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Bookends with Mattea Roach

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Bookends with Mattea Roach

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Can you make a family — and a country — great again?

July 12, 2026 4:10am 28 min

Imagine your entire family … immediate and extended … living in one apartment complex together. Karan Mahajan’s latest novel, The Complex, follows four generations of a family across India and America in the 1970s. In De...

Sci-fi, survival and the final frontier

July 05, 2026 4:10am 29 min

If an asteroid was hurtling towards Earth, and you had no other choice … would you upload your mind to a computer to survive? Robert J. Sawyer explores that dilemma in his new novel, The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machi...

Bookends highlights: Y’all know we’re Canada down

June 28, 2026 4:10am 53 min

Coast to coast, province to province, soccer pitch to hockey rink … there’s no one Canadian experience, and no one Canadian story. This week, Bookends is highlighting four Canadian writers we’ve featured on the show so f...

Marjane Satrapi: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

June 24, 2026 4:10am 31 min

When Marjane Satrapi died earlier this month, we lost an acclaimed graphic novelist and filmmaker … and a voice that explored Iranian society in a wholly unique way. You might know Marjane from her celebrated graphic mem...

What does it mean to be a dad, anyway?

June 21, 2026 4:10am 29 min

Fatherhood isn’t easy. It might be hard to put the experience into words … but Jordan Abel’s new poetry collection does just that. Dad Era is addressed to Jordan’s daughter Phoenix. Through free verse, pictures and a mix...

This time loop story digs deeper than Groundhog Day

June 17, 2026 4:10am 23 min

What would you do if you were stuck reliving the same day on loop? Splurge with your ever-replenishing bank account? Travel, so you can experience more than one season? Would it feel freeing, or lonely? In Solvej Balle's...

A raunchy workplace satire ... about deradicalizing ISIS brides?

June 14, 2026 4:10am 35 min

When Nussaibah Younis decided to write a book about ISIS brides, everyone expected it to be an academic tome. Instead, she wrote a raunchy satire about a woman who takes a job in a warzone to get over a recent heartbreak...

Here’s why Fran Lebowitz needs a cigarette

June 07, 2026 4:10am 30 min

Fran Lebowitz is a legendary writer and critic. She’s made a career of sharing hot takes without apology, and she didn’t hold back when she joined Mattea Roach for a special on-stage event in Toronto. You might know Fran...

Dive into the dark underbelly of rural Ontario

June 03, 2026 4:10am 22 min

It’s easy to glamorize small town life … but Kevin Hardcastle’s new novel, County Road Six, is all about the darkness lurking in rural Canada. When Arthur O’Hare dies, his three daughters return to the family farm to sor...

Douglas Stuart was a fashion exec — now he designs stories

May 31, 2026 4:10am 32 min

A glamorous life and career in New York’s fashion industry was everything Douglas Stuart worked for. So why did he walk away from it all? And how did he go from fashion designer to Booker Prize winning author? Douglas’s ...

What’s the cost of the immigrant success story?

May 27, 2026 4:10am 26 min

Anne Kim has it all. She’s a high-powered tax lawyer, lives in a beautiful apartment in New York and has the perfect boyfriend to boot. She’s the pride of her parents, Korean immigrants in small-town Alberta who worked d...

A forensic thriller writer autopsies her own life

May 24, 2026 4:10am 26 min

A famous crime writer who gets her inspiration from years of working on real cases at the medical examiner’s office. That’s the story of Patricia Cornwell, the bestselling author of the Kay Scarpetta series. Her new memo...

Accepting the unknown … and a giant flock of crows

May 20, 2026 4:10am 18 min

The winner of the 2026 CBC Short Story Prize is the Vancouver-based writer Larah Luna. Larah’s story, A Season of Crows, is about a small town learning to live with a huge murder of crows that passes through the town. Bo...

Literature, liberation and Lolita in Iran

May 17, 2026 4:10am 35 min

Books can be revolutionary. That’s the message of Azar Nafisi’s celebrated memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, which is about her experience teaching forbidden literature to young women in Iran. Although it was published ne...

Exploring the shady side of charity organizations

May 13, 2026 4:10am 28 min

Charity organizations are all about doing good. What could possibly go wrong? Sharon Bala’s new novel, Good Guys, is all about how philanthropy operates in a world that runs on money. The book stars a fictional charity c...

Can our friendships age with us?

May 10, 2026 4:10am 26 min

If it feels like the years are going by faster and faster … you’re not the only one. Grant Ginder’s new novel, So Old, So Young, follows a group of college friends across 20 years. The story is told through five major pa...

Life of Pi author Yann Martel on the wars in your everyday

May 06, 2026 4:10am 33 min

Yann Martel didn’t think anybody would read Life of Pi when he first published it. 25 years later, his story of a teenage boy and a tiger adrift in the ocean still captivates readers, and Yann says his books are like his...

How to find hope in a funeral home

May 03, 2026 4:10am 31 min

When Mai Nguyen lost her daughter just days after she was born, writing about a similar character in a novel brought her comfort. Her new book, Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead, is a heartbreaking but humorous novel about ...

Should you be afraid of the wolf hour?

April 29, 2026 4:10am 28 min

The “wolf hour” is a term for the deep-night period between roughly three and four in the morning. The world is quiet, your guard is down … and if you’re anything like the thriller writer Jo Nesbø, it’s the perfect time ...

Would a tradwife influencer survive in 1855?

April 26, 2026 4:10am 28 min

In Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel, Yesteryear, a modern day tradwife influencer shares her picturesque farm life with 8 million followers … until one day, she wakes up in the 1800s and has to do it all for real. No runn...

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