<p>This week on Bookends, we revisit Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with Samantha Harvey, the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize. They spoke on Writers &amp; Company in 2015 about Samantha's novel Dear Thief, which was inspired by a Leonard Cohen song. Samantha also explores her interest in themes of aging, why she writes about the unfamiliar, and infusing her work with philosophical questions.</p><p><br></p>

Bookends with Mattea Roach

CBC

Samantha Harvey: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

DEC 22, 202450 MIN
Bookends with Mattea Roach

Samantha Harvey: In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

DEC 22, 202450 MIN

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<p>This week on Bookends, we revisit Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with Samantha Harvey, the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize. They spoke on Writers &amp; Company in 2015 about Samantha's novel Dear Thief, which was inspired by a Leonard Cohen song. Samantha also explores her interest in themes of aging, why she writes about the unfamiliar, and infusing her work with philosophical questions.</p><p><br></p>