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Author/Journalist Andrew Cohen on Lester B. Pearson Updated: 2011-11-06 23:14:00 Description: Lester "Mike" Pearson was an extraordinary politician. He was also an extraordinary athlete, diplomat, leader, teacher, writer and student. And yet, despite all of this, and, the fact that during his lifetime he was the world's best known Canadian, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dan Boice on the Mitchell Kennerley Imprint Updated: 2011-11-02 10:46:00 Description: A complicated, fascinating, largely unknown man who did a great deal for American literary publishing, Mitchell Kennerley was born in 1878 in Burslem, England. He arrived in the United States in 1896 to help set up publisher John Lane's U.S. offices...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Emilie Buchwald, co-founder of Milkweed Editions on its History and Collecting Updated: 2011-10-30 14:40:49 Description: Founded in Minnesota in 1980 by Emilie Buchwald and R.W. Scholes, Milkweed Editions is one of the nation's leading independent, nonprofit literary publishers, releasing between fifteen and twenty new books each year in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Randy Bachman on collecting guitars, vinyl, and books Updated: 2011-10-20 19:53:00 Description: Hard not to like Randy Bachman. He's smart, friendly, interested, passionate...and a collector. Why a collector? Because in 1976 his favourite guitar was stolen from a Toronto hotel room, and he wanted to get it back. What? A late-1950s orange Gret...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Allan Kornblum on the Coffee House Press Updated: 2011-10-11 12:50:00 Description: Coffee House started out as the Toothpaste Press in Iowa in the early 1970s. Founded by Allan Kornblum after taking a University of Iowa typography course with the famed printer Harry Duncan, this small publishing house dedicated itself to producing...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stan Bevington, Founder of the Coach House Press on which of his books to Collect Updated: 2011-09-28 01:31:00 Description: In 1965, Stan Bevington, moved to Toronto from Edmonton, rented an old coach house, installed an antique Challenge Gordon platen press and set up Coach House Press. Over the years his small publishing house introduced the world to the early works of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD George Walker on his Presses, and creating and collecting Wood Engravings Updated: 2011-09-18 20:34:00 Description: George Walker is a wood engraver, book artist, author, illustrator and educator who has taught courses at the Ontario College of Art & Design since 1985. For over twenty years he has exhibited his wood engravings and limited edition books intern...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Joanna Skibsrud on The Sentimentalists as object, and the controversy surrounding its publication Updated: 2011-09-12 12:22:00 Description: Johanna Skibsrud's debut novel The Sentimentalists won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2009 Alcuin Award for best designed work of prose fiction, the first book ever to achieve this double win. Skibsrud has also published two books of poetr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Etgar Keret on his film Jellyfish Updated: 2011-09-08 02:30:00 Description: Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television. His first work, a collection of short stories, was largely ignored when it was published in 1992. His second book, Missing...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cheryl Torsney on: Why Collect? Updated: 2011-07-29 15:33:00 Description: Whilst in Texas recently I did what all crazed literary tourists do, I checked around for listings of interesting conferences that were taking place at the time, in the area. The Popular Culture Association was holding one in San Antonio, and this i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Keeline on collecting Tom Swift books Updated: 2011-07-27 03:34:00 Description: Interested from an early age in space technology, James Keeline liked to take apart radios as a young boy. He was also interested in computers. While in school he worked for a used bookstore. He ended up managing the place and running its web ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kathy Doyle Thomas On the Success of Half Price Books Updated: 2011-07-18 21:08:00 Description: Whilst in the Lone Star state recently, I had the opportunity to meet and talk with Kathy Doyle Thomas, Executive Vice President at Half Price Books in Dallas. The company has been in business now for almost 40 years and has enjoyed considerable suc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cathy Henderson and Richard Oram on the history and collecting of books published by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Updated: 2011-07-11 21:55:00 Description: The Harry Ransom Center holds the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. archive, which includes books published under the Borzoi imprint and books from Alfred A. and Blanche Knopf’s personal library. The Ransom Center’s Associate Director for Exhi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Top Ten Literary Destinations in Texas Updated: 2011-06-26 02:58:47 Description: Charles Lohrmann is the editor of Texas Highways, the official travel magazine of Texas. It "encourages recreational travel within Texas and tells the Texas story to readers around the world. Renowned for its photography, statewide events cove...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Book Scholar George Parker on The Ryerson Press Updated: 2011-06-20 23:18:00 Description: This from the Loyalist Research Network website: GEORGE L. PARKER was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and schooled in Lunenburg and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He attended Mount Allison University and Pennsylvania State University, and rec...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gaspereau Press co-founder Andrew Steeves Updated: 2011-06-10 15:15:00 Description: Gaspereau Press was established in February 1997 as a registered partnership by Andrew Steeves and Gary Dunfield. That year, the Press published the first issue of its literary quarterly, The Gaspereau Review, and three trade titles. In 2000, Gaspere...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD If you think hockey is violent now, listen to this: Charlie Foran on Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Updated: 2011-06-09 10:40:00 Description: From his website: "Charlie Foran was born and raised in Toronto. He holds degrees from the University of Toronto and the University College, Dublin, and has taught in China, Hong Kong, and Canada. He has published ten books, including four novels [a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Alex Ross on Modern, Classical and Popular Music Updated: 2011-05-28 01:48:49 Description: According to Wikipedia: Alex Ross was born in 1968 and has been the music critic at The New Yorker magazine since 1996. He graduated from Harvard University in English summa cum laude for a thesis on James Joyce, and was a DJ at college radio ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Gnarowski on the Contact Press Updated: 2011-05-19 03:13:00 Description: Professor, poet, editor and critic, Michael Gnarowski was born in Shanghai, China in 1934. He received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Ottawa in 1967. While an undergraduate at McGill, he contributed to, and co-edited, Yes (195...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Vincent Lam on Tommy Douglas Updated: 2011-05-09 04:04:00 Description: Vincent Lam is a Canadian born member of the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam. He is an emergency physician in Toronto, and lectures at the University of Toronto. He has also worked in international air evacuation and expedition medicine in t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Margaret Lock on Lock's Press Updated: 2011-04-26 11:56:00 Description: Locks' Press, according to the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild's Ottawa Chapter website, "was founded in 1979. Since then it has printed eleven books, fifteen pamphlets, and twenty-four broadsides. The editions are small, 30 to 80 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rare Book School Director Michael Suarez: On the importance of Open Shop Antiquarian bookstores Updated: 2011-03-30 14:53:00 Description: Michael Suarez is Director of Rare Book School, Professor of English, University Professor, and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia. A Jesuit priest, he holds four masters degrees (two each in English and theology) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD French Writer Broadcaster Olivier Barrot on Gallimard Updated: 2011-03-22 11:33:00 Description: collecting its books. Please listen here:...