Shannon Moroney, searching for Hawksley Workman

Monday, May 13, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Shannon Moroney, searching for Hawksley Workman
 
"The forgiveness is something I have to revisit over and over."
-- Shannon Moroney. 

In this episode:

* Shannon Moroney on Through the Glass
* Charlie A'Court on the Calvin and Hobbes series by Bill Watterson
* Vish Khanna reviews Cadillac Couches by Sophie B. Watson
* George Szanto on Bog Tender

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Shelagh's extended conversation with Shannon Moroney

Monday, May 13, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Shelagh's extended conversation with Shannon Moroney
In November 2005, Shannon Moroney's life changed forever. She was at a conference in Toronto when there was a knock on her hotel door. It was a police officer to say that her husband Jason had been arrested for the violent sexual assault of two women.  In an instant, Shannon's life shattered.

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Tanis Rideout, Saleema Nawaz

Monday, May 6, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Tanis Rideout, Saleema Nawaz
 
"If it's possible to be in love with somebody who's been dead for 80-some years, then I think I might be."
-- Tanis Rideout. 

In this episode:

* Tanis Rideout on Above All Things
* Susanna Kearsley on The Firebird
* Victor Dwyer says if you liked Quiet by Susan Cain, you'll love We So Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy
* Saleema Nawaz on Bone and Bread

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Shelagh's extended conversation with Tanis Rideout

Monday, May 6, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Shelagh's extended conversation with Tanis Rideout
Most people know George Mallory as a brave hero. He was an English mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest three times in the 1920s with little more than a Burberry jacket and a kind of absurd bravery. George Mallory didn't survive his third attempt to summit the mountain and what actually happened to him remained a mystery until his remarkably well-preserved body was found in 1999.

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Joseph Boyden and Richard Wagamese

Monday, April 29, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Joseph Boyden and Richard Wagamese
 
"Am I going to end up like a bunch of friends who died, OD'd, or am I going to make a statement and do something?"
-- Joseph Boyden. 

In this episode:

* Joseph Boyden and Richard Wagamese on storytelling as redemption
* Miranda Hill on Sleeping Funny
* David Gilmour reviews Whore by Nelly Arcan
* Sheri-D Wilson on Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe

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Shelagh's extended conversation with Boyden and Wagamese

Monday, April 29, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Shelagh's extended conversation with Boyden and Wagamese
When Shelagh was in school, aboriginal people were pretty well missing from the history curriculum. One of the ways she learned about this missing history was though fiction written by writers with an aboriginal connection. Today, some of those books, like Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden and Richard Wagamese's novel Indian Horse, are being taught in school. 

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Don Gillmor, review of Alice Munro

Monday, April 22, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Don Gillmor, review of Alice Munro
 
"Debt has become the soundtrack to his life."
-- Don Gillmor. 

In this episode:

* Don Gillmor on Mount Pleasant
* Corin Raymond on Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
* Antanas Sileika reviews Dear Life by Alice Munro
* Ayelet Tsabari on The Best Place on Earth
* Jen Sookfong Lee reviews A Nation Worth Ranting About by Rick Mercer and The Kind of Life It's Been by Lloyd Robertson

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George Elliott Clarke, Colin McAdam

Monday, April 15, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

George Elliott Clarke, Colin McAdam
 
"When poetry gets too far away from music it becomes stultified."
-- George Elliott Clarke. 

In this episode:

* George Elliott Clarke on Red
* Old Man Luedecke on Mr. Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
* Colin McAdam on A Beautiful Truth
* Becky Blake, winner of the 2013 CBC Short Story Prize.  Read her winning story The Three Times Rule here.

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Shelagh's extended conversation with George Elliott Clarke

Monday, April 15, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Shelagh's extended conversation with George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke writes really sexy poems. He also writes really political poems. And erudite ones. And poems that are playful and fun. His new collection Red offers all of this and more. It's the latest in his series of so-called colouring books, which began with Blue and then Black.

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Shelagh's extended conversation with Colin McAdam

Monday, April 15, 2013 | Categories: Episodes |

Shelagh's extended conversation with Colin McAdam
Colin McAdam's work has been met with great critical acclaim. His debut novel Some Great Thing was nominated for a Governor General's award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His second novel Fall was shortlisted for the Giller.  In his latest novel, A Beautiful Truth, Colin McAdam explores the humanity of animals and the animal nature of humans.

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