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Literary Smackdown #8 - Sharon Butala vs. Jane Urquhart
Canada Writes and The Next Chapter present our eigth literary smackdown, an always thoughtful, sometimes feisty, debate about the writing life.
This time, a quandary for published writers: is it a good idea to re-read your old work? Sharon Butala and Jane Urquhart have both written plenty of books, but they have very different thoughts on what to do with them.
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May 21, 2012 - Esi Edugyan
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.
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TNC Special - Vincent Lam
Shelagh's extended conversation with Vincent Lam, author of "The Headmaster's Wager".
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May 14, 2012 - Vincent Lam
Vincent Lam on "The Headmaster's Wager". Wayne Petti from Cuff the Duke on "Beautiful Losers" by Leonard Cohen and the song "God is Alive, Magic is Afoot" by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Karen Levine on the Tenth Anniversary Edition of "Hana's Suitcase". Adria Vasil on "Ecoholic Body". Marjorie Anderson and Gail Anderson-Dargatz on the collaborative novel "At the Edge".
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May 7, 2012 - Michael Christie
Michael Christie on "The Beggar's Garden". Christa Couture on the Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery. Donna Morrissey and Bridgette Morrissey on "Cross Katie Kross". Gail Vaz-Oxlade on her day job as a secretary. Antanas Sileika on "Solar Dance" by Modris Eksteins.
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TNC Special - Kim Thuy
Shelagh Rogers' extended conversation with Kim Thuy, author of "Ru".
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April 30, 2012 - Kim Thuy
Kim Thuy on "Ru". Rose Cousins on "Dance Dance Dance" by Haruki Murakami. Eva Stachniak on "The Winter Palace". Master Class with Rudy Wiebe. Adrienne Clarkson, author of "Room for All of Us", answers the Proust Questionnaire.
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April 23, 2012 - Alexi Zentner
Alexi Zentner on "Touch". Kathryn Calder on "1Q84" by Haruki Murakami. Literary Smackdown with Shyam Selvadurai and Robert Hough: Write What You Know vs. Write What You Don't Know. Michael Crabb reviews "The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca" by Carol Bishop-Gwyn.
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April 16, 2012 - Lilian Nattel
Lilian Nattel on "Web of Angels". Marjorie Harris on "Thrifty Gardening: From the Ground Up". David Gilmour on "Life Itself: A Memoir" by Roger Ebert. Miranda Hill and Sheree-Lee Olson (author of "Sailor Girl") on Project Bookmark.
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April 9, 2012 - Edward Riche
Edward Riche on "Easy to Like". Tom Wilson from Blackie and the Rodeo Kings on "Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants" by Robert Sullivan. Hugh Brewster and Sarah Ellis on writing the Titanic. Vish Khanna says if you liked "Life" by Keith Richards, you'll love "Whale Music" by Paul Quarrington.
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TNC Special - Writing the Titanic
Shelagh's full length conversation with Sarah Ellis and Hugh Brewster, who have both written books about the Titanic for young adults.
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TNC Special - Linden MacIntyre
Shelagh's full-length conversation with Linden MacIntyre, author of "Why Men Lie".
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April 2, 2012 - Linden MacIntyre
Linden MacIntyre on "Why Men Lie". Stephens Gerard Malone on "Big Town: A Novel of Africville". Jo Saul says if you like Dr. Seuss, you'll love "Alligator Pie" by Dennis Lee. Ami McKay on her day job as a music teacher. Janet Wilson on "Shannon and the Dream for a School".
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March 26, 2012 - Solitude vs. Cafe Society
Literary Smackdown with Joëlle Anthony and Rabindranath Maharaj: Solitude vs. Cafe Society. Kellylee Evans on reading the French version of "Arthur and the Invisibles" by Luc Besson. C.C. Benison on "Twelve Drummers Drumming". Wayne Johnston on his day job at a St. John's newspaper. Daniel Karasik, winner of the 2012 CBC Short Story Prize.
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March 19, 2012 - Gail Bowen and Peter Robinson
Gail Bowen and Peter Robinson on mystery writing in Canada. William Deverell answers the Proust Questionnaire. Chef Lynn Crawford on her cookbook "Pitchin' In". Brian Brett on "Trauma Farm".
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March 12, 2012 - Louise Penny
Louise Penny on "A Trick of the Light". G.B. Joyce on "The Code". Joshua Knelman on "Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art". From the TNC Vault, Shelagh's conversation with Wayne Arthurson on "Fall From Grace".
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March 5, 2012 - Anita Rau Badami
Anita Rau Badami on "Tell It to the Trees". Roy MacGregor answers the Proust Questionnaire. Brad Smith on "Red Means Run". Eva Stachniak on her day job at Radio-Canada. Brian Francis says if you liked "We Need to Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver, you'll love "The Last of the Crazy People" by Timothy Findley.