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Antiquarian Book Dealer Tom Boss on Copeland & Day, Stone & Kimball, and more... Updated: 2011-03-15 01:45:00 Description: Tom Boss is the owner of Thomas G. Boss Fine Books in Salem, Mass. He has been in business in the Greater Boston area since 1974, specializing in Art Deco, Arts & Crafts, and Art Nouveau books, livres d'artiste, fine bind...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Interview with ECW Publisher Jack David Updated: 2011-03-06 13:43:00 Description: ECW Press is a North American small press book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario. It was founded by Jack David and Robert Lecker in 1974 as a Canadian literary magazine called Essays on Canadian Writing. Its first books belonged primarily to tw...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Joseph Boyden on Gabriel Dumont and Louis Riel Updated: 2011-02-11 15:45:00 Description: Joseph Boyden (born 31 Oct 1966) is, Wikipedia tells us, a Canadian novelist and short story writer. "He grew up in Willowdale, North York, Ontario and attended the Jesuit-run Brebeuf College School." His father Raymond Wilfrid Boyden, was a medical...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Ralston Saul on Penguin's Extraordinary Canadians, Lafontaine and Baldwin Updated: 2011-02-09 21:38:37 Description: John Ralston Saul was elected President of International PEN in October 2009. His award-winning essaysand novels have had an impact on political and economic thought in many countries. Declared a “prophet” by TIME magazine, he is inc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Adrian Harrington, past president of ILAB talks about challenges facing the antiquarian book trade Updated: 2011-02-01 15:29:00 Description: Adrian Harrington (born 1948, Chelsea, England) is a noted antiquarian bookseller who specialises in first editions written by Winston Churchill, Arthur Conan Doyle, Graham Greene, J.K.Rowling and, particularly, Ian Fleming. He is a Past Presiden...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Charkin, Executive Director of Bloomsbury talks about the challenges of book publishing, and great book publishers Updated: 2011-01-24 15:50:00 Description: Richard Charkin began his career in 1972 as Science Editor of Harrap & Co. He has since held many senior positions in the publishing world with companies such as Pergamon Press, Oxford University Press, Reed International/Reed Elsevier, a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Interview with John Randle on The Whittington Press Updated: 2011-01-20 01:59:00 Description: Born in the mind of John Randle at the age of 14 when he first entered his school's press room, the Whittington Press started life in a disused gardener’s cottage in 1971. Its first book, Richard Kennedy’s A Boy at the Hogarth Pre...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Legendary Gordon Graham talks about his career and what makes a great publisher Updated: 2011-01-06 16:12:00 Description: W. Gordon Graham was born ninety some years ago in Scotland. He attended university in Glasgow and after graduation enlisted in the army; he was awarded the Military Cross and Bar for active service in Burma. He started his postwar caree...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Roderick Cave on The Golden Cockerel Press Updated: 2010-12-13 15:52:12 Description: Roderick Cave with George lll at the British Library The Golden Cockerel Press is one of most important, productive English private presses in the history of fine printing. In 2002 Oak Knoll Press and the British Library co-published the first e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Greene on his GG Award winning book of poetry Boxing the Compass Updated: 2010-12-09 17:45:00 Description: Richard Greene's Boxing the Compass recently won the Governor General's Award for English Poetry. Here's how the jury saw it: "Richard Greene’s Boxing the Compass leaves us feeling unmoored, adrift across time and voice. The matchless ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dianne Warren on her 2010 Governor General's Literary Award winning novel Cool Water Updated: 2010-11-26 13:19:00 Description: "Dianne Warren is best known for her short stories and plays. One of her three published plays, Serpent in the Night Sky, was a GG finalist in 1992, and she has written several radio dramas for CBC. She has published three short story collection...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Prof. Iain Stevenson on the history of 20th Century British Publishing Houses Updated: 2010-11-20 15:19:00 Description: Iain Stevenson has worked with Longman, Macmillan, Pinter, Leicester University Press, Wiley, and The Stationery Office. In 1986 he founded the environmental publisher Belhaven Press. He created the award winning MA in Publishing Studies ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Alexander MacLeod on his Giller Short-listed book of short stories: Light Lifting Updated: 2010-11-04 22:26:00 Description: Alexander MacLeod was born in Inverness, Cape Breton Alexander MacLeod was born in Inverness, Cape Breton and raised in Windsor, Ontario. His award-winning stories have appeared in a variety of leading journals, some have been selected for The Jo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Toby Faber on the History, and Collecting, of Faber and Faber Updated: 2010-10-31 01:30:00 Description: Previously managing director of Faber and Faber, Toby Faber is now a non-executive director of the firm and Chairman of its sister company Faber Music. An author in his own right, Faber has written two books Fabergé's Eggs and Stradi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Canadian book designer and illustrator Frank Newfeld on: Which of his books to Collect Updated: 2010-10-21 16:14:00 Description: from Brian Busby’s The Dusty Bookshelf Frank Newfeld is a Canadian book designer, illustrator, art director and educator. He has designed over 650 books and won more than 170 Canadian and international awards, is a former Vice-Pres...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Audio Interview with Robert Baldock: On the Yale University Press, London Updated: 2010-10-15 16:48:00 Description: Robert Baldock started working at Yale University Press in London as a history editor in 1985. After serving as editorial director of the publisher’s humanities division, and deputy m.d., he was promoted to Managing Director in 2...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Book Historian Michael Winship: On Collecting Ticknor and Fields; Houghton, Mifflin Updated: 2010-10-07 17:21:51 Description: "The best book published by Ticknor and Fields Life of William Hickling Prescott, by George Ticknor (1864) Michael Winship is a bibliographer and historian of the book – with special expertise in pre-1940 American publishing and book trade hi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Librarian Carl Spadoni: On the history, and collecting, of McClelland and Stewart Updated: 2010-10-03 12:36:00 Description: Jack McClelland, [1967] Carl Spadoni is the Director of the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, McMaster University Library. In 1999, he was awarded the Marie Tremaine Medal by the Bibliographical Society of Canad...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Prof. Ruth Panofsky: On the history, and collecting of, MacMillan Company of Canada Updated: 2010-10-03 11:41:00 Description: Photograph of ‘St Martin’s House’, 70 Bond Street, Toronto, home of Macmillan of Canada Ruth Panofsky is Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto where she specializes in Canadian Literature and Culture, focusing o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD McGill University Rare Book Librarian Richard Virr on Book Collecting Updated: 2010-10-03 09:34:00 Description: Richard Virr is the Head and Curator of Manuscripts at the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the McGill University Library. We met recently in Montreal to talk about book collecting, characteristic traits of the book collector, and diff...