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Nathan Maharaj spoke with Dan Rubinstein, author of Water Borne, the story of his journey through American and Canadian waterways via stand-up paddleboard.

Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with poet and novelist Souvankham Thammavongsa about her novel Pick a Colour, a story set in a nail salon run by a retired boxer.

Michael Tamblyn spoke with Miriam Toews, author of many novels including Women Talking. Her latest book is a memoir called A Truce That Is Not Peace.

Nathan Maharaj spoke with Charlotte McConaghy, author of Wild Dark Shore. It’s the story of a family looking after a seed bank on an island under threat.

Nathan Maharaj spoke with Oscar-nominated filmmaker and journalist Julian Brave NoiseCat about his book We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning.

Nathan Maharaj spoke with Mona Awad, author of We Love You, Bunny. It cleverly revisits the wicked satire of her 2019 Atwood-approved novel Bunny.

Michael Tamblyn spoke with journalist Brian Stewart, who covered the US-Iraq Gulf War, famine in Ethiopia, and countless other historical events.

Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with Antonio Michael Downing, author of the memoir Saga Boy and host of CBC’s The Next Chapter, about his novel Black Cherokee.

Host Michael Tamblyn spoke with novelist Scott Alexander Howard, winner of the 2025 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and author of The Other Valley.

We spoke with Rob Franklin about his debut novel Great Black Hope, the story of a young man arrested while heading home from a summer house party.