Bookends with Mattea Roach

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 Aug 9, 2018
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When the book ends, the conversation begins. Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world and our place in it. You’ll always walk away with big questions to ponder and new books to read.


Episode Date
Fans asked for another happy ending — Carley Fortune delivered
May 14, 2025
Bookends Introduces | Understood: Who Broke the Internet
May 12, 2025
Ocean Vuong finds beauty in a fast food shift
May 11, 2025
Writing about catastrophe gives Madeleine Thien courage
May 07, 2025
Fighting for an unlawful love in Uganda
May 04, 2025
NOT CLICKBAIT! She stole her dead twin sister’s identity!?
Apr 30, 2025
What if your dreams could land you in jail?
Apr 27, 2025
Meet the winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize
Apr 23, 2025
Why you can’t forget your first love
Apr 20, 2025
Why growing up is so hard — and why Canadians are so funny
Apr 16, 2025
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s triumphant return to fiction
Apr 13, 2025
Scaachi Koul calls herself a professional ex-wife
Apr 09, 2025
Yes, tuberculosis is still a thing — John Green tells us why
Apr 06, 2025
Mapping the stories of Uganda’s abducted children
Apr 02, 2025
Kate Bush spins a magical story on her album Hounds of Love
Mar 30, 2025
Curtis Sittenfeld is fascinated by fame
Mar 26, 2025
Emma Donoghue boards a train destined for disaster
Mar 23, 2025
Why Heather O’Neill believes in magic
Mar 19, 2025
Getting to know Canada’s king of suspense
Mar 16, 2025
How Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath inspired a novel about chronic pain
Mar 12, 2025
We can still avoid a tech dystopia — here’s how
Mar 09, 2025
In the Caribbean, secret lives come at a cost
Mar 05, 2025
Pitbull, Scarface and a whale walk into a book
Mar 02, 2025
Emily Austin: Would life be easier as a rat? And other ways to escape adulthood
Feb 26, 2025
Nnedi Okorafor: Bringing a writer to life in Death of the Author
Feb 23, 2025
Jack Wang: Reimagining the lost stories of Chinese Canadians during WWII
Feb 19, 2025
Helen Phillips: In a world run by AI, what makes us human?
Feb 16, 2025
Daniel Aleman: Loneliness inspired a novel about a Grindr date gone fatally wrong
Feb 12, 2025
Kate Gies: Reclaiming her body after years of medical trauma
Feb 09, 2025
Emma Knight: 'Bad' mothers make good stories — and are more true-to-life
Feb 05, 2025
Imani Perry: Tracing blue through Black American life
Feb 02, 2025
Chris Ware: Inside the sketchbooks of a comics master
Jan 26, 2025
Amy Lin: Widowed at 31, she looks for the beauty in grief
Jan 22, 2025
Rumaan Alam: How would you spend a billion dollars?
Jan 19, 2025
Rachel Robb: Exploring reconciliation and the natural world
Jan 15, 2025
Judith Butler: Breaking down why people fear gender
Jan 12, 2025
Zoe Whittall: Why heartbreak is a valid form of grief
Jan 08, 2025
Adrian Tomine: Answering his readers’ burning questions
Jan 05, 2025
Bookends: Highlights from 2024
Dec 29, 2024
Samantha Harvey: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel
Dec 22, 2024
Bryan Lee O’Malley: 20 years of Scott Pilgrim
Dec 18, 2024
Nita Prose: The Maid series returns with a Christmas twist
Dec 15, 2024
Charles Burns: Why the comics icon keeps returning to teenage angst
Dec 11, 2024
Pasha Malla: Parodying a wellness resort with horror and humour
Dec 08, 2024
Sarah Leavitt: Illustrating grief too wide for words
Dec 04, 2024
Nalo Hopkinson: How Caribbean folktales inspired her fantastical novel, Blackheart Man
Dec 01, 2024
Leslie Jamison: Capturing Peggy Guggenheim in fiction and honouring a friend's dream
Nov 27, 2024
Teresa Wong: Illustrating her family's past — in all its ordinary and epic moments
Nov 24, 2024
Paula Hawkins: Exploring the dark side of the art world in new thriller The Blue Hour
Nov 20, 2024
Anne Fleming: Why her latest novel is a gender-bending tale of witchcraft and forbidden love
Nov 17, 2024
Aldona Dziedziejko: Poetic reflections on land and loss wins 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize
Oct 09, 2024
Casey McQuiston: Celebrating queer love and joy and navigating the future of romance
Oct 06, 2024
Tanya Talaga: Searching for her great-great grandmother — a story of family, truth and survival
Sep 29, 2024
Alison McCreesh: Exploring the magic and nuance of life in the North in her latest graphic novel
Sep 25, 2024
Aysegul Savas: Finding home in foreignness and capturing the uncertainty of early adulthood
Sep 22, 2024
Sloane Crosley: Losing her best friend and sharing her grief with the world
Sep 18, 2024
David Huebert: Exploring the complexity of our relationship with oil through fiction
Sep 15, 2024
Heather O'Neill: How motherhood and artistry intersect in the bestselling writer's life and work
Sep 11, 2024
Kaveh Akbar: Finding meaning in sobriety and writing his bestseller, Martyr!
Sep 08, 2024
Introducing Bookends with Mattea Roach
Sep 06, 2024