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Prof. Mac Johnson on Collecting Rare Prints Updated: 2010-09-07 11:58:00 Description: W.McAllister (Mac) Johnson is a retired professor of art history at the University of Toronto. Some years ago he donated his collection of close to 1000 scholarly, art historical titles to the Carleton University Library in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Giller Prize Founder Jack Rabinovitch: On How to Pick the 'Best' Novels, and the merits of M.G. Vassanji Updated: 2010-09-07 04:47:00 Description: Jack Rabinovitch is a philanthropist best known for founding the annual Scotia Bank Giller Prize (named after his late wife, Doris Giller, a former literary columnist and editor at the Toronto Star)for best Canadian novel. Rabinovitch, a reporter a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Curator Leslie Morris on New Directions publishing house Updated: 2010-07-26 17:05:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD David R. Godine on the History, and collecting, of his publishing House Updated: 2010-07-26 12:06:00 Description: Publisher and book collector David R. Godine is the founder and president of a small, independent, eponymous publishing house, located in Boston, Massachusetts. It produces between twenty and thirty titles per year and maintains an active reprin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tim Inkster, Publisher, Co-Founder of the Porcupine's Quill, on it's history, and collecting its books Updated: 2010-07-21 10:45:00 Description: Porcupine’s Quill; and why it wont do business with Heather Reisman Elke and Tim Inkster have made an important and enduring contribution to Canadian literature. In 1974 they founded The Porcupine’s Quill (PQL), a publishing house base...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mark Samuels Lasner on Collecting The Bodley Head Updated: 2010-07-12 15:34:00 Description: Collector, bibliographer, and typographer Mark Samuels Lasner is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware Library and a recognized authority on the literature and art of the late Victorian period. A graduate of Connecticut College, he is...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Professor David Staines on Northrop Frye and Evaluative Criticism Updated: 2010-06-28 15:54:00 Description: David Staines is a Canadian literary critic, university professor (English at the University of Ottawa), writer, and editor. He specializes in three literatures: medieval, Victorian and Canadian. He is editor of the scholarly Journal of Canadi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bob Fleck on Oak Knoll Books Updated: 2010-06-21 15:30:00 Description: Oak Knoll Books – specialists in books on books – was founded in 1976 by Bob Fleck, a chemical engineer by training, who let his hobby get the best of him. Oak Knoll Press, the publishing arm of the business was established two ye...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Holloway on Organized Religion Updated: 2010-06-21 15:27:00 Description: Photo: Nigel Beale. Richard Holloway is a Scottish writer/broadcaster and former Bishop of Edinburgh in the Scottish Episcopal Church who was educated at Kelham Theological College and the Union Theological Seminary, New York City. Between 1959...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Adam Thorpe on the Real Robin Hood Updated: 2010-06-21 15:22:00 Description: Poet, playwright and novelist Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956 and grew up in India, Cameroon and England. After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1979, he started a theatre company and toured villages and schools before movin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Poet/Critic Carmine Starnino: On Canadian Poems and Poets Good and Bad Updated: 2010-06-21 12:56:00 Description: Photo: Gaspereau Press. "Good reviewing," writes Carmine Starnino in the not-to-be-missed introduction to his A Lover’s Quarrel Essays and Reviews, "- reviewing that believes in literary failure – is invaluable because by calling one po...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Allen and Pat Ahearn on Books to Collect Updated: 2010-06-21 12:39:00 Description: "The Quill & Brush was established in 1976 as an outgrowth of a part-time business run by Allen and Patricia Ahearn who started collecting and cataloging books in the early 1960s. The Ahearns have over 45 years of experience in the field. At pr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Canadian author Jane Urquhart performing a reading of a poem called The Literary Club Updated: 2010-04-07 19:41:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nicholson Baker: On the Future of the Book Updated: 2010-03-28 15:55:00 Description: Photo: Nigel Beale. Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. As a novelist he often focuses on describing the minute physical detail of our surroundings, straws and escalators for example, writing on p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author/Comedian A.L. Kennedy on: How to be Funny Updated: 2010-02-19 02:12:00 Description: Writer, comedian A. L. Kennedy lives and works in Glasgow and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2003 she was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her novel Day (2007), won the Costa Book of th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Librarian Marie Korey on: The History of the Book Updated: 2010-02-18 15:52:00 Description: A small college cannot hope to have a large library, but if it sets to work along the right lines it may aspire to the possession of a fine one… A book may be a thing of beauty, and an example of a great craft which we must not allow to die. T...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Canadian Journalist Robert Fulford: On Book Reviewing Updated: 2010-02-07 19:17:00 Description: Photo: Nigel Beale. " Robert Fulford is a Toronto author, journalist, broadcaster, and editor. He writes a weekly column for The National Post and is a frequent contributor to Toronto Life, Canadian Art, and CBC radio and television. His books incl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Professor Kevin Gilmartin: On Critic William Hazlitt Updated: 2010-01-15 13:23:00 Description: Kevin Gilmartin is a professor of English at California Institute of Technology, and visiting professor at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York University in England. He is the author of Print Politics: The Press and Radical Oppos...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Coxford on Fine Press Books: History and Collecting Updated: 2010-01-12 22:15:00 Description: Richard Coxford is the proprietor of Bytown Bookshop in Ottawa, Canada. He has been collecting fine/press books for many years. We talk here about their history, and the joys and challenges of hunting them down. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Librarian Richard Landon: On Collecting Rare Books Updated: 2010-01-11 20:59:00 Description: Richard Landon is Director of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and Professor of English. He has taught courses on aspects of the history of the book and bibliography for many years in the University of Toronto’s Graduate Department of Engli...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Copyright Expert Bill Patry: On Orphans and Pirates Updated: 2009-12-15 01:46:00 Description: In 1841 Thomas Babington Macaulay observed that “it is good that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil;...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Jane Urquhart: On Lucy Maud Montgomery Updated: 2009-12-10 14:59:00 Description: Published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables is the first in a series of bestselling novels by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Although often dark and complex, and at times racy, the ‘Anne’ novels are today considered by most to be chil...