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Kobo in Conversation

Join hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj for in-depth conversations with all kinds of authors about their latest books, how they write, and the books and writers that shaped and inspired them.

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Oct 30, 2024

Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with novelist Richard Powers. Many readers will know him from his 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory, or perhaps The Echo Makerwhich won the 2006 National Book Award. His newest novel is Playground, a story about four characters joined in different ways—marriage, friendship, a...


Oct 16, 2024

In our second installment in this new series, hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj sat down to go over some of the latest goings-on since summer in the business of books.

Topics covered in this episode:

  • Is AI a no-go for NaNoWriMo?
  • Audible announces AI narration—as a side hustle for human narrators
  • B&N needs more...


Oct 2, 2024

Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with writer katherena vermette, author of the award-winning 2016 novel The Break, the graphic novel series A Girl Called Echo, as well as a number of poetry collections and books for children. Her latest novel is real ones. It’s the story of a pair of sisters, lyn and June, whose mother’s...