Bookends with Mattea Roach
CBCWhen 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.
What makes Montreal a transgender city?
Jun 18 • 26m
When young men murder, what can we learn?
May 25 • 32m
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Ocean Vuong finds beauty in a fast food shift
May 11 • 36m
Fighting for an unlawful love in Uganda
May 4 • 32m
What if your dreams could land you in jail?
Apr 27 • 36m
Why you can’t forget your first love
Apr 20 • 33m
Curtis Sittenfeld is fascinated by fame
Mar 26 • 32m
Why Heather O’Neill believes in magic
Mar 19 • 24m
Getting to know Canada’s king of suspense
Mar 16 • 38m
Bookends: Highlights from 2024
Dec 29, 2024 • 53m
Samantha Harvey: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel
Dec 22, 2024 • 50m
Bryan Lee O’Malley: 20 years of Scott Pilgrim
Dec 18, 2024 • 28m
Nita Prose: The Maid series returns with a Christmas twist
Dec 15, 2024 • 36m
Charles Burns: Why the comics icon keeps returning to teenage angst
Dec 11, 2024 • 33m
Pasha Malla: Parodying a wellness resort with horror and humour
Dec 8, 2024 • 34m
Sarah Leavitt: Illustrating grief too wide for words
Dec 4, 2024 • 31m
Introducing Bookends with Mattea Roach
Sep 6, 2024 • 1m
Ali Smith on ghost stories, activism and the cyclical nature of time
Aug 25, 2024 • 51m
Danzy Senna's darkly comic take on racial identity
Aug 11, 2024 • 54m
Edna O'Brien: from Ireland's outcast to celebrated icon
Jul 14, 2024 • 52m
Hari Kunzru on race, politics and the blues
Jun 2, 2024 • 53m
How using her imagination saved Scottish author Jackie Kay
May 26, 2024 • 52m
Alice Munro on writing about life, love, sex and secrets
May 19, 2024 • 52m
Poet Raymond Antrobus on hearing, seeing and grieving through verse
Apr 28, 2024 • 59m
Alice Oswald on poetry, nature and the shedding of identity
Apr 14, 2024 • 52m
The beautiful, melancholy world of Anita Desai
Apr 7, 2024 • 58m
James Runcie on the beauty, sorrow and genius of Johann Sebastian Bach
Mar 31, 2024 • 59m
James McBride on the complicated history of race in the United States
Feb 25, 2024 • 52m
The incomparable Philip Roth: looking back on his life in fiction
Feb 4, 2024 • 54m
Alain Mabanckou on his profound connection to the Republic of the Congo
Jan 28, 2024 • 52m
Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney on the place of politics in poetry
Dec 24, 2023 • 52m
How writing helped Lore Segal survive a traumatic wartime childhood
Dec 17, 2023 • 52m
Nora Krug asks tough questions about her German family's wartime past
Nov 19, 2023 • 1h 1m
Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien on fictionalizing his war stories
Nov 12, 2023 • 50m
Jesmyn Ward on exploring the stories of America's South
Nov 5, 2023 • 52m
Viet Thanh Nguyen on redefining what it means to be a refugee
Oct 15, 2023 • 52m
Chinese writer Yan Ge finds solace in creating literary worlds
Sep 24, 2023 • 1h 6m
Zadie Smith on writing, family and her addiction to reading
Sep 3, 2023 • 54m
John le Carré on his legacy as a spy-turned-novelist
Aug 27, 2023 • 1h 8m
Toni Morrison on family bonds, race and coping with personal tragedy
Aug 13, 2023 • 52m
Julian Barnes on love, loss and Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich
Jul 30, 2023 • 53m
Serbian British writer Vesna Goldsworthy on reimagining Anna Karenina
May 14, 2023 • 52m
Kapka Kassabova on the untold stories of Bulgaria's haunted borderland
Jan 29, 2023 • 58m
Tracy K. Smith on life, death, poetry and outer space
Dec 25, 2022 • 55m
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