Podcasts about coach house books

My guest on this very Toronto-centric episode is Shawn Micallef. Shawn is an author whose books include Full Frontal TO, The Trouble With Brunch, and Frontier City. He's a weekly columnist at the Toronto Star, and a senior editor and co-founder of Spacing magazine. His most recent book is a fully updated version of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, originally published by Coach House Books in 2010. The updated version was published in 2024, also by Coach House. Author Douglas Coupland called Stroll "a smart and intimate guide to the city that makes you feel like an insider from start to finish."Shawn and I talk about his decision to finally abandon his Twitter account, which had been a big part of how he explored cities, about how updating Stroll turned out to be a more onerous task than he'd originally thought, and about how writing a weekly newspaper column and becoming a parent has a funny way of delaying big new book projects.This podcast is produced and hosted by Nathan Whitlock, in partnership with The Walrus.Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest on this episode is Martha Baillie. Martha is the author of multiple works of fiction, including the novel The Incident Report, published by Coach House Books in 2009 and longlisted for the Giller Prize. Darkest Miriam, a feature film based on that novel, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this year and had its Canadian premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, where it won the DGC Best Director prize. Her most recent book is the memoir There Is No Blue, which was published in 2023, yet again by Coach House, and recently won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize For Nonfiction. The Guardian called the book “tough, tender, and compelling." Martha and I talk about her continuing post-award high, about strangers sharing with her their stories of mental health struggles, and about the oddity—but also delight!—of relatively late-career success. This podcast is produced and hosted by Nathan Whitlock, in partnership with The Walrus. Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission.

My guest on this episode is Tamara Faith Berger. Tamara is an author and screenwriter whose books include Lie With Me, which she helped adapt into a feature film, The Way of the Whore (later republished by Coach House Books as Little Cat), Maidenhead, Kuntalini and Queen Solomon. She has been nominated for the Trillium Book Award and won the Believer Book Award. Two films for which she wrote the screenplays will be premiering in 2025. Tamara's most recent book is the novel Yara, published in 2023 by Coach House Books. The Toronto Star and the Globe & Mail selected it as one of the best books of that year. Publishers Weekly said that “this provocative coming-of-age story … raises questions about sexuality, power, and the intersection of the personal and the political." Tamara and I talk about mainstream Canadian literary culture's discomfort with her work's signature combination of deep ideas and frank sexuality, about the complicated experience of publishing a novel that explores Jewish identity and its relationship to Israel in the fall of 2023, and the total coincidence that led to her having two films appearing in one year. This podcast is produced and hosted by Nathan Whitlock, in partnership with The Walrus. Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission.

Author/Journalist Shawn Micallef talks about moving from Windsor to Toronto in 2000, co-founding Spacing Magazine, morphing from writing for Eye Weekly to the Toronto Star, using psychogeography as the backbone of his first book STROLL, the immense ongoing changes in Toronto that led to his recently revising that book, his thoughts on Toronto Star colleague Edward Keenan/urbanist Richard Florida/Mayor Olivia Chow, and why he believes Toronto is like an infinite onion whose layers simply need to be peeled back!   Shawn's newly revised version of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto is published by Coach House Books and available at https://chbooks.com/Books/S/Stroll-updated-edition Shawn will be appearing live as part of the Toronto International Festival of Authors [TIFA] on September 26 at ‘The Heart of the City: Celebrating Toronto'...full details are at https://festivalofauthors.ca/event/the-heart-of-the-city/ TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scandal at the Hugo Awards; Do straight guys hate novels?; writer Kazim Ali is our guest to talk about his novel, Indian Winter, Coach House Books' submission for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada. Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, give us a follow at: X: Across the Pond, Galley Beggar Press, Interabang Books, Lori Feathers, Sam JordisonInstagram: Across the Pond, Galley Beggar Press, Interabang Books, Lori Feathers, Sam JordisonFacebook: Across the Pond, Galley Beggar Press, Interabang BooksTheme music by Carlos Guajardo-Molina

My guest on this episode is Rob Benvie. Rob is the author of three novels, including Safety of War and Maintenance, both published by Coach House Books. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, Dazed, Vice, Joyland, The Puritan, CNQ, and Best Canadian Essays. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the 2021 film Stanleyville. Rob was a founding member of the band Thrush Hermit, and performs and records solo as Tigre Benvie. Rob's most recent novel, Bleeding Light, was published in 2021 by Invisible Press. Author Liz Harmer called Bleeding Light "bizarre, terrifying, and wise." Rob's upcoming novel, Book of the Flock, will be published by Knopf Canada in 2025. Rob and I talk about how doing novel revisions can be a little bit like a band reunion, how, despite having a successful career as a musician and songwriter, it might be the case that he was a writer all along, and how being published by a multinational is not quite the same as a band signing with a major label (he hopes).   Rob Benvie: robbenvie.com Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission. Contact Nathan Whitlock at nathanwhitlock.ca/contact  

