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Ocean Vuong finds beauty in a fast food shift	Bookends with Mattea Roach	36:59
Writing about catastrophe gives Madeleine Thien courage	Bookends with Mattea Roach	36:23
Fighting for an unlawful love in Uganda	Bookends with Mattea Roach	32:05
NOT CLICKBAIT! She stole her dead twin sister’s identity!?	Bookends with Mattea Roach	29:57
What if your dreams could land you in jail?	Bookends with Mattea Roach	36:29
Meet the winner of the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize	Bookends with Mattea Roach	21:13
Why you can’t forget your first love	Bookends with Mattea Roach	33:17
Why growing up is so hard — and why Canadians are so funny	Bookends with Mattea Roach	30:27
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s triumphant return to fiction	Bookends with Mattea Roach	35:49
Scaachi Koul calls herself a professional ex-wife	Bookends with Mattea Roach	31:52
Yes, tuberculosis is still a thing — John Green tells us why	Bookends with Mattea Roach	29:19
Mapping the stories of Uganda’s abducted children	Bookends with Mattea Roach	31:22
Kate Bush spins a magical story on her album Hounds of Love	Bookends with Mattea Roach	46:50
Curtis Sittenfeld is fascinated by fame	Bookends with Mattea Roach	32:06
Emma Donoghue boards a train destined for disaster	Bookends with Mattea Roach	33:38
Why Heather O’Neill believes in magic	Bookends with Mattea Roach	24:18
Getting to know Canada’s king of suspense	Bookends with Mattea Roach	38:25
How Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath inspired a novel about chronic pain	Bookends with Mattea Roach	34:52
We can still avoid a tech dystopia — here’s how	Bookends with Mattea Roach	41:05
In the Caribbean, secret lives come at a cost	Bookends with Mattea Roach	34:12
Pitbull, Scarface and a whale walk into a book	Bookends with Mattea Roach	39:53
Emily Austin: Would life be easier as a rat? And other ways to escape adulthood	Bookends with Mattea Roach	38:06
Nnedi Okorafor: Bringing a writer to life in Death of the Author	Bookends with Mattea Roach	28:56
Jack Wang: Reimagining the lost stories of Chinese Canadians during WWII	Bookends with Mattea Roach	34:30
Helen Phillips: In a world run by AI, what makes us human?	Bookends with Mattea Roach	29:13
Daniel Aleman: Loneliness inspired a novel about a Grindr date gone fatally wrong	Bookends with Mattea Roach	32:22
Kate Gies: Reclaiming her body after years of medical trauma	Bookends with Mattea Roach	33:42
Emma Knight: 'Bad' mothers make good stories — and are more true-to-life	Bookends with Mattea Roach	36:14
Imani Perry: Tracing blue through Black American life	Bookends with Mattea Roach	34:14
Chris Ware: Inside the sketchbooks of a comics master	Bookends with Mattea Roach	53:58
Amy Lin: Widowed at 31, she looks for the beauty in grief	Bookends with Mattea Roach	23:29
Rumaan Alam: How would you spend a billion dollars?	Bookends with Mattea Roach	35:00
Rachel Robb: Exploring reconciliation and the natural world	Bookends with Mattea Roach	18:43
Judith Butler: Breaking down why people fear gender	Bookends with Mattea Roach	39:56
Zoe Whittall: Why heartbreak is a valid form of grief	Bookends with Mattea Roach	28:12
Adrian Tomine: Answering his readers’ burning questions	Bookends with Mattea Roach	31:50
Bookends: Highlights from 2024	Bookends with Mattea Roach	53:17
Samantha Harvey: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel	Bookends with Mattea Roach	50:57
Bryan Lee O’Malley: 20 years of Scott Pilgrim	Bookends with Mattea Roach	28:56
Nita Prose: The Maid series returns with a Christmas twist	Bookends with Mattea Roach	36:38

Ocean Vuong finds beauty in a fast food shift

Bookends with Mattea Roach

36:59

Writing about catastrophe gives Madeleine Thien courage

Bookends with Mattea Roach

36:23

Fighting for an unlawful love in Uganda

Bookends with Mattea Roach

32:05

NOT CLICKBAIT! She stole her dead twin sister’s identity!?

Bookends with Mattea Roach

29:57