurn Press, 2025) 44:34

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Playing Dare 2 Share With My Wife - Bonus Episode 29:04

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Michael Kardos, "Fun City Heist" (Severn House, 2025) 21:51

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Eileen Myles, "Pathetic Literature" (Grove Press, 2022) 31:59

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Emily Hunt Kivel, "Dwelling" (FSG, 2025) 37:03

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Yvonne Blomer, "Death of Persephone: A Murder" (Caitlin Press, 2024) 37:56

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Aviva Rubin, "White: A Novel" (RE: Books, 2024) 29:17

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Zoe Dubno, "Happiness and Love" (Scribner, 2025) 40:57

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Sharon White, "If the Owl Calls" (WTAW Press, 2025) 25:02

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Ann Cavlovic, "Count on Me" (Guernica Editions, 2025) 47:13

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Stephanie Wambugu, "Lonely Crowds" (Little, Brown and Co., 2025) 43:14

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Maren Halvorsen, "The Bailiff’s Wife" (Cuidono Press, 2025) 38:15

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Paula Bomer, "The Stalker" (Soho Books, 2025) 42:06

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How to Create a Lifestyle Business with Daniel Priestley 56:52

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Robert de la Chevrotiere, "Tall Is Her Body" (Kensington, 2025) 1:05:45

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Maya Arad, "Happy New Years" (New Vessel Press, 2025) 22:01