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New Books in Literature

Marshall Poe
Creative Nonfiction
Cravings
The New England Review
Cultural History
Personal Essay
Peggy Shinner
Multimedia Essay
Essay Collection
Fourth Genre
Essay Contest
Refugee Crisis
Essays
Ulysses S. Grant
South Sudan
Travel Writing
Auto-Fiction
Pure Colour
Poetry
Grief
Julia Dent Grant

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews historical fiction legend Lucy E.M Black about her phenomenal new novel, A Quilting of Scars (Now or Never Publishing, 2025).

Filled with the pleasure of recognizable yet distinctively original cha... more

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Guelph, Ontario author Karen Smythe about Karen's novel, A Town With No Noise (Palimpsest Press, 2025).

Samara and J., a struggling young couple, are off to J.’s birthplace, Upton Bay, a small tow... more

Yiming Ma holds an MBA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was the Carol Houck Smith Scholar. His stories and essays appear in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. Born in Shanghai, he now liv... more

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interview debut Toronto author, Nadia Ragbar, about her novel, The Pugilist and the Sailor (Invisible Publishing, 2025).

The Pugilist and the Sailor follows conjoined twins, Bruce and Dougie. Dougie is an amb... more

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Lucy EM Black
Author of A Quilting of Scars, exploring themes of forbidden love and societal repression.
Now or Never Publishing
Episode: Lucy Black, "A Quilting of Scars" (Now or Never Publishing, 2025)
Karen Smythe
Author of A Town With No Noise and previously published works that explore themes of grief and memory.
Palimpsest Press
Episode: Karen Smythe, "A Town with No Noise" (Palimpsest Press, 2025)
Yiming Ma
Author and storyteller, holds an MBA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson College, previously published in major outlets like the New York Times and The Guardian.
Episode: Yiming Ma, "These Memories Do Not Belong To Us" (Mariner Books, 2025)
Nadia Ragbar
Novelist and author of The Pugilist and the Sailor
Invisible Publishing
Episode: Nadia Ragbar, "The Pugilist and the Sailor" (Invisible Publishing, 2025)
Thomas Schlesser
Author of the novel Mona's Eyes, a debut work that weaves art history with a personal narrative.
Episode: Thomas Schlesser, "Mona's Eyes" (Europa Editions, 2025)
Marshall Lynx Qualey
Founding editor of ArabLit, involved in translating Arabic literature.
ArabLit
Episode: Maria Dadouch, "I Want Golden Eyes" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Meghana Nayak
Professor of political science and chair of Women's and Gender Studies at Pace University
Pace University
Episode: Meghana V. Nayak, "Tilt: A Novel on Intergenerational Trauma" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Jeremy Gordon
Journalist and senior editor at The Atlantic, focusing on music and culture
The Atlantic
Episode: Jeremy Gordon, "See Friendship: A Novel" (Harper Perennial, 2025)
Lynda Williams
Debut author of The Beauty and the Hell of It and Other Stories
Episode: Lynda Williams, "The Beauty and the Hell of It and Other Stories" (Guernica, 2025)

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GP Gottlieb
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Lucy Black, "A Quilting of Scars" (Now or Never Publishing, 2025)
Q: What can you share about your upcoming projects?
Lucy is working on another book titled "The Mural," a coming-of-age story set to release in Spring 2027, focusing on the complexities of marriage and blended families.
Lucy Black, "A Quilting of Scars" (Now or Never Publishing, 2025)
Q: Can you tell us about Larkin's parents?
Larkin's parents are loving and supportive, embodying the contrast to more intolerant characters, showing unconditional love despite Larkin's silence about his struggles.
Lucy Black, "A Quilting of Scars" (Now or Never Publishing, 2025)
Q: How did you create the pacing in the book?
Lucy Black mentioned that she used memory bank movies from Margaret Lawrence's concept, creating a quilt of Larkin's memories that serve to connect his past and present.
Lucy Black, "A Quilting of Scars" (Now or Never Publishing, 2025)
Q: Where did this story come from?
The story originated from a reproduction poster for a horse named Netherby that Lucy Black found in an antique shop, which sparked her curiosity about the farmer and led her to explore farming practices of the era.
Karen Smythe, "A Town with No Noise" (Palimpsest Press, 2025)
Q: What are you working on next?
Smythe is currently writing a novel featuring a divorced woman in the Hebrides, exploring her family secrets and personal journeys, with some overlapping themes with her current book.

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