Kaveh Akbar: Finding meaning in sobriety and writing his bestseller, Martyr!
08 Sep 2024
29m
CBC · Arts & Culture
Bookends with Mattea Roach
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.
Episodes
Introducing Bookends with Mattea Roach
06 Sep 2024
1m
Madeleine Thien interviews Eleanor Wachtel on the final Writers & Company episode
01 Sep 2024
52m
Ali Smith on ghost stories, activism and the cyclical nature of time
25 Aug 2024
51m
Peter Eisenman on pushing the bounds of modern architecture and transforming influence
18 Aug 2024
52m
Danzy Senna's darkly comic take on racial identity
11 Aug 2024
54m
Francine du Plessix Gray on growing up the daughter of a great Russian beauty
04 Aug 2024
52m
Prolific and daring author Joyce Carol Oates on her childhood, widowhood and concerns about American society
28 Jul 2024
52m
Amitava Kumar on India, the U.S. and the indelible imprint of the immigrant experience
21 Jul 2024
52m
Edna O'Brien: from Ireland's outcast to celebrated icon
14 Jul 2024
52m
Laurie Anderson on language, story and losing her archives to Hurricane Sandy
07 Jul 2024
52m
Tony Kushner on his evolution as a storyteller, from Angels in America to The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide
30 Jun 2024
52m
Claire Messud on the stories and secrets of a French Algerian family in The Last Life
23 Jun 2024
50m
Biographer Nicholas Murray reflects on Kafka's life — this month is the 100th anniversary of his death
16 Jun 2024
52m
Jenny Erpenbeck, winner of the International Booker Prize 2024, on The End of Days and personal transformations
09 Jun 2024
53m
Hari Kunzru on race, politics and the blues
02 Jun 2024
53m
How using her imagination saved Scottish author Jackie Kay
26 May 2024
52m
Alice Munro on writing about life, love, sex and secrets
19 May 2024
52m
Chance, fate and fiction: looking back at American novelist and filmmaker Paul Auster
12 May 2024
55m
Looking back on American sculptor Richard Serra and how he became the Man of Steel
05 May 2024
52m
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