Books & Ideas Audio

Books & Ideas Audio

Vancouver Writers Fest

Episodes 61
Avg. Duration 1h 8m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (1)
Since Feb 2020
Latest Episode May 2026

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Exhilarating conversations and ideas from the world’s greatest storytellers and luminaries. From the esteemed vaults of the Vancouver Writers Fest, located in beautiful British Columbia.

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George Saunders in Conversation

May 02, 2026 1h 11m

Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, and one of Time’s one hundred most influential people in the world, George Saunders writes books that are both irreverent and momentous—and…

Arundhati Roy in Conversation with Naomi Klein

Mar 10, 2026 1h 15m

Arundhati Roy’s first novel, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize and made her an international household name. She has gone on to publish multiple acclaimed books—including The Ministry of…

Dionne Brand in Conversation with Kimberly Bain

Feb 02, 2026 1h 3m

Dionne Brand’s first major book of nonfiction in more than 20 years—Salvage: Readings from the Wreck—offers a bracing look at the intersections of reading and life, and of what remains in the wreck…

Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Ian Hanomansing

Aug 01, 2025 1h 3m

Malcolm Gladwell’s first book, The Tipping Point, changed the way we think and talk about the dissemination of ideas. Twenty-five years after its publication—and many New York Times-bestselling books…

Robert Macfarlane: Is A River Alive?

Jul 04, 2025 1h 13m

At the heart of Robert Macfarlane's Is a River Alive? is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognized as such in both…

Tanya Talaga: The Knowing

Jun 01, 2025 1m

We all owe a great deal of gratitude—not just admiration—to award-winning, Anishinaabe author and journalist Tanya Talaga, whose work (such as Seven Fallen Feathers and All Our Relations) has…

Chinatown: Past and Future

May 01, 2025 32m

Acclaimed authors Christina Wong and Daniel Innes, Henry Tsang, and Fae Myenne Ng joined us at the 2023 Vancouver Writers Fest for a discussion with Kevin Chong all about Chinatown—both what it means…

Timothy Caulfield: The Certainty Illusion

Apr 01, 2025 1h 16m

Telling what’s real from what’s fake should be easy. In today’s world, that’s far from the case. Bestselling author and Canada Research Chair Timothy Caulfield joined the Vancouver Writers Fest to…

Canisia Lubrin and Dionne Brand in Conversation

Feb 06, 2025 1h 3m

Code Noir, the debut fiction work from acclaimed, award-winning poet, editor, and writer Canisia Lubrin was named a best book of 2024 by CBC and The Globe and Mail. Departing from the “Code Noir”…

Honouring Murray Sinclair: With Tanya Talaga and Shelagh Rogers

Dec 14, 2024 53m

To honour the life and work of Murray Sinclair—trail-blazing Anishinaabe lawyer and senator, the first Indigenous judge appointed in Manitoba, and Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation…

Ali Velshi and Ian Hanomansing in Conversation

Sep 01, 2024 1h 21m

Ali Velshi—Chief Correspondent for MSNBC, a weekly economics contributor to NPR, and host of his own news show, “Velshi”—joins us to discuss his new book Small Acts of Courage, a captivating family…

Andrey Kurkov: Diary of an Invasion

Aug 02, 2024 1h

The Vancouver Writers Fest and Upstart & Crow Literary Arts Studio welcomed Ukraine’s most celebrated writer, Andrey Kurkov, to discuss his work with international correspondent for The Globe and…

Wade Davis: Beneath the Surface of Things

Jul 02, 2024 58m

Travel into the heart of humanity with one of the foremost thinkers of our time. Wade Davis’s awe-inspiring career includes being the renowned author of 24 books, Professor of Anthropology, Member of…

Michelle Good: Truth Telling

Jun 01, 2024 1h 8m

Michelle Good has moved and inspired millions of people with Five Little Indians, the Canada Reads-winning novel that tells the story of a group of residential school survivors coming to terms with…

Celeste Ng: Our Missing Hearts

May 01, 2024 50m

Where does one start when listing the accolades and praise for Celeste Ng’s deeply felt, intelligent body of work? Little Fires Everywhere sold millions of copies worldwide and was adapted to a…

The Poetry Bash

Apr 01, 2024 1h 24m

Our annual Poetry Bash is a gateway to discovering exceptional poets from across the globe. In this release from our 2023 flagship Festival, hear readings from Victoria Adukwei Bulley (Quiet), Lorna…

Sheila Heti: Alphabetical Diaries

Mar 01, 2024 1h 1m

Acclaimed Canadian writer Sheila Heti speaks with Molly Cross-Blanchard in this conversation from our 2024 Incite series, presented in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library. Her latest book,…

S4E11 Zadie Smith in Conversation with Madeleine Thien

Feb 01, 2024 48m

Widely recognized as one of the finest and most influential authors writing in English today, Zadie Smith speaks about her acclaimed latest novel, The Fraud, with her internationally-renowned…

S4E10 Naomi Klein: Doppelganger

Dec 01, 2023 1h 13m

Naomi Klein’s new book, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, delves into what she calls the Mirror World—our destabilized present rife with doubles and confusion, where far-right movements…

S4E9 Margaret Atwood in Conversation

Sep 01, 2023 1h 5m

The legendary Margaret Atwood joined award-winning author Ian Williams to discuss Old Babes in the Wood, her extraordinary new collection of short fiction, as part of our May Bestsellers Series. A…

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