Rebecca and Tara are thrilled to discuss the CBC's Canada Reads Short List!

• Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Rebecca: @canadareadsamericanstyle

Tara: @onabranchreads

Happy New Year!  Rebecca and Tara review their 2023 reading goals and set new challenges for 2024!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• Finding Edward by Sheila Murray

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• The Frozen Thames; And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life; Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother by Helen Humphreys

Rebecca and Tara wrap up their 2023 reading year!  They also encourage you to follow @river_street_writes on Instagram if you're interested in CanLit, Canadian authors, and small Canadian presses.

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• Denison Avenue by Christina Wong; illustrated by Daniel Innes

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

Rebecca and Tara are excited to discuss the 2024 Canada Reads Long List (before the New Year!) and predict the Short List contenders!  Let the holiday book shopping begin!

https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-canada-reads-2024-longlist-is-here-1.7056323

Rebecca: @canadareadsamericanstyle

Tara: @onabranchreads

Rebecca and Tara are back with another book chat after a busy fall season!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• In Search of April Raintree (40th Anniversary Edition) by Beatrice Mosionier

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America by Tyler Merritt

Rebecca is excited to have professional explorer and best-selling author Adam Shoalts as a return guest on the podcast.

Adam is a geographer and historian and holds a Ph.D. from McMaster University.  He has participated in numerous archaeological digs and undertakes solo expeditions in the most remote wilderness areas. He is the Westaway Explorer-in-Residence of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

In this episode, Adam will discuss his fifth and latest book, Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey from My Doorstep to the Arctic (2023).

Adam's first four books:

• Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown (2015)

https://adamshoalts.com/

Instagram: @adam_shoalts

https://rcgs.org/speakers/

Since the podcast began, Rebecca has wanted to interview an editor to better understand their role in working with authors.  On today's episode, she chats with author, editor, and publisher Lee D. Thompson.

Lee was born and raised in Moncton, New Brunswick and has had fiction published in five anthologies and in more than a dozen literary journals across Canada and the US. His most recent novel, Apastoral: A Mistopia, was published last year and won the fiction prize at the 2022 New Brunswick Book Awards.

When not writing, Lee is a busy editor and book designer and is the publisher and founder of Galleon Books, a small literary publishing house  

https://leedthompson.blog/

X: @lee_thomp

Rebecca and Tara combine two great Christmas-related subjects. 

First, an interview with Canadian author and storyteller extraordinaire Jeremy John (@jjjeremyjohn)!

• Robert’s Hill (Or the Time I Pooped My Snowsuit) and Other Christmas Stories

Second, Tara (@onabranchreads) shares her recommended Christmas or winter books for the upcoming season!

• Three Holidays and a Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley

Rebecca and Tara celebrate Non-Fiction November by sharing some of their highly anticipated non-fiction reads!

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Canada Reads American Style is now an affiliate of Bookshop.org, where your purchases support local independent bookstores.  Our curated shop includes books discussed on the podcast.  When you purchase a book through our virtual bookshop, a portion of the sales benefits a local bookstore, as well as the podcast, which helps offset the costs of the show. 

Tara is excited to welcome Jerrod Edson to discuss his latest book, The Boulevard. 

Jerrod was born in St. John, New Brunswick and raised in the  Kennebecasis Valley of southern New Brunswick.  He graduated from Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, with a BA in English lit and history, studied journalism at Sheridan College, Oakville, ON, and received his teaching degree in 2007 from York University, Toronto, ON.

Jerrod received the David Adams Richards Prize for Fiction for his book The Moon is Real (2016) and his novel The Goon (2010) was shortlisted for the ReLit Award.  His sixth novel The Boulevard was published by Galleon Publishing in May 2023.

Paintings mentioned in The Boulevard are listed in order on Jerrod's blog: https://jerrodedson.blogspot.com/2022/03/some-paintings-mentioned-in-boulevard.html

Jerrod is currently reading: Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella and The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey.

Instagram: @jerrodedson99