In Episode 140, Gen and Jette get to revisit one of their favourite books, Paper Houses, with the sequel, Pale Shadows. Dominique Fortier's follow-up to her reimagining of Emily Dickinson's life, traces the publication of Dickinson's poems after her death and the women who helped it happen. Obviously we loved this. It's time to add every Emily Dickinson collection to our reading lists. Show Notes We learned a lot about the process of readying Emily's poems for publication, which included removing dashes and deciding on which word Emily intended for the poem. There are several different collections with slightly different versions of the poems. The one being published in Pale Shadows was edited and transcribed by Mabel. A later edition was done by her daughter, Millicent. Shout out to Coach House Books for never steering us wrong. Paper Houses was the first book of theirs we ever read on the podcast. If you haven't listened yet, check out Episode 26 on Paper Houses. Emily Dickinson's Herbarium was also published and it has been digitized by Harvard Library for anyone to look through. In our next episode we'll be reading James Baldwin's essay collection, Notes of a Native Son. Other Books and Media Mentioned Dickinson (HBO TV series) The Letters of Emily Dickinson Other Coach House Books Episodes 36: Disfigure by Amanda LeDuc 51: 2020 Fall Releases 62: Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne 74: And Miles to Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier 88: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu 117: Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We'd love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

Né en 1978, Grégoire Courtois a publié au Quartanier Révolution, Suréquipée et Les lois du ciel. Ces deux derniers titres ont été repris en poche par Folio, et Les lois du ciel est paru en anglais chez Coach House Books sous le titre The Laws of the Skies, remarqué par le New York Times et l'écrivain Brian Evenson, qui l'a inclus dans sa liste des dix romans d'horreur les plus terrifiants. Grégoire Courtois vit et travaille à Auxerre, où il tient la librairie indépendante Obliques.

Can smart cities truly deliver on their promises of innovation and sustainability? On Deep Dish, author and winner of the Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award, John Lorinc joins host Brian Hanson to navigate the intersection of urban planning technology and ethical concerns in his book Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias.  Related Content:  Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopia, John Lorinc, Coach House Books, August 23, 2022  Meet the Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award winner and finalists and submit books for the 2024 award!  2023 Pritzker Forum on Global Cities: Harnessing AI: Tools for Urban Leaders, Event, November 13-15, 2023  Your Data Were ‘Anonymized'? These Scientists Can Still Identify You, Gina Kolata, New York Times, July 23, 2019    This episode is brought to you by UL Solutions. 

Jonathan welcomes Canadian Novelist Suzette Mayr, winner of the Giller Prize for her novel The Sleeping Car Porter, published by Coach House Books. Mayr talks about growing up in a haunted house, how it influenced her writing, and much more. You can find Mayr's work in this anthology of horror short stories: https://www.littleghostsbooks.com/product/what-draws-us-near/1045 For more of Jonathan's work: https://twitter.com/jonathanballcom https://www.instagram.com/jonathanballcom/ https://www.strangerfiction.ca/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strangerfiction/message

On working for ourselves, creating what we love and the science behind clean skincare. Lisa Mattam is a proven and passionate entrepreneur. Named by Profit Magazine as one of the Top Ten Emerging Women Entrepreneurs in Canada and recognized by the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce as Female Entrepreneur of the Year, Lisa has become a thought leader in entrepreneurship and resilience, and the advancement of women and diversity. She is a frequent commentator on these topics and has been quoted in a variety of media including Fast Company, The Globe and Mail, CBC, and The Toronto Star. With her first venture The Mattam Group, she grew a consulting firm with clients in Canada, the US, Latin America, and the UAE. More specifically, she equipped Fortune 500 companies like Walmart with the tools to keep women in the C-Suite and advance diversity in the workplace. Notably, she co-authored the report, “Mom's the Word: How Organizations can Change the Impact of Motherhood on Career Success” and was a contributor to the book, “Five Good Ideas”, published by Coach House Books. Building on that success, Lisa launched Sahajan, an evidence-based natural skincare line based on the Ancient Science of Ayurveda. With Sahajan, Lisa brings together her entrepreneurial background and her knowledge from over 15 years working in and consulting to the pharmaceutical industry to create a skincare collection that since its launch has been featured in Vogue Paris, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Forbes, and is distributed in Canada and the US in retailers such as Indigo, The Detox Market & The Bay. Lisa was the only Canadian to be selected for Sephora's Inaugural Beauty Accelerator. In 2021, The Atelier named her Entrepreneur of the Year and BMO offered a grant to Sahajan for her leadership in Beauty x Sustainability. As a listener of the Practice You Podcast, you have a 20% off code at https://sahajan.com/elenabrower  Use code ELENA at checkout for 20% off your purchase.  

