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Rachel Robb: Exploring reconciliation and the natural world

Rachel is a teacher from Toronto. Her students didn’t even know she was a writer — until she won...

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Judith Butler: Breaking down why people fear gender

Judith Butler is one of the foremost gender and political theorists of the 21st century — an...

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Zoe Whittall: Why heartbreak is a valid form of grief

The profound impact of romantic loss doesn’t always get taken seriously, but Zoe Whittall is here...

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Adrian Tomine: Answering his readers’ burning questions

If you could ask your favourite author one question, what would it be? If that author is Adrian...

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Bookends: Highlights from 2024

This episode features highlights from interviews with Teresa Wong, Casey McQuiston, Eric Chacour,...

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Samantha Harvey: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

This week on Bookends, we revisit Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with Samantha Harvey, the winner...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Sarah Leavitt: Illustrating grief too wide for words

The Canadian graphic novelist talks with Mattea Roach about life with their late partner, who had...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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Eric Chacour: Exploring the power of familial expectations and forbidden love

When Montreal author Eric Chacour wrote his first book, he didn't expect it to become a huge hit...

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Alan Hollinghurst: Coming of age in Britain and writing through the gay gaze

When Alan Hollinghurt's novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004, it was the first...

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Fawn Parker: Blending her own grief with fiction in new novel Hi, It’s Me

Fawn Parker's latest book centres on a woman navigating life immediately following the death of...

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