Bookends with Mattea Roach

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63 Episodes

  1. Jack Wang: Reimagining the lost stories of Chinese Canadians during WWII

    Published: 2/19/2025
  2. Helen Phillips: In a world run by AI, what makes us human?

    Published: 2/16/2025
  3. Daniel Aleman: Loneliness inspired a novel about a Grindr date gone fatally wrong

    Published: 2/12/2025
  4. Kate Gies: Reclaiming her body after years of medical trauma

    Published: 2/9/2025
  5. Emma Knight: 'Bad' mothers make good stories — and are more true-to-life

    Published: 2/5/2025
  6. Imani Perry: Tracing blue through Black American life

    Published: 2/2/2025
  7. Chris Ware: Inside the sketchbooks of a comics master

    Published: 1/26/2025
  8. Amy Lin: Widowed at 31, she looks for the beauty in grief

    Published: 1/22/2025
  9. Rumaan Alam: How would you spend a billion dollars?

    Published: 1/19/2025
  10. Rachel Robb: Exploring reconciliation and the natural world

    Published: 1/15/2025
  11. Judith Butler: Breaking down why people fear gender

    Published: 1/12/2025
  12. Zoe Whittall: Why heartbreak is a valid form of grief

    Published: 1/8/2025
  13. Adrian Tomine: Answering his readers’ burning questions

    Published: 1/5/2025
  14. Bookends: Highlights from 2024

    Published: 12/29/2024
  15. Samantha Harvey: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

    Published: 12/22/2024
  16. Bryan Lee O’Malley: 20 years of Scott Pilgrim

    Published: 12/18/2024
  17. Nita Prose: The Maid series returns with a Christmas twist

    Published: 12/15/2024
  18. Charles Burns: Why the comics icon keeps returning to teenage angst

    Published: 12/11/2024
  19. Pasha Malla: Parodying a wellness resort with horror and humour

    Published: 12/8/2024
  20. Sarah Leavitt: Illustrating grief too wide for words

    Published: 12/4/2024

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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.