In Episode 117, Gen and Jette discuss a new release from Coach House Books — Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras, translated by Rhonda Mullins. We always love the unique books from Coach House, and this one is no exception. Show NotesObviously we talked about Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier (also translated by Rhonda Mullins).The books we read from Coach House never fail to make us looks at writing in a fresh way and spark our creativity. Shout out to Rhonda Mullins for her amazing translation of so many wonderful books!In our next episode we'll be talking about Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu KawaguchiOther Coach House EpisodesLesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne 2020 Fall Releases (The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges, Fauna by Christiane Vadnais, The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann) Disfigured by Amanda Leduc Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier And Miles to Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We'd love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

Sam and Lori explore Nikolai Gogol's extraordinary short story, The Nose, and Suzette Mayr joins the show to talk about her Giller Prize winning novel, The Sleeping Car Porter, nominated by Coach House Books for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada

It's time for a fall hang out episode, which means it's also our podcast anniversary! We're celebrating 4 years of awesome books, reading discoveries, and so much more. In four years, we've recorded 105 episodes that have listeners in over 70 countries, and we're pretty proud of that! A huge thank you to all our listeners who've been with us over the years, and a welcome to all our new listeners! Show Notes Shout out to Coach House Books and House of Anansi Press, as always. We love reading and chatting about the books they send us. Speaking of Coach House, two of their books have made the Scotiabank Giller Prize short list — Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu, which we did and episode on, and The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr. If you're in Toronto (or if you feel like visiting), Word on the Street and TCAF (Toronto Comic Arts Festival) are two book festivals that are worth checking out. Two indie publishers we learned about at Word on the Street this year are Stelliform Press and Invisible Publishing and we hope to work with them in future episodes! Do you feel guilty for reading graphic novels too quickly? Books & Media Mentioned *There were a lot, so apologies if we missed any! Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu The Low Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado with DaNi The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona The Autumnal by Daniel Krausand and Chris Shehan Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Book 1: The Crucible by Robert Aguirre-Sacasa with Robert Hack The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV with Alvaro Martinez Wytches by Scott Snyder and Jock Swamp Thing The Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater Blue in Green by Anand Rk and Ram V Killadelphia by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander Seance Tea Party by Reimena Yee The End of Everything (Astophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera Destroyer by Victor Lavalle Stillwater by Chip Zdarsky and Ramón K. Pérez Making a Scene by Constance Wu The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Michale E. Brown Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno Garcia Lilith by George MacDonald The Changeling by Victor Lavalle Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater Be Scared of Everything by Peter Counter It Came From the Closet edited by Joe Vallese Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We'd love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

It's our 100th episode! We're celebrating by talking about all our favourite moments from the podcast over the last few years, including our favourite episodes, interviews, and books. The podcast has evolved a lot since we started and we've both expanded our reading — which was the entire point! Achievement unlocked. We're so excited to keep growing and evolving. A huge thank you to all of our listeners for sticking with us and helping make this community so amazing! Show Notes: The coffee shop that Jette visited in Concord is Haute Coffee. Be sure to check out Coach House Books, one of our favourite indie Toronto publishers! Have you listened to our top five most listened to episodes? Here they are in order: 1. The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan 2. The Institute by Stephen King 3. Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman 4. To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins 5. Another Country by James Baldwin Visit Hay-on-Wye, Wales to visit all the bookstores. Our next episode is all about setting as character. We'll be drawing a bit on our blog post, and exploring more books that fall in this category. Will we talk about Mexican Gothic again? Probably. Keep an eye on our Instagram account so you can join our Little Women watch party! We'll be having two — one for the 1994 adaptation and one for the Greta Gerwig adaptation. Books and Authors Mentioned The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Renee Marie Lavoie Hawkeye by Matt Fraction & David Aja Fun Home by Alison Bechdel The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade Be Scared of Everything: Horror Essays by Peter Counter Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Fairy Tale by Stephen King Sadie by Courtney Summers Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughn & Cliff Chiang Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We'd love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

From the Coach House Books website: Ken Babstock won Canada's inaugural Latner Writer's Trust Poetry Prize in 2014 for a body of work in mid-career. His fourth collection, Methodist Hatchet (Anansi, 2011), won The Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry and was a finalist for The Trillium Book Award. His previous collections of poetry include, Mean (1999), winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Milton Acorn People's Poet Award, Days into Flatspin (2001), winner of a K.M. Hunter Award and finalist for the Winterset Prize, and Airstream Land Yacht (2006), finalist for The Griffin Prize for Poetry, The Governor General's Literary Award, and The Winterset Prize, and winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. His poems have won Gold at the National Magazine Awards, been widely anthologized in Canada, the UK, the US, and Ireland, most recently in The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature in English, and translated into Dutch, German, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, and French. All five previous titles were named Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year. Recent poems have appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, and in Best of The Best Of Canadian Poetry. A book length poem, On Malice, written while in Berlin as one of DAAD's International Artist Residents in 2011/12, was published in fall 2014 by Coach House Books to wide critical acclaim. Ken Babstock was born in Newfoundland and now lives in Toronto with his son. You can purchase a copy of Swivelmount here. You can follow Ken on Twitter here. As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried send me a message on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet? If you are a poet in Canada and are interested in hearing your poem on Eh Poetry, please feel free to send me an email: jason.e.coombs[at]gmail[dot]com Eh Poetry Podcast Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message

rob mclennan joins Andrew for a discussion of his new book of prose poems, the book of smaller. Andrew and rob chat about reviews and community. It's a good time! ----- Listen to more episodes of Page Fright here. Follow the podcast on Twitter here. Follow the podcast on Instagram here. ----- Born in Ottawa, Canada's glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. In March, 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent titles include the poetry collection the book of smaller (University of Calgary Press, 2022), and a suite of pandemic essays, essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (periodicityjournal.blogspot.com) and Touch the Donkey (touchthedonkey.blogspot.com). He is editor of my (small press) writing day, and an editor/managing editor of many gendered mothers. In spring 2020, he won ‘best pandemic beard' from Coach House Books via Twitter, of which he is extremely proud (and mentions constantly). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com. ----- Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

