Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEmma Donoghue boards a train destined for disaster
Season 1 Episode 29
There’s a famous black-and-white photograph of a train bursting through the side of a building and falling onto the pavement below. It was taken in 1…
1 year, 3 months ago
Why Heather O’Neill believes in magic
Season 1 Episode 28
The great Canadian book debate is underway, so we're revisiting our 2024 conversation with Canadian writer and former Canada Reads winner, Heather O'…
1 year, 3 months ago
Getting to know Canada’s king of suspense
Season 1 Episode 28
Linwood Barclay’s literary journey started with writing fanfiction on a typewriter. Over 20 books and millions of copies later, he’s one of Canada’s …
1 year, 3 months ago
How Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath inspired a novel about chronic pain
Season 1 Episode 27
Have you ever met someone who felt like a mirror of you? In Katherine Brabon’s new novel, Body Friend, the protagonist meets two women named Frida an…
1 year, 4 months ago
We can still avoid a tech dystopia — here’s how
Season 1 Episode 27
Years before he coined the term “enshittification,” Cory Doctorow was just a kid who was fascinated by computers — until he saw how profit and monopo…
1 year, 4 months ago
In the Caribbean, secret lives come at a cost
Season 1 Episode 26
H. Nigel Thomas’ latest novel, A Different Hurricane, is set on the lush Caribbean island country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It’s about two…
1 year, 4 months ago
Pitbull, Scarface and a whale walk into a book
Season 1 Episode 26
A famous rapper, an Al Pacino movie and a captive whale named Lolita seemingly don’t have much in common. But in Jennine Capó Crucet’s latest novel, …
1 year, 4 months ago
Emily Austin: Would life be easier as a rat? And other ways to escape adulthood
Season 1 Episode 25
For Emily Austin, living like a rat means embracing the small joys and avoiding societal expectations — and that idea is at the centre of her new nov…
1 year, 4 months ago
Nnedi Okorafor: Bringing a writer to life in Death of the Author
Season 1 Episode 25
Nnedi Okorafor’s latest book is about a writer whose new science fiction novel brings her unexpected literary fame — and it asks a lot of questions a…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jack Wang: Reimagining the lost stories of Chinese Canadians during WWII
Season 1 Episode 24
In The Riveter, Jack Wang explores the untold stories of Asian Canadians during the Second World War. The novel follows Josiah Chang, a Chinese Canad…
1 year, 4 months ago