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cory Doctorow: On the Future of the Book Updated: 2009-12-07 03:45:00 Description: Copyright activist, speaker, teacher (how about ’speacher’…or ’spreacher’), columnist, science fiction novelist, short story writer, co-editor of Boing Boing, and the very manifestation of articulate dynam...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kate Pullinger on: The Mistress of Nothing Updated: 2009-11-26 16:26:00 Description: (last night at Art Matters) Kate Pullinger is a novelist who also writes for film and various digital platforms. Born in Cranbrook British Columbia she went to high school on Vancouver Island, dropped out of McGill University, worked for a year...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Yann Martel on: What Stephen Harper is Reading Updated: 2009-11-26 15:47:00 Description: Block head? Listen here as famed author of Life of Pi and self proclaimed political gadfly Yann Martel 1) Absorbs a barrage of punishing jabs I throw at him over his latest book What is Stephen Harper Reading? and 2) Punches back at a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Larry Thompson: On the Process of Letterpress Printing Updated: 2009-11-21 00:57:00 Description: established Greyweathers Press several years ago because of a "love of beautifully designed type skillfully arranged on a well-proportioned page." His original plan was to print letterpress books only...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bookseller Don Lindgren on Collecting Cooking Books Updated: 2009-11-13 20:19:00 Description: Researching ‘literary’ Portland (Maine) before trekking down there, I came across mention of Rabelais Book shop. What an interesting concept it’s built upon: the vertical integration of new titles on food, wine, garden...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tor Books Publisher Tom Doherty Updated: 2009-11-11 18:02:00 Description: After working his way up through the publishing trade during the 1950s and 1960s, Tom Doherty became publisher of Tempo Books in 1972 and later Ace Books. In 1980 he established his own publishing firm Tom Doherty Associates Inc., with the help of s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD S.F. Editors David Hartwell and kathryn Cramer Updated: 2009-11-09 23:12:00 Description: David Hartwell has worked as a Science Fiction and Fantasy editor for Signet, Berkley Putnam, Pocket (where he founded the Timescape imprint and created the Pocket Books Star Trek publishing line), and Tor (where he headed Tor’s Canadian publi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rocky Stinehour, Founder, The Stinehour Press Updated: 2009-11-06 19:15:00 Description: Posted in AUDIO Publisher Interviews on October 27th, 2009 Roderick ‘Rocky’ Stinehour is a very pleasant, accomplished gentleman from Vermont. He’s also recognized internationally as a printer of high repute and a designer of be...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Book Artist Claire Van Vliet Updated: 2009-11-02 12:38:00 Description: Claire Van Vliet is the owner of the Janus Press founded in 1955 located, since 1966, in Newark, Vermont. Janus Press has to date produced approximately 100 publications — books, pamphlets, and broadsides- , many of them designed, illustrated,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Poet Galway Kinnell Updated: 2009-10-15 03:22:00 Description: NB Authors Galway Kinnell was born February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island. He has been hailed as one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. Educated at Princeton and Rochester Universities, he served in t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Curator Jerry Fielder: On Karsh Updated: 2009-10-07 17:55:00 Description: Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) was born in Armenia in 1908. His photographer uncle, George Nakash, brought him to Canada in 1924. After apprenticing in Boston with John H. Garo, Karsh settled in Ottawa in 1932, where he began his professional career. By ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cartoon Historian Brad MacKay Updated: 2009-10-05 20:17:00 Description: Writer, journalist, comic reader, intermittent blogger, and over-tired family man Brad Mackay is the author most recently of a biographical essay which appears in The Collected Doug Wright Volume One (Drawn and Quarterly, 2009). First of a two-...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author David Mitchell Updated: 2009-10-03 22:17:00 Description: This from the incomparable British Council’s contemporary writers website: Born in Southport in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire, studying for a degree in Eng...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Booksellers Joshua and Phyllis Heller Updated: 2009-09-29 22:56:00 Description: What’s the difference between a First Edition, a Fine Press Edition and an Artists’ Book? Joshua and Phyllis Heller work with me to help define the boundaries. The two of them established...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Morgan Librarian John Bidwell Updated: 2009-09-23 00:13:00 Description: John Bidwell is Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings at thePierpont Morgan Library, before which he was Curator of Graphic Arts in the Princeton University Library. He has writt...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Professor Joseph Khoury: on Succession in King Lear and Hamlet Updated: 2009-09-16 01:00:00 Description: Charles H. Cameron as King Lear (1872) / print by A.L. Coburn, ca. 1915, Photo by Julia Margaret Cameron Shakespeare wrote Hamlet before James l came to the throne. Events in the play reflect many of the real world concerns that Englishmen had ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Denise Mina on: The Crime Mystery Updated: 2009-09-03 17:01:00 Description: Crime novelist Denise Mina is the author of a trilogy of novels set in Glasgow: Garnethill (1998), which won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger; Exile (2000); and Resolution (2001). Sanctum (2002), ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Terry Griggs on: Farce Noir Updated: 2009-08-22 17:53:00 Description: Terry Griggs is the author of a collection of short stories, Quickening, which was nominated for a Governor General’s Award, and two novels, The Lusty Man, and Rogues’ Wedding, shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Awa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Karl Seigler Publisher, Talonbooks, on Literary Book Publishing Updated: 2009-08-22 14:56:00 Description: Karl Siegler is a founding member of the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia and the Literary Press Group of Canada; he has served as president of the Association of Canadian Publishers twice, and was one of the founding members of t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Ha Jin on: The Writer as Migrant Updated: 2009-08-17 18:28:00 Description: Ha Jin was born in China in 1956. After Tiananmen Square, he emigrated to the United States. Unlike most exiled writers Ha Jin was not established in his native language; he had no audience in Chinese, and so chose to write in English. He ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Donald Antrim on Creative Writing Workshops Updated: 2009-08-13 13:50:00 Description: This past Spring at the Blue Met Writers Festival, Donald Antrim conducted a workshop entitled: Fiction and Memoir: "Writing Ourselves" It was designed to explore the ‘challenging and often frustrating process of reading into one’s own w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Professor Rohan Maitzen on George Eliot’s Middlemarch Updated: 2009-07-29 13:49:00 Description: Originally from Vancouver, Professor Rohan Maitzen has an Honours B.A. in English and History from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. Since 1995, she has been a member of Dalhousie Univ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Poet, Book Designer Robert Bringhurst Updated: 2009-07-28 17:11:00 Description: JMV Born in Los Angeles in 1946, Robert Bringhurst is an award winning Canadian poet, typographer and author. Perhaps best known for The Elements of Typographic Style – a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric ar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author A.B. Yehoshua Updated: 2009-07-21 22:59:00 Description: A.B. Yehoshua was born in 1936 to a fifth-generation Jerusalem