Podcasts about Canadian literature

In this episode, the Kobo Writing Life team attended the Toronto Indie Author Conference and recorded a live podcast with speculative fiction author and conference founder Tao Wong! We had a great time interviewing Tao in front of a live audience and getting to answer listener questions in real time. We're excited to present the complete interview to you now (with all the ambient sounds you might expect from a conference… it's as if you're really there)! We spoke to Tao about his writing career, why he started the Toronto Indie Author Conference, his thoughts on book marketing, the challenges Canadian indie authos face, and much more! Thanks again to Tao and all of the organizers involved in making a wonderful weekend of indie author-led talks, workshops, and roundtables happen – the KWL team had a great time and we are looking forward to next year. If you are a Canadian indie author interested in learning more about the Toronto Indie Author Conference, there's no better place to start than an interview with Tao! Learn more on Tao's website and check out Tao's books on Kobo.  

Brad C. Anderson lives with his wife and puppy in Vancouver, Canada.He teaches undergraduate business courses at a local university andresearches organizational wisdom in blithe defiance of the fact mostpeople do not think you can put those two words in the samesentence without irony. Previously, he worked in the biotech sector,where he made drugs for a living (legally!).His stories have appeared in a variety of publications. His short story “Naïve Gods” waslonglisted for a 2017 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Itwas published in the anthology Lazarus Risen, which was itself nominated for an Aurora Award.Ashme's Song, the latest science fiction novel by Vancouver writerBrad C. Anderson (author of Duatero), is a gritty, action-filled, far-future cyberpunk-infused science fiction tale about resistance,rebellion, and civil war—and the terrible toll it takes onindividuals and families. It releases December 17 fromShadowpaw Press.“Ashme's Song is a science fiction story exploring family andheroism at a time of civil war,” Anderson says. “I wrote this bookbecause I wanted to explore the tension between wanting to fightfor your people versus fleeing with your family.”“Ashme's Song is a gritty, thoroughly engaging, and thought-provoking exploration of timeless themes of oppression,resistance, and family ties, combined with fascinatingworldbuilding and a strong cyberpunk element,” says Edward Willett, publisher and editor ofShadowpaw Press.During the course of this, Brad teaches me what Cyberpunk v Steampunk are. We also discuss re-introducing Megafauna and bacteria v humans.

Since the U.S. president has been talking about annexing Canada, there's been a surge of pride in Canadian identity. Yet over many years, Canadians have struggled to define their culture as separate from the U.S. since the two are intertwined, especially as it relates to most genres of the arts. What set Canada apart? And do Canadian art and artists need a renaissance? We ask, David Leonard, executive director of the Writers Trust Fund of Canada; Andrew Cash, president and CEO of CIMA; Marsha LEderman, arts journalist; and Tonya Williams, founder of the Reelworld film festival.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's time for another publisher-centric episode, and it's another stunner—we're heading to Latin America (via Scotland!) to talk about the brilliant Charco Press! We dive into what makes Charco Press such a standout: their dedication to bringing contemporary Latin American literature to English-language readers, their thoughtful support of authors and translators, and, yes, their absolutely gorgeous books.We each share three Charco titles we love and three more we can't wait to get our hands on. There's something for everyone—from the surreal to the political, the tender to the explosive. Plus, we announce the winner of our March giveaway and introduce an amazing new prize for April: a 2025 bundle of Charco Press books! You do not want to miss this one.Join the Mookse and the Gripes on DiscordWe're creating a welcoming space for thoughtful, engaging discussions about great novellas, starting with First Love by Ivan Turgenev in April. Whether you want to share insights, ask questions, or simply follow along, we'd love to have you. The discussion will unfold gradually, so you can read at your own pace and jump in whenever you're ready. It's a great way to connect with fellow readers, explore new works together, and deepen your appreciation for the novella form.For the first book, the schedule will be as follows:* April 6: Start of the book through Section 9* April 9: Section 10 through Section 16* April 13: Section 17 through the endShownotesBooks* On the Calculation of Volume I, by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland* The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher* Fated, by Benedict Jacka* Cursed, by Benedict Jacka* First Love, by Ivan Turgenev* The Wind That Lays Waste, by Selva Almada, translated by Chris Andrews* Dead Girls, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* Brickmakers, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* Catching Fire: A Translation Diary, by Daniel Hahn* Never Did the Fire, by Diamela Eltit, translated by Daniel Hahn* Homesick, by Jennifer Croft* The Cemetery of Untold Stories, by Julia Alvarez* The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka* An Orphan World, by Giuseppe Caputo, translated by Sophie Hughes and Juana Adcock* Dislocations, by Sylvia Malloy, translated by Jennifer Croft* Elena Knows, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* A Little Luck, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* Fish Soup, by Margarita García Robayo, translated by Charlotte Coombe* The Distance Between Us, by Renato Cisneros, translated by Fionn Petch* Time of the Flies, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* Two Sherpas, by Sebastián Martinez Daniell, translated by Jennifer Croft* Trout, Belly Up, by Rodrigo Fuentes, translated by Ellen Jones* Fresh Dirt from the Grave, by Giovanna Rivero, translated by Isabel Adey* The Adventures of China Iron, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre* A Perfect Cemetery, by Federico Falco, translated by Jennifer Croft* Cautery, by Lucía Litmaer, translated by Maureen Shaughnessy* The Delivery, by Margarita García Robayo, translated by Megan McDowell* The Forgery, by Ave Barrera, translated by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers* Restoration, by Ave Barrera, translated by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers* Die, My Love, by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff* Feebleminded, by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Annie McDermott and Carolina Orloff* Tender, by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Annie McDermott and Carolina OrloffOther* The Book Club Review Podcast* Charco Press Website* Episode 74: Canadian Literature, with Jerry Faust* Episode 88: Women in Translation, with Robin MyersThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a bookish conversation hosted by Paul and Trevor. Every other week, we explore a bookish topic and celebrate our love of reading. We're glad you're here, and we hope you'll continue to join us on this literary journey!A huge thank you to those who help make this podcast possible! If you'd like to support us, you can do so via Substack or Patreon. Subscribers receive access to periodic bonus episodes and early access to all new episodes. Plus, each supporter gets their own dedicated feed, allowing them to download episodes a few days before they're released to the public. We'd love for you to check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

If you meet a Japanese American, depending on their age, it's a pretty good bet that they, their parents, and/or their grandparents (or great-grandparents) were imprisoned by the US government in so-called internment camps for several years during World War II. Most families lost everything they had built up: farms, homes, businesses, jobs, possessions, and whatever wealth they had accrued. If you meet a Japanese American, it's also a pretty good bet, they probably won't spontaneously start talking about what they or their family went through, how they feel about it, and how they or their family recovered from the ordeal. I (Christina) wanted to rectify that by sitting down with my old friend Chie Furuya, whose parents (as tiny children), grandparents, and other family members were “sent to camp”, to ask her about it. The answers and stories she had for me were both fascinating and unexpectedly heartening. Her people are a resilient, cheerful people and I feel like there are life lessons for all of us here, in terms of withstanding and recovering from severe injustice (and coming out on top).Ariel's addition to this episode description is to point out that Japanese internment occurred in Canada in the early 20th century as well. We (by which she means Canada, or perhaps so-called Canada, as she likes to call it) aren't some bastion of anti-racism and tolerant plurality (if we ever were). Here are a few links for further edification if you are interested or want to know more about the Canadian side of the story:-"Where is Japantown?" a Secret Life of Canada podcast that describes this history in detail: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/203-the-secret-life-of-canada/episode/15776151-s3-where-is-japantown-Obasan by Joy Kogawa is an incredibly famous work of Canadian Literature - or at least, it was, back in the day, as it came out in 1981. But IYKYK. It describes the fallout of the Japanese internment camps through the eyes of a young girl growing up in Alberta and it galvanized the nisei community to stand up to the Canadian government and demand accountability and reparations for the atrocities of the internment camps. Link here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9723.Obasan-Here is a link to the Japanese-Canadian centre in Toronto, the only Japanese cultural centre that I know of in central/eastern Canada: https://jccc.on.ca/ and the Nikkei Museum in BC: https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Kobo ReWriting Life Podcast! Alongside your regularly scheduled Kobo Writing Life podcast episode releases, we will also be featuring some highlights from our backlist. For the fifth episode of this series, we're happy to share this interview featuring Canadian thriller author Samantha M. Bailey from 2022. Watch Out for Her is a contender for Canada Reads 2025. Don't miss the debates, which take place March 17th-20th, 2025. In this episode, we are joined by Samantha M. Bailey, USA Today and #1 nationally bestselling author of Woman on the Edge. Today, Samantha discusses her second book, the recently released domestic suspense novel/psychological thriller, Watch Out for Her. We discussed Samantha's experiences finding a traditional publishing platform, following up a successful debut during a global pandemic, how curiosity can drive the creative process of writing a thriller, the importance of editing, of community, of her readers, and much more! Find out more on Samantha M. Bailey's website and follow Samantha on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Karoline Bourdeau has never missed a year of the Canada Reads debates. She breaks down this year's shortlisted top five books, focusing on the one that left her with the biggest impression, Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew. She shares how immigrant stories reflect her own journey, feeling like a lost teen soul navigating a new country, balancing the perspectives of other immigrants and their challenges with her own troubles. Plus, we get Theresa Power's review of Colours in Her Hands by Alice Zorn, a novel painting a vivid portrait of a young artist finding her way in the world.Books discussed in this episode are:Watch Out for Her by Samantha M. BaileyA Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper Jennie's Boy by Wayne Johnston Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun LiewHomes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah,Reuniting with Strangers by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio AMI Audiobook Review is broadcast on AMI-audio in Canada and publishes three new podcast episodes a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.Follow AMI Audiobook Review on YouTube & Instagram!We want your feedback!Be that comments, suggestions, hot-takes, audiobook recommendations or reviews of your own… hit us up! Our email address is: audiobookreview@ami.caAbout AMIAMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca.Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+Learn more at AMI.caConnect with Accessible Media Inc. online:X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaInc

