Mar 22, 2023
We spoke with writer Hua Hsu, author of Stay True: A Memoir. It’s a heartfelt, thoughtful book about family, friendship, and figuring out who you are—and was widely lauded as one of the best non-fiction books of 2022.
Mar 10, 2023
We spoke with Lindsay Wong, author of the memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family, which was a finalist for Canada Reads in 2019, and the YA novel My Summer of Love and Misfortune.
And she has a marvelously macabre new short story collection, Tell Me Pleasant...
Feb 24, 2023
We were joined by novelist Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves, its sequel Hunting by Stars, and the acclaimed literary novel Empire of Wild. Her new book is VenCo, a work of speculative fiction in which a secretive corporation named VenCo hires a powerful witch to assemble an elite coven—before the recruits...
Feb 10, 2023
We're bringing you a conversation from the Kobo Writing Life Podcast, where writers talk about how they're navigating the many publishing options available to authors today. Check out Jackie Lau on the Kobo Writing Life Podcast, with links to Jackie's books and the books discussed in this episode: KWL – 310 –...
Jan 27, 2023
We spoke with author and book designer CS Richardson, whose first novel The End of the Alphabet won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best 1st Book. His new book, All the Colour in the World is a kaleidoscopic novel about a boy’s love affair with art and a man’s struggle with loss. And while we had him on the...