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Hey folks! I got to speak to the excellent Gurjinder Basran (it’s been a while!) about her latest “cheery” novel, Help! I’m Alive. We had a good time, the book is great, you should listen!

Hey folks! The world is…well…things have been better. For some folks, the reality of climate change alone has made it difficult to deal. If that sounds like you (or even if it doesn’t) you should listen in to hear author/blogger Britt Wray talk about her new book Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis.

Welcome back to another poetry show! This week it's Phoebe Wang (Waking Occupations) and Madhur Anand (Parasitic Oscillations). Hey, those two titles rhyme. Neat.

Great books and great conversations, listen in!

This week another double shot of poetry! (Sorry. I think that “double shot” thing stuck in my head from too much classic rock radio in my youth). We’re joined by Laurie D. Graham (Fast Commute) and Tolu Oloruntoba (Each One A Furnace). Oloruntoba’s last collection, The Junta of Happenstance, won the Governor General’s award for poetry which was exciting because we shared a publisher in Palimpsest Press! Enjoy the show.

Hey all! Today’s guest is novelist and critic Martha Schabas (author of Various Positions). She joins me to talk about her latest novel, My Face In The Light. Check it out.

Hey everyone! Back into the poetry this week (with more to come!). Today we talk with both Ellie Sawatzky (about None Of This Belongs to Me) and Isabella Wang (about Pebble Swing).

Michael Barclay and I came up in music journalism around the same time. He started with ID Magazine in Guelph, while I was writing a Spectator column and just beginning with View Weekly. Given our ages and interests, it was pretty clear I’d love his books, and so far, I absolutely have – from Have Not Been The Same to The Never-Ending Present (for which I got to interview him) to the newest, Hearts on Fire. This one hits me right in the musical feels, focusing on the first five years of the new millennium, which happen to coincide with my first five years working at 93.3 CFMU FM.

Barclay’s book is great and he’s a good dude. Tune in.

Hey folks! Had a great time last weekend with the return of live GritLit events. I was able to attend two of them, and everything felt all weirdly familiar and wonderful (and fairly anxiety-free...unlike the Judas Priest show I attended two weeks ago, but that's another story). For me though, the highlight was probably hanging with the cool GritLit folks afterward, fine people I haven't seen in a while. Oh, and demonstrating ska dancing for the table. I suppose, if nothing else, it will be easy to remind Heather O'Neill where she met me before.

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I have seen cover concepts for River, Diverted. I have my first blurb for it, too (holy hell is it a good one - but it's too early to share). October 2022!

Today's show features the remarkable Stuart Ross. His newest is The Book Of Grief And Hamburgers, and it's excellent. Tune in!

Hey all! Great show today with award-winning author David Bergen. Check out our chat as we discuss his latest novel, Out of Mind.

It's that time of year again. I got to goof around with the inestimable (is that the right word?) Jennifer Gillies, Artistic Director for the GritLit Readers and Writers Festival.

Yes, it's in Hamilton, but don't fear, listeners - a lot of it's online and you can join the fun.