This excerpt was taken from the Coach House Books author page for David O'Meara: David O'Meara is the author of four previous collections of poetry, most recently A Pretty Sight (Coach House Books, 2013). He is the Director of the Plan 99 Reading Series, and was the founding Artistic Director for VERSeFest (Canada's International Poetry Festival). A past winner of the Archibald Lampman Prize and the Ottawa Book Award, David was recently the Poet-in-Residence for Arc Poetry Magazine and served as a faculty member at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. He lives in Ottawa, Canada where he tends bar. You can also follow David O'Meara on Twitter here. Did you know you can leave me a message on Eh Poetry Podcast's main podcast page? I would love to hear from you! Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message

In Episode 88, Gen and Jette chat about Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu. This collection of short stories was generously sent to us by Coach House Books, who always seem to know exactly which books we're going to love. Lesser Known Monsters is no exception. We're obsessed with the weird and wonderful worlds that Kim Fu creates in these stories. Other Coach House Episodes 26: Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier 36: Disfigured by Amanda Leduc 51: Coach House Books 2020 Fall Releases 62: Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne 74: And Miles to Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier Show Notes A huge shoutout to Coach House Books for always sending us the coolest books and being all around wonderful to work with. Be sure to check them out! If short stories are your jam, and you've always wanted to write one, join us for 52 Weeks of Short Stories. Jette has put together a list of prompts to take us all the way through a year of writing. This book made it onto Gen's list of Most Anticipated Books of 2022. Our next episode is our book club episode. We'll be discussing Three Pianos by Andrew McMahon. Other Books & Media Mentioned The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu For Today I Am a Boy by Kim Fu Waydowntown Inception Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We'd love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

It's time to get back to the classics of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell: a look at a new one from Olivier Schrauwen (that new one would be Sunday 3/4, from Colorama) and an old one from Martin Vaughn-James (that old one would be The Cage, from Coach House Books). But first: did you hear that one about the time the guy googled a religion the night before his paper was due? There's a comic book version of that. DC published it!

In Episode 74, we're teaming up once again with Coach House Books to discuss one of their recent releases, And Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier, translated by Rhonda Mullins. Coach House Books is one of our favourite publishers. We always love the books they send us, and this one is no exception. The story follows an unnamed narrator tracking down the story of Gladys, a woman who up and leaves her small town of Swastika one day without a word to her neighbours. It's also about the Northern trains in Canada, small communities, and people coming together in unexpected ways. Show Notes: August is Women in Translation Month, so this book is a perfect Read more about the travelling schools that made their way to remote towns in Canada between 1928 and 1967. The title comes from Robert Frost's poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" and really fits with the themes of the book. We've read quite a few books translated by Rhonda Mullins, including one of our favourites, Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier, and The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges. Books Mentioned: Sadie by Courtney Summers The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We'd love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

In the aftermath of the Trinity Bellwoods Park encampment evictions, which saw a massive police presence, private security, and protests, we reached Sanctuary Toronto outreach worker Lorraine Lam, who was there with encampment residents, for an eyewitness account of what went on. And we speak to Humber Professor and Indigenous writer Kerry Potts about her piece in Coach House Books' new essay collection, Indigenous Toronto: stories that carry this place.

In Episode 62 Gen and Jette once again team up with one of our favourite publishers—Coach House Books! This time we're talking about one of their spring releases—and our first book of poetry—Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne. We loved the way Burgoyne plays with words and form while exploring the work of Camus, and the film Thelma and Louise. We also talk a bit about some other recent books from Coach House. Jette loved The Dark Library by Cyrille Martinez, which came out last fall. We're looking forward to recent January release, The Crash Palace by Andrew Wedderburn, as well as their forthcoming collection, Indigenous Toronto: Stories That Carry This Place. Show Notes: Yes, we're still obsessed with Paper Houses. Listen to that episode if you haven't already. If you read Jette's Best Memoirs post then you might already know that Guy Maddin's selected writings was also published by Coach House Books. Be sure to check out the characters playlists that accompany The Crash Palace on Spotify. Indigenous Toronto: Stories That Carry This Place will be out March 16th. Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne will be out April 13th. Other Books Mentioned: Crush by Richard Siken Blinking with Fists by Billy Corgan L'Etranger by Albert Camus Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier Emily Dickinson From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings by Guy Maddin Other Coach House Books Episodes: 51: Coach House Books 2020 Fall Releases 36: Disfigured by Amanda LeDuc 26: Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

A 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: Stacey CopelandResourcesMalcolm, Jane. “The Poem Among Us, Between Us, There: Muriel Rukeyser's Meta-Poetics and the Communal Soundscape.” Amodern 4: The Poetry Series (March 2015), http://amodern.net/article/poem-among-us/Robinsong, Erin. “Anemone.” Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis. Coach House Books, 2020. Find out more about Watch Your Head as a book and online project here.Rukeyser, Muriel. “Muriel Rukeyser at SGWU, 1969” [audio recording from the Sir George Williams Poetry Series]. SpokenWeb, 24 January 1969, https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/muriel-rukeyser-at-sgwu-1969Find out more about poet Muriel Rukeyser by visiting Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive.

