Podcast appearances and mentions of David Chariandy

David Chariandy lives in Vancouver and teaches literature and creative writing at Simon Fraser University. He's one of the authors participating in this year's Cabot Trail Writers Festival which runs October 4 to 6.

Welcome BACK to BOOKSPO! This time I'm talking to novelist Charlene Carr (“the Canadian Jodi Picoult,” in case you didn't know) about her new novel WE RIP THE WORLD APART, and how her bookspo was David Chariandy's 2018 memoir I'VE BEEN MEANING TO TELL YOU: A LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER. Charlene talks about how David Chariandy's memoir gave her permission to write the story she needed to tell, why she chafes at the ideas that she's obligated (as a person of colour) to “fix” racism or that all her work must concern race, how “racial identity is so rarely a matter of personal choice,” and the ways in which ideas about reproductive justice are interwoven with all of this. About WE RIP THE WORLD APART: A sweeping multi-generational story about motherhood, race and secrets in the lives of three women, perfect for readers of Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half and David Chariandy's BrotherWhen 24-year-old Kareela discovers she's pregnant with a child she isn't sure she wants, it amplifies her struggle to understand her place in the world as a woman who is half-Black and half-white, yet feels neither.Her mother, Evelyn, fled to Canada with her husband and their first-born child, Antony, during the politically charged Jamaican Exodus of the 1980s, only to realize they'd come to a place where Black men are viewed with suspicion—a constant and pernicious reality Evelyn watches her husband and son navigate daily.Years later, in the aftermath of Antony's murder by the police, Evelyn's mother-in-law, Violet, moves in, offering young Kareela a link to the Jamaican heritage she has never fully known. Despite Violet's efforts to help them through their grief, the traumas they carry grow into a web of secrets that threatens the very family they all hold so dear.Back in the present, Kareela, prompted by fear and uncertainty about the new life she carries, must come to terms with the mysteries surrounding her family's past and the need to make sense of both her identity and her future.Weaving the women's stories across multiple timelines, We Rip the World Apart reveals the ways that simple choices, made in the heat of the moment and with the best of intentions, can have deeper repercussions than could ever have been imagined, especially when people remain silent.CHARLENE CARR lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and daughter. She has published nine novels and recently received grants from Arts Nova Scotia and the Canada Council for the Arts to write her next one. Get full access to Pickle Me This at kerryreads.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode we talk to Ian Harnarine, the writer and director of Doubles. The story of a Trinidadian street vendor must travel to Toronto and decide if he will help save his estranged father from dying.Ian was born in Toronto, Canada and is the son of immigrants from Trinidad & Tobago. He attended York University earning a Bachelor's degree in Physics & Astronomy and a Master's degree in Nuclear Physics from the University of Illinois and an MFA from NYU's Graduate Film School. Harnarine's film “Doubles With Slight Pepper” (Executive Produced by Spike Lee), won the Best Short Film Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Canadian Academy Award. “Caroni”, about a West Indian domestic worker in New York, premiered at TIFF and continues to screen at festivals worldwide. Harnarine has made dozens of films for Sesame Street, one of which garnered an Emmy nomination. “Party Done”, Harnarine's feature documentary about controversial crime reporter Ian Alleyne, played theatrically in the Caribbean. “Doubles”, a feature film, is currently in post-production while Harnarine writes an adaptation of David Chariandy's novel “Soucouyant”. Harnarine was selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film, profiled in the New York Times and named one of Playback Magazine's Ten to Watch.The 2023 Atlantic International Film Festival is just around the corner, and with it comes a new line-up of films across a fresh collection of streams. This podcast showcases the voices of filmmakers whose work will feature in the 2023 program, going deep behind the vision and motivation for each film.Find out More:https://atlanticfilmfestival.ca/Produced by Podstarterhttps://www.podstarter.io/

Jared Milrad interviews writer, director, and producer Clement Virgo about his new film, BROTHER, a poetic adaptation of David Chariandy's novel of the same name. Elegiac in its unfolding, the film reveals the intimacies of Francis (Aaron Pierre) and Michael (Lamar Johnson), sons of Caribbean immigrants facing questions of masculinity, identity, and family amidst Toronto's budding and buzzing hip-hop scene. Clement opens up about his return to feature filmmaking after a period of episodic directing (including episodes of BILLIONS, EMPIRE, and GREENLEAF), his journey as a young filmmaker, and exploring themes of vulnerability, othered-ness, and the pressure for young men to mask themselves under societal notions of masculinity.We depend on your generous support of Rewriting Hollywood to empower new creative voices and share urgently important stories with the world. Make a tax-deductible donation today: movikarma.org/donate