family of Sephardi origin. His first book of stories, "Mot Hazaken" (The Death of the Old Man) was published in 1962. He was an important member of the "new wave" generation of Israeli w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author M.G. Vassanji: On Mordecai Richler Updated: 2009-07-19 05:14:00 Description: M G Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. Before coming to Canada in 1978, he attended MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in theoretical nuclear physics. From 1978-1980 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Atomi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Zoe Heller on: The Believers Updated: 2009-07-19 05:09:00 Description: This from Contemporary Writers: " Zoe Heller was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford University and Columbia University, New York. She is a journalist who, after writing book reviews for various newspapers, became a feature writer f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Nino Ricci on Pierre Trudeau Updated: 2009-07-15 20:47:00 Description: Nino Ricci’s first novel, the best-selling Lives of the Saints, won international acclaim and a host of awards, including, in Canada, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and in Englan...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Historian Margaret MacMillan on How to Write History Updated: 2009-07-10 14:51:00 Description: Margaret MacMillan was educated at the University of Toronto and at Oxford, where she obtained a B. Phil. in politics and a D. Phil. for a thesis on the British in India between 1880 and 1920. Her books include Women of the Raj, Paris 1919: Six Mont...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Meir Shalev Updated: 2009-06-24 20:07:00 Description: Meir Shalev, (pictured above with his sister) one of Israel’s most celebrated novelists,was born in 1948 in Nahalal, Israel’s first moshav. He is a bestselling author in Israel, Holland, and Germany; and he has been translated into more...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bookseller Henrietta Dax, Clarke's Bookshop, Cape Town Updated: 2009-06-17 14:49:00 Description: Clarke’s Bookshop, the most famous in Cape Town, specializes in selling southern African books to universities and libraries that teach and have an interest in same. Established in 1956 by Anthony Clarke, the Long Street shop today remains mu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Margie Orford: On Bibliotherapy Updated: 2009-06-14 03:15:00 Description: Crime novelist, film director, children’s author and award winning journalist, Margie Orford was born in London and grew up in Namibia and South Africa. She has studied under J M. Coetzee, and worked in publishing with the African Publi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Open Letter's Chad Post: on Publishing in Translation Updated: 2009-06-05 04:07:00 Description: Open Letter is the University of Rochester’s literary publishing house. ‘ It is dedicated to connecting readers with great international authors and their works. Publishing twelve books a year and running an online literary website calle...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Damon Galgut on South Africa Updated: 2009-06-04 04:38:00 Description: Credit: book.co.za Damon Galgut is a writer based in Cape Town. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season (1984), when he was seventeen. Small Circle of Beings (1988), a collection of short stories, was followed by The Beautiful Scre...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Andre Brink on His Life Updated: 2009-05-23 00:07:00 Description: This from contemporary writers: One of South Africa’s most distinguished writers, André Brink was born in 1935. Poet, novelist, essayist and teacher, he began work as a University lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature in the 1960s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stephen Johnson, Managing Director of Random House Struik Updated: 2009-05-21 02:48:00 Description: Stephen Johnson is Managing Director of the recently formed South African publishing firm Random House Struik. We talk here about the merger, the independence of SABC (the state owned South African Broadcasting Corporation), Cartoonist Jonathan...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Metcalf on Negative Reviewing Updated: 2009-05-14 21:18:00 Description: I recently interviewed Canadian critic/editor/writer John Metcalf on his love of Books and Book Collecting. The same afternoon we talked also about the process of book reviewing, whether or not the use of insult and/or invective is ever justi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Franschhoek Literary Festival Director Jenny Hobbs Updated: 2009-05-12 21:19:00 Description: JENNY HOBBS is a novelist and freelance journalist who lives in Franschhoek, South Africa. She is the author of four novels, Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary, The Sweet-Smelling Jasmine, The Telling of Angus Quain, and Video Dreams, four non-fictio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Frye Festival Chair Dawn Arnold Updated: 2009-05-10 23:06:00 Description: Dawn Arnold is Chair of the Frye Festival in Moncton, New Brunswick. Jane Urquhart, Wayne Johnston, Neil Smith, Alexandre Jardin and Miriam Toews are among the many authors who will participate in this year’s ten day event. Dawn and I talk her...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pittsburgh Post Gazette Books Editor Bob Hoover Updated: 2009-05-07 20:06:00 Description: Pittsburgh Post Gazette Books Editor Bob Hoover has written about books with the paper for more than 20 years. We talk here, at a noisy diner in the shadow of the Heinz ketchup factory, about the role of a books editor, Pittsburgh’s lively ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Metcalf on Book Collecting Updated: 2009-05-01 15:55:00 Description: John Metcalf is best known as a writer/editor who has worked with many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Michael Winter, Terry Griggs, Steven Heighton, and Caroline Adderson. Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the Unive...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Priscila Uppal On Canadian Elegies, and Mourning Updated: 2009-03-23 19:28:00 Description: Poet, author, Priscila Uppal, an English professor too at York University, challenges traditional psychological and anthropological models of mourning in her new book We Are What We Mourning: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy, suggesting tha...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Chris Cleave on: Little Bee Updated: 2009-03-23 19:24:00 Description: Chris Cleave was born in London and spent his early years in Cameroon. He studied Experimental Psychology at Balliol College, Oxford, and now writes a column for the Guardian newspaper. His debut novel Incendiary won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Blogger Jessa Crispin on: Bookslut Updated: 2009-02-19 15:12:00 Description: Jessa Crispin is editor and founder of Bookslut.com " a monthly web magazine and daily blog dedicated to those who love to read. We provide a constant supply of news, reviews, commentary, insight, and more than occasional opinions." Author Jana Mart...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Keith Fiels, Executive Director, American Library Association Updated: 2009-02-19 15:06:00 Description: I was in Chicago recently and met with Keith Michael Fiels, Executive Director (since July 2002) of the American Library Association. According to The ALA Constitution the purpose of ALA is “…to promote library service and l...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Levi Stahl: On the role of a University Press Publicity Manager Updated: 2009-02-12 02:44:00 Description: A lifelong resident of Illinois, Levi Stahl works at the University of Chicago Press. For the past three years he has maintained a literary blog, I’ve Been Reading Lately. He has written for the Poetry Foundation, the Chicago Reader, the Bloom...