This month’s episode is tailored to booksellers. In it, we go over some key things you should think about before facing the peak of the holiday bookselling season, as well as a series of tools, products, and resources from BookNet and other organizations that can help you take your business to the next level now or beyond the gifting season. Links: -Weathering the COVID-19 storm blog series: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog?category=Publishing+%26+COVID-19 -Prepare for the 2020 holiday season now: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2020/10/22/prepare-for-the-2020-holiday-season-now -Blog posts relevant to booksellers: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog?category=Bookselling -BookNet Canada research: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/bnc-research -Subscribe to the Let’s Sell Some Books newsletter: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/newsletter-sign-up#lets-sell-some-books -BookNet Canada contact information: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/contact-us -Digital Main Street: https://digitalmainstreet.ca/ -Retail Council of Canada resources for retailers: https://www.retailcouncil.org/coronavirus-info-for-retailers/ BookNet Canada products and services mentioned in this episode: -SalesData: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/salesdata -LibraryData: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/librarydata -CataList: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/catalist - Pubnet EDI: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/edi -BiblioShare: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/biblioshare -Shopify plugin: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/bibliographic-data-distribution#shopify -WordPress plugin: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/bibliographic-data-distribution#wordpress Websites that already use our web services: -Playwrights Canada Press website: https://www.playwrightscanada.com/ -Arsenal Pulp: https://arsenalpulp.com/ -Coach House Books: https://chbooks.com/ -Les Libraries: https://www.leslibraires.ca/ -49th Shelf: https://49thshelf.com/

It's our two year anniversary! It's hard to believe it's been two years since we sat at Page One cafe and decided we'd make a podcast. Since then, we recorded 53 episodes (almost 7 days worth of minutes) and had over 3500 listens in 52 different countries. We have a shiny new website with multiple blog posts every month. We've worked with wonderful publishers, like House of Anansi Press, Coach House Books, and Wattpad Books. We can't wait for what is next to come! Show Notes Jette is drinking Cinnamon Bun Chai from David's Tea and Gen is drinking Alpine Punch, also from David's Tea. We've both surpassed our Goodreads goals! Turns out that our most popular episodes are about non-fiction books. We can't wait to do more! How do you get listeners in Antarctica? We're loving our Kobo eReaders and learning to love audiobooks. *Whispers* Jake Gyllenhaal Our Favourite Episodes 9: Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman 12: To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins 25: Sadie by Courtney Summers 40: Learn with SJP Interview 41: Making A Routine of Writing 43: You Are Not What We Expected - Interview with Sidura Ludwig 44: Graphic Novels 47: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Books Mentioned Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Another Country by James Baldwin Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Serpentine by Philip Pullman Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune The Guest List by Lisa Foley Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Sea Wall/A Life by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reid Consider This: Moments in my Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

Episode 16 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with Christian Bök, author of Eunoia and winner of the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize.In this episode — Christian’s second interview for the podcast — Anthony and Christian discuss their mutual interest in composing heavily constrained poetry. They also consider contemporary attitudes towards poetry, the way the internet has changed poetry, and the importance of poetic freedom, even under constraint.Discover more about Christian’s work via his Twitter page and his publisher, Coach House Books (his latest book can be purchased here).Discover more about Penteract Press by visiting our website and our Twitter.And, if you like what you hear, please consider supporting this series via Anthony’s Patreon page!Support the show (http://patreon.com/Anthony_Etherin)

Gen and Jette talk about Coach House Books' 2020 fall releases. First, The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann, translated by Jen Calleja. The reader travels with Gilbert on a pilgrimage through Japan. Then, The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges, translated by Rhonda Mullins, which follows the narrator as she negotiates between her virtual world and the real world. And lastly, Fauna by Christiane Vadnais, translated by Pablo Strauss. This work connects a series of stories about a climate-changed world. We love working with Coach House Books and had such a great time discussing these new fall releases! Show Notes: Aokigahara Jukai forest in Japan is more commonly known as the suicide forest. The Complete Manual of Suicide is in fact a real book. This is not a recommendation. You can read about more about Basho's travels in The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. The 2019 Canada Reads selection translated by Rhonda Mullins is Suzanne by Anais Barbeau-Lavalette. Listen to our other Coach House Book Episodes: 36 - Disfigured by Amanda Leduc and 26 - Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier. Darwin's Origin of Species was published in 1859. Voyager I launched on September 5, 1977. Learn more about the polar bears of Churchill, Manitoba with Ewan McGregor. The tale of Daniel in the lions' den appears in Chapter 6 of the Book of Daniel. The painting that Gen was thinking of was this one by Peter Paul Rubens. Books and Media Mentioned: The X-Files, Season 1, Episode 8, "Ice" Black Swan Annihilation and The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney Westworld Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