What is masculinity and how do we embrace & display masculinity across cultures? That is the main theme of the movie, Brother  and a large part of what I discussed on The Canadian Screen Actors red carpet and in the press room with the cast of the 2022 Canadian drama film, written, produced, and directed by Clement Virgo. An adaptation of David Chariandy's award-winning novel, Brother  scored an impressive 12 awards including Best Picture and Best Direction. Sign up to become a member of Janette's TV Youtube Channel!https://www.youtube.com/@JanettesTV/videos Support the show

In this episode, Linda has the great pleasure of chatting with Wayde Compton, the writer, scholar, publisher, and current Chair of Creative Writing at Douglas College (in New Westminster, BC). He is the author of several books, including 49th Parallel Psalm (finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize); Performance Bond; After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award); the graphic novel, The Blue Road; and The Outer Harbour (winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award). He has also edited two anthologies: Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature and The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award).During this interview, we also speak aboutthe Black population in Vancouver compared to that of Nova Scotia (17.15)May Ayin (22)the Black Cultural Archive (4.30 and 8)What to read (and his own reading patterns, 30)Compton is a co-founder of the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project (8), an organization formed to raise awareness about the history of Vancouver's black community, and was one of the co-founders of Commodore Books (11.40), with Karina Vernon and David Chariandy. For February, he has been an active social media presence, for Black History Month. If you follow him on Twitter—and if you don't, we highly recommend that you do at @WaydeCompton – you'll know that he's been tweeting stories about people of African descent in Vancouver.So, just in time for Black History Month, we hope you enjoy this interview with Wayde Compton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebecca and Tara share their shortlist predictions from CBC's Canada Reads longlist. Tara's picks: Driven by Marcello Di Cintio Satellite Love by Genki Ferguson Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad  Rebecca's picks: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac Life in the City of Dirty Water by Clayton Thomas-Müller We Two Alone by Jack Wang Rebecca also mentions 2019 Canada Reads contender Brother by David Chariandy.    

Linda and several of this season's contributors--Chantel Lavoie, Marco Timpano, Amanda Barker, and Michael Nest--render their book recommendations for the holidays:Ivan Coyote's Care OfMargaret Atwood's The Door,David Chariandy's I've Been Meaning to Tell YouZoe Whittall's The Best Kind of PeopleAnne-Marie MacDonald's Fall on your Knees),Linda offers her listeners a gift for the holidays - from the archives, her previously-unpublished interview with Ali Hassan, the host of Canada Reads. The interview, from 2020 (and Canada Reads 2020-2021), alludes to the background of the pandemic, which (alas!) remains relevant. Drawing back the curtain to allow us see the inner workings of Canada Reads, Ali Hassan offers interesting insights about this national literary competition and about his role in it.Happy holidays everyone - The third season of Getting Lit with Linda will return in early February 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  We end our three-part series, Writer to Writer, with a conversation between Brick issue 106 contributor Cason Sharpe and novelist and Brick editor David Chariandy, which covers topics as wide-ranging as mentorship among generations of BIPOC writers in . . . Source

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David Chariandy wuchs als Sohn von Einwanderern aus der Karibik in Kanada auf. Aufgrund seiner Hautfarbe wurde er früh rassistisch beleidigt und diskriminiert. Wie er die Traumata überwand und lernte, sich seiner Herkunft nicht mehr zu schämen, das erzählt er sehr persönlich seiner 13-jährigen Tochter. Von Carsten Hueck www.deutschlandfunk.de, Büchermarkt Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Kanada ist Ehrengast der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2021. Der preisgekrönte Schriftsteller David Chariandy erzählt in "Francis" vom schwierigen Leben zweier Brüder in einem Migrantenviertel von Toronto. Lesung: Benito Bause. Cornelia Zetzsche im Gespräch mit David Chariandy in Vancouver. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Verlags bis 16. Oktober 2022 als Podcast verfügbar.