Brad C. Anderson lives with his wife and puppy in Vancouver, Canada. He teaches undergraduate business courses at a local university and researches organizational wisdom in blithe defiance of the fact most people do not think you can put those two words in the same sentence without irony. Previously, he worked in the biotech sector, where he made drugs for a living (legally!). His stories have appeared in a variety of publications.His short story “Naïve Gods” was longlisted for a 2017 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. It was published in the anthology Lazarus Risen, which was itself nominated for an Aurora Award. “Ashme's Song is a science fiction story exploring family and heroism at a time of civil war,” Anderson says. “I wrote this book because I wanted to explore the tension between wanting to fight for your people versus fleeing with your family.” “Ashme's Song is a gritty, thoroughly engaging, and thought-provoking exploration of timeless themes of oppression, resistance, and family ties, combined with fascinating worldbuilding and a strong cyberpunk element,” says Edward Willett, publisher and editor of Shadowpaw Press. “I was pleased to be able to reprint Brad's previous novel, Duatero, through the Shadowpaw Press Reprise imprint, and I'm thrilled to now be able to share this brand-new work with readers.”http://bradanderson2000.comThe Douglas Coleman Show VE (Video Edition) offers video promotional packages for authors. Please see our website for complete details.  https://www.douglascolemanmusic.com/vepromo/  Please help us to continue to bring you quality content by showing your support for our show.  https://fundrazr.com/e2CLX2?ref=ab_eCTqb8_ab_31eRtAh53pq31eRtAh53pq

In this episode, Christopher Patterson. Christopher is an author and professor at the University of British Columbia, but for today's episode he'll be talking about his partner, Y-Dang Troeung's book Landbridge. Landbridge was a finalist for the 2024 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. Christopher talks about Y-Dang's approach to writing in fragments, and how she approached rejection. Visit BC and Yukon Book Prizes: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/ About Landbridge: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/project/landbridge/ ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Y-Dang Troeung was Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, where she did research and taught in the fields of transnational Asian literatures, critical refugee studies, global south studies, and critical disability studies. She was also an Associate Editor of the journal Canadian Literature, and a 2020 Wall Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Her recent publications can be found in Canadian Literature, Brick: A Literary Magazine, Amerasia Journal, and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. Y-Dang passed away in November 2022, after completing the final draft of her extraordinary memoir, Landbridge. ABOUT MEGAN COLE: Megan Cole the Director of Programming and Communications for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. She is also a writer based on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. Megan writes creative nonfiction and has had essays published in Chatelaine, This Magazine, The Puritan, Untethered, and more. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King's College and is working her first book. Find out more about Megan at megancolewriter.com ABOUT THE PODCAST: Writing the Coast is recorded and produced on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. As a settler on these lands, Megan Cole finds opportunities to learn and listen to the stories from those whose land was stolen. Writing the Coast is a recorded series of conversations, readings, and insights into the work of the writers, illustrators, and creators whose books are nominated for the annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes. We'll also check in on people in the writing community who are supporting books, writers and readers every day. The podcast is produced and hosted by Megan Cole.

My guest on this episode is Leigh Nash. Leigh has worked as the publisher at House of Anansi Press and Invisible Publishing, and is now the co-publisher at Assembly Press, a brand-new independent literary press. She also helps run the PEP Rally Reading Series out of Books & Company in Picton and co-founded The Emergency Response Unit, a chapbook press. Her most recent book was also her debut: the collection Goodbye, Ukulele, published by Mansfield Press in 2010. The scholarly journal Canadian Literature said Leigh “has an eye for unsettling images” and praised Goodbye, Ukulele as “a compelling read.” Leigh and I talk about the founding of Assembly Press, about her ongoing love for her debut collection, and about how the world of books has changed in the quarter-century since its publication. This podcast is produced and hosted by Nathan Whitlock, in partnership with The Walrus. Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission.

In which Patrick talks about Wayson Choy's beautiful novel The Jade Peony and how it portrays the lives of Chinese Canadians of the 1930s. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading Choy, Wayson. The Jade Peony, Douglas & McIntyre, 1995. Deer, Glenn. An Interview with Wayson Choy. Canadian Literature 163, 1999, pp. 34–44. Ty, Eleanor. “‘Each Story Brief and Sad and Marvellous': Multiple Voices in Wayson Choyʹs The Jade Peony.” The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives, University of Toronto Press, 2004, pp. 116–34.

Mexican Gothic Author Comes to Jacksonville Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic, is coming to Jacksonville for Hispanic Heritage Month. Her latest novel is a historical drama set in Hollywood, following three different point of view characters all tied to the production of a movie inspired by the Biblical story of Salome. FEATURED BOOK: The Seventh Veil of Salome 1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film's mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the town. Vera also becomes an object of envy for Nancy Hartley, a bit player whose career has stalled and who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves. Two actresses, both determined to make it to the top in Golden Age Hollywood—a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and intrigue—make for a sizzling combination. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels, including Gods of Jade and Shadow (Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Ignyte Award), Mexican Gothic (Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, Aurora Award, Goodreads Award), Velvet Was the Night (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Macavity Award), and her newest book, The Seventh Veil of Salome, which was a Good Morning America Book Club pick for August 2024. Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination. Cachanilla and Canuck, originally from Baja California, Silvia now resides in Vancouver. She has an MA in Science and Technology Studies from the University of British Columbia. Interviewer Michelle Lizet Flores is a graduate of the FSU and NYU creative writing programs. She currently works as a Creative Writing Instructor at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and co-hosts the What's in a Verse Poetry Open Mic at Rain Dogs. Publications include The NCTE English Journal, Salt Hill Journal, and The Talon Review. A finalist for the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Poetry, she wrote the chapbooks Cuentos from the Swamp and Memoria, and the picture book, Carlito the Bat Learns to Trick or Treat. Her short fiction is in the anthology, Places We Build in the Universe. Invasive Species, her first full-length collection of poetry, is currently available from Finishing Line Press. READ Check out Silvia's work from the Library! THE LIBRARY RECOMMENDS The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzales James The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Piñata by Leopoldo Gout Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova Malas by Marcela Fuentes The Death of Vivek Oji by Awkaeke Emezi Bad Fruit by Ella King Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown The Queen of the Cicadas by V Castro River Woman, River Demon by Jennifer Givhan --- Never miss an event! Sign up for email newsletters at https://bit.ly/JaxLibraryUpdates  Jacksonville Public LibraryWebsite: https://jaxpubliclibrary.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaxlibrary Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaxLibrary/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaxlibrary/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jaxpubliclibraryfl Contact Us: jplpromotions@coj.net 

In which we discuss the time the Canadian government asked itself: 'wait... are [white] women people?' For real though... We compare that event to two P.K. Page poems. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Sources/Further Reading Brandt, Gail, et al. Canadian Women: A History, 2011. Hamilton, Sheryl. Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture, 2013. Irvine, Dean J. Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916–1956, 2008. Killian, Laura. “Poetry and the Modern Woman: P.K. Page and the Gender of Impersonality,” Canadian Literature 150, 1996, pp. 86–105. Page. P.K. "After Rain" and "Nightmare". Sharpe, Robert J. and Patricia I. McMahon. The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood, 2007.

Rebecca welcomes Canadian author Leslie Shimotakahara, whose third novel, Sisters of the Spruce, is on Quill & Quire's "2024 Spring Preview: Fiction" and the 49th Shelf's "Most Anticipated: Our 2024 Spring Fiction Preview." Her memoir, The Reading List, won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize and has been translated into Japanese, and her fiction has been shortlisted for the KM Hunter Artist Award. She has written two other critically acclaimed novels, After the Bloom and Red Oblivion.  Leslie's writing has appeared in the National Post, World Literature Today, and Changing the Face of Canadian Literature, among other anthologies and periodicals. She completed a PhD in English at Brown University, after which she returned to her hometown of Toronto, where she now resides with her husband.  https://leslieshimotakahara.com/ https://www.instagram.com/leslieshimotakahara/ https://caitlinpress.com/Books/S/Sisters-of-the-Spruce   Highlighted books: From Slave Girls to Salvation: Gender, Race, and Victoria's Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1923 by Shelly D. Ikebuchi We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama Within the Barbed Wire Fence: A Japanese Man's Account of his Internment in Canada by Takeo Ujo Nakano

While the latest NoN wraps production, our friends at Knockabout Media have been producing a great show called "How I Wrote This". In this show, host Pamela Hensly interviews various authors of various media about what shapes their art. In their latest episode, Wiebke von Carolsfeld is interviewed. Wiebke has directed numerous Canadian feature films including "Marion Bridge" (2002), and "Stay" (2013), which makes this chat a great pairing with NoN subject matter. Check it out, and a new NoN is on it's way!

