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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

Erica McKeen: Using horror and surrealism to explore grief, care and love in new novel Cicada Summer

When a trio of characters living in a lakeside cabin in the summer of 2020 begin reading a book of... more

30 Oct 2024 · 25 minutes
Jeff VanderMeer: How his blockbuster Southern Reach series reflects our own fight against climate change

When Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series was first published 10 years ago, it was a sensation. The mysterious environmental phenomenon... more

27 Oct 2024 · 32 minutes
V.V. Ganeshananthan: Exploring the complexity of Sri Lanka's civil war in her prize-winning novel, Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan won two of the world's biggest fiction prizes this year: the U.K. Women's Prize and the Carol Shields... more

23 Oct 2024 · 38 minutes
Corinna Chong: Uncovering long buried truths against the backdrop of Alberta's Badlands

Alberta's Badlands, the world's largest dinosaur bone repository, set the eerie stage for Corinna Chong's novel Bad Land. It follows... more

20 Oct 2024 · 25 minutes
Jenny Heijun Wills: Sharing her journey of transracial adoption and self-discovery in her moving essay collection

Everything and Nothing At All by Jenny Heijun Wills is an essay collection where the author reflects on her experiences... more

16 Oct 2024 · 25 minutes
Matt Haig: A surprise inheritance, a magical island and why he's embracing hope — in fiction and life

In Matt Haig's latest bestseller, The Life Impossible, a retired math teacher goes on a Spanish adventure after inheriting a... more

13 Oct 2024 · 29 minutes
Aldona Dziedziejko: Poetic reflections on land and loss wins 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize

Poet Aldona Dziedziejko's Ice Safety Chart: Fragments is a beautiful, experimental essay about different moments from Aldona's life in the... more

09 Oct 2024 · 17 minutes
Casey McQuiston: Celebrating queer love and joy and navigating the future of romance

Casey McQuiston is a blockbuster queer romance author who hit it big with their 2016 novel Red, White and Royal... more

06 Oct 2024 · 40 minutes
Tanya Talaga: Searching for her great-great grandmother — a story of family, truth and survival

Annie Carpenter's life was upended by colonialism, the Indian Act and the residential school system. For 80 years, her family... more

29 Sep 2024 · 54 minutes
Alison McCreesh: Exploring the magic and nuance of life in the North in her latest graphic novel

When Alison McCreesh was 21, she left her Quebec hometown and hitchhiked to the Yukon searching for something she couldn't... more

25 Sep 2024 · 25 minutes
Bookends with Mattea Roach
Erica McKeen: Using horror and surrealism to explore grief, care and love in new novel Cicada Summer
Bookends with Mattea Roach