{"podcast":{"title":"What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books","slug":"what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402","podcast_index_feed_id":6367402,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/67f6cc8f0c09f66202906ee8","website_url":"https://thewalrus.ca/podcasts/what-happened-next/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/67f6cc8f0c09f66202906ee8/show-cover.jpg","author":"Nathan Whitlock","episode_count":167,"summary":"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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T16:19:26.730524+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402"},"episode":{"title":"Sarah Leavitt","slug":"sarah-leavitt","published_at":"2026-06-29T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402/sarah-leavitt","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402","url":"https://shows.acast.com/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books/episodes/sarah-leavitt","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/67f6cc8f0c09f66202906ee8/e/6a3d6b840ad32116869f4651/media.mp3","summary":"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.”   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. This podcast is produced and hosted by Nathan Whitlock , in partnership with The Walrus . Music: \"simple-hearted thing\" by  Alex Lukashevsky . Used with permission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"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 histor…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1656,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402/episodes/sarah-leavitt/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-happened-next-a-podcast-about-newish-books-6367402/sarah-leavitt.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}