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rain Taxi Editor Eric Lorberer Updated: 2009-02-05 23:23:00 Description: Mr. Wikipedia tells us: "Rain Taxi is a Minneapolis-based book review and literary organization. In addition to publishing its quarterly print edition, Rain Taxi maintains an online edition with distinct content, sponsors the Twin Cities Book Festiv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Used Bookstore Owner Kathy Stransky Updated: 2009-02-05 23:19:00 Description: Kathy Stransky co-owner, with her husband, of Midway Used and Rare Books on University Avenue in St. Paul Minnesota for the past 27 years, talks about the impact of the Internet, Half Price Books moving in down the street, high tech book scouts, ra...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD ABC Canada Literacy Foundation President Margaret Eaton Updated: 2009-02-05 23:17:00 Description: Today is Family Literacy Day! Literacy is defined as “the ability to understand and employ printed information in daily activities at home, at work and in the community - to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Antiquarian Book Dealer Robert Rulon-Miller Updated: 2009-02-03 16:22:00 Description: Robert Rulon-Miller is an antiquarian book dealer who lives, if not in a mansion, then at the very least in a great big house on Summit Avenue, one of the toniest in St. Paul, Minnesota. Not that toiling as a bookseller is anyway to get rich quick. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Librarian Rosemary Furtak: On Artist Books Updated: 2009-02-03 16:19:00 Description: Rosemary Furtak has been librarian at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis for 25 year. She is co-curator of ‘Text Messages’, an exhibit on artist’s books currently showing (until April 2009) at the Center. We talk here about her e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Victoria Glendinning: On Biography Updated: 2009-01-19 20:05:00 Description: Photo by NB Biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist Victoria Glendinning was born in Sheffield, and educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Modern Languages. She worked as a teacher and social worker before becoming an editorial ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Actress Tanja Jacobs: On playing Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days Updated: 2009-01-19 19:42:00 Description: Now Photo By Steve Payne "Tanja Jacobs is a well known actress, director, teacher and coach. She has worked in the professional theatre since 1981, and performed at most major theatres in Canada. She ha...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Poet Christian Mcpherson Updated: 2009-01-19 19:39:00 Description: Born, raised and currently resident in Ottawa, Canada, Christian McPherson’s poetry has appeared in a variety of print and online journals. He has won the John Spenser Hill Award and the Ottawa Public Library Short story Award. We met recently...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Ross Raisin Updated: 2009-01-07 21:21:00 Description: Ross Raisin is a young British author born in Keighley, Yorkshire. He has studied at the University of London, worked as a trainee wine bar manager and completed a postgraduate degree in creative writing at Goldsmith's College. His debut nove...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Nadeem Aslam Updated: 2009-01-06 20:33:00 Description: Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan in 1966, moved to the UK as a teenager and now lives in London. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Manchester, but left to become a writer. His first novel, Season of the Rainbirds (1993) won a Betty ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Anne Enright, by Nigel Beale: On what constitutes a good short story Updated: 2008-12-24 06:01:00 Description: This is part three of a series of interviews conducted with three acclaimed short storywriters: Rebecca Rosenblum, Nam Le, and Anne Enright. In each case we riff off those qualities which Flannery O’Connor thought best constituted a good short...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Joe Dunthorne Updated: 2008-12-17 16:29:00 Description: Joe Dunthorne is a graduate of the Creative Writing Masters at UEA, where he was awarded the Curtis Brown Prize. His poetry has been published in Reactions 5, Magma, Smiths Knoll and Tears in the Fence. His work has been featured on Channel 4, BBC R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bruno Racine, President, Bibliothèque Nationale de France Updated: 2008-12-16 16:44:00 Description: Bruno Racine was appointed President of the National Library of France on April 2 2007. Over the years he has held many senior postions within the French government including: Director General Cultural Affairs for the City of Paris (1988-1993), Dir...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Amitav Ghosh on: Sea of Poppies Updated: 2008-12-10 19:44:00 Description: AMITAV GHOSH is one of India’s best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances and The Hungry Tide. Born in Calcutta in 1956 Ghosh studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexan...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Junot Diaz Updated: 2008-12-05 22:45:00 Description: Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Aw...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Rivka Galchen on: Atmospheric Disturbances Updated: 2008-12-02 18:47:00 Description: Rivka Galchen was born in Toronto. She grew up in Norman, Oklahoma, where her father, Tzvi Gal-Chen, was a professor of meterology at the University of Oklahoma. Her novel Atmospheric Disturbances features a character with the same name, Tzvi Gal-Ch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Nam Le on: The Short Story Updated: 2008-11-15 00:34:00 Description: Nam Le has won this year’s £60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize. It recognizes the best young writer in the English-speaking world with the goal of ensuring that the inspirational nature of Dylan’s writing lives on. I met with Nam in Toro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Joseph Boyden Updated: 2008-11-12 04:00:00 Description: Joseph Boyden has just won The 2008 Giller Prize for his novel Through Black Spruce. We talk here about the novel, and the psychic distance Joseph requires to write novels about Northern Ontario and the Cree; the similarities betw...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD How to run a successful used Book Sale with Beryl Barr Updated: 2008-11-11 22:08:00 Description: Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library, founded in 1946, is a not-for-profit organization for people interested in books and libraries. Its purpose is to stimulate public interest in the library, purchase library materials, and support other c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Aleksandar Hemon on The Lazarus Project Updated: 2008-11-11 20:44:00 Description: Listen to my interview with Aleksandar Hemon on his National Book Award nominated novel The Lazarus Project here at The Quarterly Conversation. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD How to Make Paper for Books David Curruthers Updated: 2008-11-05 13:13:00 Description: Posted in AUDIO:Book People David Curruthers, owner proprietor of St. Armand Papers in Montreal takes us through the process of how he produces paper that is used in the letterpress printing of books. We talk here ( please see bottom ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Poet Michael Listaon: Bloom, Danger and James Joyce Updated: 2008-11-04 16:04:00 Description: Posted in AUDIO: Poets I first heard about Michael Lista in a workshop conducted by Meeka Walsh, Editor of Border Crossings magazine. She raved about him: "Michael is a remarkably gifted young poet who lives in Montreal. He has a special inte...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Rebecca Rosenblum on What Constitutes a Good Short Story (1): Updated: 2008-11-01 17:45:00 Description: This is part one of a series of interviews conducted with three acclaimed short storywriters: Rebecca Rosenblum, Nam Le, and Anne Enright. In each case we riff off those qualities which Flannery O’Connor thought best constituted a good short st...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What Makes Vampires so Appealing? with Patricia McCarthy Updated: 2008-10-10 17:29:00 Description: Patricia K. Macarthy is author of The Crimson Series, three books, to date, about vampires. We talk here about what makes Vampires so appealing to so many people, about their being symbolic of man’s desire for supremacy, women’s desire to...