Bookends with Mattea Roach

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85 Episodes

  1. Writing about catastrophe gives Madeleine Thien courage

    Published: 5/7/2025
  2. Fighting for an unlawful love in Uganda

    Published: 5/4/2025
  3. NOT CLICKBAIT! She stole her dead twin sister’s identity!?

    Published: 4/30/2025
  4. What if your dreams could land you in jail?

    Published: 4/27/2025
  5. Meet the winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize

    Published: 4/23/2025
  6. Why you can’t forget your first love

    Published: 4/20/2025
  7. Why growing up is so hard — and why Canadians are so funny

    Published: 4/16/2025
  8. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s triumphant return to fiction

    Published: 4/13/2025
  9. Scaachi Koul calls herself a professional ex-wife

    Published: 4/9/2025
  10. Yes, tuberculosis is still a thing — John Green tells us why

    Published: 4/6/2025
  11. Mapping the stories of Uganda’s abducted children

    Published: 4/2/2025
  12. Kate Bush spins a magical story on her album Hounds of Love

    Published: 3/30/2025
  13. Curtis Sittenfeld is fascinated by fame

    Published: 3/26/2025
  14. Emma Donoghue boards a train destined for disaster

    Published: 3/23/2025
  15. Why Heather O’Neill believes in magic

    Published: 3/19/2025
  16. Getting to know Canada’s king of suspense

    Published: 3/16/2025
  17. How Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath inspired a novel about chronic pain

    Published: 3/12/2025
  18. We can still avoid a tech dystopia — here’s how

    Published: 3/9/2025
  19. In the Caribbean, secret lives come at a cost

    Published: 3/5/2025
  20. Pitbull, Scarface and a whale walk into a book

    Published: 3/2/2025

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When the book ends, the conversation begins. Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world and our place in it. You’ll always walk away with big questions to ponder and new books to read.