This episode features an interview with Hamilton graphic novelist, Joe Ollman, who, besides being a great bookstore worker at Epic Books, is an award-winning graphic novelist whose latest work, Fictional Father, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s award for fiction. We talk comics, movies, how brilliant the Booker-longlisted Sabrina was and finish off with a discussion of Philippe Gerard’s graphic novel Leonard Cohen: On A Wire.

Some graphic novelists we mention in the episode and who you may want to check out include:

Nick Drnaso

Chris Ware

Seth

Alison Bechdel

Julie Doucette

Posy Simmonds

This episode features Ja'miil Millar, our guest editor for the Review's Youth Issue. We talk about her reading life, seeing ourselves (or not) in the literature we read, and have a discussion about The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat.

For our first full episode, our guest is the Editor-in-Chief of the Hamilton Review of Books, Dana Hansen. We talk about the Review, Dana's reading life, and then have a great discussion about Miriam Toews new book Fight Night. Listen, subscribe and please review the podcast on the platform you use.

September 17, 2021

Meet your host Alex Kerner and find out what this new podcast is all about.