ENGLISH          (traduction française plus bas)Killer K and her co-hosts discuss 3 themes found in the marvelous book "Soucouyant" by David Chariandy:- Degeneration of the mind and "selective" memory loss- Folklore, immigration and alienation- Trauma and resilienceView our chapter markers on our website https://habcpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ to access the questions discussed in this episode.Continue the conversation on Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #HABCpodcastOther books mentionned in this episode:Brother - David ChariandyCrime and punishment - Fyodor DostoevskyBook of night women - Marlon JamesBlack leopard, red wolf - Marlon James The Hate U Give - Angie ThomasI know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou-------------------------------------------------------------------------------FRANÇAISKiller K et ses co-animateurs discutent de 3 thématiques retrouvées dans le fabuleux livre "Soucougnant" de David Chariandy:- La dégénérescence mentale et la perte "sélective" de mémoire-Folklore, immigration et aliénation-Traumatisme et résilienceQuestions discutées dans cet épisode: 11 questions explicitées dans l'enregistrementParticipez à la conversation sur Instagram et Twitter en vous servant du hashtag #HABCpodcastAutres livres mentionnés dans cet episode:Brother - David ChariandyCrime and punishment - Fyodor DostoevskyBook of night women - Marlon James Black leopard, red wolf - Marlon James La haine qu'on donne - Angie ThomasJe sais pourquoi chante l'oiseau en cage - Maya AngelouSupport the show (https://paypal.me/habcpodcast?locale.x=en_US)

Au moment où le meurtre de Georges Floyd aux Etats-Unis crée une vague de protestations sans précédent dans le monde, la question de la profondeur des racines du racisme en Amérique apparaît de nouveau, mêlée de lʹexpression dʹune rage dirigée contre la présidence Trump. David Chariandy, auteur canadien anglophone, dont les parents sont originaire de Trinidad, a souvent évoqué ses origines et sa couleur de peau dans ses romans. Dans "Il est temps que je te dise :lettre à ma fille sur le racisme" publié en français aux éditions Zoé, il est question dʹappartenance; de ses ancêtres, de ses origines afro-asiatiques; de son identité à elle, dont la mère est issue de la grande bourgeoisie canadienne blanche. Sans hargne, pudique et lucide, cʹest un texte important, une invitation à se déterminer librement. Il sʹexprime sur les récents événements depuis Vancouver, où il enseigne la littérature à lʹuniversité. Il est au micro de Pierre Philippe Cadert.

