About G. P. Gottlieb

G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com).

NBN Episodes hosted by G. P.:

November 12, 2024

Next Stop

Benjamin Resnick

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Today I talked to Benjamin Resnick about his novel Next Stop (Simon and Schuster, 2024) A hole opens in the universe and suddenly consumes a building…

November 5, 2024

The Causative Factor

Megan Staffel

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Sparks fly in Megan Staffel’s novel, The Causative Factor (Regal House 2024), when Rachel is randomly paired with Rubiat, a fellow student, for an ass…

October 29, 2024

The Waters: A Novel

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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Hermine “Herself” Zook is a healer who rules over an island in a swampy area of Michigan known as “The Waters.” People, including her three grown daug…

October 22, 2024

The Adventures of Cancer Bitch

S. L. Wisenberg

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It’s 2006, and S. L. Wisenberg is teaching writing at one of Chicago’s great universities and living a busy life when she’s gobsmacked by a sudden can…

October 15, 2024

The Last Whaler

Cynthia Reeves

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After losing their young son in a tragic accident, Astrid, a Norwegian botanist specializing in Arctic flora, decides to join her husband, Tor, at a r…

October 8, 2024

Blood on the Brain

Esinam Bediako

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Today I talked to Esinam Bediako about here novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024). When Akosua, a 24-year-old grad student in New York, fall…

October 1, 2024

Anyone But Her

Cynthia Swanson

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Today I talked to Cynthia Swanson about Anyone But Her (Columbine York, 2024). In 1979 during her freshman year at Denver East High School in 1979, S…

September 24, 2024

Down Here We Come Up

Sara Johnson Allen

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In Sara Johnson Allen's novel Down Here We Come Up (Black Lawrence Press 2023), Kate Jessup’s mother lures her back home to North Carolina. Jackie Jes…

September 17, 2024

Trust Me

Scott Nadelson

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Today I talked to Scott Nadelson's novel Trust Me (Forest Avenue Press, 2024). After his divorce, Lewis moves into the cabin he bought as a vacation…

September 10, 2024

Songs for the Brokenhearted

Ayelet Tsabari

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Zohara flies from New York to Israel for her mother’s funeral. She’d already been through a tough year; a divorce from her American husband and troubl…

August 20, 2024

This Room Is Made of Noise

Stephen Schottenfeld

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Today I talked to Stephen Schottenfeld about his new novel This Room Is Made of Noise (U Wisconsin Press, 2023). Don Lank is a newly divorced handyma…

July 30, 2024

In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist

Ruchama Feuerman

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In Ruchama Feuerman's novel In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist (Open Road Media 2024), Isaac, a lonely, heartbroken New York haberdasher, moves to Jeru…

June 25, 2024

Life Span

Molly Giles

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Molly Giles remembers when her father came back after WWII in 1945. Her memoir, Life Span (WTAW Press, 2024) opens when she is three years old, sittin…

June 11, 2024

The Maiden of Florence

Katherine Mezzacappa

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Giulia is an orphan who has been cloistered since she was a baby. In 1584, the powerful Medici family demands a test of virility from the Grand Duke o…

June 4, 2024

Displaced Persons

Joan Leegant

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Joan Leegant’s new story collection, Displaced Persons (New American Press 2024) delves into human stories of living in the 21st century. Characters t…

May 28, 2024

Your Presence Is Mandatory

Sasha Vasilyuk

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In 2007 Ukraine, following the death of her husband, Yefim Shulman, Nina finds a letter he wrote to the KGB confessing the secret he’d kept for over 5…

May 14, 2024

The Truth Against the World

David Corbett

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The Truth Against the World (Square Tire Books, 2023) is a brilliant literary fantasy about a divided, dystopian America on the verge of war. Shane, a…

May 7, 2024

The Blameless

Ryan Kenedy

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In Ryan Kenedy’s debut novel, The Blameless (University of Wisconsin Press 2023 ) we meet Virginia, an exhausted adjunct professor and divorced mo…

April 16, 2024

The Forgetters

Greg Sarris

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In Greg Sarris' book The Forgetters (Heyday Books, 2024), Answer Woman, a crow, cannot come up with a story until she is asked by Question Woman, her …

April 9, 2024

No More Empty Spaces

D. J. Green

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No More Empty Spaces (She Writes Press, 2024) opens with Will Ross, an engineering geologist, who shares custody of his three children with his ex-wif…

April 2, 2024

Off to Join the Circus

Deborah Kalb

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In Deborah Kalb’s debut adult novel Off to Join the Circus (Apprentice House Press 2023) it’s 2018, Howard Pinsky’s sister Adele, who ran away in 1954…

March 19, 2024

The Stark Beauty of Last Things

Céline Keating

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The Stark Beauty of Last Things (She Writes Press, 2023) is set in Montauk, the far reaches of the famed Hamptons, an area under looming threat from a…

March 5, 2024

Inside the Mirror

Parul Kapur

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Parul Kapur's novel Inside the Mirror (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) centers on twin sisters growing up in 1950s Bombay, who aspire to become ar…

February 20, 2024

Secrets of the Sun

Mako Yoshikawa

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Mako Yoshikawa's Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir (Mad Creek Books 2024) contains a host of essays about her difficult, brilliant father. Shoichi Yoshikaw…