The conversation goes Canadian today (forgive the sound quality) when we talk to author David Berry. David is a culture critic, journalist and strategist based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His book On Nostalgia was published by Coach House Books in 2020. Billy and David discuss the book, Talking Heads (the band not the heads,) Canadian humor, a little bit of culture, a little bit of fondness for UCB and a little bit about a bit more. Hope you enjoy and check out his book. You can purchase it at the linked web site above, Amazon or other purveyors of fine cultural critiques. This episode is brought to you by your local Denny's men's room a place of discovery and discreet physical contact even in these most uncertain and frightening of times.

If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference. Amanda Leduc is a disabled writer and author of the non-fiction book DISFIGURED: ON FAIRY TALES, DISABILITY, AND MAKING SPACE (Coach House Books, 2020) and the novel THE MIRACLES OF ORDINARY MEN (2013, ECW Press). Her next novel, THE CENTAUR’S WIFE, is forthcoming from Random House Canada in the spring of 2021. She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where she works as the Communications Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Canada’s first festival for diverse authors and stories. The post Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space – Ep 74 with Amanda Leduc appeared first on Read Learn Live Podcast.

Episode 6 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with Jonathan Ball, the 'Poet Laureate of Hell'. Topics of conversation include incomprehensible grunge lyrics, poetry inspired by horror movies, and four of Jonathan's books: THE NATIONAL GALLERY (available from Coach House Books), CLOCKFIRE (Coach House Books), THE POLITICS OF KNIVES (Coach House Books), and EX MACHINA, which is currently free to download from www.jonathanball.com (but remains purchasable in print).Discover more about Penteract Press by visiting our website and our Twitter.And, if you like what you hear, please consider supporting this series via Anthony’s Patreon page!Support the show (http://patreon.com/Anthony_Etherin)

Amanda Leduc discusses her new book of essays, Disfigured. Andrew commends Amanda for pulling some really obscure fairy tales. Put this episode on while you take a basket of goodies through the wolf-infested woods to your grandmother. ----- Listen to more episodes of Page Fright here. ----- Amanda Leduc is a disabled writer and author of the non-fiction book DISFIGURED: ON FAIRY TALES, DISABILITY, AND MAKING SPACE, out now with Coach House Books. She is also the author of the novel THE MIRACLES OF ORDINARY MEN, published in 2013 by ECW Press. Her new novel, THE CENTAUR’S WIFE, is forthcoming with Random House Canada in the spring of 2021. Her essays and stories have appeared in LitHub, The Rumpus, Little Fiction | Big Truths, The National Post, Open Book Ontario, and other publications across Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia. She has previously been longlisted for both the CBC Nonfiction Prize (2019 and 2014) and the CBC Fiction Prize (2014), the StoryQuarterly Fiction Prize (2015), the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Fiction (2015), the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest (2014), and the 2007 PRISM International Short Fiction Contest. She is represented by Samantha Haywood at the Transatlantic Agency. Born in British Columbia, she has lived in Ontario, England, BC, and Scotland. She has cerebral palsy and presently, she makes her home in Hamilton, Ontario, where she lives with a very lovable, very destructive dog and serves as the Communications and Development Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Canada’s first festival for diverse authors and stories. ----- Andrew French is an author who was born and raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University, and is pursuing an MA in English at UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Episode 4 of the Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with poet, lecturer and critic Nasser Hussain, the author of SKY WRI TEI NGS (available now from Coach House Books!). Topics of conversation include sonic palindromes, writing poems with knives, and the delights of &ormalism....Discover more about Penteract Press by visiting our website and our Twitter.And, if you like what you hear, please consider supporting this series via Anthony’s Patreon page!Support the show (http://patreon.com/Anthony_Etherin)

The very first Penteract Poetry Podcast, hosted by Anthony Etherin, and featuring an interview with Christian Bök, author of Eunoia and winner of the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize. Topics of conversation include: the indestructible poems of Christian’s Xenotext Project; the dichotomy of negative capability and the egotistical sublime; poetry in the age of social media (and the success of Rupi Kaur); and poetic pedagogy.Discover more about Christian’s work via his Twitter page and his publisher, Coach House Books (his latest book can be purchased here).Discover more about Penteract Press by visiting our website and our Twitter.And, if you like what you hear, please consider supporting this series via Anthony’s Patreon page!Support the show (http://patreon.com/Anthony_Etherin)

