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About Zoe Bossiere
As a podcast host for the New Book Network’s New Books in Literature channel, I interview many emerging writers about their upcoming nonfiction debuts. The goal of my channel is to reserve a space on the podcast for books by new writers, especially women, writers of color, queer-identifying writers, writers with disabilities, and other voices who need more attention called to the great work they do. My waitlist of authors is usually somewhat long, but if you or someone you know has a debut book of nonfiction (upcoming or published within the last 2 years) that would make a good candidate for an episode, send me a message. **Note that due to the number of books currently on my list, I am unable to consider self-published books for interviews at this time.** Contact me via my website, zoebossiere.com, or on Twitter @zoebossiereZoë Bossiere is a doctoral candidate at Ohio University, where she studies and teaches creative writing and rhetoric & composition. She is the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, and the co-editor of its anthology, The Best of Brevity (Rose Metal Press, 2020).
NBN Episodes hosted by Zoe:
February 4, 2022
The Sum of Trifles
We all live surrounded by objects: some practical, some personal, some handed down from family generations past. But though we interact with material …
July 5, 2021
The Natural Mother of the Child
This year, transgender liberation is at the forefront of Pride Month discourse, with a staggering number of conservative, religious, and gender critic…
May 27, 2021
Dog Flowers
Not long ago, the only resource for uncovering our familial pasts was to consult libraries and archives, combing old newspapers for birth announcement…
April 16, 2021
An Indian Among Los Indígenas
The western travel narrative genre has a history long tied to voyeurism and conquest. A way to see the world—and its many unique people and places—thr…
March 30, 2021
Lightning Flowers
As the push for a Universal Healthcare system in the United States becomes more and more popular among the American people, we’re beginning to have mo…
December 30, 2020
Anything Will Be Easy After This
There is something quintessentially American about the idea of the west. Though the time of western expansion has long since passed, stories about cow…
November 13, 2020
Mobile Home
Home is the place many of us have spent our days for the last eight months. During the pandemic, our homes have become our workplaces, our classrooms,…
August 14, 2020
Tomboyland
Writers often evoke the famous que sais-je (“What do I know?”) of Michel de Montaigne, father of the literary essay. Montaigne was known for his deepl…
August 10, 2020
On Our Way Home from the Revolution
It’s been a difficult year in America. From plague, to protests, to politics, there have never been so many lives at stake, nor so many questions abou…
February 24, 2020
Quite Mad
If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media. While true that anxiety, depression,…
November 7, 2019
The Longer We Were There
Popular public conception of war has a long and problematic history, with its origins in ancient texts like The Art of War to bestselling books like T…
July 10, 2019
Mother Winter
The story of where we come from is such an important aspect of our personal sense of self, the forefront of many conversations about national identity…
June 21, 2019
I Am Yours
Since its inception in 2017, the viral #MeToo movement has called more cultural attention to abusive behavior, creating a much-needed public space for…
April 15, 2019
An Imperfect Rapture
Many of you listening to this now probably recall growing up in a household of faith. You may have fond memories of the familiar rituals, the holidays…
February 8, 2019
Island in the City
If you read a lot of nonfiction, you may be familiar with what some call the “memoir quandary”—the complaint that memoir and autobiography are too nar…
December 17, 2018
Five Plots
When you picture the midwestern United States, what do you see? For those who live on either coast, the phrase “flyover country,” might come to mind. …
October 12, 2018
Beyond Measure
Our world today is full of algorithms and metrics designed to help us keep up, to keep track, to keep going. New devices, such as the smartwatch, now …
August 27, 2018
The Electric Woman
Who doesn’t remember their first trip to the county fair? The greasy hotdogs and popcorn and cotton candy. The lights and sounds of the seemingly endl…
July 3, 2018
Goodbye, Sweet Girl
If you’ve read the news or been on the internet at all this year, you’ve probably come across the hashtag #MeToo, the rallying cry of a movement aimed…
May 3, 2018
Beep
We all know baseball as one of America’s fondest pastimes, but did you know there’s a version of the sport designed specifically for the blind? It’s c…
February 28, 2018
The Book of Resting Places
We've all participated in the rituals of the dead at some time or another in our lives, going to funerals and wakes, visiting loved ones in cemeteries…