Kobo in Conversation Podcast
1) Souvankham Thammavongsa on writing a woman at the centre of her own story
Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with poet and novelist Souvankham Thammavongsa. Her first poetry collection Small Arguments was published in 2003, and in 2020 her first short story collection How to Pronoun...Show More
2) Eric Smith and Andrew Bricker on 30 years of the Toronto Raptors
Host Nathan Maharaj spoke with sports broadcaster Eric Smith and writer Andrew Bricker, who together are the authors of We the Raptors: 30 Players – 30 Stories – 30 Years. It is a snackable feast of ...Show More
3) MORE of the best books we read in 2025
Following our last episode all about the best books we read in 2025, host and producer Nathan Maharaj connected over Zoom with even more Kobo staffers—as well as Kobo in Conversation co-host Michael T...Show More
4) The best books we read in 2025
It's no spoiler to say that Kobo is full of avid readers. So every year we get together to share the best books we read in the past year. Some of the books are new. Some are very old. All were beloved...Show More
5) Miriam Toews on her new memoir, and the surprising truth of good comedy
Michael Tamblyn spoke with Miriam Toews, author of many novels including A Complicated Kindness, All My Puny Sorrows, and Women Talking, to name just a few. Her latest book is a memoir called, A Truce...Show More
6) Charlotte McConaghy found fear on the Wild Dark Shore
Nathan Maharaj spoke with the novelist Charlotte McConaghy. Her latest book is Wild Dark Shore. It's the story of the Salt family, the stewards of a vast seed bank on a remote island that's in danger ...Show More
7) Julian Brave NoiseCat on storytelling in the trickster tradition
Nathan Maharaj spoke with the Oscar-nominated filmmaker and journalist Julian Brave NoiseCat. He co-directed the 2024 documentary Sugarcane which investigated abuses at a residential school in western...Show More
8) Mona Awad on returning to the world of Bunny
Nathan Maharaj spoke with novelist Mona Awad. Her debut book, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl was a Giller Prize finalist. Its follow-up Bunny was set in an Ivy League creative writing program and b...Show More
9) Booktalking - Authors v. Anthropic (and Apple), indie booksellers in & out of trouble, and more
Hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj caught up on a landmark legal decision about books and AI, the perils of bookstore merch, plus a whole lot more. This episode covers: Anthropic AI v. Authors ...Show More
10) Brian Stewart reports on the golden age of being a foreign correspondent
Michael Tamblyn spoke with journalist Brian Stewart, whose career spanned decades, covering the US-Iraq Gulf War, famine in Ethiopia, and countless other historical events for CBC and NBC. He tells us...Show More