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Bookends with Mattea Roach
Bookends with Mattea Roach
CBC

When the book ends, the conversation begins. Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world... more

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Episodes

Bryan Lee O’Malley: 20 years of Scott Pilgrim

Bryan talks to Mattea about the legacy of the hit comic book series, the inspiration behind some of his most... more

18 Dec 2024 · 28 minutes
Nita Prose: The Maid series returns with a Christmas twist

The bestselling Maid mystery series has a new festive novella, and Nita Prose joins Mattea Roach onstage for the first... more

15 Dec 2024 · 36 minutes
Charles Burns: Why the comics icon keeps returning to teenage angst

Charles Burns's latest graphic novel, Final Cut, revolves around a group of teens in the 1970s and draws on his... more

11 Dec 2024 · 33 minutes
Pasha Malla: Parodying a wellness resort with horror and humour

The Canadian author's new novel, All You Can Kill, opens with the narrator floating through the sky and landing in... more

08 Dec 2024 · 34 minutes
Sarah Leavitt: Illustrating grief too wide for words

The Canadian graphic novelist talks with Mattea Roach about life with their late partner, who had an assisted death, and... more

04 Dec 2024 · 31 minutes
Nalo Hopkinson: How Caribbean folktales inspired her fantastical novel, Blackheart Man

Nalo Hopkinson’s latest work, Blackheart Man, is a dynamic sci-fi story that took 15 years to complete. The novel takes... more

01 Dec 2024 · 34 minutes
Leslie Jamison: Capturing Peggy Guggenheim in fiction and honouring a friend's dream

The novel Peggy fictionalizes the life of art collector Peggy Guggenheim and is Rebecca Godfrey's final project. Rebecca worked on... more

27 Nov 2024 · 27 minutes
Teresa Wong: Illustrating her family's past — in all its ordinary and epic moments

In the graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories, Teresa Wong uses spare black-and-white illustrations and thought-provoking prose to unpack how... more

24 Nov 2024 · 38 minutes
Paula Hawkins: Exploring the dark side of the art world in new thriller The Blue Hour

When Paula Hawkins dropped her pen name and switched from writing romantic comedies to thrillers, she wrote The Girl on... more

20 Nov 2024 · 33 minutes
Anne Fleming: Why her latest novel is a gender-bending tale of witchcraft and forbidden love

In Anne Fleming's new novel, Curiosities, an amateur historian becomes fascinated by the lives of two girls from 1600s England.... more

17 Nov 2024 · 39 minutes
Bookends with Mattea Roach
Bryan Lee O’Malley: 20 years of Scott Pilgrim
Bookends with Mattea Roach