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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ge... more

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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 beg... more

“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 exp... more

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 C... more

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... more

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 R... more

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 (Scrib... more

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 t... more

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 mothe... more

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Recent Guests

Eileen Myles
A poet and writer, known for their work including "Chelsea Girls" and "Afterglow, A Dog Memoir".
Grove Press
Episode: Eileen Myles, "Pathetic Literature" (Grove Press, 2022)
Emily Hunt Kivel
Author of the debut novel, Dwelling
Episode: Emily Hunt Kivel, "Dwelling" (FSG, 2025)
Yvonne Blomer
Author known for her poetry and exploration of mythological themes
Caitlin Press
Episode: Yvonne Blomer, "Death of Persephone: A Murder" (Caitlin Press, 2024)
Aviva Rubin
Author of "White: A Novel"
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Episode: Aviva Rubin, "White: A Novel" (RE: Books, 2024)
Zoe Dubno
Writer from New York and author of the novel Happiness and Love
Scribner
Episode: Zoe Dubno, "Happiness and Love" (Scribner, 2025)
Stephanie Wambugu
Author of "Lonely Crowds" and editor at Joyland Magazine
Joyland Magazine
Episode: Stephanie Wambugu, "Lonely Crowds" (Little, Brown and Co., 2025)
Paula Bomer
Author of The Stalker, Tante Eva, and Nine Months
Soho Books
Episode: Paula Bomer, "The Stalker" (Soho Books, 2025)
Maya Arad
Author of the epistolary novel 'Happy New Year'
New Vessel Press
Episode: Maya Arad, "Happy New Years" (New Vessel Press, 2025)
Robert de la Chevrotiere
Author of 'Tall Is Her Body' and Afro-Caribbean immigrant to Canada
Kensington, Author
Episode: Robert de la Chevrotiere, "Tall Is Her Body" (Kensington, 2025)

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Michael Kardos, "Fun City Heist" (Severn House, 2025)
Q: Why doesn't Mo hesitate to plan this robbery that involves stealing other people's money?
Kardos suggests that Mo feels stuck in his life and is convinced by Johnny that this heist is an opportunity for excitement and a way to reconnect with his old bandmates and confront the reality of their lives.
Michael Kardos, "Fun City Heist" (Severn House, 2025)
Q: Can you talk about the Jersey Shore, the geography of it, especially the place you call Quartz Beach Ocean County?
Kardos explains that Quartz Beach is a fictionalized representation of his real-life experiences growing up in New Jersey and reflects on how places change in memory.
Eileen Myles, "Pathetic Literature" (Grove Press, 2022)
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
I'm heading towards a novel that I've been off and on with since 2013, and my plan is to try and reenact the experience of the pandemic while living in Marfa for a year.
Eileen Myles, "Pathetic Literature" (Grove Press, 2022)
Q: Could you start by telling us a little bit about you, what you do and how you came to land on Pathetic as a badge of distinction?
I'm a self-defined poet and I've been such a person for, I guess about 50 years. I came to New York in the 70s with the intention of becoming a poet.
Emily Hunt Kivel, "Dwelling" (FSG, 2025)
Q: Can you talk about Elena's institutionalization, and also about the ways in which you wanted architecture to represent the values of society?
The institution represents a foreboding space reflecting societal neglect and the struggles surrounding mental health treatment.

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