With the help of our friends at CELA, Karen McKay and Theresa Power, Ramya and Jacob are reviewing the latest book from best-selling Canadian author, Carley Fortune. This Summer Will Be Different is a contemporary Canadian romance set in Prince Edward Island. With fantastic relationship writing, great prose and tons of delightful Canadiana, this title has charm but does it have substance? Listen to find out more. Plus, Cora Coady is with us in the second half of the show for another edition of the Rapid-Fire Review. This Summer Will Be Different on CELA: https://celalibrary.ca/node/25106074 This Summer Will Be Different on Audible: https://www.audible.ca/pd/This-Summer-Will-Be-Different-Audiobook/B0CGF7KDHD This Summer Will Be Different on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197577126-this-summer-will-be-different Cora Coady's RFR selections: Moon of the Turning Leaves, by Waubgeshig Rice Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O'Neil Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #1: The Sun Trail, by Erin Hunter Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries, by Heather Fawcett

In which our heroes talk about the shockingly pervasive ideas about eugenics in the early 20th century and how they still pop up today. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) ---Sources/Further Reading: Campbell, Maria. Halfbreed, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. Dodd, Dianne. "eugenics." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004. Ludolph, Rebekah. “Exposing the Eugenic Reader: Maria Campbell's Halfbreed and Settler Self-Education,” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 44, no. 2, 2019, pp. 101–120. McLaren, Angus. Our Own Master Race: Eugenics In Canada, 1885-1945, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990. Stote, Karen. An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women, Fernwood Publishing, 2015.

Today I'm thrilled to be bringing you my conversation with award-winning writer Leslie Shimotakahara about her new novel SISTERS OF THE SPRUCE, set during World War One in Haida Gwaii (then known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) and loosely inspired by her grandmother's experiences, and how the spirit of Charlotte Bronte's classic JANE EYRE both infuses the novel's atmosphere and also helped inspire its protagonist. Pickle Me This is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Leslie tells me about her long history as an avid reader, the story behind her memoir THE READING LIST (in which a wayward academic learns to love reading for pleasure again), how she first came upon JANE EYRE, what it felt like to encounter the novel again years later, and I also mention the fascinating bit of historical detail in SISTER OF THE SPRUCE that blew my mind! About SISTERS OF THE SPRUCE: World War One is in high gear. Fourteen-year-old Khya Terada moves with her family to a remote, misty inlet on Haida Gwaii, then the Queen Charlotte Islands, in northern British Columbia, known for its Sitka spruces. The Canadian government has passed an act to expedite logging of these majestic trees, desperately needed for the Allies' aircrafts in Europe. At a camp on the inlet, Khya's father, Sannosuke—a talented, daring logger with twenty years of experience since immigrating from Japan—assumes a position of leadership among the Japanese and Chinese workers.But the arrival of a group of white loggers, eager to assert their authority, throws off balance the precarious life that Khya and her family have begun to establish. When a quarrel between Sannosuke and a white man known as “the Captain” escalates, leading to the betrayal of her older sister, Izzy, and humiliation for the family, Khya embarks on a perilous journey with her one friend—a half-Chinese sex worker, on the lam for her own reasons—to track down the man and force him to take responsibility. Yet nothing in the forest is as it appears. Can they save Izzy from ruination and find justice without condemning her to a life of danger, or exposing themselves to the violence of an angry, power-hungry man?Drawing on inspiration from her ancestors' stories and experiences, Shimotakahara weaves an entrancing tale of female adventure, friendship, and survival.Leslie Shimotakahara's memoir, The Reading List, won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize, and her fiction has been shortlisted for the KM Hunter Artist Award. She has written two critically acclaimed novels, After the Bloom and Red Oblivion. After the Bloom received a starred review from Booklist and is Bustle's number one choice in “50 Books To Read With Your Book Club,” while Kirkus Review praised Red Oblivion for displaying “virtuosity in this subtle deconstruction of one family's tainted origins.” Her writing has appeared in the National Post, World Literature Today, and Changing the Face of Canadian Literature, among other anthologies and periodicals. She completed a PhD in English at Brown University. She and her husband live in Toronto's west end. Get full access to Pickle Me This at kerryreads.substack.com/subscribe

This week, we're joined by Jerry Faust for a fun conversation about Canadian literature. Incredibly diverse and far too often overlooked, Canada's literary output is a goldmine of wonderful books and authors. What are your favorites?Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and CanadaAs you've heard on the podcast, Paul is a judge of this year's prize. The longlist has been announced, and the shortlist is on the way!Would you like to join Paul at a Zoom party celebrating the longlist, with publishers, authors and translators? You can! It happens on Tuesday, February 27, at 6 p.m. CT. Click here to find the information to sign up!Shownotes* Small Joys, by Elvin James Mensah* The Boys in the Trees, by Mary Swan* The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Michael Barnes and Torbjøn Støverud* The Ice Palace, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan* The Hills Reply, by Tarjei Vesaas, translated by Elizabeth Rokkan* The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death, by Laura Cumming* The Vanishing Velàzquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece, by Laura Cumming* Magpie Murders, by Anthony Horowitz* Moonflower Murders, by Anthony Horowitz* The Word Is Murder, by Anthony Horowitz* Possession, by A.S. Byatt* The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood* Bear, by Marian Engel* The Englishman's Boy, by Guy Vanderhaeghe* Man Descending, by Guy Vanderhaeghe* Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, by Guy Vanderhaeghe* The Golden Mean, by Annabel Lyon* The Sweet Girl, by Annabel Lyon* Consent, by Annabel Lyon* A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry* The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje* Pastoral, by André Alexis* Fifteen Dogs, by André Alexis* Ring, by André Alexis* As for Me and My House, by Sinclair Ross* The Winter Vault, by Anne Michaels* Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels* Held, by Anne Michaels* Basic Black with Pearls, by Helen Weinzweig* South of the Border, West of the Sun, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel* The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence* Island, by Alistair MacLeod* No Great Mischief, by Alistair MacLeod* The Way the Crow Flies, by Anne Marie MacDonald* The Geography of Pluto, by Christopher DiRaddo* The Family Way, by Christopher DiRaddo* Autumn Rounds, by Jacques Poulin, translated by Sheila Fischman* Natasha and Other Stories, by David Bezmozgis* The Free World, by David Bezmozgis* Immigrant City, by David Bezmozgis* Transit, by Anna Seghers, translated by Margot Bettauer DemboAbout the PodcastThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another.Please join us! You can subscribe at Apple podcasts or go to the feed to import to your favorite podcatcher.Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

In which Patrick lectures by himself about a poet whose work, Acanthus & Wild Grape, actively tried to bring Canadian poetry into the realm of modern sensibilities. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading Avrum Malus, Diane Allard and Maria Van Sundert. “Frank Oliver Call, Eastern Townships Poetry, and the Modernist Movement,” Canadian Literature 107, 1985. Call, Frank Oliver. Acanthus & Wild Grape, McClelland & Stewart, 1920. Trehearne, Brian (editor). Canadian Poetry, 1920 to 1960, McClelland & Stewart, 2010. Beattie, Munro. “Poetry: 1920-1935.” Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English (Second Edition) Volume II, edited by Alfred G. Bailey et al., University of Toronto Press, 1976, pp. 234–53.

In this episode, co-host Marlis Schweitzer considers how the enduring popularity of Shakespeare in the Park and other forms of outdoor Shakespeare continues to guide how Canadians see, hear, and experience Shakespeare. After a short summary of the “open air” movement, which celebrated the virtues of producing Shakespeare outdoors, she speaks with several guests, including the artistic leadership of Toronto's Shakespeare in the Ruff, about the importance of outdoor Shakespeare today. The second half of the episode focuses more directly on the legacy of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, a company that began producing Shakespeare outdoors - in a tent - and is now arguably the most dominant theatre company in Canada. The episode concludes with a conversation with Melissa Poll, the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion dramaturge at Vancouver's Bard on the Beach, interspersed with comments from Cole Alvis, a two-Spirit Michif Metis actor and director, and now casting associate with the Stratford Festival. This episode features conversations with Patricia Allison, Cole Alvis, Raoul Bhaneja, Karen Fricker, Christine Horne, Erin Kelly, Peter Kuling, Anita La Selva, Keira Loughran, Elizabeth Pentland, Melissa Poll, PJ Prudat, Jamie Robinson, Nassim Abu Sarari, Sara Topham, Jeff Yung Episode 4 ASL translation courtesy of Dawn Jani Birley. Interpretation by Dawn Jani Birley, Robert Haughton, Sage Lovell, and Alice Lo. Content note: This episode contains discussion of potlatch bans, colonialism, white supremacy, and racism. Listener discretion advised. Here are some links to things discussed in the episode and some suggestions for further reading: Sheldon Cheney, The Open-Air Theatre (1918) The Potlatch Ban, from The Canadian Encyclopedia  Some outdoor theatre companies: Bard on the Beach, Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, Shakespeare in the Ruins, Shakespeare in the Ruff, Dream in High Park, Shakespeare in the Park, Bard in the Barracks, Shakespeare by the Sea (Halifax), Shakespeare by the Sea Festival (St. John's) Stratford Festival timeline Morten Parker's Oscar-nominated 1953 documentary, The Stratford Adventure, produced by the National Film Board of Canada Ian Rae, “The Stratford Festival and Canadian Cultural Nationalism,” from The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature, ed. Cynthia Conchita Sugars (2016) Glossary definition and additional resources on the #inthedressingroom conversation Bard on the Beach's Company Commitments “Ndo-Mshkawgaabwimi - We all are standing strong,” a video with “stories of endurance, resistance and resilience” told by members of the Indigenous Circle at Stratford (2020)

In which we bring back Covid-19 pandemic memories by discussing the Spanish Flu in Canada with the help of Kevin Kerr's excellent 2002 play Unity (1918).   Sorry for having posted so little in November - it was pure and simple a scheduling mistake. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Further Reading: Budgell, Anne. We All Expected to Die: Spanish Influenza in Labrador, 1918-1919, ISER, 2018. Darroch, Heidi Tiedemann. “The War at Home: Writing Influenza in Alice Munro's “Carried Away” and Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918),” Canadian Literature 245, 2021, pp. 90-104. Humphries, Mark Osborne. “Paths of Infection: The First World War and the Origins of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.” War in History, vol. 21, no. 1, 2014, pp. 55–81. Kerr, Kevin. Unity 1918, Talonbooks, 2002.

