Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchV.V. Ganeshananthan: Exploring the complexity of Sri Lanka's civil war in her prize-winning novel, Brotherless Night
Season 1 Episode 5
V.V. Ganeshananthan won two of the world's biggest fiction prizes this year: the U.K. Women's Prize and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Her nove…
1 year, 8 months ago
Corinna Chong: Uncovering long buried truths against the backdrop of Alberta's Badlands
Season 1 Episode 7
Alberta's Badlands, the world's largest dinosaur bone repository, set the eerie stage for Corinna Chong's novel Bad Land. It follows a loner whose fa…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jenny Heijun Wills: Sharing her journey of transracial adoption and self-discovery in her moving essay collection
Everything and Nothing At All by Jenny Heijun Wills is an essay collection where the author reflects on her experiences as a transnational adoptee. J…
1 year, 8 months ago
Matt Haig: A surprise inheritance, a magical island and why he's embracing hope — in fiction and life
In Matt Haig's latest bestseller, The Life Impossible, a retired math teacher goes on a Spanish adventure after inheriting a house on Ibiza. But thin…
1 year, 8 months ago
Aldona Dziedziejko: Poetic reflections on land and loss wins 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize
Season 1 Episode 5
Poet Aldona Dziedziejko's Ice Safety Chart: Fragments is a beautiful, experimental essay about different moments from Aldona's life in the Northwest …
1 year, 9 months ago
Casey McQuiston: Celebrating queer love and joy and navigating the future of romance
Season 1 Episode 5
Casey McQuiston is a blockbuster queer romance author who hit it big with their 2016 novel Red, White and Royal Blue. Casey’s latest is The Pairing, …
1 year, 9 months ago
Tanya Talaga: Searching for her great-great grandmother — a story of family, truth and survival
Annie Carpenter's life was upended by colonialism, the Indian Act and the residential school system. For 80 years, her family tried to find out what …
1 year, 9 months ago
Alison McCreesh: Exploring the magic and nuance of life in the North in her latest graphic novel
Season 1 Episode 3
When Alison McCreesh was 21, she left her Quebec hometown and hitchhiked to the Yukon searching for something she couldn't quite put her finger on — …
1 year, 9 months ago
Aysegul Savas: Finding home in foreignness and capturing the uncertainty of early adulthood
Season 1 Episode 3
The Paris-based Turkish writer spoke with Mattea Roach about her new novel, The Anthropologists, which centers on a young immigrant couple in an unna…
1 year, 9 months ago
Sloane Crosley: Losing her best friend and sharing her grief with the world
Season 1 Episode 2
Sloane Crosley’s jewelry was stolen from her home, and one month later, her best friend, Russell, died. She writes about these experiences in the mem…
1 year, 9 months ago