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Episode 291 - Tom Wayman 05/19/2025

Episode 291 - Tom Wayman Dennis meets with Tom Wayman. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/36627175

Episode 290 - Tong Ge 05/05/2025

Episode 290 - Tong Ge Tong Ge was born and raised in China and moved to Canada in 1988. She began writing the China China trilogy in 2004 with the first book: The House Filler. Although she was challenged by learning to write in English and by her long- term disability, she persevered and since 2012 has published poetry and prose in English and Chinese in publications such as Prism, Ricepaper, Flow, Canadian Stories, and The Polyglot. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/36253525

Episode 289 - Candace Macphie 04/28/2025

Episode 289 - Candace Macphie Dennis speaks to Candace Macphie - author of the Back in a Year Series /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/36253415

Episode 288 - Jeff City Archives 04/21/2025

Episode 288 - Jeff City Archives Saskatoon's city archivist Jeff O'Brien. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/36253200

Episode 287 - Bob McDonald 04/11/2025

Episode 287 - Bob McDonald Revered science reporter and radio host Bob McDonald has devoted his career to turning our attention away from everyday perspectives and outward to the vast, intricate wonders of our planet and universe. Now, in this revealing and captivating memoir, he looks within, offering an intimate view of the path that brought him from a blue-collar background to his long-standing role as Canada’s foremost explainer of all things scientific. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/36092010

Episode 286 -David Roche 04/04/2025

Episode 286 -David Roche David Roche is an inspirational humorist, keynote speaker and performer who has transformed the challenges and gifts of living with a facial difference into a compelling message that uplifts and delights audiences around the world. With the publication of his first book, The Church of 80% Sincerity, he is also an author. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/36000440

Episode 285 - Adelle Purdham 03/10/2025

Episode 285 - Adelle Purdham Adelle Purdham is a writer, teacher, and parent disability advocate. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from the University of King’s College and is a writing instructor at Trent University. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/35407435

Episode 284 - Pamela Cross 03/03/2025

Episode 284 - Pamela Cross In her new book, Cross offers practical and hopeful ideas for how each of us can engage in the vital work of eradicating intimate partner violence. This is a call to action for the all-of-society, revolutionary response to gender-based violence needed to build communities that are safe and healthy for everyone. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/35407345

Episode 283 - Ron Base 02/24/2025

Episode 283 - Ron Base Ron Base has written and produced a number of screenplays. A former journalist, magazine writer, and movie critic, Base spent four years in Los Angeles researching and writing" Magic Man." He now lives in Montreal with his family. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/35407245

Episode 282 - Thomas F. Pedersen 01/10/2025

Episode 282 - Thomas F. Pedersen Dennis interviews Thomas F Pedersen about his book, "The Carbon Tax Question", described as "A timely and insightful exploration of the implementation and impact of British Columbia’s carbon tax, delving into the political and economic considerations behind the tax, and addressing misconceptions." /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/34682785

Episode 281 - Rebecca Hendricks 01/01/2025

Episode 281 - Rebecca Hendricks Rebecca Hendricks is a writer and author of the new novel Hound Dogged. Rebecca has made a career doing accounting and Judicial Assistant work, but her passion has always been writing and creating colorful and exciting stories. Starting at a young age, Rebecca could be found in her room, spending countless hours writing stories in long hand or typing her work with one finger on her father’s antique typewriter. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/34682700

Episode 280 - Gitz Crazyboy 11/09/2024

Episode 280 - Gitz Crazyboy Gitz is a Canadian Indigenous Author, Actor, Activist and Youth Educator. His debut novel, 'Secret of the Stars' is quickly heating up and has caught the attention of national and international media such as the CBC and Australia's Indigenous Radio Station. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/33755447

Episode 279 - Chase Joynt 11/02/2024

Episode 279 - Chase Joynt Chase Joynt is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, video artist, actor, and professor. He attracted acclaim as co-director with Aisling Chin-Yee of the documentary film No Ordinary Man (2020), and as director of the film Framing Agnes (2022). He won two awards at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival for his work on the latter. In 2024, Joynt received a nomination for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/33755407

Episode 278 - Scott Ryan 10/20/2024

Episode 278 - Scott Ryan Dennis interviews Scott Ryan about his book Last Decade of Cinema, where Scott argues that the 1990s was the last decade in which films were made for grownups, with complex, adult-based plots, nuanced characters, and meaningful themes. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/33539267

Episode 277 - Jacob Wren 10/11/2024

Episode 277 - Jacob Wren Wren makes literature, performances, and exhibitions. His books include Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed ; Polyamorous Love Song (finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and a Globe and Mail best book of 2014); Rich and Poor (finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a Globe and Mail best book of 2016); and Authenticity is a Feeling. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/33111842

Episode 276 - Don Butler 10/04/2024

Episode 276 - Don Butler Don Butler is back, as the author of the 2024 novel, Norman's Conquest /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/33111382