My dear friend Mark Lefebvre is back this week to teach me all about Canadian Literature, eh? Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram    Guest: Mark Lefebvre Website/Instagram   Editor: Emily Zumchak Website/Email   Join the Best Book Ever Newsletter HERE!   Subscribe for FREE to receive weekly emails with complete show notes, photos of our guests, and updates on what Julie is reading on her own time.   Support the podcast for just $5/month and you'll receive the weekly newsletter AND a monthly themed curated book list.   Become a Founder for $100 and you'll receive the weekly newsletter, the monthly curated book list, AND a personal thank you on the podcast, AND a Best Book Ever T-Shirt in your favorite color and style. Discussed in this episode:   Bob and Doug McKenzie The Handmaids Tale and Others by Margaret Atwood Louise Penny The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis World of Wonders by Robertson Davies Fifth Business by Robertson Davies Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison Farley Mowat To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice A Matter of Will by Rod Carley Kinmount by Rod Carley Lives of Girls and Women and Others by Alice Munroe Steven Leacock The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot The Embroidered Book by Kate Hartfield The Hollow Boys by Douglas Smith The Jade Setter of Janloon by Fonda Lee Changing Vision by Julie E. Czerneda Flash Forward Robert J Sawyer Flashforward TV series Rollback by Robert J Sawyer Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault by James Alan Gardner Eden's Eyes by Sean Costello Death Drives a Semi by Edo Van Belkom The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper The Long Way Back by Nicole Baart Samantha M. Bailey Giles Blunt Michael Connolly Linwood Barclay Into The Fire by Rick Mofina Hollow Place by Rick Mofina Requiem by Rick Mofina Canadian Werewolf Series The Line Painter by Claire Cameron The Bear by Claire Cameron The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan The Day The Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan The Color of Heaven by Julianne McClain Chasing the Wind by C.C. Humphries Someday I'll Find You by C.C. Humphries Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill Scott Overton   (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links. If you shop using my affiliate link on Bookshop, a portion of your purchase will go to me, at no extra expense to you. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores and for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)  

Overview Soulworm, the debut novel of Edward Willett, now the award-winning author of more than twenty novels and twice that many nonfiction books, has just been made available once more in a new edition from Shadowpaw Press Reprise.A young adult fantasy novel, Soulworm was originally published by Royal Fireworks Press in 1997, and was shortlisted for the Best First Book award at that year's Saskatchewan Book Awards. It was written in the 1980s while Willett was news editor of the Weyburn Review newspaper, and is set in Weyburn in 1984—which nowadays gives it a Stranger Things vibe, although at the time it was a present-day tale. Edward Willett is the award-winning author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages, including the Worldshapers series and the Masks of Agyrima trilogy (as E.C. Blake) for DAW Books and the YA fantasy series The Shards of Excalibur, originally published by Coteau Books. His most recent novel is the humorous space opera The Tangled Stars (DAW Books).Willett won Canada's top science fiction/fantasy award, the Aurora Award, for Best Long-Form Work in English in 2009 for Marseguro (DAW) and for Best Fan Related Work in 2019 for The Worldshapers podcast, and a Saskatchewan Book Award for Spirit Singer in 2002. He has been short-listed for Aurora and Saskatchewan Book Awards multiple times (most recently for his YA science fiction novel Star Song), and long-listed multiple times for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Website edwardwillett.com Book YouTube https://youtu.be/soin5a_PcvE Transcript Stephen: Today I want to welcome Edward back to the podcast. How are you doing, Edward? Edward: It's good to see you again. Stephen: Now that we're in winter, last time I talked to you, it was like negative 20 or something, and you were talking about walking around outside in the snow. Do you have a nice weather now? Edward: Is it actually over the weekend? It was more like 30, 31 Celsius. Put up around 90 Fahrenheit. So we've had some really helpful. Unfortunately, our air conditioning is broken. And so getting back fixed, but today it's quite cool. It's 18, I think for a high today. So Stephen: yeah. It's been awful humid here. We've had rain off and on for a couple of days, so it gets really humid and that's worse. I'd Edward: rather have heat. I went to university in Arkansas, so I know heat and humidity. And I was in marching band. Stephen: Oh, nice wool uniforms and stuff. Black ones at that. Oh, man, we had dark maroon and gold. You put that on and I played drums when you carry that big heavy equipment. Edward: Our drummers were lucky. They got to wear a kind of a peasant shirt with an open collar and something lighter. But all the rest of us were stuck in these winter weight woolen uniforms. Stephen: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. All right. It's good to have you back again. We've talked with you before about some of the books you've had, the anthologies, short stories, some of your other books. So today we're going to talk about a new book for you Edward: called soul. Yes. Although it's not really a new book. It's a, it's an old book and a new edition. It's my debut novel now out in a new edition. Stephen: Oh, that's awesome. In that, and that's probably why you suggested we talk a little bit later for the author stuff about revisiting and revising. Perfect. All right. So give us a little bit of the background history here of Soul Worm, how it fits into your overall list of books Edward: And when I came out of university, I had decided in high school that I wanted to be a writer, but I also knew you couldn't make a living as one. So I was actually working as a newspaper. I went into journalism. I was working as a newspaper reporter and then editor of my hometown newspaper. I was editor at the age of 24 of my newspaper back at Weyburn,

In this episode, Linda begins by speaking about the kinds of assumptions made about her because of her Italian-Canadian immigrant background - and then expands that consideration to show how making such assumptions can actually be harmful. Case in point? The Christie-Pitts riot on August 16, 1933. There have been two graphic novels written about this riot: one simply titled Christie Pitts and the other titled The Good Fight.A second case in point is the Japanese-Canadian internment camps during the Second World War. She considers four works of literature in Canada that address this subject:Joy Kogawa's ObasanFrances Itani's RequiemKerri Sakamoto's One Hundred Million HeartsMark Sakamoto's Forgiveness: A Gift from my GrandparentsThen, for the Takeaway, she invites scholar, Jennifer Andrews, who addresses narratives of exceptionality and demonstrates what function they serve (and whose) and why they persist. Using her book, Canada Through American Eyes (published by Palgrave in 2023), Jennifer chats with Linda about how narratives of exceptionality are rehearsed in both the United States and Canada - and why we need to challenge them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which we discuss a milestone in Canadian realism, Woodsmen of the West (1908). What does it tell us about the early logging industry, workers' rights, and masculinity? A lot actually! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---Further reading: Dean, Misao. “The Construction of Masculinity in Martin Allerdale Grainger's Woodsmen of the West.” Canadian Literature 149, 1996, pp. 74-87. Endicott, Stephen Lyon. “Woodsmen of the West.” Raising the Workers' Flag: The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936, University of Toronto Press, 2012, pp. 244–62. Grainger, M. Allerdale, Woodsmen of the West, New Canadian Library, 1908 [1973]. Tippett, Maria. “Butchering the Garden of Eden: Martin Allerdale Grainger.” Made In British Columbia: Eight Ways Of Making Culture, Harbour Publishing, pp. 30-50.

Jade Wallace's poetry, fiction, and essays have been published or are forthcoming in literary journals across Canada, the USA, England, Ireland, Sweden, New Zealand, and India, including This Magazine, Canadian Literature, and Hermine. They are the author of several chapbooks, most recently the collaborative A Trip to the ZZOO (Collusion Books) and A Barely Concealed Design (Puddles of Sky Press), and the solo Rituals of Parsing (Anstruther Press). Their debut full-length poetry collection, Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There is forthcoming from Guernica Editions in 2023. Their writing has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Windsor, has won the Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize, Coastal Shelf‘s ‘Funny & Poignant' Poetry Contest, and the Anita and Alistair MacLeod Prize, has been a finalist for the Wergle Flomp Humour Poetry Contest and the Writers of the Future Contest, and has been nominated for The Journey Prize. They are currently the Reviews Editor for CAROUSEL, an organizing member of Draft Reading Series, a member of The Writers' Union of Canada and The League of Canadian Poets, and the co-founder of MA|DE, a collaborative writing entity.

It's a time of Easter, new beginnings and Canadian Literature! This month, we're talking about the best that the Great White North has to offer to the world of books. Whether you know it or not, Canadians continue to contribute incredible stories to the world of literature to this day. It's high time that we […]

*SORRY FOR THE AUDIO, WE DID OUR BEST - IT WILL GET BETTER* In which Patrick presents the watershed Quebecois poet, Émile Nelligan, to his co-host who never even heard of him! ---Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---Sources & Further Reading: Brissette, Pascal. Nelligan dans tous ses états: Un mythe national, Montréal: Fides, 1998. Dole, Robert. Émile Nelligan's Homosexuality and Schizophrenia, Journal of Literature and Art Studies, April 2020, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 304-306. Hamish. “The First Poets, Part 1: “Gaydar Moments””, The Drummer's Revenge, 2009. Nelligan, Émile. The complete poems of Emile Nelligan, Harvest House, 1983. Michon, Jacques. “Nelligan, Émile.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 1998.

