Writer Mariko Tamaki and visual artist Jillian Tamaki discuss the high-voltage success of their graphic novel, Skim.

Bill Waiser casts our minds back to depression-era Saskatchewan in Who Killed Jackie Bates?

Country-blues artist Little Miss Higgins, of Nokomis, Saskatchewan, drops by to extol the virtues of writing from the middle of nowhere. Song: "The Dirty Ol’ Tractor Song" from her CD Junction City.

Magazine writer Ernest Hillen recounts his travels through Canadian communities in A Weekend Memoir.

Joel Yanofsky, author, muses on Michael Ignatieff - the author who would be Prime Minister. He examines Ignatieff's first novel, Asya, for clues to the politician's own character.