In each episode of What Happened Next, author Nathan Whitlock interviews other authors about what happens when a new book isn’t new anymore, and it’s time to write another one. This podcast is presented in partnership with The Walrus.https://thewalrus.ca/podcasts/what-happened-next/<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books
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In each episode of What Happened Next, author Nathan Whitlock interviews other authors about what happens when a new book isn’t new anymore, and it’s time to write another one. This podcast is presented in partnership with The Walrus.https://thewalrus.ca/podcasts/what-happened-next/<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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July 13, 2026
Emily Weedon
<p>My guest on this episode is Emily Weedon. Emily is an award-winning screenwriter and author, whose first book was the novel Autokrator. Her most recent book is the novel Hemo Sapiens, which was published by Dundurn Press in 2025. Quill & Quire called the book “a fun and welcome addition to the vampire genre.”</p><p> </p><p>Emily and I talk about the agent who advised her to change the male protagonist of her novel to a lesbian for no particular reason, about publishing two books in two years, and why she does not recommend doing that, and about the book world’s strange and contradictory relationship with hustle culture. </p><br><p><br></p><p><strong>This podcast is produced and hosted by </strong><a href="https://www.nathanwhitlock.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Nathan Whitlock</strong></a><strong>, in partnership with </strong><a href="https://thewalrus.ca/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The Walrus</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>Music: "simple-hearted thing" by </strong><a href="https://alukashevsky.bandcamp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Alex Lukashevsky</strong></a><strong>. Used with permission. </strong></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
July 6, 2026
Tessa McWatt
<p>My guest on this episode is Tessa McWatt. Tessa is the author of many novels and books for young people. Her fiction and non-fiction has won the Eccles British Library Award and the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Non-Fiction, and has been nominated for the Governor General's Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, and the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize. Her most recent book, The Snag: A Mother, A Forest and Wild Grief, was published by Random House Canada in 2025. That book also won the Bocas Prize, and was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize. Author Stephanie Bishop called it “wise, bold, and deeply affecting.”</p><br><p>Tessa and I talk about the recent racist riots and violence in the UK, about writing books that are distinctly anti-cozy, and about how, as someone who now lives and teaches in England, she is desperate to go on a long canoe trip.</p><br><p><strong>This podcast is produced and hosted by </strong><a href="https://www.nathanwhitlock.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Nathan Whitlock</strong></a><strong>, in partnership with </strong><a href="https://thewalrus.ca/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The Walrus</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>Music: "simple-hearted thing" by </strong><a href="https://alukashevsky.bandcamp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Alex Lukashevsky</strong></a><strong>. Used with permission. </strong></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
June 29, 2026
Sarah Leavitt
<p>My guest on this episode is Sarah Leavitt. Sarah is the creator of the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me and the historical fiction comic Agnes, Murderess. Her work has won a CBC Bookie award for Best Comic or Graphic Novel, a Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature, and an Alberta Book Publishing Award, and has been shortlisted for many, many other awards. An animated feature film version of Tangles, which features the voices of people like Seth Rogen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Bryan Crantson, recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Sarah’s most recent book, the graphic memoir Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2024 and was a finalist for an Eisner Awar, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Publishing Triangle Award. It won a BC/Yukon Book Prize, and the New York Times said in its review of the book that “Sarah Leavitt embraces the ways that comics can work as poetry.”</p><p> </p><p>Sarah and I talk about long process of turning Tangles into a film, about souring on social media as a way of sharing her creative work, and about her new project, which might turn out to be a novel, except without the graphic part.</p><br><p><strong>This podcast is produced and hosted by </strong><a href="https://www.nathanwhitlock.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Nathan Whitlock</strong></a><strong>, in partnership with </strong><a href="https://thewalrus.ca/podcasts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>The Walrus</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>Music: "simple-hearted thing" by </strong><a href="https://alukashevsky.bandcamp.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Alex Lukashevsky</strong></a><strong>. Used with permission. </strong></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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