Esi Edugyan

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"You almost feel that he's cultivated this personality where he's very very inward, he's almost totally unknowable, and this is very deliberate."
-- Esi Edugyan 

In this episode:

* Literary Smackdown with Sharon Butala and Jane Urquhart: To Re-read or Not to Re-Read Old Work
* Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer on his day job as a book store clerk
* Esi Edugyan on Half-Blood Blues
* Sheila O'Brien recommends great reads about the Royal Family:
          * The Queen by Ben Pimlott
 
         * Elizabeth: A Biography of Britain's Queen by Sarah Bradford
          * Young Prince Philip by Philip Eade
          * Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith