Here are all the interviews airing on May 30th. As usual, we've removed the music and various garnishes that you'd hear in the broadcast version. But we are finally able to include Cariboo's theme music!

Who and what:

Erika Ritter, author of The Dog By The Cradle, The Serpent Beneath; Evalyn Parry, singer of "The Stone & The Bumblebee"; Hannah Sung, book-clubber of the CBC Book Club; Tom Howell, undergoing life changes in "How Poetry Can Change Your Life" with assistance this week from Carolyn Smart, author of Hooked, and Elizabeth Smart, author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.

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If you enjoy listening to interviews with particular authors but don't have time to hear whole episodes of The Next Chapter, maybe you'd enjoy our Twitter feed, where we post links to new interviews as soon as they're recorded. This means you can hear interviews long before they're programmed into the official broadcast.

URL: http://twitter.com/cbcnextchapter

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My friend Norbert dug this out of the CBC Archives for The Next Chapter this week, after I told him we were talking about Elizabeth Smart. It's an interview she gave after returning to Canada to take up a writer-in-residence position at the University of Alberta.

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Here are all the interviews airing on May 23rd. As usual, we've removed the music and various garnishes that you'd hear in the broadcast version.

Shelagh speaks with: Anne Giardini, author of Advice for Italian Boys; Aritha Van Herk, who's been looking into family sagas in Canadian literature; and Sue Johnson, author of Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love. Songwriter Veda Hille pops up to talk about reading Tales from Moominvalley, the sixth book in the Moomin series by Finnish author, Tove Jansson.

By the way, the books mentioned by Aritha Van Herk are:

The Jalna series by Mazo de la Roche.
Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee.
Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott.

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Here are the interviews that we'll broadcast on Saturday, May 16. The radio broadcast includes music and a bit more commentary and scene-setting from Shelagh, but other than that, it's the same show. Hope you enjoy it!

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Award-winning children's author Michael Kusugak's latest book is The Littlest Sled Dog.

Author Paul Quarrington is also part of the band Pork Belly Futures and we play "Gotta Love a Train" from their new self-titled CD.

Wilderness guide Chris Czajkowski riffs on life in northern B.C. Her latest book is called A Mountain Year: Nature Diary of a Wilderness Dweller

Writer and philosopher Mark Kingwell muses about urban life in his book Concrete Reveries: Consciouness and the City.

And Joel Hynes, author of Right Away Monday , says reprobates and anti-heroes make good stories.

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Most of the interviews on The Next Chapter are edited by the show's producers, so that the 20-minute conversation you hear between Shelagh and her guest is actually an extract from a longer conversation. We make the cuts in order to fit all the week's items into our prepared time slot on the radio. Often, it's a real challenge, and tears are shed as we hear great parts of an interview hit the cutting room floor, never to reach the airwaves.

Here's Shelagh's interview with Mavis Gallant. It's about 30-percent longer than the one airing on Saturday, May 9.

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Mavis Gallant talks to Shelagh about her latest collection Going Ashore.

Denis Béchard 's first novel is called Vandal Love.

Padma Viswanathan based her first novel on family stories. It's called A Toss Of Lemon.

And Antanas Sileika talks about two of his favourite books that mix history and memory.
They are Young Hunting by Martin Hunter and My Two Polish Grandfathers by Witold Rybczynski.

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Here's a recommendation for Hannah Sung and the CBC Book Club, for their focus-on-the-funny month dedicated to humorous writers.

The people behind the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour announced yesterday that Mark Leiren-Young wins this year's prize, for his stories about being a reporter in Williams Lake, B.C. His book is called Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo.

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