Writer’s Block - Episode March 20, 2024

Writer's Block April 17 2024 For the April episode, hear from Yeji Y Ham about her debut novel The Invisible Hotel inspired by her grandfather's experience during the Korean War. Then hear from Wayne Arthurson, the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta for 2023-2024. 

Writer's Block February 2024 On the February episode for 2024, Steacy Easton will talk about their memoir Daddy Lessons & Lori Hahnel will talk about her most recent novel Flicker. 

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the Karachi-based journalist Sanam Maher to discuss cliché and originality in foreign correspondents' writing on Pakistan; a whistle-stop tour through (some) of the books of 2021; Lucy Scholes reviews a clutch of novels in ...  Show more

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the writer and critic Mary Norris to discuss the phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood – surely her kind of success requires a method? A new collection of essays and talks sheds some light; Sujit Sivasundaram, the author of ‘W ...  Show more

We’re currently on a season break and will be back with new episodes in March. In the meantime, I wanted to share my conversation with journalist and author Kim Ghattas. Kim, who is half Lebanese and half Dutch, shot to prominence as a BBC reporter, first covering Lebanon and the ...  Show more

Margaret Atwood, famed author, poet and “dystopia prophet,” joins Offline to talk about fighting tyranny and finding hope. Much like her latest book, Old Babes in the Wood, Atwood’s conversation with Jon sandwiches her thoughts and fears on the present between poignant chapters o ...  Show more