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From quick Q&As to in-depth interviews, get to know some of our favourite authors. Learn how they write and discover what they read—plus so much more.

Kobo in Conversation Podcast

Antonio Michael Downing’s literary journey into the South

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.

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Scott Alexander Howard on border-crossings across time

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

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Rob Franklin’s upwardly-mobile, downwardly-spiraling Great Black Hope

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.

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Timothy Caulfield and The Certainty Illusion - Live @ KoboCon 2025

Listen in to this live conversation from KoboCon 2025 as Timothy Caulfield explains how to leap over the pitfalls of disinformation.

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Wally Lamb waded into autobiography for The River is Waiting

Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with Wally Lamb about his first novel in nearly a decade and his third to be selected by Oprah's Book Club, The River is Waiting.

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Eliza Reid on paying homage to the difficult work of diplomacy

Michael Tamblyn spoke with Eliza Reid, author of Death on the Island. It’s set on a remote nordic island where a dinner party of diplomats turns fatal.

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Aaron Kreuter finds new possibilities in summer camp

Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with Aaron Kreuter, author of Lake Burntshore, which tells the story of one summer at a fictional Canadian Jewish summer camp.

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Elyse Graham tells the story of WWII's scholarly spies

Host Michael Tamblyn spoke with Elyse Graham, author of Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War Two.

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Liann Zhang on satirizing social media influencers from the inside

Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with Liann Zang, author of the novel Julie Chan is Dead. It's a satire about influencers that only an insider could have written.

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Jon Hickey on the politics of apocalypse

Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with novelist Jon Hickey, author of Big Chief—a story of politics, power, and belonging among a fictional Indigenous community.

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