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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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Daniel Aleman: Loneliness inspired a novel about a Grindr date gone fatally wrong

12 Feb 2025

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Bookends with Mattea Roach

Episodes

Why you can’t forget your first love

Why growing up is so hard — and why Canadians are so funny

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s triumphant return to fiction

Scaachi Koul calls herself a professional ex-wife

Yes, tuberculosis is still a thing — John Green tells us why

Mapping the stories of Uganda’s abducted children

Kate Bush spins a magical story on her album Hounds of Love

Curtis Sittenfeld is fascinated by fame

Emma Donoghue boards a train destined for disaster

Why Heather O’Neill believes in magic

Getting to know Canada’s king of suspense

How Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath inspired a novel about chronic pain

We can still avoid a tech dystopia — here’s how

In the Caribbean, secret lives come at a cost

Pitbull, Scarface and a whale walk into a book

Emily Austin: Would life be easier as a rat? And other ways to escape adulthood

Nnedi Okorafor: Bringing a writer to life in Death of the Author

Jack Wang: Reimagining the lost stories of Chinese Canadians during WWII

Helen Phillips: In a world run by AI, what makes us human?

Daniel Aleman: Loneliness inspired a novel about a Grindr date gone fatally wrong