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Shelagh Rogers is back on CBC Radio, with an hour-long show about Canadian books, authors and readers of all kinds. The Next Chapter airs Saturdays at 3 p.m. (3:30 NT).
In the feature interview in the show’s debut episode, Rogers talks to the writer the Globe and Mail has called “a Newfoundland Thomas Hardy."
Donna Morrissey now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but her roots — and most of her stories — are planted firmly in Newfoundland. Rogers and Morrissey take a road trip on the west coast of the island to the small fishing outport where the award-winning novelist grew up. Along the way, Morrissey talks about her rough-and-tumble childhood and where fact and fiction meet in her new novel, What They Wanted (Penguin).
Tune in to the podcast of the show, and hear lots more, including Vancouver author Jen Sookfong Lee on the Canadian classic that inspired her to become a writer, and the first sally in the host’s campaign to convert producer Tom Howell into a poetry reader.
First aired September 27, 2008 on The Next Chapter. [runs 48:12]
Coming up
A new episode of The Next Chapter airs tomorrow, October 4, at 3 p.m. EST (3:30 NT) on CBC Radio One. Shelagh Rogers will talk with Winnipeg author Miriam Toews about The Flying Troutmans, her follow-up to her bestselling novel (and Canada Reads 2006 winner) A Complicated Kindness.
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I am a writer and its just so great to see a show just about writing and words. It gets to the heart of what we, as artists, are really doing, We're not all partying on Queen Street West and endulging in drugs and liquor and running in rat packs. (although sometimes the romantic side come out and I break down and by a bottle of vino. But the thing is most of us actually get up every day and just WRITE! That;s what we do. Thats what we need to do to stay a alive, like some need to chop wood, we need chop out endless run on sentences! But keep on writing I say! Write write and write some more, and then turn it into a film or a play, and just keep touching people. It really is an inspired part of who I am, and if I couldn't write, I truly believe I would go insane. To actually get published or produced well, that's nice, but this is what its about - just getting the words out there. Ok Im repeating myself now, and I can't find a brilliant way out, so I'm off to chop wood!
Posted by: Topher Roy | April 25, 2009 05:01 PM
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