Bookends with Mattea Roach
A podcast by CBC

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63 Episodes
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Jack Wang: Reimagining the lost stories of Chinese Canadians during WWII
Published: 2/19/2025 -
Helen Phillips: In a world run by AI, what makes us human?
Published: 2/16/2025 -
Daniel Aleman: Loneliness inspired a novel about a Grindr date gone fatally wrong
Published: 2/12/2025 -
Kate Gies: Reclaiming her body after years of medical trauma
Published: 2/9/2025 -
Emma Knight: 'Bad' mothers make good stories — and are more true-to-life
Published: 2/5/2025 -
Imani Perry: Tracing blue through Black American life
Published: 2/2/2025 -
Chris Ware: Inside the sketchbooks of a comics master
Published: 1/26/2025 -
Amy Lin: Widowed at 31, she looks for the beauty in grief
Published: 1/22/2025 -
Rumaan Alam: How would you spend a billion dollars?
Published: 1/19/2025 -
Rachel Robb: Exploring reconciliation and the natural world
Published: 1/15/2025 -
Judith Butler: Breaking down why people fear gender
Published: 1/12/2025 -
Zoe Whittall: Why heartbreak is a valid form of grief
Published: 1/8/2025 -
Adrian Tomine: Answering his readers’ burning questions
Published: 1/5/2025 -
Bookends: Highlights from 2024
Published: 12/29/2024 -
Samantha Harvey: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel
Published: 12/22/2024 -
Bryan Lee O’Malley: 20 years of Scott Pilgrim
Published: 12/18/2024 -
Nita Prose: The Maid series returns with a Christmas twist
Published: 12/15/2024 -
Charles Burns: Why the comics icon keeps returning to teenage angst
Published: 12/11/2024 -
Pasha Malla: Parodying a wellness resort with horror and humour
Published: 12/8/2024 -
Sarah Leavitt: Illustrating grief too wide for words
Published: 12/4/2024
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.