In which we are joined by long-time background guest and feminist extraordinaire, Camille Houle-Eichel, to talk about the early suffrage movements that emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries! We talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of those movements, stopping just short of the actual achievement of provincial or federal suffrage. ---Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---Sources/Further Reading: Cleverdon, Catherine. The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1950. Crawford, Isabella Valancy. “Malcolm's Katie”. "Old Spookses' Pass," "Malcolm's Katie" and other Poems, Toronto: James Bain and Son, 1884. McClung, Nellie. “Speaking to Women”. Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts. Vol 1. Ed. Cynthia Suggars and Laura Moss. Toronto: Pearson, 2009, pp. 533–39  Dorland, Michael, and Maurice R. Charland, “'Impious Civility': Woman's Suffrage and the Refiguration of Civil Culture, 1885-1929,” Law, Rhetoric and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture, 2002. Strong-Boag, Veronica. “Women's suffrage movement.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.   

Lawrence Hill's "Beatrice and Croc Harry," is a novel for tweens that's full of fantasy, adventure, and wordplay with underlying themes of segregation, racism, identity and belonging. The award-winning Canadian author talks to Nam Kiwanuka about why he chose to write a children's book, how he wove in those themes, and how the approach differs from crafting adult fiction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we discuss why the film Women Talking didn't work on every level. This includes the didactic screenplay, the bland and placeless production design, the typecasting, and the poor direction of group scenes. We are joined by special guest Dr. Angelo Muredda, who has a PhD in CanLit. To read the show notes and get the AI-generated transcript of the episode, click here. At Seventh Row, we've been long-time fans of Sarah Polley. We have even published episodes on her films Take This Waltz and Stories We Tell. Women Talking is her first bad, if well-intentioned, film. But it's been getting enormous Oscar buzz since its Telluride premiere. Angelo and Alex read the book by Miriam Toews, on which the film is based. We discuss the problems in the source text that get translated into the film — and how the film works (or doesn't) as a page-to-screen adaptation. This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, as well as special guest Dr. Angelo Muredda. About the film Women Talking Based on a true story that happened in Bolivia, Women Talking is a fictional reimagining with an alternate ending. Almost every woman and girl in a small Mennonite community has been raped in their sleep by men or boys in the community. Traumatized and beaten down, a group of women volunteers from three families convene for a couple of days to discuss what the women should do. They must decide whether to stay and fight or to leave. The film then follows them through their discussions. The film Women Talking was adapted from the Miriam Toewes novel of the same name by Sarah Polley. Timings 00:00 Introduction 04:40 Why are talking about Women Talking? 07:20 An overview of our problems with Women Talking 25:05 Adapting Miriam Toews's novel 34:00 The lack of specificity in Women Talking's depiction of a Mennonite community 36:50 The casting and performances in Women Talking 52:10 The film's treatment of its trans and disabled characters 1:06:05 Sarah Polley's direction and the film's cinematography 1:19:55 How Women Talking fits into CanLit 1:24:00 Why is this film resonating? Show Notes Read the 2019 New York Times article that Alex cites on the episode: in the piece, mennonites are interviewed about their thoughts on Miriam Toews's novel, Women Talking. Read Alex's interview with the writer-director of Felix & Meira, a film about a Hasidic Jewish woman who decides to leave her community. On the episode, Alex compares Women Talking to films about Hasidic Jews. Read Alex's interview with the writer-director of Menashe, a film about Hasidic Jews made with actors who are part of the Hasidic Jewish community. On the episode, Alex compares the depiction of mennonites in Women Talking to the depiction of Hasidic Jewish characters in Menace Read Angelo's recent review of Armageddon Time for Film Freak Central. Related episodes Ep. 43: Take This Waltz and Paper Year: Canadian marriage stories (Members Only) - We go deep on Sarah Polley's second feature, Take This Waltz, a film about a marriage breaking up, and compare it to another female-directed Canadian film about a troubled marriage, Paper Year. Ep. 40: Stories We Tell, Louder Than Bombs, & Mouthpiece: Dead mothers (Members Only): We discuss Sarah Polley's third feature, the creative nonfiction film Stories We Tell alongside two of our favourite films that are also about dead mothers. All three films were on Seventh Row's 50 favourite films of the decade list. Ep. 73: Promising Young Woman and The Assistant: Explorations of rape culture (Members only): We discuss two films that explore rape culture, one that does it thoughtfully (The Assistant) and one that does it poorly (Promising Young Woman). In the current episode, we regularly compare Women Talking to Promising Young Woman and refer back to this discussion in Ep. 73 Bonus 27: Empathy on film with Dr. Brett Pardy (FREE to everyone) - Dr. Pardy did his PhD research on how films can create empathy, and we discuss on Ep. 132 how Women Talking fails to create empathy. Where to find us Special Guest Angelo Muredda holds a PhD in disability studies on Canadian Literature and is a lecturer in the English department at Humber College. Angelo has also contributed to our ebook Portraits of resistance: The cinema of Céline Sciamma with an essay on the female gaze, and to our ebook Roads to nowhere: Kelly Reichardt's broken American dreams with an essay on Wendy and Lucy. You can find Angelo on Twitter and Instagram @amuredda. Host Alex Heeney is the Editor-in-Chief of Seventh Row. Find her on Twitter @bwestcineaste. Host Orla Smith is the Executive Editor of Seventh Row. Find her on Twitter @orlamango and on Instagram @orla_p_smith. Become a Member All of our episodes that are over 6 months old are available to members only. We also regularly record members only episodes. To get full access to the podcast, become a member at http://seventh-row.com/join

Emily Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, made a career writing poetry and prose and performing it onstage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Research:  "Pauline Johnson." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, vol. 23, Gale, 2003. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631008167/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=90bf3cec. Accessed 5 Oct. 2022. Chiefswood. https://chiefswoodnhs.ca/ Gary, Charlotte. “Flint & Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake.” Harper Flamingo Canada. 2002. Gerson, Carole. “Postcolonialism Meets Book History: Pauline Johnson and Imperial London.” From Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature. University of Ottawa Press. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1ckpc18.27 Gerson, Carole. “Rereading Pauline Johnson.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Volume 46, Number 2, Spring 2012. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/515012 Jones, Manina and Neal Ferris. “Flint, Feather, and Other Material Selves: Negotiating the Performance Poetics of E. Pauline Johnson.' American Indian Quarterly/spring 2017/Vol. 41, No. 2. Mobbs, Leslie. “E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), 1861 -1913.” https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2013/03/07/epaulinejohnson/ Piatote, Beth H. “Domestic Trials: Indian Rights and National Belonging in Works by E. Pauline Johnson and John M. Oskison.” American Quarterly , March 2011, Vol. 63, No. 1 (March 2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/41237533 Poetry Foundation. “Emily Pauline Johnson.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-pauline-johnson Quirk, Linda. "Labour of love: legends of Vancouver and the unique publishing enterprise that wrote E. Pauline Johnson into Canadian Literary History." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 47, no. 2, fall 2009, pp. 201+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A222315631/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=f22179cc. Accessed 5 Oct. 2022. Quirk, Linda. "Skyward floating feather: a publishing history of E. Pauline Johnson's Flint and Feather." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 44, no. 1, spring 2006, pp. 69+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A146635929/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=e93105ca. Accessed 5 Oct. 2022. Robinson, Amanda. "Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 24 January 2020, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pauline-johnson. Accessed 06 October 2022. Rogers, Janet. “E. Pauline Johnson Research at the NMAI, by Janet Rogers.” Via YouTube. 6/29/2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdBN-m_ZNI Rose, Marilyn J. “Johnson, Emily Pauline.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 1998. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johnson_emily_pauline_14E.html Rymhs, Deena. “But the Shadow of Her Story: Narrative Unsettlement, Self-Inscription, and Translation in Pauline Johnson's Legends of Vancouver.” Studies in American Indian Literatures , Winter 2001, Series 2, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter 2001). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20737034  Salyer, Greg. “Of Uncertain Blood: Tekahionwake/E. Pauline Johnson.” The Philosophical Research Society. 3/12/2020. Via YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs4LctCCYHA Strong-Boag, Veronica and Carole Gerson. “Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake.” University of Toronto Press. 2000. Van Kirk, Sylvia. “From "Marrying-In" to "Marrying-Out": Changing Patterns of Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Marriage in Colonial Canada.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies , 2002, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2002). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3347329 VanEvery, L.M. and Janet Marie Rogers. “The Road to Your Name - Season 1, Episode 2: E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake.” January 11, 2021. Podcast. https://theroadtoyournamepodcast.transistor.fm/2 Viehmann, Martha L. “Speaking Chinook: Adaptation, Indigeneity, and Pauline Johnson's British Columbia Stories.” Western American Literature , Fall 2012, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Fall 2012). https://www.jstor.org/stable/43023017 Weaver, Jace. “Native American Authors and Their Communities.” Wicazo Sa Review , Spring, 1997, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring, 1997). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1409163  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In which the boys talk about the first wave of Ukrainian immigration to Canada and its influence, with the help of Vasyl Stefanyk's 1899 story, "The Stone Cross".   Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory).   Further Reading: Balan, Jars. "Ukrainian-Canadian literature." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997. Hryniuk, S. & Luciuk, L., Canada's Ukrainians: Changing Perspectives, 1891-1991, University of Toronto Press, 1991. Petryshyn, Jaroslav. Peasants in the Promised Land : Canada and the Ukrainians, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 1985. Stefanyk, Vasyl. “The Stone Cross,” The Stone Cross, 1899. http://sites.utoronto.ca/elul/English/Bilenko/Stefanyk-Stone-Cross.pdf Swyripa, Frances. "Ukrainians." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.

