Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLeslie Jamison: Capturing Peggy Guggenheim in fiction and honouring a friend's dream
Season 1 Episode 12
The novel Peggy fictionalizes the life of art collector Peggy Guggenheim and is Rebecca Godfrey's final project. Rebecca worked on Peggy for ten year…
1 year, 7 months ago
Teresa Wong: Illustrating her family's past — in all its ordinary and epic moments
Season 1 Episode 12
In the graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories, Teresa Wong uses spare black-and-white illustrations and thought-provoking prose to unpack how interg…
1 year, 7 months ago
Paula Hawkins: Exploring the dark side of the art world in new thriller The Blue Hour
Season 1 Episode 11
When Paula Hawkins dropped her pen name and switched from writing romantic comedies to thrillers, she wrote The Girl on the Train. Now she has a new …
1 year, 7 months ago
Anne Fleming: Why her latest novel is a gender-bending tale of witchcraft and forbidden love
Season 1 Episode 11
In Anne Fleming's new novel, Curiosities, an amateur historian becomes fascinated by the lives of two girls from 1600s England. But as she pieces the…
1 year, 7 months ago
Eric Chacour: Exploring the power of familial expectations and forbidden love
Season 1 Episode 10
When Montreal author Eric Chacour wrote his first book, he didn't expect it to become a huge hit in France. Translated from French to English by Pabl…
1 year, 7 months ago
Rachel Kushner: In Booker Prize finalist Creation Lake, an agent provocateur faces deep questions about how to live
Season 1 Episode 10
In Rachel Kushner’s latest novel, Creation Lake, an undercover agent is tasked with sabotaging a group of young activists in rural France. Rachel joi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Alan Hollinghurst: Coming of age in Britain and writing through the gay gaze
Season 1 Episode 9
When Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004, it was the first time a book about the gay experience won the award. …
1 year, 8 months ago
Fawn Parker: Blending her own grief with fiction in new novel Hi, It’s Me
Season 1 Episode 9
Fawn Parker's latest book centres on a woman navigating life immediately following the death of her mother. The novel is a finalist for this year’s A…
1 year, 8 months ago
Erica McKeen: Using horror and surrealism to explore grief, care and love in new novel Cicada Summer
Season 1 Episode 8
When a trio of characters living in a lakeside cabin in the summer of 2020 begin reading a book of horror stories, the details start to bleed into re…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jeff VanderMeer: How his blockbuster Southern Reach series reflects our own fight against climate change
Season 1 Episode 8
When Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series was first published 10 years ago, it was a sensation. The mysterious environmental phenomenon known as A…
1 year, 8 months ago