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 blended horror and suspense with wicked satire. We Love You, Bunny is her fifth novel, and it's a return to that creative writing program, revisiting the story through the perspectives of characters who apparently want to set the record straight but end up pulling us even further down this dark and twisting rabbit hole.

Mona Awad on returning to the world of Bunny

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
  • and Authors v. Apple
• How Powell's Books' new mugs got them into hot water
• Barnes & Noble buying Books Inc.
• C-suite changes at Simons & Schuster and Harper UK
• A novel approach to creative writing this November

Somehow, neither of them mentioned a specific book this time. They've been spoken to and have promised to do better in the future.

More author interviews coming soon to kobo.com/conversation

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 about all of it—including what was going on in his life off-camera—in a new book: On the Ground: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent.

Brian Stewart reports on the golden age of being a foreign correspondent