Kobo in Conversation Podcast

Nathan spoke with Samantha Irby, screenwriter on the TV series  and most recently the reboot And Just Like That..., and the author of books including , , as well as the new essay collection . They chatted about joining a TV writers' room as a superfan and why she hasn't (yet) written a book called "Garbage Time" or "Trench Mouth".

Michael spoke with Rithu Bhasin, social justice advocate, entrepreneur, and author of , a book about building a culture where everyone feels welcome to show up with their whole self. And it’s also a very personal book, in which she shares her own difficult journey towards a sense of belonging.

We spoke with Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of the new novel . It’s a story about three people: a husband and wife, and the wife’s friend, who is definitely not the husband’s friend. It’s a wickedly funny book told through three voices in tension with one another, and possibly also objective reality. 

We spoke with Canadian journalist and bestselling romance novelist Carley Fortune, author of the new book . It’s a summer love story about Fern Brookbanks, who's forced to grieve the sudden death of her mother while trying to run her family’s lakeside resort, alongside the manager who happens to be her ex. Unbeknownst to her, Fern’s mom had hired a consultant just before she died; and unfortunately it turns out to be Will Baxter, the guy who stole Fern's young heart years ago and then vanished from her life, but never her thoughts.

We spoke with David Grann, author of non-fiction page-turners including and , to say nothing of his many incredible articles about crime and adventure that he’s written over the past twenty years for The New Yorker. And he has a new book, . It’s about seafaring, nautical battles, castaways on the brink of starvation, but it’s also about the very fabric of society.

Shelley Read is the author of the novel , a story set in the 1940s on a peach farm in a Colorado town called Iola. She spoke with us about finding the voices of her quiet characters through her deep knowledge of the history and geography of the region.

We spoke with Zoe Whittall, poet, screenwriter, and novelist. Her new book  is a novel about a liar named Cammie and two people who fall under her spell—and then have to pick up the pieces of their lives when they fall out of it.

We spoke with writer Hua Hsu, author of . 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.

We spoke with Lindsay Wong, author of the memoir , which was a finalist for Canada Reads in 2019, and the YA novel . And she has a marvelously macabre new short story collection, .

We were joined by novelist Cherie Dimaline, author of , its sequel , and the acclaimed literary novel . Her new book is , a work of speculative fiction in which a secretive corporation named VenCo hires a powerful witch to assemble an elite coven—before the recruits are found by an ancient witch hunter.