Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat’s the cost of the immigrant success story?
Season 2 Episode 38
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 pri…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
A forensic thriller writer autopsies her own life
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 Cor…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Accepting the unknown … and a giant flock of crows
Season 2 Episode 37
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 learni…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Literature, liberation and Lolita in Iran
Season 2 Episode 37
Books can be revolutionary. That’s the message of Azar Nafisi’s celebrated memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, which is about her experience teaching fo…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Exploring the shady side of charity organizations
Season 2 Episode 36
Charity organizations are all about doing good. What could possibly go wrong? Sharon Bala’s new novel, Good Guys, is all about how philanthropy opera…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Can our friendships age with us?
Season 2 Episode 36
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 c…
2 months ago
Life of Pi author Yann Martel on the wars in your everyday
Season 2 Episode 35
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 t…
2 months ago
How to find hope in a funeral home
Season 2 Episode 35
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 …
2 months, 1 week ago
Should you be afraid of the wolf hour?
Season 2 Episode 34
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 yo…
2 months, 1 week ago
Would a tradwife influencer survive in 1855?
Season 2 Episode 34
In Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel, Yesteryear, a modern day tradwife influencer shares her picturesque farm life with 8 million followers … until on…
2 months, 2 weeks ago