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David Huebert: Exploring the complexity of our relationship with oil through fiction

Season 1 · Episode 2

Sunday, September 15, 2024 • Duration 23:43

The novel Oil People is about a family in southwestern Ontario with deep connections to the oil industry. Oil is their present-day livelihood and heritage, but it might also be poisoning them physically and spiritually. David Huebert speaks to Mattea Roach about writing Oil People.

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Sloane Crosley: Losing her best friend and sharing her grief with the world

Season 1 · Episode 2

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 • Duration 27:18

Sloane Crosley’s jewelry was stolen from her home, and one month later, her best friend, Russell, died. She writes about these experiences in the memoir Grief is For People, which is witty and heartbreaking. Sloane joined Mattea Roach to talk about her grief, her best friend and writing about it all.

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Aysegul Savas: Finding home in foreignness and capturing the uncertainty of early adulthood

Season 1 · Episode 3

Sunday, September 22, 2024 • Duration 30:15

The Paris-based Turkish writer spoke with Mattea Roach about her new novel, The Anthropologists, which centers on a young immigrant couple in an unnamed city, navigating love, friendships and the guilt of being away from family.

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Alison McCreesh: Exploring the magic and nuance of life in the North in her latest graphic novel

Season 1 · Episode 3

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 • Duration 25:03

When Alison McCreesh was 21, she left her Quebec hometown and hitchhiked to the Yukon searching for something she couldn't quite put her finger on — and hasn't left. She talks to Mattea Roach about her graphic novel Degrees of Separation, which reflects on the everyday lives of people in the North... and how it's changed during her time there.

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Aldona Dziedziejko: Poetic reflections on land and loss wins 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize

Season 1 · Episode 5

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 • Duration 17:38

Poet Aldona Dziedziejko's Ice Safety Chart: Fragments is a beautiful, experimental essay about different moments from Aldona's life in the Northwest Territories. The writer, who now lives in Alberta, spoke to Mattea Roach about their life, literary inspirations and her big win.

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Casey McQuiston: Celebrating queer love and joy and navigating the future of romance

Season 1 · Episode 5

Sunday, October 6, 2024 • Duration 40:30

Casey McQuiston is a blockbuster queer romance author who hit it big with their 2016 novel Red, White and Royal Blue. Casey’s latest is The Pairing, about childhood friends-turned-exes who reconnect on a sexy European adventure. Casey has an open conversation with Mattea Roach about queer love, blending joy with sadness and what the future holds for romance writing.

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Tanya Talaga: Searching for her great-great grandmother — a story of family, truth and survival

Sunday, September 29, 2024 • Duration 54:21

Annie Carpenter's life was upended by colonialism, the Indian Act and the residential school system. For 80 years, her family tried to find out what happened to her. Now, journalist and filmmaker Tanya Talaga is telling her great-great grandmother's story in her new book and documentary series, The Knowing. She talks to Mattea Roach about the struggle to find her relative, crossing paths with the Pope, and what she believes will help move us forward on the road to reconciliation.

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Eric Chacour: Exploring the power of familial expectations and forbidden love

Season 1 · Episode 10

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 • Duration 34:37

When Montreal author Eric Chacour wrote his first book, he didn't expect it to become a huge hit in France. Translated from French to English by Pablo Strauss, What I Know About You is a novel set in Cairo and Montreal, exploring sexuality as well as family secrets and pressures. It's nominated for this year's Giller Prize and Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Eric and Mattea Roach discuss the inspiration behind his debut novel.

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Anne Fleming: Why her latest novel is a gender-bending tale of witchcraft and forbidden love

Season 1 · Episode 11

Sunday, November 17, 2024 • Duration 39:33

In Anne Fleming's new novel, Curiosities, an amateur historian becomes fascinated by the lives of two girls from 1600s England. But as she pieces their stories together, the very nature of truth itself comes into question. Curiosities is a finalist for the 2024 Giller Prize. Anne and Mattea Roach discuss the pull of the 17th century and the exploration of gender and identity at the heart of the novel.

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Paula Hawkins: Exploring the dark side of the art world in new thriller The Blue Hour

Season 1 · Episode 11

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 • Duration 33:49

When Paula Hawkins dropped her pen name and switched from writing romantic comedies to thrillers, she wrote The Girl on the Train. Now she has a new book called The Blue Hour. It follows a reclusive painter named Vanessa Chapman and reflects on themes of power and legacy. Paula and Mattea Roach talk about the motivations and inspiration behind the women at the centre of her stories.

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