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February 27, 2012 - Let's Write About Sex... or Not
Literary Smackdown with Russell Smith and Lynn Coady: Let's Write About Sex... or Not. Wade Davis answers the Proust Questionnaire. Donna Bailey Nurse on "What's a Black Critic to Do II". Richard Van Camp reviews "Once You Break a Knuckle" by D.W. Wilson.
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February 20, 2012 - Keeping It Riel
Interpreting Louis Riel's life: a panel with Maggie Siggins, author of "Riel: A Life of Revolution", Chester Brown, author of "Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography", and Gregory Scofield, author of "Louis: The Heretic Poems". Joseph Boyden on "Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont". Herb Belcourt on "Walking in the Woods: A Métis Journey".
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TNC Special - Interpreting the Life of Louis Riel
Louis Riel is one of the great controversial characters in Canadian history. 125 years after being executed for treason, there is still no consensus on how his story should be told. Was he a traitor or hero, freedom fighter or trouble maker...
On our special episode, "Keeping It Riel", Shelagh brings together a writer, a graphic novelist, and a poet to weigh in on Louis Riel's legacy. This is the full length version of Shelagh's conversation with Maggie Siggins, Chester Brown, and Gregory Scofield.
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February 13, 2012 - Michele Landsberg
Michele Landsberg on "Writing the Revolution". Martha Schabas on "Various Positions". Sonia Rodriguez on "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond and "Open: An Autobiography" by Andre Agassi. Douglas Coupland on "Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People". Jonathan Ball on "Clockfire".
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February 6, 2012 - Douglas Gibson
Douglas Gibson on "Stories About Storytellers". And from the TNC vault, Shelagh's conversations with Alice Munro and Shane Koyczan.
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TNC Special - Patrick Lane
Shelagh's full length conversation with Patrick Lane, on his latest anthology "The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane".
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January 30, 2012 - Patrick Lane
Patrick Lane on "The Collected Poems Of Patrick Lane". Sophie Milman on "Lady Oracle" by Margaret Atwood. Literary Smackdown with Helen Humphreys and Zsuzsi Gartner: Writing the Past vs. Writing the Future. Daniel Kalla on his day job as a computer programmer. Lorne Elliott on "Two Little Savages" by Ernest Thompson Seton.
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January 23, 2012 - Somebody's Child
Judith Hope and Christina Brobby on "Somebody's Child: Stories About Adoption". Tim Baker from Hey Rosetta! on "Salvage King, Ya!" by Mark Anthony Jarman. Jen Sookfong Lee on the sucess of "Secret Daughter" by Shilpi Somaya Gouda. Graeme Gibson on his day job organizing bird tours in Cuba. Robyn Levy on "Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Breakdown".
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January 16, 2012 - Ami McKay
Ami McKay on "The Virgin Cure". Kathleen Edwards on "Fauna" by Alissa York. Motion reviews "Half-Blood Blues" by Esi Edugyan. Brian Francis on his day job as a travelling salesman. Heather Jessup on "The Lightning Field".
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January 9, 2012 - Sylvia Olsen
Sylvia Olsen on "Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater". Chilly Gonzales on "Memo from David O. Selznick: The Creation of "Gone with the Wind" and Other Motion Picture Classics, as Revealed in the Producer's Private Letters, Telegrams, Memorandums, and Autobiographical Remarks edited by Rudy Behlmer". Christopher Heard on "The Suite Life: The Magic and Mystery of Hotel Living". Adrienne Clarkson on "Room for All of Us". Marina Nemat on "Prisoner of Tehran".
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TNC Special - John Vaillant
Shelagh's full length conversation with John Vaillant, author of "The Tiger".
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January 2, 2012 - John Vaillant
John Vaillant on "The Tiger". Louise Penny, author of "A Trick of the Light", answers the Proust Questionnaire. Holger Petersen on "Talking Music". Pamela Yaye says if you liked "Bossypants" by Tina Fey, you'll love "Call Me Russell" by Russell Peters.
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December 26, 2011 - Dave Bidini
Dave Bidini on "On A Cold Road". Robin Sharma, author of "The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" answers The Next Chapter's Proust Questionnaire. Literary Smackdown with Robert J. Wiersema and Timothy Taylor: To Review or Not To Review? Sarah Selecky on her day job at the LCBO. Julie Maloney on "Oli-isms".
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TNC Special - Ken Dryden
Shelagh's full-length conversation with Ken Dryden, author of "The Game".