The book of the moment for today's episode is Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Just a forewarning for those of you listening, this is NOT a spoiler-free zone. We will be discussing this book in all of its glory, which of course includes revealing the ending. Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels, including Gods of Jade and Shadow (Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Ignyte Award), Mexican Gothic (Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, Aurora Award, Goodreads Award), and Velvet Was the Night (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Macavity Award). She has edited several anthologies, including She Walks in Shadows (World Fantasy Award winner, published in the USA as Cthulhu's Daughters). Silvia is the publisher of Innsmouth Free Press. Her fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. She has an MA in Science and Technology Studies from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. If you enjoyed this episode, I encourage you to leave a review on whichever platform you are listening on, if applicable. If you have any further questions regarding topics discussed throughout the episode feel free to join our Hardcover Hoes Discord Server via the link in the show notes, or send us an email at hardcoverhoespod@gmail.com. Feel free to recommend books to cover in future episodes as well! Discord Server: https://discord.gg/zpvW4FyuPF TikTok, IG, Twitter: @HardcoverHoes Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/993967071461813/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In which we discuss the idea of the Canadian Pacific Railway - what it represents to Canada's myths, its symbolism, and its role in nation/state-building. We use works by E.J. Pratt, F.R. Scott, and G.M. Grant to help us think through this landmark moment in Canada's history. Get 2 months of free podcast hosting by going to: https://signup.libsyn.com/?promo_code=CANLIT --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Further Reading: Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Post-Confederation, BC Open Textbook, 2012. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/ Grant, G. M. Ocean to Ocean: Sandford Fleming's Expedition through Canada in 1872, James Campbell & Son, Toronto, 1873. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=VCNaAAAAcAAJ&pg=GBS.PR16&hl=en Jackel, David. “Ocean to Ocean: G. M. Grant's 'round unvarnish'd tale'.” Canadian Literature 81, Summer 1979, pp. 7-23. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=81 Pratt, E. J. Towards the Last Spike, Macmillan of Canada, 1952. https://www.trentu.ca/faculty/pratt/poems/texts/188/fr188annotated.html Scott, F. R. “All the Spikes But the Last.” The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott, 1981. https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/all-spikes-last

In which, using James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888), we talk about utopianism and postmodernism as it relates to Canada and its culture, past and present! It's a wild episode that goes everywhere, but we love it. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources & Further Reading: De Mille, James. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, Harper & Brothers, 1888.  https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ZG0mAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PP1.w.1.0.0&hl=en Parks, M. G. “Strange to Strangers Only,” Canadian Literature 70, 1976, pp. 61–78. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit70-Strange(Parks).pdf  Woodcock, George. “An Absence of Utopias.” Editorial. Canadian Literature 42, 1969, pp. 3–5. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit42-Editorial(Woodcock).pdf  Lamont-Stewart, Linda. “Rescued by Postmodernism: The Escalating Value of James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder,” Canadian Literature 145, 1995, pp. 21–36. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit145-Rescued(Stewart).pdf  Milnes, Stephen. “Colonialist Discourse, Lord Featherstone's Yawn and the Significance of the Denouement in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder,” Canadian Literature 145, 1995, pp. 86–104. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit145-Colonialist(Milnes).pdf Multineddu, Flavio. “A Tendentious Game with an Uncanny Riddle: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder.” Canadian Literature 145, 1995, pp. 62–81. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit145-Tendentious(Multineddu).pdf

Rebecca and Tara step outside of Canadian Literature for a moment to chat with author Kelsey Ronan who grew up in Flint, Michigan (as did Rebecca).  Kelsey's first novel, Chevy in the Hole, is a love letter to Flint.  The story chronicles the lives of August (Gus) and Monae and their path to one another.  Kelsey's work has appeared in Lit Hub, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review and elsewhere. She lives in Detroit and teaches for InsideOut Literary Arts.  Instagram: @k_j_r__ https://insideoutdetroit.org/  

In which we use Guy Vanderhaeghe's novel 'The Englishman's Boy' to discuss the Cypress Hills Massacre (1873) and how, in its aftermath, Canada fast-tracked the creation of the North-West Mounted Police. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com, Twitter (@CanLitHistory) & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources & Further Reading: Calder, Alison. "Unsettling the West: Nation and Genre in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy." Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, volume 25, number 2, fall 2000, p. 96–107. https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/scl25_2art05 Dempsey, Hugh A. “Cypress Hills Massacre.” The Montana Magazine of History, vol. 3, no. 4, 1953, pp. 1–9. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4515883. Janes, Daniela. “Truth and History: Representing the Aura in The Englishman's Boy.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, volume 27, number 1, spring 2002, p. 88–104. https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/scl27_1art07 Macleod, R. C. “North-West Mounted Police.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004. Vanderhaeghe, Guy. The Englishman's Boy, London: Anchor, 1996. Wang, Mei-Chuen. “Wilderness, the West and the national imaginary in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy.” British Journal of Canadian Studies (2013), 26, (1), pp. 21–38. https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2013.2 Zacharias, Robert. “A Desire for the Real: The Power of Film in The Englishman's Boy.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 2, 2009, pp. 245–263. https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/scl34_2art12

A group of kids on summer break use an app to hunt virtual ghosts. But, as is so often the case, when we play with the supernatural, the unexpected happens, and rules we don't understand come into play.A.C. Wise‘s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Apex, Shimmer, Tor.com, and The Best Horror of the Year Volume 10, among other places. The podcast version of her story Final Girl Theory, which appeared at Pseudopod, was a finalist for the 2013 Parsec Awards. Additionally, her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as twice more being a finalist for the award, and has been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She has two collections published with Lethe Press, and a novella published by Broken Eye Books. Along with her fiction, she contributes the Women to Read, and Non-Binary Authors to Read columns to The Book Smugglers.You can read The Stories We Tell About Ghosts at https://www.whiteenso.com/ghost-stories-2022Follow us on twitter at: Japanese Ghost Stories @ghostJapanese Instagram: WhiteEnsoJapanFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kaidankai100/Help me pay the contributors for their work. Donate to the Kaidankai through Ko-Fi. Thank you!https://ko-fi.com/kaidankaighoststories

“RED X,” David Demchuk's second novel, is about a series of disappearances from Toronto's gay community over a 40-year period (actually over 200 years), and the efforts of surviving friends and family to find out who or what is responsible. Interwoven is David Demchuk's own story as a horror writer, as a gay man, and as someone whose novel is breaching the boundaries of fiction and entering his life.Read the full show notes here: https://thinkqueerly.com/queerness-horror-memoir-and-toronto-lgbtq-history-in-red-x-a-new-novel-by-david-demchuk-f0874651dfa7About David DemchukAward-winning author David Demchuk has been writing for print, stage, digital and other media for more than 40 years. His debut horror novel The Bone Mother, published in 2017, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Toronto Book Award, the Kobzar Book Award and a Shirley Jackson Award in the Best Novel category. It won the 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in the Adult Fiction category. It was listed in the Globe and Mail's 100 best books of 2017, came in at #22 in the National Post's top 99 books of the year and became a #1 bestseller on Amazon.ca. His troubling new novel RED X was published by Strange Light in August 2021. He is represented by Barbara Berson of the Helen Heller Literary Agency. He currently lives in Toronto.Follow David on Instagram, Twitter, or visit his website to purchase his books.

In this episode, ShortCuts explores one of the methods of listening from the previous episode of The SpokenWeb Podcast. That episode, produced by Julia Polyck O'Neill, listens to the emotional weight of archives. Julia's conversations with poet Lisa Robertson uncover the ways in which archives record the relationships between memory, affect, and mortality. In this ShortCuts, producer Katherine McLeod listens to the emotional weight of archives through a recording of bpNichol, reading with Lionel Kearns in Montreal on November 22, 1968. How does the archive record loss? What can the archive never record? And what do we remember as listeners?EPISODE NOTESA fresh take on sounds from the past, ShortCuts is a monthly feature on The SpokenWeb Podcast feed and an extension of the ShortCuts blog posts on SPOKENWEBLOG. Stay tuned for monthly episodes of ShortCuts on alternate fortnights (that's every second week) following the monthly SpokenWeb podcast episode.Producer: Katherine McLeodHost: Hannah McGregorSupervising Producer: Judith BurrSHOW NOTESBowering, George. “bpNichol: 1944-1988.” The Long Poem / Remembering bp Nichol. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 122-123 (Autumn/Winter 1989): 294-297.McGregor, Hannah. “The Voice Is Intact: Finding Gwendolyn MacEwen in the Archive.” The SpokenWeb Podcast, 6 April 2020.Polyck-O'Neill, Julia. “Lisa Robertson and the Feminist Archive.” The SpokenWeb Podcast. 1 November 2021.Pound, Scott. “Sounding out the Difference: Orality and Repetition in bpNichol.” Open Letter: bp + 10 (Fall 1998) 50-58.Singh, Julietta. No Archive Will Restore You. Punctum Books, 2018.AUDIO CLIPSAudio for this ShortCuts is clipped from a recording of Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980 available on PennSound, a partner affiliate of the SpokenWeb research network, and from a recording of bpNichol and Lional Kearns from the Sir George Williams Poetry Series audio collection.Nichol, bp. “Pome Poem.” PennSound – and a link to the same recording is also available on the official bpNichol archive.“I wanted to forget you.” bpNichol reading with Lional Kearns. Sir George Williams Poetry Series. Montreal, 22 November 1968. https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/bpnichol-and-lionel-kearns-at-sgwu-1968/#1

