The Front Matter At Bay Press

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. 

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. 

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. 

Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Janet Trull, author of Something's Burning, and Ian Elliot from A Different Drummer Books about the joy of bookstores, from the smells to events to the writers whose stories live there. 

Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Megan Wykes, author of Back to the Garden, and co-owner of Queen Books, Alex Snider about their bookstore experiences and the publishing industry at large. 

Host Matt Joudrey chats with special guests Sareh Farmand, author of Pistachios in My Pocket, and Chris Cox from 32 Books & Gallery about the value of bookstores for readers, writers, and communities.