The Next Chapter
Hosted by Antonio Michael Downing · CBC
4.6from 37 ratings
- 199
- Episodes
- 33
- Transcribed
- 37
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About The Next Chapter
Looking for your next great read? The Next Chapter’s got you covered! Book lovers join host Antonio Michael Downing to dive deep into great books. Big feelings, hot takes, enlightening conversations — you’ve never been in a book club like this before. It’s Canada’s book club, and everyone’s invited. So pull up a chair and join the conversation. New episodes every Saturday and Monday.
- Publisher
- CBC
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Aug 2023
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
33 of 199 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Comparison kills: why ranking books can get problematic
3 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Junie B. Jones inspired Taylor Tomlinson’s comedy career
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
10 years since publishing Indigenous Writes, what’s changed?
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Comparison kills: why ranking books can get problematic
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it's totally the same thing about books. Like the thing that you can think about too is that when we're ranking books in terms of good, better, best, essentially what we're doing is we're insisting that books be pleasing. But when you really think about it, the books that are the most electrifying are often books that aren't pleasing. They're books that might be confusing. They're books that might provoke outrage. They might sort of produce something in front of us that we've never seen or thought about before. The idea of liking it or disliking it It really is such a narrow and impoverishing way of thinking about a book. […]
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- Thea Lim
- Don Gillmor
- Taylor Tomlinson
- Chelsea Vowel
- Anosh Irani
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 25 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 12 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100
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- Quality
- 85
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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