The Front Matter

The Front Matter S2E2 feat. Chelsea McKee-Trenchard Owner of Raven's End Bookstore and author Keith Cadieux

Matt Jourdrey, owner of the horror bookstore Raven's End, Chealsea McKee-Trenchard, and author of the Donner Parties, Keith Cadieux, discuss horror, community and building connections.

The Front Matter S2E1 feat. Michael Bumsted from Whodunit Bookstore and author C.C. Benison

Welcome back to The Front Matter, the podcast where booksellers and authors join our publisher to discuss all things books! On our season 2 premiere we get into the role of the bookseller, the joy of mysteries, and the every changing book landscape with Michael Bumstead, owner of Whodunit Bookstore, and C.C. Benison, author of The Unpleasantness at the Battle of Thornford.

The Front Matter S1E7 feat. Kennedy Rooke from Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore and author Patrick Jenkins

In the final episode of Season 1 of The Front Matter, host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Patrick Jenkins, author of Tales from Phantom City, and Kennedy Rooke from Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore about the joy of bookstores and art of graphic novels.

The Front Matter S1E6 feat. Dr. David Anderson from GoodMinds.com and poet Mary Barnes

In this episode, our guests get candid about Indigenous authorship and what Truth and Reconciliation means to them. Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Mary Barnes, Ojibwe poet and author of What Fox Knew and Moving Upstream, and Dr. David Anderson from GoodMinds.com, a First Nations family owned online bookstore that sells First Nation, Métis, and Inuit books.

The Front Matter S1E5 feat. Jack Hui Litster from Octopus Books and author Christian McPherson

In this episode we visit the great city of Ottawa and the wonderful Octopus Books. Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Christian McPherson, author of Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy, and Jack Hui Litster from Octopus Books about what draws people to bookstores, what the biggest threats to independent bookstores are, and myths about the writing industry.