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Margaret Visser: on The Gift of Thanks Updated: 2008-10-01 19:14:00 Description: Margaret Visser (born May 11, 1940) is a writer/broadcaster who lives in Toronto, Barcelona, and France. Her subject matter is the history, anthropology, and mythology of everyday life. Born in South Africa, she attended school in Zambia, Zimbabwe, F...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Miriam Toews on: The Flying Troutmans Updated: 2008-09-18 15:04:00 Description: This from Random House: "Miriam Toews…was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She left Steinbach at eighteen, living in Montreal and London and touring Europe before coming back to Manitoba, where she earned a B.A....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Craig Poile co-owner of Collected Works on How to run a successful Independent Bookstore Updated: 2008-07-18 20:11:00 Description: Listen here to my conversation with Craig Poile, co-owner of Collected Works, a successful, innovative independent bookstore based in Ottawa, Canada. We talk, among others things, about a rudimentary webcam-teleconferencing system dubbed ‘Grea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Lindsey Davis on: Historical Crime Fiction Updated: 2008-06-18 01:07:00 Description: Lindsey Davis was born and raised in Birmingham, read English at Oxford, then joined the civil service, which she left in 1985.She started writing about Romans in The Course of Honour, the remarkable true love story of the Emperor Vespasian and his m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Rawi Hage on: Deniro's Game Updated: 2008-06-11 23:58:00 Description: Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of that country’s civil war. He immigrated to Canada in 1992. He is a writer, a visual artist, and a curator whose debut novel, De Niro’s Game (2006), was shortlisted for...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Donald Antrim on: The Afterlife Updated: 2008-06-05 07:41:00 Description: Donald Antrim is the author of three novels and a memoir entitled, The Afterlife, which is about the strained relationship he had with his mother, Louanne, an artist, teacher and alcoholic. In addition to receiving some of America’s most presti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Frank Wilson on How to Write a Successful Book Blog Updated: 2008-06-01 13:57:00 Description: Frank Wilson has been reviewing books professionally since October, 1964. For most of the past decade he was Books Editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, given to retaining committed bloggers (e.g. Mark Sarvas, Scott Esposito, Ed Champion) to re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Margot Livesey on Shakespeare Updated: 2008-05-30 20:48:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Interview with German Graphic Artist Anke Feuchenberger Updated: 2008-05-30 02:16:00 Description: Anke Feuchtenberger was born in 1963 in East Berlin and is one of Germany’s leading comic illustrator/ artists. Her award winning work has been published in numerous books, newspapers, magazines and anthologies, and includes paintings, drawing...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Glenn Patterson: On Belfast, Cities, Disney, Tolstoy and Public Houses Updated: 2008-05-27 20:36:00 Description: Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast in 1961 and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia under Malcolm Bradbury. He is the author of seven novels. The first, Burning Your Own (1988), set in Northern Ireland in 1969, won a Betty Trask...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Andrew O'Hagan: On Determination, Memoir, Israel, Martin Amis, Islam and Coloured Doors Updated: 2008-05-14 02:22:00 Description: Andrew O’Hagan’s most recent novel, Be Near Me, has just won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It is the story of an English priest who takes over a small Scottish parish in a post-industrial town by the sea; a story of art and politics, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Prof. Irene Gammel on Lucy Maud Montgomery & Anne of Green Gables Updated: 2008-04-22 18:52:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author William Deverell on Literary Crime Mystery Novels Updated: 2008-04-21 00:16:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Poet/Critic David Solway on: What makes a Poem Great? Updated: 2008-04-07 01:10:00 Description: In honour of Poetry Month, here is my interview with Canadian poet, critic and more recently, political writer, David Solway. We first discuss what constitutes a great poem in the context of ‘political’ and other agendas that some poets i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Sally Cooper, Crime Author Updated: 2008-02-28 22:44:00 Description: Sally Cooper’s second novel, Tell Everything,delves into the darkest regions of the human soul, and lends credence to Kipling’s line: "The female of the species is deadlier than the male." During our conversation about Tell Everything we ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kenneth Gloss, Owner, Brattle Books Updated: 2008-02-24 17:17:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author/Bookseller Larry McMurtry Updated: 2008-02-24 04:20:00 Description: Novelist, screenwriter and essayist Larry McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 novel Lonesome Dove, a sweeping historical epic that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive cattle from the Rio Grande to Montana. He grew up on a r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bookseller Ray Hinst on: Haslam's Bookstore Updated: 2008-02-24 03:42:00 Description: Haslam’s Books, now Florida’s largest new & used book store, was established in St. Petersburg in 1933 by two avid readers, John and Mary Haslam. After World War II they were joined by the second generation, Charles and Elizabeth. The...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Editor Ian Brookes on: Chambers Dictionary Updated: 2008-02-23 23:26:00 Description: Ian Brookes is Editor-in-Chief of The Chambers Dictionary which was first published in 1901 and most recently updated in 2006. We talk here about lexicographers, Samuel Johnson, Scotland, the speed of language change getting quicker, Chambers’ ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kathryn Court, President, Penguin Books Updated: 2008-02-06 02:11:00 Description: Kathryn Court joined Penguin Books in 1977 and became Editorial Director two years later. In l984 she was named Editor in Chief of Viking Penguin and in 1992 Senior Vice-President, Publisher, and Editor in Chief of Penguin Books. She was named Presid...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Antiquarian Bookseller Patrick McGahern Updated: 2008-02-06 02:07:00 Description: Patrick McGahern has been selling books in Ottawa, Canada since 1969. His store specializes in used and rare books: Canadiana, Americana, Arctic, Antarctic, Travel, Natural History & Voyages, Illustrated & Plate Books, Irish and Scottish Hist...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Children's Bookseller Margie Macmillan on: Granny Bates Books Updated: 2008-01-28 15:55:00 Description: Margie McMillan is co-owner of the award winning Granny Bates Children’s Bookstore in St. John’s Newfoundland. We talk here about longevity and research as a reason for success, the brilliance of Graham Oakley and The Church Mice, the dif...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Freeman, President of the National Book Critics Circle Updated: 2007-12-13 23:10:00 Description: John Freeman is president of The National Book Critics Circle. Founded in 1974, the NBCC is a non-profit organization consisting of nearly 700 active book reviewers who honor quality writing and communicate with one another about common concerns. We ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bernard Margolis President of the Boston Public Library Updated: 2007-05-24 17:09:00 Description: Bernard Margolis is President of the Boston Public Library (BPL). Founded in 1848, it was the first large free municipal library in the United States. Mr. Margolis has served on the Governing Council of the 63,000-member American Library Association ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Wronoski, Archives Dealer Updated: 2007-05-21 17:03:00 Description: John Wronoski is a rare book dealer who specializes in literature, and primary works in the history of ideas in English, German, French, Spanish, and Russian. His shop, Lame Duck Books, contains the most significant selection of 19th and 20th century...