Gen and Jette got an advanced reading copy of "Disfigured" by Amanda Leduc - Thanks to James at Coach House Books for our ongoing collabs! This book breaks down fairy tales and how disability has been etched into the collective unconscious as a bad thing that you have to overcome. Show Notes: Who know all the Disney movies came from such creepy scary "Fairy Tales" Hans My Hedgehog sounds like the craziest story - can you picture a half-man, half hedgehog? Changing Faces used #Iamnotyourvillain to transform the British film industry and now the BFI won't fund projects were the villains have facial disfigurements. Can we talk about Marvel and how Hawkeye was actually deaf and the Matt Fraction series had illustrated ASL? Allison Janney is the actress that Jette couldn't remember Jamie Brewer is the actress from the AHS series Books/Stories/Movies: Paper Houses - Dominique Fortier The Centaur's wife - Amanda Leduc (coming 2021) The Miracles of the Ordinary Men - Amanda Leduc The Little Mermaid Beauty and the Beast Sleeping Beauty Rapunzel Cinderella The Maiden Without Hands The Magicians The Lion King

It’s our one year podcast anniversary! Gen and Jette reflect on their first year of podcasting, past episodes, and what’s next (like some super exciting new books and collaborations!) Thank you all so much for listening! Show Notes: Page One cafe is where it all began! Tune in for more strange time travel… Local Toronto publishers Coach House Books and House of Anansi have been so amazing to work with. We can’t wait to dive deeper into The Shale Project and the books set in this universe. Summer is hard for vampires like us. Keep an eye out in November for another project in the works. Word on the Street was an incredible way to discover new books and authors and connect with the book community. The movie Renée Zellweger was nominated for was Bridget Jones’s Diary. Jette needs to get her copy of the next instalment of the Umbrella Academy–Hotel Oblivion–ASAP The Goodreads goals seem suddenly achievable! Go team. The Toronto Women’s Podcasting Network is incredible. Be sure to check out some of their podcasts and give them some love: Cleats and Cocktails, Alpaca My Bags, Pub Hub, and Inappropriate Questions Books: Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver Heretics Guides to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier White Dancing Elephants by Chaya Bhuvaneswar Unscripted by Claire Handscombe A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab The Actor’s Life by Jenna Fischer Cherry by Nico Walker Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Movies and Other Things by Shea Serrano The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl & The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss Raised in Captivity by Chuck Klosterman Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram @anotherbookpodcast, Twitter @anotherbookpod, and Facebook or email us at anotherbookontheshelfpodcast@gmail.com We’d love to hear from you! And check out our Patreon and sign up for our newsletter as well!

Saskia Vogelis the guest. Her debut novel, Permission, is available from Coach House Books. Vogel was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in its sister city, Berlin, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. Previously she worked as Granta magazine’s global publicist and as an editor at the AVN Media Network, where she reported on pornography and adult pleasure products. She volunteers her time as the honorary secretary of SELTA and as part of the team that organizes Viva Erotica, an annual film festival in Helsinki that explores the art, history, and culture of sex on film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jesse Ruddock is a talented writer, photographer, and musician currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Guelph, Ontario, Ruddock graduated from Harvard cum laude, after attending the university on an ice hockey scholarship. She was a hotshot goalie who got into hip-hop and underground rock thanks to Jim Guthrie and pals like Noah23 and Livestock. She’s made her own music under monikers like Koko Bonaparte and Koko Blue and her writing and photography has appeared in The New Yorker, BOMB Magazine, and Vice. In February 2017, Coach House Books published her debut novel; it’s called Shot-Blue and has received raves from the New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews among others. Jesse and I caught up at the CFRU studios recently when she was home in Guelph and she surprised me with stories about her past life as a hockey goalie, her writing influences, the power of her peers in Guelph, her remarkably talented family, and where her novel Shot-Blue may have come from. Sponsored by Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, and Planet Bean Coffee. 

Emily M. Keeler listens to one song seven times a day, goes on Instagram and ends up in the Twilight Zone, and looks for gopher holes in poetry.   Emily is vice president of PEN Canada and editor of the Exploded Views series from Coach House Books. She also founded Little Brother Magazine. She recommends you check out: Naomi Skwarna's Instagram account. The essay "Mind No Mind" by Jia Tolentino. Rupi Kaur's poetry book Milk and Honey. Jana Prikryl's poetry book The After Party. The song "I Wish" by Skee-Lo. Emily's Twitter: @emilymkeeler   Find links to these people's work on our website, canadalandshow.com/impSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rob Benvie is a novelist, writer, musician, songwriter, and singer currently based in Toronto, Ontario. Raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Benvie has published two acclaimed novels, 2004’s Safety of War, and 2011’s Maintenance, both of which are available via Coach House Books. He is also well known for playing in bands like Thrush Hermit, The […]

The Life Lab is a bi-monthly radio show that empowers listeners to be the best version of themselves. Through reframing problems into challenges that can be met, co-hosts Jace and Lex examine personal-social connections, give holistic tips and strategies and promote self care and positive change. Each episodes features words of wisdom from a special guest that on a journey of their own making!  Jace is a personal trainer, community fundraiser and youth empowerment specialist who loves seeing the internal transformation that comes from people taking their health and well-being to the next level.  Lex is a social justice advocate, media writer/producer and emotional healer who loves supporting people to be their best, most authentic selves and live the life of their dreams.   Special Guest :Chase Joynt  CHASE JOYNT is a Toronto-based moving-image artist and writer whose work utilizes strategies of first person engagement to interrogate representations of gender and violence. Recently awarded the EP Canada/Canada Film Capital Award for Emerging Canadian Artist and jury awards for Best Documentary and Best Short, Chase’s work continues to be exhibited internationally. As a recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice and Scholarship at the University of Chicago, Chase’s recent speaking engagements include Harvard University, Princeton University, NYU, The New York Academy of Medicine, University of Manchester, UC Berkeley, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Chase holds a BA from the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television, and is a PhD candidate in Film at York University where he holds a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. His first book You Only Live Twice, co-authored with Mike Hoolboom, is forthcoming from Coach House Books in May 2016.

