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
This poem took 16 straight hours to write (23.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 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?
- Think Stonehenge rocks? So does Ken Follett
- What is extreme caretaking?
- R.F. Kuang raises a little hell
- What would it take to become the first Cherokee astronaut?
- What happens to fiction in times of war?
- Why this comics legend is just getting started
- Who was the woman Kafka loved?
- Reliving the soundtrack of the 2000s
- Why this Pulitzer Prize winner is done with writing books
- Death, sex, money … and podcasting?
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