Néo Géo vous invite à vivre de nouvelles immersions dominicales dans l'actualité culturelle et sociale de la planète, un tour de la sono mondiale en 120 minutes, de 10h à 12h chaque dimanche matin, présenté par Bintou Simporé et le worldcrew de Nova.Au programme : portrait du jour, nouveautés musicales, revue culturelle d'ici et d'ailleurs, correspondants du bout du monde, classiques de la sono mondiale ( le Classico), sessions live et worldmix sans oublier les invités, musiciens, écrivains et autres acteurs et créatrices culturels de notre "Tout-Monde".Le portrait : Emmanuel Kasarhérou est le nouveau directeur, fraîchement nommé, du musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac à Paris, spécialisé dans les arts océaniens, asiatiques et africains. Il a dédié sa carrière au recensement du patrimoine calédonien. Jusqu’à présent, il en était le directeur du patrimoine, et il risque de placer sa nouvelle présidence sous le signe d’un sujet épineux : la restitution d’oeuvres d’art. Emmanuel Macron s’était en effet engagé à rendre “rapidement” des oeuvres volées en Afrique, pendant la colonisation. Le Musikactu : Hatianola est le deuxième album du collectif Lakou Mizik, sur le label Cumbancha. Ce disque, c’est l’histoire de la rencontre entre le groupe et la Nouvelle Orléans, où il a été enregistré. Le groupe a été invité à jouer deux fois au Festival Jazz & Heritage à la Nouvelle Orléans : lors de la deuxième édition, ils ont pu bénéficier du studio d’enregistrement de Régine Chassagne et Win Butler d’Arcade Fire ; l’idée était aussi que des artistes locaux collaborent. Plusieurs musiciens ont participé au disque, le pianiste Jon Cleary, Cyrille Neville, Trombone Shorty, le groupe Lost Bayou Ramblers ou encore la chanteuse Leyla McCalla. Sorti le 29 mai, l’album des 79rs Gang, Expect the Unexpected s’inscrit dans l’histoire de la Nouvelle-Orléans, puisque les morceaux rendent hommage aux victimes de Katrina, les indiens de Mardi Gras. Les voisins caribéens Lakou Misik participent au morceau Iko Iko qui devient Iko Keryol. D’Ici et D’ailleurs, la revue culturelle de Néo GéoDavid Chariandy est écrivain et enseigne la littérature à la Simon Fraser University de Vancouver. Il a grandi à Scarborough, quartier difficile de Toronto et qui constitue le cadre de son dernier roman, 33 tours (Brothers en anglais), paru en septembre 2018 aux éditions Zoé. Ce roman raconte l’histoire de deux frères qui tentent de s’en sortir, de trouver le moyen de s’extraire de la misère et du racisme latent qui semble condamner leurs vies avant même qu’elles n’aient pu commencer. La musique représente alors l’espoir, mais aussi une manière, pour cette jeunesse née au Canada mais dont les parents sont Trinidadiens, Jamaïcains, Indiens, de construire sa propre identité. On reparle de David Chariandy, qui vient de sortir Il faut que je te dise - Lettre à ma fille aux Editions Zoé. Vous avez un message… allo BintouLa rappeuse afropéenne KT Gorique nous appelle de Martigny, dans le canton du Valais où elle vit (Suisse). Pour célébrer le déconfinement, elle a réuni sur un cypher 19 rappeuses de 9 pays différents : Biggest Female All Stars Cypher, un morceau de 7 minutes. Elle a sorti un nouvel album le 15 mai dernier, Akwaba. Le Classico :Dans un contexte de guerre du Viet Nam, de scandale du Watergate, Curtis Mayfield sort l’album Back to the World, en 1973, qui évoque un brutal retour à la réalité hostile. A l’occasion de la parution... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chelene Knight talks about her poetry and forthcoming novel. Andrew doesn't notice the echo. The echo makes everything Chelene says twice as nice. ----- Chelene Knight is the author of the poetry collection Braided Skin and the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award, and long-listed for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Her essays have appeared in multiple Canadian and American literary journals, plus the Globe and Mail, the Walrus, and the Toronto Star. Her work is anthologized in Making Room, Love Me True, Sustenance, The Summer Book, and Black Writers Matter. Knight is currently working on Junie, a novel set in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley, forthcoming in 2020. She was selected as a 2019 Writers' Trust Rising Star by David Chariandy. ----- Andrew William (A.W.) French is a poet and academic who was born and raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia. French 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. ----- Listen to more episodes of Page Fright at: www.theandrewfrench.com/pagefright

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In this episode we look at Scarborough (2017) by Catherine Hernandez and Brother (2017) by David Chariandy, two powerful novels that bring voice to a diverse and chronically underfunded community in Canada. Both set in Scarborough, Ontario, they use intimacy and bureaucracy to show the workings of Canadian forms of power, structural racism, and economic inequality in ways not often seen in the historically white and middle-class Can-Lit (Canadian Literature). Through their work, we're invited to ask who gets to determine what a community looks like, whose stories are told, and when and how does survival happen.

Join the Writers’ Trust of Canada in celebrating the rising stars of Canadian literature. The country’s next generation of literary talent took the stage at the unveiling of a multi-faceted career development program that advances their careers and highlights their work with an endorsement from a proven, influential author. Five notable Canadian writers have each chosen one writer who is poised to produce exceptional and enduring creative work. Hear from program participants David Chariandy, Charlotte Gray, and Taras Grescoe, and meet the up-and-coming talents of Canadian literature: Melissa J. Gismondi, El Jones, Chelene Knight, Dana Mills, and Deborah Ostrovsky. The event was recorded on June 5, 2019, at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Firmly situated in the canon of Canadian literature, David Chariandy has written three eloquent books. His first two – Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgetting and Brother draw on his Trinidadian heritage, and centre on the fragility of human ties. In Soucouyant a man returns home to care for his mother who has dementia; in Brother two siblings and their mother battle as working-class immigrants in Toronto. Chariandy’s first work of nonfiction is I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You, a letter to his 13-year-old daughter about growing up a black in Canada, and about living out the politics of race. He speaks with Michelle Langstone. Supported by Canada Council for the Arts.