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December 19, 2011 - Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens on "The O'Briens". Jeff Innes from Yukon Blonde on "A Dance with Dragons" by George R.R. Martin. Ken Dryden on "The Game". PLUS: our Mystery Book Panel recommends books that are sure to cut the holiday treacle.
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December 12, 2011 - Patrick deWitt
Patrick deWitt on "The Sisters Brothers". Charles Foran on "Mordecai: The Life and Times". Carmen Aguirre on "Something Fierce". PLUS: Michele Landsberg and Ken Setterington from our Children's Book Panel recommend great holiday reads for the youngsters.
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December 5, 2011 - Whatcha Got Cookin?
Frédéric Morin and David McMillan on "The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts". Buck 65 (a.k.a. Rich Terfry) on "Elmer Gantry" by Sinclair Lewis. Adam Gopnik on "The Table Comes First". PLUS: Bal Arneson and Bonnie Stern from our Cookbook Panel recommend their favourite cookbooks of the past year.
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November 28, 2011 - Northwords
This past summer, Shelagh Rogers plucked five well-known Canadian writers from their urban and suburban homes and brought them to Torngat Mountains National Park in Northern Labrador. Their mission: to soak in the place and then channel it into a piece of writing. In this special episode of The Next Chapter, join Joseph Boyden, Alissa York, Rabindranath Maharaj, Noah Richler, and Sarah Leavitt as they journey to the most northernly tip of Labrador and write the land.
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November 21, 2011 - Will Ferguson
Will Ferguson on "Canadian Pie". Rita Chiarelli on "Me, the Mob, and the Music" by Tommy James and Martin Fitzpatrick. Literary Smackdown with Donna Morrissey and Wayne Johnston: To Write By Day or By Night? Daniel Kalla on "The Far Side of the Sky". Vish Khanna says if you liked "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini, you'll love "Niko" by Dimitri Nasrallah.
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November 14, 2011 - If You Liked "The Help", You'll Love...
Jo Saul says if you liked "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett, you'll love "The Mistress of Nothing" by Kate Pullinger. PK Rangachari on using mystery novels to teach medical students about toxicology. Antanas Sileika on "Underground". Guy Gavriel Kay on his day job working on the CBC Radio show "The Scales of Justice". David Chilton, author of "The Wealthy Barber Returns" answers the Proust Questionnaire.
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TNC Special - Antanas Sileika
Shelagh Rogers' full-length conversation with Antanas Sileika, author of "Underground".
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TNC Special - JJ Lee
Shelagh's full length conversation with JJ Lee, author of "The Measure of a Man". Recorded at Modernize Tailors in Vancouver's Chinatown.
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November 7, 2011 - JJ Lee
JJ Lee on "The Measure of a Man". Rusti Matyas and Marti Sarbit from Imaginary Cities on "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins. Marina Endicott on "The Little Shadows". David Homel on "Midway". Catherine Gildiner reviews "I Feel Great about My Hands: And Other Unexpected Joys of Aging" edited by Shari Graydon.
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October 31, 2011 - Lynn Coady
Lynn Coady on "The Antagonist". Ron McLean answers the Proust Questionnaire. Literary Smackdown with Andrew Pyper and Sheila Heti: To Plot or Not To Plot?. Randy Boyagoda on a day job that kept him afloat as he wrote a pivotal short story. Charlotte Gill on "Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe".
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October 24, 2011 - Brian Francis
Brian Francis on "Natural Order". Laila Biali on reading Dr. Seuss. Suzanne Desrochers author of "Bride of New France" and Roberta Rich author of "The Midwife of Venice" on writing historical fiction. From the TNC vault, Katherine Ashenburg on "The Dirt On Clean: An Unsanitized History".
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TNC Special - Kevin from Canada
Shelagh's full-length conversation with Kevin Peterson, a.k.a. Kevin from Canada.
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October 17, 2011 - Ron Hynes
Ron Hynes on his record "Stealing Genius" and the Canadian authors that inspired his songs. Kevin Peterson on his blog Kevin from Canada. Annabel Lyon on "Encore Edie". Anne Collins on the e-book "Hope Is Better Than Fear".
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October 10, 2011 - Arlene Dickinson and Kevin O'Leary
Arlene Dickinson on "Persuasion", Kevin O'Leary on "Cold Hard Truth": Two dragons on their books and different strategies for financial success. Jen Sookfong Lee on her day job as a publicist. Randy Boyagoda reviews "The Meagre Tarmac" by Clarke Blaise. Musician and super producer Daniel Lanois on reading Yates. Abby Naqvi on her mission to read all 75 of the Governor General's Literary Awards fiction prizewinners. Lorna Crozier answers the Proust Questionnaire.
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