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About Franz Nicolay
Franz Nicolay is a musician and writer living in New York's Hudson Valley. His first book, "The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar," was named a "Season's Best Travel Book" by The New York Times. Buzzfeed called his second book, the novel "Someone Should Pay for Your Pain," "a knockout fiction debut;" and Rolling Stone named it one of the best music books of 2021. He teaches at Bard College.Franz Nicolay is a musician and writer living in New York's Hudson Valley. He teaches at Bard College. www.franznicolay.com
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NBN Episodes hosted by Franz:
July 20, 2025
Major Labels
Kelefa Sanneh
Hosted by
Franz Nicolay
Kelefa Sanneh was born in England, and lived in Ghana and Scotland before moving with his parents to the United States in the early 1980s. He was a po…
March 17, 2022
Weird Al
Lily E. Hirsch
Hosted by
Franz Nicolay
Funny music is often dismissed as light and irrelevant, but Weird Al Yankovic’s fourteen successful studio albums prove there is more going on than co…