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Writers and Company from CBC Radio
CBC Radio's Writers and Company offers an opportunity to explore in depth the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel.
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20 of 148 episodesHow to find hope in a funeral home
When Mai Nguyen lost her daughter just days after she was born, writing about a similar character in a novel brought her comfort. Her new bo...
Should you be afraid of the wolf hour?
The “wolf hour” is a term for the deep-night period between roughly three and four in the morning. The world is quiet, your guard is down …...
Would a tradwife influencer survive in 1855?
In Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel, Yesteryear , a modern day tradwife influencer shares her picturesque farm life with 8 million followers...
How do we restore our sense of wonder in media?
Ben Lerner’s new novel is all about how technology shapes memory and connection … and it kicks off when a guy breaks his phone. In Transcrip...
What does dystopia look like in the suburbs?
Even if you’re living in a dystopia, life goes on. Carrianne Leung’s new novel, Wonderland Road , is about making it work and finding hope i...
Is it magic … or is it Siri?
In Michael Redhill’s new novel, The Trial of Katterfelto , the titular Katterfelto is a traveling magician and scientist in the late 1700s....
Why status and power are currency in Pakistan
What does it mean to love a place that is so complicated? Pulitzer prize finalist Daniyal Mueenuddin’s new novel, This Is Where the Serpent...
The last book Julian Barnes will ever write
Julian Barnes says his new novel is his final. It’s called Departure(s) , and it’s about two people who fall in love when they’re young and...
Is there a soundtrack to your life?
For Michael V. Smith, the answer is a resounding yes … and he explores that in his new book, Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir . It’s a collection...
If at first you break up … try, try again?
This week, Bookends is celebrating libraries with a special Canada Reads event at the Hamilton Public Library. Morgann Book truly lives up t...
How long could you lie about who you are?
In Tara Gereaux’s new novel, Wild People Quiet , a Métis woman works tirelessly to hide her identity for years … until everything starts to...
Why Tayari Jones fights for her stories
What does family mean to two motherless daughters? That question is at the centre of Kin , a new work of historical fiction by Tayari Jones....
Inside Toronto’s most notorious women’s prison
Toronto’s most infamous women’s prison was meant to rehabilitate women … but its real history tells a much darker story. Heather Marshall di...
For Jeanette Winterson, stories are essential to survival
If you had to tell a story to stay alive … what story would you tell? Jeanette Winterson’s new book, One Aladdin Two Lamps , is a nonfiction...
What is boyhood to a Palestinian teen?
What does it mean to come of age in a place where violence is a daily fact of life? Ashraf Zaghal’s debut novel, Seven Heavens Away , is abo...
Strip club … or culture hub?
What happens behind the closed doors of a strip club? Pole dancing, booming basslines … and in Nic Stone’s new novel, the chilling mystery o...
Rage and love at the end of apartheid
Can you inherit fury? Kagiso Lesego Molope’s new novel, We Inherit The Fire , follows a mother and daughter at the end of apartheid in South...
The beauty and despair of Appalachia
What do you know about Appalachia? Fancy Gap is the debut novel by Zak Jones, and it challenges the preconceptions we might have about the r...
Meth and murder in rural America
When Chris Kraus became fixated on a murder case in a Minnesotan town, she decided to try her hand at a true crime novel ... but the project...
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