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Elias Khoury Updated: 2007-05-10 16:27:00 Description: Elias Khoury is author of eleven novels including Little Mountain and Gates of the City. He is currently professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University, and editor in chief of the literary supplement of Beirut’s daily ne...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Peter Behrens Interview with Nigel Beale Updated: 2007-05-03 16:41:00 Description: Peter Behrens’ short stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, Saturday Night, and The National Post and have been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and Best Canadian Essays. He was born in Montreal and lives on the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lydia Davis on: Translating Proust Updated: 2007-05-03 15:46:00 Description: Lydia Davis is a contemporary American author and translator of French. From 1974 to 1978 she was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son. She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Clock Book Collector Arthur Galwin by Nigel Beale Updated: 2007-04-23 13:23:00 Description: Arthur Galwin has collected clocks for more than 30 years. In so doing he has amassed an impressive reference library of books on the topic. Not driven to collect First Editions, Arthur’s primary motivation has been to cover the waterfront, to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Book Designer/ Author C. S. Richardson Updated: 2007-04-19 17:57:00 Description: C.S. Richardson is an accomplished book designer who has worked in publishing for over twenty years. He is a multiple recipient of the Alcuin Award (Canada’s highest honour for excellence in book design) and a frequent lecturer on publishing, d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ottawa Librarian Barbara Clubb Updated: 2007-04-18 17:38:00 Description: Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers Fou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Editor John Metcalf on: The Short Story Updated: 2007-04-07 21:16:00 Description: John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada’s foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter. Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol, he em...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Erotica writer Amanda Earl Updated: 2007-03-25 05:36:00 Description: Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Graf’s annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Churchill Bibliographer Ron Cohen Updated: 2007-03-23 18:10:00 Description: Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set (ISBN: 0826472354) published in 2006: a ‘richly annotated work’ containing thousands of entries, with detailed descriptions of each work by C...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chief Curator David Franklin on Exhibition Catalogues Updated: 2006-09-12 20:17:00 Description: DAVID FRANKLIN is Chief Curator at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and editor of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and the Renaissance in Florence, a catalogue published by Yale University Press to accompany a major exhibition of the same name...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Illustrator Barbara Reid Updated: 2006-08-14 18:10:00 Description: Barbara Reid’s Plasticine artwork makes her books instantly recognizable. They have won acclaim around the world, and many awards. We talk here about what makes her so good, about great children’s book illustrators, the accurate conveyanc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Ramona Dearing Updated: 2006-08-14 18:09:00 Description: Ramona Dearing lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and is the latest member of the longstanding (and increasingly famous) fiction collective The Burning Rock to publish a collection of short fiction. Dearing works for CBC Radio where she is curr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Lisa Moore Updated: 2006-08-14 18:08:00 Description: Lisa Moore’s fiction has been published widely in literary magazines and in anthologies. Her two collections of short stories, Degrees of Nakedness and Open have received praise for their ’supple sensuality and emotional authenticity.&rsq...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD AuthorTim Parks Updated: 2006-08-14 18:08:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Michael Crummey on: The History Novel Updated: 2006-08-14 18:07:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Crime Fiction Writer James O. Born Updated: 2006-08-14 18:05:00 Description: James O. Born is a Special Agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and author of three best selling crime novels. We talk about his most recent, Escape Clause; about blurbs, putting humour and a human face on the real life experience of ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Tim Winton Updated: 2006-08-14 18:04:00 Description: Australian Tim Winton wrote his first novel, An Open Swimmer (1982), at the age of 19. It won the Australian/Vogel National Literary Award. Born in Perth, in 1960, he is the author of Shallows (1986), a novel set in a whaling town, and Cloudstreet (1...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Author Andrew Miller Updated: 2006-08-14 18:01:00 Description: ANDREW MILLER was born in Bristol…in 1960 (induced, according to the family legend, by his mother eating a large supper of fish and chips). At age eleven, having convincingly failed his Eleven Plus, he went to boarding school in Wiltshire&hell...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Prof. Joseph Khoury on Hamlet, Act 1 & 2 Updated: 2006-07-21 03:08:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Interview with Martin Levin, Books Editor at the Globe & Mail Newspaper Updated: 2006-06-17 02:18:00 Description: Martin Levin is the very popular (particularly at Book Expo Canada) Books Editor at the (Toronto) Globe and Mail newspaper. We talk here about namesakes in Tolstoy, guilt, tragedy, sorrow at not being able to review anywhere near all worthy books, Bl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jamie Byng Publisher, Canongate Updated: 2006-06-17 02:12:00 Description: Don’t take my f—ing photograph… Jamie Byng appreciates and understands that myth and The Bible lie at the core of creative imagination and the Western Canon. He marries this knowledge with a skill for presentation and promo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Neil Wilson on Founding the Ottawa International Writers Festival Updated: 2006-04-16 19:21:00 Description: Neil Wilson is a former journalist/broadcaster, future publisher, current long-distance runner and Founding Director of the Ottawa International Writers Festival. We talk about his love of Irish literature and poetry, his founding of the Festival in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Andrew Miller on his novel The Optimists Updated: 2006-03-22 23:21:00 Description: ANDREW MILLER was born in Bristol...in 1960 (induced, according to the family legend, by his mother eating a large supper of fish and chips). At age eleven, having convincingly failed his Eleven Plus, he went to boarding school in Wiltshire......more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chair Maggie Knaus on the Rockcliffe Bookfair Updated: 2006-03-22 23:18:00 Description: The Rockcliffe Bookfair is one of the oldest, biggest, best used book sales in Ontario, if not Canada. Book dealers travel across the country every year to cash in on the great deals. More than 3500 volunteer hours go into the making of it annually (...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Entrepreneur Kensel Tracy on Self Publishing Updated: 2006-03-22 23:16:00 Description: I’ve known Kensel Tracy for 20 years. We met in 1985 when he was in charge of marketing at the Ottawa-Carleton Tourism Commission and I was Membership Director at the Board of Trade. I can’t think of anyone I’ve ever met who is as ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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