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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.

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Bookends with Mattea Roach

Episodes

For this author, losing an eye was “kind of enlightening”

This poem is straight out of a dream

1 marriage, 2 mid-life crises … and a guy named Gluten

How far would you go for your family?

Buffoon or genius? What makes a cult leader?

For Louise Penny, stories come from hurt

Revisiting Writers & Company: Happy 250th, Jane Austen!

So your whole family thinks you’re reincarnated — what now?

All I want for Christmas … is a fake boyfriend?

Video games are radical. Not in the way you think

Three writers on the monsters that made them

A priest and an artist walk into a bar

Anarchists have bigger hearts than you think

John Irving’s new novel returns to a familiar orphanage

This poem took 16 straight hours to write

Here’s what you have wrong about teen moms

Chris Hadfield — from astronaut to author

A fictional ad agency — and its very real ghosts

Kiran Desai’s novel is worth the 20-year wait

What is a stag dance?