Bookends with Mattea Roach
When the book ends, the conversation begins. Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world and our place in it. You’ll always walk away with big questions to ponder and new books to read.
Latest Episode
Buffoon or genius? What makes a cult leader? (11.01.2026)
Previous Episodes
- For Louise Penny, stories come from hurt
- Revisiting Writers & Company: Happy 250th, Jane Austen!
- So your whole family thinks you’re reincarnated — what now?
- All I want for Christmas … is a fake boyfriend?
- Video games are radical. Not in the way you think
- Three writers on the monsters that made them
- A priest and an artist walk into a bar
- Anarchists have bigger hearts than you think
- John Irving’s new novel returns to a familiar orphanage
- This poem took 16 straight hours to write
- Here’s what you have wrong about teen moms
- Chris Hadfield — from astronaut to author
- A fictional ad agency — and its very real ghosts
- Kiran Desai’s novel is worth the 20-year wait
- What is a stag dance?
- Zadie Smith never thought she’d tell this story
- Can your nail tech throw a mean right hook?
- Ian McEwan has hope for humanity — here’s why
- Why Mona Awad gave the Bunnies a say
- Where do North Korean spies go for dinner?
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