In this episode, SpokenWeb contributor Julia Polyck-O'Neill shares an archived recording of Canadian poet Lisa Robertson with us and talks us through two interviews she recorded with Robertson. Polyck-O'Neill invites us to consider the significance of Robertson's intimate archival collections in light of the relationships between archives, memory, affect, and mortality. In examining these conceptual, material and immaterial dimensions of the archive within Robertson's personal narrative history of the Kootenay School of Writing, Polyck-O'Neill points to how creative and feminist approaches to the archive and to archival practice are exist within Robertson's practice. Polyck-O'Neill shares with us how Robertson's archives are influencing her research and the ways she approaches the topic of archives and intimacy in her work and her life more broadly.Addendum: Listening NotesNancy Shaw (1962-2007), a celebrated curator, poet, writer, and organizer, at times collaborated with Lisa Robertson and also wrote work in dialogue with Robertson's poetry. Robertson wishes to mention how greatly the absence of her good friends Shaw, Stacy Doris (d. 2012), and Peter Culley (d. 2015) has affected her. Additionally,  XEclogue was, in fact, Robertson's first book, although she published chapbooks prior; additionally, she does not think of her books as collections, as they are written as single, cohesive works. The new edition of R's Boat is titled Boat and is being published by Coach House in Spring 2022.  SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about SpokenWeb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada. Episode Producer:Julia Polyck-O'Neill is an artist, curator, critic, poet, and writer. A former lecturer at the Obama Institute at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (2017-18) and international fellow of the Electronic Literature Organization, she is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Visual Art and Art History and the Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology at York University (Toronto) where she studies digital, feminist approaches to interdisciplinary artists' archives. Her writing has been published in Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (The Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History), English Studies in Canada, DeGruyter Open Cultural Studies, BC Studies, Canadian Literature, and other places. CitationsCvetkovich, Ann. An Archive of Feelings. Duke University Press, 2003. Fong, Deanna and Karis Shearer. “Gender, Affective Labour, and Community-Building Through Literary Audio Artifacts.” No More Potlucks, 2018, http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/gender-affective-labour-and-community-building-through-literary-audio-artifacts-deanna-fong-and-karis-shearer/. Accessed 1 Dec. 2019.  Morra, Linda. Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Women's Authorship. University of Toronto Press, 2014. Robertson, Lisa. “At the Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1994: Launch of XEclogue on January 8, 1994.” PennSound, n.d., https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Robertson/Robertson-Lisa_Reading_Kootenay-School_Vancouver_01-%2008-1994.mp3. Accessed 1 Sept. 2021. Singh, Julietta. No Archive Will Restore You. Punctum, 2018. Taylor, Diana. The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Duke University Press, 2003. Music Credits:Clouds at Castor Ridge by Zander on Blue Dot Sessions: https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/69017 Kothbiro by Real Vocal String Quartet on Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Real_Vocal_String_Quartet#contact-artist Sunsets and Rockers by Rebecca Foon on Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rebecca_Foon/Live_At_CKUT_on_Montreal_Sessions/03_Sunsets_And_Rockers

Today, we are welcoming you to Season 3 by reintroducing and replaying an episode that exemplifies what our podcast is all about. In January 2020, we released the episode “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Elizabeth Smart” created by researcher and producer Myra Bloom. To kick off this season, Hannah and Myra sat down for a new introductory conversation that puts Myra's past episode in the context of the SpokenWeb project's values and Myra's forthcoming podcast series. Then, we invite you to listen to the voice of Elizabeth Smart again, or for the first time, and consider what caring for and sharing the sounds of literary archives means to you. Over the years, Elizabeth Smart's 1945 novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept has risen from obscurity to cult classic. The book, which details an ill-fated love affair between an unnamed narrator and her married lover, is celebrated for its lyricism, passionate intensity, and its basis in Elizabeth's real-life relationship with the poet George Barker. After publishing By Grand Central Station, Smart lapsed into a thirty-year creative silence during which time she worked as an advertising copywriter and single-parented four children. In this poetic reflection, Myra Bloom weaves together archival audio with first-person narration and interviews to examine both the great passion that fueled By Grand Central Station and the obstacles that prevented Elizabeth from recreating its brilliance.Featured in this episode are Sina Queyras, a poet and teacher currently working on an academic project about Elizabeth; Maya Gallus, a celebrated documentarian whose first film, On the Side of the Angels, was about Elizabeth; Kim Echlin, author of Elizabeth Smart: A Fugue Essay on Women and Creativity; and Rosemary Sullivan, Elizabeth's biographer. This episode also features archival audio of Elizabeth in conversation at Memorial University (1983) and reading at Warwick University in England (1982).SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.Producer Bio:Myra Bloom is Assistant Professor of Canadian literature at York University-Glendon campus. She is currently writing a book called Evasive Maneuvers about Canadian women's confessional writing, including Elizabeth Smart, and is preparing a SSHRC-funded podcast on the same topic.Guest BiosKim Echlin is a novelist. Her novel, The Disappeared, was short-listed for the Giller Prize. She has written a biography of Elizabeth Smart titled Elizabeth Smart: A Fugue Essay on Women and Creativity in which she discussed the work and life of Elizabeth Smart in the context of writing, motherhood, and earning a living. Her new novel will appear next year.Maya Gallus is an award winning documentary filmmaker whose work screens at numerous international film festivals. Most recently, The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution, was the opening night film at the 2017 Hot Docs Film Festival and the 2018 Berlinale Culinary Cinema programme. She is also recognized for her critically acclaimed literary biographies, The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche and Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels. Sina Queyras is a Canadian writer, editor, and creative writing professor at Concordia University. They have published seven collections of poetry, a novel and an essay collection. Their third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, received the Pat Lowther Award and Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, and their fourth, Expressway, was shortlisted for the 2009 Governor General's Award for poetry. They are currently researching Elizabeth Smart for an academic project.Rosemary Sullivan is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and the author of By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, A Life. She has published fourteen books in the multiple genres of biography, memoir, poetry, travelogue, and short fiction. Her biography Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen won numerous prizes including the Governor General's Non-Fiction Award. Her latest book, Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, published in 23 countries, won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize, the BC National Non-Fiction Award, the RBC Charles Taylor prize, the Plutarch Biographers International Award and was a finalist for American PEN /Bograd Weld Prize and the U.S. National Books Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.Special thanks to Vineeta Patel for transcription help. Donna Downey at the MUN archives. The Glendon Media Lab. Aisha Jamal, Ali Weinstein, Heather White, Lauren Neefe, Sarah O'Brien, Lynn Bloom, Leonard Bloom, Lana Swartz for feedback.Credits:Warwick Archive (2019, Nov). Elizabeth Smart – English Writers at Warwick Archive. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/writingprog/archive/writers/smartelizabeth/280182.MUN Archive Video Collection. (pre 1994). Elizabeth Smart: Canadian Writer. http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/extension/id/2981.All the music in this episode is by Blue Dot Sessions.Clips Featured in Introduction:The voices of Michael O'Driscoll, Annie Murray, and Jason Camlot from Stories of SpokenWebA clip of Mavis Gallant from Mavis Gallant Reads “Grippes and Poche” at SFUThe voices of Kate Moffat, Kandice Sharren, and Michelle Levy from Mavis Gallant, Part 2: The ‘Paratexts' of “Grippes and Poche” at SFUA clip of Muriel Rukeyser and the voice of Katherine McLeod from ShortCuts minisode You Are HereMusic in the introduction is Lick Stick by Nursery from Blue Dot Sessions.Tape noise sound effects from FreeSound.org.

David Demchuk has been writing for print, stage, digital, and other media for nearly 40 years. His debut horror novel The Bone Mother, published in 2017, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Toronto Book Award, the Kobzar Book Award, and a Shirley Jackson Award in the Best Novel category. It won the 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in the Adult Fiction category. It was listed in the Globe and Mail's 100 best books of 2017, came in at #22 in the National Post's top 99 books of the year and became a #1 bestseller on Amazon.ca. About RED X: Men are disappearing from Toronto's gay village. They're the marginalized, the vulnerable. One by one, stalked and vanished, they leave behind small circles of baffled, frightened friends. Against the shifting backdrop of homophobia throughout the decades, from the HIV/AIDS crisis and riots against raids to gentrification and police brutality, the survivors face inaction from the law and disinterest from society at large. But as the missing grow in number, those left behind begin to realize that whoever or whatever is taking these men has been doing so for longer than is humanly possible. Woven into their stories is David Demchuk's own personal history, a life lived in fear and in thrall to horror, a passion that boils over into obsession. As he tries to make sense of the relationship between queerness and horror, what it means for gay men to disappear, and how the isolation of the LGBTQ+ community has left them profoundly exposed to monsters that move easily among them, fact and fiction collide and reality begins to unravel. A bold, terrifying new novel from the award-winning author of The Bone Mother.

