Kobo in Conversation

Shelley Read is the author of the novel Go as a River, 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 thro…

We spoke with Zoe Whittall, poet, screenwriter, and novelist. Her new book The Fake 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…

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-fict…

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 nov…

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 fi…

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 t…

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…

We spoke with Kai Thomas, author of the novel In the Upper Country. It's a story set in the fictional Canadian town of Dunmore, a place where people fleeing slavery in the southern United States bui…

Because you can never hear about too many great books, here's another batch of the best books Kobo staff read in 2022. There's memoir, investigative journalism, fun facts, romance, and more (also moo…

We asked the staff of Kobo about the best eBooks and audiobooks they read in 2022, and we heard about memoirs, literary masterpieces, page-turning non-fiction, family sagas, mind-opening nature writi…

We spoke with award-winning science writer Harold McGee, author of the new book Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells, a wondrous and entertaining guide to the smells of food, yes, but also…

The final of three interviews we recorded at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre as part of the Toronto International Festival of Authors.

With novelists André Forget author of In the City of Pigs, and Na…

The second of three interviews we recorded at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre as part of the Toronto International Festival of Authors.

We interviewed novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz, author of several c…

Over the next few weeks we'll be sharing recordings of live interviews conducted at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre as part of the Toronto International Festival of Authors.

The first of these features…

We were joined by actor, playwright, and novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald, author of the international bestseller Fall on Your Knees, to talk about her new novel, Fayne, a work of historical fiction abou…

We spoke with Chief Robert Joseph, a Hereditary chief of the Gwawaenuk First Nation and honourary witness to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission about his new book Namwayut: A Pathway to Rec…

Novelist Hernan Diaz is a professor at Columbia University and the author of In the Distance, a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. We spoke with him about a range of topics that inform his new nov…

Deon Meyer is the author of The Dark Flood, the newest installment in his Benny Griessel series of detective novels set in South Africa. We spoke with Deon as part of the Toronto International Festiv…

Enjoy this conversation with non-fiction thriller author Ben Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House about his new historical fiction novel The Midnight Ride, which…

We spoke with Cory Silverberg, educator, entrepreneur, researcher, and author of the books What Makes a Baby, Sex is a Funny Word, and the new book, You Know, Sex. These books are approachable and fa…