Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow do we restore our sense of wonder in media?
Season 2 Episode 33
Ben Lerner’s new novel is all about how technology shapes memory and connection … and it kicks off when a guy breaks his phone. In Transcription, a m…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
What does dystopia look like in the suburbs?
Season 2 Episode 33
Even if you’re living in a dystopia, life goes on. Carrianne Leung’s new novel, Wonderland Road, is about making it work and finding hope in a collap…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Is it magic … or is it Siri?
Season 2 Episode 32
In Michael Redhill’s new novel, The Trial of Katterfelto, the titular Katterfelto is a traveling magician and scientist in the late 1700s. One day, K…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Why status and power are currency in Pakistan
Season 2 Episode 32
What does it mean to love a place that is so complicated? Pulitzer prize finalist Daniyal Mueenuddin’s new novel, This Is Where the Serpent Lives, di…
3 months ago
The last book Julian Barnes will ever write
Season 3 Episode 31
Julian Barnes says his new novel is his final. It’s called Departure(s), and it’s about two people who fall in love when they’re young and then meet …
3 months, 1 week ago
Is there a soundtrack to your life?
Season 2 Episode 30
For Michael V. Smith, the answer is a resounding yes … and he explores that in his new book, Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir. It’s a collection of poems a…
3 months, 1 week ago
If at first you break up … try, try again?
Season 2 Episode 30
This week, Bookends is celebrating libraries with a special Canada Reads event at the Hamilton Public Library.
Morgann Book truly lives up to her nam…
3 months, 1 week ago
How long could you lie about who you are?
Season 2 Episode 29
In Tara Gereaux’s new novel, Wild People Quiet, a Métis woman works tirelessly to hide her identity for years … until everything starts to come crash…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Tayari Jones fights for her stories
Season 2 Episode 29
What does family mean to two motherless daughters? That question is at the centre of Kin, a new work of historical fiction by Tayari Jones. It’s abou…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside Toronto’s most notorious women’s prison
Season 2 Episode 28
Toronto’s most infamous women’s prison was meant to rehabilitate women … but its real history tells a much darker story. Heather Marshall dives headf…
3 months, 3 weeks ago