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Author Pat Capponi wrote The Corpse Will Keep.
Sean Vidal from Winnipeg band The Details recommends Lake of the Prairies by Warren Cariou. The band's song here is "Underground" from the CD Draw a Distance, Draw a Border.
Roy MacGregor wrote the Screech Owls series.
Sasenarine Persaud wrote In a Boston Night.
Shelagh talks to Jose Latour about having to leave his native land but not his passion for writing mysteries. His book is Crime of Fashion.
Canadian icon Leonard Cohen sings “First We Take Manhattan” from the CD I’m Your Man.
Lisa Gabriele discusses the ties that bind in The Almost Archer Sisters.
Novelist Billie Livingston found a strong connection with Linda Svenson’s Marine Life.
And Louise Penny discusses her own passion for mysteries, onstage at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City. Her latest book is The Murder Stone.
Ron Stewart heard about The Next Chapter's Mystery Month, and let us know about a collaborative writing project ongoing in Halifax:
Greetings from Dalhousie, Shelagh:
Every year of two the Narrative Medicine section of our Medical Humanities Program here at Dalhousie creates an 11-sentence "Medical Mystery Novel" set in the Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building. This idea, stolen unashamedly from CBC Halifax, invites students to submit sentences to weave a medical mystery -- usually involving murder and mayhem of some kind -- with the resolution of the mystery in the 11-sentences. This year our beginning sentence was supplied by our 2009 Quill 'n' Stethoscope Orator, Dr. Brian Goldman of CBC and emergency medicine fame. His beginning sentence, "As she sat in The Link, her fourth Red Bull quickly emptying out, third year medical student Donatella Ponzi was so intent on plotting her next bank robbery with meticulous precision that she failed to notice the shadow lurking behind her."
When they ran a similar project two years ago, they got doctor-author Vincent Lam to bestow a title on the resulting story; he called it, The Case of the Curious Cure.
Ask your doctor.
We received a note about an interesting town event in Rothesay, New Brunswick. Not only did they pick a book for everyone to read together, but they apparently bought 600 copies to distribute at the high school, and more copies for municipal workers, with the result that it's showing up all over town. Sounds like a great piece of community-building.
There is a neat story happening in Rothesay, N.B. that I thought would be an excellent interview for The Next Chapter. The Big Rothesay Read is an event that will see all of Rothesay High School( 600 students werre given the book) and the community of Rothesay reading the same book at the same time. The book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier was unveiled yesterday at a huge event at Rothesay High. And, the most exciting part, the author Ishmael Beah, is coming to Rothesay on April 20/21 to speak to the community and high school students on his life experience as a boy soldier and advocate. Seems like a great story to have Shelagh cover.
Charles Jensen
Hi there,
What city is production for The Next Chapter based out of? Vancouver or Toronto?
Thanks!
Katie Redburn
Response: We're quite spread out. Shelagh lives on one of the Gulf Islands in B.C. and conducts most of her interviews from home. We have a part-time producer in Vancouver, plus two of us in Toronto. We 'meet' on the phone to discuss which authors should get a spot on the show, and which books we might add to Shelagh's huge stack of reading material. The authors are usually sitting in a radio studio near their home.
I would love to find a transcript for one of the Proust interviews. I can't find a link here. Also I would like to know the definition of a 'Proust Interview' or questionnaire.
Janet Vickers
Reply: Your quickest source for the history of the Proust Questionnaire is probably Wikipedia's entry on it. As for transcripts, since we don't transcribe our own show (unlike the people at CBC's Ideas), you would need to go through the general CBC transcript ordering service, details of which are here. Or, if you just want the questions we use, you could listen to a Questionnaire segment on our podcast and scribble them down as you listen, which would be quicker than waiting for the transcript company to do it for you.
This week in our month featuring mystery writers, Gail Bowen discusses The Brutal Heart.
Shelagh visits Little Portugal in Toronto with author Anthony De Sa to talk about his first novel Barnacle Love.
Singer/songwriter Lhasa de Sela crosses borders with her music. We hear "Rising" from her soon-to-be-released CD Lhasa.
Columnist Antanas Sileika introduces his new series of book reviews, entitled "Long Ago and Far Away". This week's books: River Bones by Andrew Westall, and Vilnius: City of Strangers by Laimonas Briedis.
Dear Ms. Rogers,
Your show brings me great pleasure as I sit hammering out the fifth book of my memoirs which I began when I retired in 1996.
Your question about embellishing memoirs made me think. I concluded, I don't. I do leave many things out when they might hurt someone and add nothing to the whole story I'm telling.
Of course, I can't really remember every conversation verbatim, but I always stick to the idea and truth of interchanges even when I come out looking bad.
Thanks so much for the programme.
Someday, if I ever have the nerve to attempt to find an agent or publisher, maybe I'll be able to show you one of my books.
Big Smiles,
Ken Jon Booth
Everyone loves a mystery and this week we begin a series on writers of that popular genre.
Author Linwood Barclay lays out the clues to his book No Time For Goodbye.
Shelagh joins chic-lit writer Louisa McCormack at a Charlottetown coffee shop to discuss her latest novel The Catch.
We hear the Arrogant Worms with "The Me Song" from their CD Torpid .
Columnist Anshuman Iddamsetty explores the rise of e-books.
R3 host Hannah Sung gets all pumped up for her newest gig as moderator of the new CBC online bookclub.
And we close the show with another mystery writer. Peter Robinson , creator of the Inspector Banks series, gets wrapped up in the Next Chapter's Questionnaire. All The Colors of Darkness is the latest in that series available in Canada.
Just got a note from a listener wanting to see the shortlist for this year's CBC Lit Awards in the poetry category. For all things to do with the Lit Awards, click here.