Sina Queyras is a poet and writer currently living in Montreal. She was raised in western Canada, and has degrees from the University of British Columbia and Concordia University. Queyras has lived in many places and held many jobs, and we talk about the ways geography and work have shaped her poetics. Her poetry collections Lemon Hound (2007) and Expressway (2009) were published by Coach House Books, and her excellent blog is called Lemon Hound.

Paul Dutton is a sound poet, visual poet, essayist, and novelist from Toronto, Ontario. Paul was a member of the seminal sound poetry group The Four Horsemen from 1970 to 1988, and since 1989 he's performed in the improvisational trio CMCC with John Oswald and Michael Snow. Paul has also worked with the vocal art supergroup Five Men Singing, among numerous other collaborations. Paul's 2000 album Mouth Pieces: Solo Soundsinging is available on PennSound, and his visual work The Plastic Typewriter (1993) is on UbuWeb. You can find an online version of his 1991 poetry collection Aurealities at Coach House Books. Dutton's novel Several Women Dancing was published by The Mercury Press in 2002.

How can Torontonians learn to adore their city in the midst of the 2015 Pan Am & Parapan Am Games? Shawn Micallef writes about Toronto and urban issues for Spacing Magazine and the Toronto Star. He's also authored The Trouble With Brunch and Stroll from Coach House Books. Micallef brings his own experiences from exploring […]

In this re-launch of the podcast, we take a spring stroll in unexpected places with author and urban enthusiast, Shawn Micallef. He writes about city explorations for The Toronto Star, Spacing Magazine and in his books, The Trouble With Brunch, and Stroll, from Coach House Books. For more, visit http://news.utoronto.ca     Transcript: Strolling with Shawn […]

Bookrageous Episode 69; 2014 Favorites (so far) Intro Music; "Talk Dirty" by Jason Derulo What We're Reading Josh [1:15] The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner (May 27 2014) [5:40] The Keillor Reader, Garrison Keillor [6:45] The Magician's Land, Lev Grossman (August 5 2014) Rebecca [6:50] The Magician's Land, Lev Grossman (August 5 2014) [12:20] The Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique (July 10 2014) [14:50] The Duke and I, Julia Quinn Preeti [17:10] If I Stay, Gayle Forman [19:45] All My Friends are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman [21:30] Coach House Books [22:20] The Serpent of Venice, Christopher Moore [23:00] Lamb, Christopher Moore --- Intermission; "You're the Best Around" by Joe Esposito --- 2014 Favorites (so far) [25:35] Sex Criminals Vol. 1, Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky [26:55] The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley [28:45] Parnassus on Wheels, Christopher Morley [29:40] An Untamed State, Roxane Gay [31:55] Red or Dead, David Peace (May 27 2014) [33:50] The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner (May 27 2014) [34:25] A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade, Kevin Brockmeier [37:00] Ms. Marvel Issue 1, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona [38:30] Amazing X-Men Issue 5, Jason Aaron, Ed McGuinness [39:30] Earthbound, Ken Baumann [41:15] The Martian, Andy Weir [43:20] Sleep Donation, Karen Russell [44:00] Side Effects May Vary, Julie Murphy [45:45] Caffeinated, Murray Carpenter [48:00] Delancey, Molly Wizenberg [13:55] Grasshopper Jungle, Andrew Smith [52:45] Little Failure, Gary Shteyngart [56:10] Boy Snow Bird, Helen Oyeyemi [57:35] The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison [59:00] Salvage, Alexandra Duncan [1:02:15] If This Isn't Nice, What Is?, Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield --- Outro Music; "Talk Dirty" by Jason Derulo --- Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323. Come to the BOOKRAGEOUS BASH at BEA on May 28th in New York City Find Us Online: Josh, Preeti, Rebecca Order Josh's book! Maine Beer: Brewing in Vacationland Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.

Through a partnership with Iambik Audiobooks, we bring you the first chapter of Andrew Kaufman's novel All My Friends Are Superheroes, published by Coach House Books. Gordon Mackenzie reads the chapter aloud.All Tom's friends really are superheroes. There's the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotized (by ex-boyfriend Hypno, of course) to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. So she's moving to Vancouver. She'll use her superpower to make Vancouver perfect and leave all the heartbreak in Toronto. With no idea Tom's beside her, she boards an airplane in Toronto. Tom has until the wheels touch the ground in Vancouver to convince her he's visible, or he loses her forever.