This is the story of brotherhood, of two young boys growing up in Scarborough, a not so nice part of Toronto. These boys, Francis and Michael, like David Chariandy are or Trinidadian descent; with an overworked black mother who works double, sometimes triple shifts and an absent Indian father. Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991. it’s dangerous and it’s ugly and the author doesn’t try to find beauty in it  – it doesn’t exist. Yet Chariandy still manages to capture the readers imagination, his writing and story telling speak volumes. 

This is the story of brotherhood, of two young boys growing up in Scarborough, a not so nice part of Toronto. These boys, Francis and Michael, like David Chariandy are or Trinidadian descent; with an overworked black mother who works double, sometimes triple shifts and an absent Indian father. Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991. it’s dangerous and it’s ugly and the author doesn’t try to find beauty in it  – it doesn’t exist. Yet Chariandy still manages to capture the readers imagination, his writing and story telling speak volumes. 

On this episode Tracey and Paul talk about The Water Beetles by Michael Kann and Brother by David Chariandy.  Spoiler Alert: This episode contains many many details about both books!

"If you wander around the city, if you are able to stop and listen, the stories are all right there." - Matt Galloway What's your Toronto all about? Christina and Wendy talk about their respective Torontos. Then, Christina interviews CBC Metro Morning host Matt Galloway, and we find out about his Toronto - and also what his favourite book is this year, and why he's so important to librarians. Books, music and talks mentioned in this episode: The Art of Inclusion by Matt Galloway - Walrus Talks Books by Peter Carey Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Books by Langston Hughes Cab Calloway Count Basie Brother by David Chariandy I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You: a Letter to My Daughter by David Chariandy Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Books by Dionne Brand How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward Warlight by Michael Ondaatje Boys: What It Means to Become a Man by Rachel Giese Motherhood by Sheila Heti Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto edited by Jason McBride and Alana Wilcox Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto by Shawn Micallef Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness by Shawn Micallef Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis The Hidden Keys by Andre Alexis Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam What We All Long For by Dionne Brand Love Enough by Dionne Brand Consolation by Michael Redhill Further Reading: ‘Da Kink in My Hair by Trey Anthony Kim’s Convenience by Ins Choi Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Toronto Comics by various contributors Spacing Magazine Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity edited by John Lorinc and Jay Pitter Towerkind by Kat Verhoeven The Ward: the Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg, Tatum Taylor And, of course, browse the Local History section online, or at your local branch! Click here for a transcript of this episode. Your hosts: Christina, Mike, Jason, and Wendy Contact us at shelveunder@torontopubliclibrary.ca Please take our survey.

Allie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss the novel Brother and Scarborough food-culture (3:59); Otis Redding, DJ Kool, and Toots and the Maytals(7:23); Kristina's first trip back to Jamaica (10:11); author David Chariandy joins the conversation (15:01); writing through his stomach and his love of cookbooks (20:03); new writing on the Canadian suburb by Carrianne Leung and Catherine Hernandez (22:05); Dionne Brand, Moonlight, Maestro Fresh Wes, and Frank Ocean (29:59)

The New York Times called it a 'powerfully expansive novel' and it was shortlisted for the Booker, but what did Laura's book club make of 'Do Not Say We Have Nothing' by Madeleine Thien? For our regular book club interview we get radical with London's Radical Reading Group and we finish as always with some fresh recommendations for your next book club read. •
 Get in touch with us at thebookclubreview@gmail.com, follow us on Instagram @thebookclubreviewpod, on Twitter @bookclubrvwpod, or leave us a comment on iTunes. Drop us a line – we'd love to hear from you. Subscribe and never miss an episode. • Books mentioned on this episode were 'The Concubine's Children' by Denise Cheong, 'The Noise of Time' by Julian Barnes, 'The Rest is Noise' by Alex Ross, 'Ru' by Kim Thuy and 'Brother' by David Chariandy. Terri Jane of the Radical Reading Group talked about 'Close to the Knives' by David Wojnarowicz, 'Your Silence Will Not Protect You' by Audre Lorde and 'Too Much and Not in the Mood' by Durga Chew-Bose. To find out more about the Radical Reading group find them on facebook under Radical Reading London. And if you keep listening to our extra bit at the end we discuss 'Children of Blood and Bone' by Tomi Adeyemi, 'Bleaker House' by Nell Stevens and 'Cartes Postales' by Victoria Hislop. • 
Next up on The Book Club Review is A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

Authors Matt Thorne and Nikita Lalwani join John and Andy to discuss the ‘other’ masterpiece by Joseph Heller, Something Happened, first published in 1974. Also in this episode John talks about Brother, a new novel by David Chariandy, while Andy has been reading Ursula Bentley's 1983 debut The Natural Order.

