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.