Episode 275 - Dave Margoshes 09/27/2024

Episode 275 - Dave Margoshes Dave Margoshes is a Saskatoon-area writer whose work has appeared widely in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies, including six times in the Best Canadian Stories volumes. He was a finalist for the Journey Prize in 2009. He's published fifteen books of poetry and fiction, including Bix's Trumpet and Other Stories, which won two prizes at the 2007 Saskatchewan Book Awards, including Book of the Year /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/33110852

Episode 274 - Farzana Doctor 09/20/2024

Episode 274 - Farzana Doctor Farzana Doctor is a writer, activist, and psychotherapist. Her ancestry is Indian, and she was born in Zambia while her family was based there for five years, before immigrating to Canada in 1971 /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/33110167

Episode 273 - Rod Carley 09/13/2024

Episode 273 - Rod Carley Rod is the award-winning author of four works of literary fiction: RUFF (September 2024), GRIN REAPING (long listed for the 2023 Leacock Medal for Humour, 2022 Bronze Winner for Humour from Foreword Review INDIES, a Finalist for the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Humor/Comedy, and long listed for the ReLit Group Awards for Best Short Fiction of 2023); KINMOUNT (long listed for the 2021 Leacock Medal for Humour and Winner of the 2021 Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction from the Independent Publishers Book Awards); A Matter of Will (Finalist for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction). /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/32959787

Episode 272 - Margot Kinberg 09/08/2024

Episode 272 - Margot Kinberg A university professor and mystery novelist, originally from the US East Coast, Margot writes two crime fiction series: the Joel Williams series, and now, the Patricia Stanley series. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/32959717

Episode 271 - Marlis Wesseler 08/30/2024

Episode 271 - Marlis Wesseler Dennis meets with Marlis Wesseler about The Beech Forest---Lisa Braun struggles to understand both her own life and the tragic historic events that haunt her in this engaging new novel written in Marlis Wesseler’s characteristically understated, confiding prose. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/32426147

Episode 270 - Connie Gault 08/23/2024

Episode 270 - Connie Gault Connie Gault is a Canadian novelist, playwright and short story writer. She is best known for her novel A Beauty, which was a longlisted nominee for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/32426092

Episode 269 - Caroline Woodward 08/16/2024

Episode 269 - Caroline Woodward Dennis meets with Caroline Woodward about her book "Have You Ever Heard a Whale Exhale?" /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/32425812

Episode 268 - Sam Wiebe 08/09/2024

Episode 268 - Sam Wiebe We meet again with Sam Wiebe to discuss his book, Ocean Drive. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/32425447

Episode 267 - Steve Burgess 08/03/2024

Episode 267 - Steve Burgess He writes the Please Advise! column and other effluvia as required. He is a former CBC host and author of the 2011 book Who Killed Mom? from Greystone Books. He has won two National Magazine Awards and three Western Magazine Awards, and received the Community Mic Award at the 2023 Websters for his work with The Tyee. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/32425327

Episode 266 - Doug Kari 07/19/2024

Episode 266 - Doug Kari At daybreak on January 6, 1986, a couple on a camping trip in the Mojave Desert set out for a stroll and never returned. The local sheriff eventually discovered that Barry and Louise Berman had been murdered. As years passed and the double homicide remained unsolved, the Berman case spawned speculation and conjecture. To date there’s never been an arrest in the case—let alone a conviction. Doug Kari tells the story in "The Berman Murders" /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/31924807

Episode 265 - Rita Miceli 07/12/2024

Episode 265 - Rita Miceli Rita Miceli, a seasoned educator, and award-winning author, provides the compass for this journey. Her memoir, "Giaci and Me: A Mother’s Journey of Loving and Raising an Autistic Child," offers a lifeline of empathy and understanding, extending a hand to caregivers and professionals alike. It's a reflection of decades of love, lessons, and learning, from the initial days of diagnosis to embracing the unexpected joys of life. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/31924727

Episode 264 - Myriam Chancy 07/05/2024

Episode 264 - Myriam Chancy Dennis talks with Myriam Chancy about "Village Weavers", A deeply reflective book about the resilience of the relationship between two women, which evolves from an innocent childhood friendship to a spiritual kinship /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/31924637

Episode 263 - John Bemrose 06/28/2024

Episode 263 - John Bemrose John Bemrose is a Canadian arts journalist, novelist, poet and playwright. His arts reviews have appeared in Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, the National Post and on CBC Radio. His debut novel, The Island Walkers, was published in 2003. It was a nominee for that year's Giller Prize, as well as making the longlist for the Man Booker Prize. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/31924577

Episode 262 - Bury the Lead 06/21/2024

Episode 262 - Bury the Lead We meet with Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti and discuss their debut murder mystery, Bury the Lead. /episode/index/show/talkingbooksandstuff/id/31691107

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