Creating or conjuring? Junior scholars Emmanuelle Andrews and Katrina Sellinger were inspired by a public dialogue on the work of words between poet Dionne Brand and critic Christina Sharpe moderated by writer David Chariandy. Emmanuelle and Katrina co-edited a special issue of The Capilano Review extending that conversation on Blackness through their curation of essays, interviews, poetry, sculpture, and tattoo art. PhDiva Xine talks to these up-and-coming scholars at UBC about Black love, mentorship, Canadian and English moral exceptionalisms about race, and how people create but do not think of themselves as creators. The Capilano Review 3.34 (physical or digital copies available): https://thecapilanoreview.com/featured/ Emmanuelle Andrews (@Elle_Drews) co-directed the short film Coming to Love. Her MA thesis in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice (UBC) is entitled "Reading the Threat, Imagining Otherwise: Notting Hill Carnival, the London Riots and a Global Issue of Blackness." Katrina Sellinger (@space_femme) is working on diasporic Black queerness through studies of Janelle Monae and the film Moonlight. She is completing her MA in English (UBC) and will be starting her PhD at McMaster University.

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In a heart-warming and romantic Valentine’s Day conversation, writer/comedian Charlie Demers joins host Andre Goulet to aim Cupid’s arrows at the breathtaking cynicism and broken promises of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Find Charlie’s Juno-nominated comedy album ‘Fatherland’ on iTunes, where you can also subscribe to his monthly podcast ‘Well Reds’, Canada’s premiere leftist literary review. January's episode features David Chariandy’s award-winning novel ‘Brother’. Music on this episode: Billy Ocean's 'Suddenly'(1984) and Michael Bolton's 'How Am I Supposed to Live Without You' (1983) This conversation was recorded on February 13th, 2018. Mastered by Chris Hernandez at Studio Petit Palais.

On episode 11 of Well Reds it's a one man TOUR-DE-FORCE as host Charlie Demers walks a solo tightrope of COMEDY and PATHOS! In this MASTERCLASS on podcasting without a net, join Charlie for a DEEP DIVE DISCOURSE on David Chariandy's long-awaited, award-winning, Scarborough-set novel 'BROTHER'!Thanks to Galiano Island Books and our new sponsor, legendary Vancouver dance, theater and music cultural institution The Cultch!

On episode 11 of Well Reds it's a one man TOUR-DE-FORCE as host Charlie Demers walks a solo tightrope of COMEDY and PATHOS! In this MASTERCLASS on podcasting without a net, join Charlie for a DEEP DIVE DISCOURSE on David Chariandy's long-awaited, award-winning, Scarborough-set novel 'BROTHER'!Thanks to Galiano Island Books and our new sponsor, legendary Vancouver dance, theater and music cultural institution The Cultch!

This episode is full of fun, friendship and lots of love. Dina and Jen talk to the recent winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, novelist, and truly lovely person, David Chariandy. We talk about his new novel, Brother, Jen and David's early days as published writers, writing the good and hard stuff, and the passing of Jen's beloved dog companion, Molly. Molly, we love you and you are missed. We also play a game called, "Write or Go Right?" Three Leos together on the mic and it can only be a good time, right?

The $50,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize recognizes the best Canadian novel or short story collection. Listen to the shortlisted authors for this prestigious award--Carleigh Baker, Claire Cameron, David Chariandy, Omar El Akkad and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson--in conversation at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto on October 25, 2017. Hosted and moderated by Becky Toyne. 1:08 - Omar El Akkad 8:27 - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 15:12 - Claire Cameron 24:30 - David Chariandy 32:08 - Carleigh Baker 39:57 - Group discussion