Narrative Edge

About Narrative Edge

Narrative Edge from Georgia Public Broadcasting highlights books with Georgia connections. Hosted by two of your favorite public radio book nerds who also happen to be your hosts of All Things Considered on GPB radio, Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya. In this podcast, Peter and Orlando will introduce you to authors, their writings, and the insights behind their stories, mixed with their own thoughts and ideas on just what gives these works the Narrative Edge.

Publisher

Georgia Public Broadcasting

Category

arts · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jul 2023

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

86 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   The Personal Cost of Covering America’s Worst News with Justin Glawe

   Journalist Justin Glawe has spent years reporting from scenes of violence, protest, and national upheaval, from Ferguson to the aftermath of mass shootings and the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya explore Glawe’s book, If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened, and what his career reveals about journalism, trauma, addiction, recovery, and the responsibility to bear witness.

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Kathryn Stockett on The Calamity Club, The Help, and Writing Mississippi

   Peter Biello sits down with The Help author Kathryn Stockett to discuss her new novel, The Calamity Club, a Depression era story set in Mississippi. Stockett talks about the historical research that transformed the novel, the friendships at its center, her writing process, and how the praise and criticism surrounding The Help shaped her return to fiction.

3. 

   8 Sept 2026

   A Funeral, a Time Loop, and a Georgia Island: Exploring Paige Harbison’s Destination Funeral

   What happens when four estranged people gather for a funeral on a fictional Georgia island and discover that Saturday keeps repeating? This episode explores Paige Harbison’s Destination Funeral, a magical realism novel that uses a Groundhog Day-style time loop to examine grief, friendship, family conflict, forgiveness, and the bonds that survive years apart.

Who has been a guest on Narrative Edge

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Gordon Johnston
• Brad Snyder
• Killer Mike
• El-P

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

17,700,364

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

83

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

77

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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