Welcome to The Fourth U Dimension, the official podcast of The Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York. This podcast is managed by the Religious Education team, and exists to help dive deeper into the important questions of our moment. Today's podcast features Nora Samaran and a discussion of nurture, culture, and making change. Naava Smolash, who sometimes writes under the pen name Nora Samaran, is a community organizer based in Vancouver and Montreal, and teaches in the English department at Douglas College. Her writing appears in academic and popular publications including Lit Hub, Everyday Feminism, Room Magazine, Briarpatch, West Coast Line, English Studies in Canada, Studies in Canadian Literature, Dwutigodnik, and the University of Toronto Quarterly. Her essay “The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture” went viral in 2016 and grew into the book Turn This World Inside Out: the Emergence of Nurturance Culture (AK Press, 2019). She is currently working on a speculative fiction novel tentatively titled We Live at the River. Further reading list here: https://norasamaran.com/2016/03/28/resources-for-dealing-with-conflict-and-harm/ Her book is at: https://bookshop.org/a/17191/9781849353588 The nurturance essay is at: https://norasamaran.com/2016/02/11/the-opposite-of-rape-culture-is-nurturance-culture-2/ Her most recent piece, Coercive Persuasion and the Alignment of the Everyday, is at: https://norasamaran.com/2021/01/14/new-post-in-progress/

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This episode was created by SpokenWeb contributors Deanna Fong (Concordia University) and Michael O'Driscoll (University of Alberta), with additional audio courtesy of the radiofreerainforest Fonds at Simon Fraser University's Special Collections; the Hartmut Lutz Collection, made digitally available by the SSHRC-funded People and the Text project (https://thepeopleandthetext.ca/); and support from Jason Camlot, Hannah McGregor, Stacey Copeland, and Judith Burr. Special thanks to Deanna Reder and Alix Shield of The People and the Text Project, and to Mathieu Aubin, bill bissett, Hartmut Lutz, Maria Campbell, and T.L. Cowan for permission to share interview and performance audio. SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.Episode Producers:Deanna Fong is a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University where her research project, “Towards an Ethics of Listening in Literary Study” intersects the fields of Oral History and Literature through an investigation of interviewing and listening practices. She co-directs the audio/multimedia archives of Fred Wah, and has done significant cataloguing and critical work on the audio archives of Roy Kiyooka. Her critical work appears in the recent publications Canlit Across Media (MQUP, 2019) and Pictura: Essays on the Works of Roy Kiyooka (Guernica Editions, 2020). With Karis Shearer, she co-edited Wanting Everything: The Collected Works of Gladys Hindmarch (Talonbooks, 2020).Michael O'Driscoll is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies in the Faculty of Arts, and Special Advisor to the Provost as Convenor for Congress 2021 at the University of Alberta. He teaches and publishes in the fields of critical and cultural theories with a particular emphasis on deconstruction and psychoanalysis, and his expertise in Twentieth-Century American Literature focuses on poetry and poetics as a form of material culture studies. His interests in material culture range from sound studies, archive theory, radical poetics, and technologies of writing to the energy humanities and intermedia studies. He is a Governing Board Member and a member of the UAlberta research team for the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership Grant.Interviewees:Mathieu Aubin is a Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University where he is co-leading the Oral Literary History project. His work currently focuses on the role of literary events in advancing LGBTQ2+ social justice initiatives in Canada since the second half of the twentieth century. He has published on queerness and feminism in Vancouver's small presses and literary magazines in Canadian Literature.Clint Burnham was born in Comox, British Columbia, which is on the traditional territory of the K'ómoks (Sathloot) First Nation, centred historically on kwaniwsam. He lives and teaches on the traditional ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including traditional territories of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ), Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), and Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm) Nations. Clint is Professor and Chair of the Graduate Program, Department of English, Simon Fraser University and works on psychoanalysis, Marxist theory, Indigenous literature, and digital culture. His most recent book is Does the Internet have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture, (Bloomsbury, 2018), and he is co-editing, with Paul Kingsbury, Lacan and the Environment forthcoming in 2021 from Palgrave. (Photo by Chris Brayshaw)Treena Chambers is a Métis scholar who has worked as a bookseller, union organizer, researcher, and writer. She has a BA from SFU in International Studies and is currently a Masters' student in the SFU School of Public Policy. She brings her experience as a mature student and her Métis background into her studies of decolonization and identity. Her 2018 essay "Hair Raizing" was shortlisted by the Indigenous Voices Awards, as well her 2020 work "Forest Fires and Falling Stars." She has also contributed work to the book "unsettling EDUCATIONAL MODERNISM".T.L. Cowan is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Digital Media Cultures) in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC) and the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto. T.L.'s research focuses on cultural and intellectual economies and networks of trans- feminist and queer (TFQ) and other minoritized digital media and performance practices. This work includes a monograph, entitled Transmedial Drag and Other Cross-Platform Cabaret Methods, nearing completion. T.L. is also a performance artist, who appears in alter-ego form on cabaret stages and in video screens as Mrs Trixie Cane. Credits:The following are Creative Commons attribution licensesTake Me To the Cabaret by Billy MurrayOld phonograph “Cabaret”https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_Various_Artists/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_05052009/Take_Me_to_the_CabaretNight on the Docks by Kevin McLeodhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Jazz_Sampler/Night_on_the_Docks_-_SaxBlur the World by Tagirijushttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Manuel_Senfft/Easy_2018/manuel_senfft_-_blur_the_worldQueer Noise by isabel nogueira e luciano zanattahttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/isabel_nogueira_e_luciano_zanatta/unlikely_objects/07_-_isabel_nogueira_e_luciano_zanatta_-_unlikely_objects_objetos_improvveis_-_queer_noiseThe following are spoken word performance clipsMathieu Aubin interviews bill bissett, courtesy of recordist.“Mayakovsky” by the Four Horsemen, courtesy of Radiofreerainforest, Simon Fraser University, Special Collections and Rare Books. Hartmut Lutz interviews Maria Campbell, courtesy of The People and the Text, T.L. Cowan performance of Mrs. Trixie Cane at Edgy Women Festival, courtesy of performer.

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Ella Burakowski, the author of "Hidden Gold: A True Story of the Holocaust".  Ella explains how her family survived the Holocaust.

This episode of The SpokenWeb Podcast is a little different than episodes you've heard from us before. It is a kind of “feminist memory-work” - An audio collage, a method, an approach to community building which aims to honor lesbian-feminist collective histories and renewed public attention to lesbian feminist culture.Episode producers – Felicity Tayler, Mathieu Aubin and Scott Girouard - cordially invite you into their feminist sonic memory world: A three-part audio collage of “Lesbian Liberation Across Media”. A virtual film screening and discussion held Summer 2020 in partnership with SpokenWeb, and featuring three iconic lesbian feminist films: “A Working Women's Collective” (1974), “Labyris Rising” (1980), and “Proud Lives: Christine Bearchell”(2007). Through a weaving together of the voices of over 60 participants in attendance, along with original music scores, archival clips and more - we ask, how do we listen to Canadian lesbian liberation movements across media? Whether it's a feature length film or a spirited virtual chat session, this audio collage episode invites you to experience a citational politics that makes audible the intergenerational relationships, conflicting concerns, nostalgic reveries, and a sense of togetherness while apart in the pandemic-related time of crisis.Episode Producers: Felicity Tayler is the E-Research Librarian at University of Ottawa with a portfolio in Research Data Management and currently the PhD Interim Head, Research Services Arts & Special Collections uOttawa. She is an occasional visual artist and curator, and has published scholarly writing related to literary archives in anthologies, in Journal of Canadian Art History,Canadian Literature, and Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture.Mathieu Aubin is a scholar on print and performance cultures in Canada. He completed his PhD at UBC and is now an Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University where he holds a leadership position within the “Oral Literary History” research component of the SpokenWeb project. As part of this project, he is working towards recuperating queer people's contributions to Canadian literary culture. His work on queerness, literary communities, and Vancouver has been published in the journal Canadian Literature.Scott Girouard is a Front-End Developer based in Toronto, Canada with a lifelong background in music and creative practice. Acknowledgements:Additional Voiceover by Emma MiddletonMusic by Scott Girouard and Mathieu AubinThanks to Stacey Copeland, Hannah McGreggor, Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod, Constance Crompton, Michelle Schwartz, Rachel E Beattie, Raegan Swanson, May Ning, Jake Moore, Becki Ross, Amy Gotlieb, Rachel Epstein, Maureen FitzGerald, Marusya Bociurkiw, Baylee Woodley, Elspeth Brown, Stark (pseudonym) .Humanities Data Lab at U Ottawa, SpokenWeb, Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada Project, University of Toronto Media Commons Archives, ArQuives  , VTape, VIVO Archives References:Anger, Kenneth, director. Scorpio Rising. Ruban VHS, 1964.Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex'. Routledge, 1993.Godard, Baraba. Gynocritics: Feminist Approaches to Canadian and Quebec Women's Writing.ECW P, 1987.Media Mothers, directors. A Working Women's Collective. 1974.Moores, Margaret, director. Labyris Rising. V Tape, 1980.Navas, Eduardo. Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling. Ambra Verlag, 2014.Nicol, Nancy, director. Proud Lives: Chris Bearchell. V Tape, 2007.Ross, Becki. The House that Jill Built. U of Toronto P, 1995.