Live Mic Classic Books

Book by Emanuele Coccia

The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture

Books by Adria Vasil

Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Products, Information and Service in Canada.

Ecoholic Body: Your Ultimate Earth Friendly Guide to Living Healthy and Looking Good.

Ecoholic Home: the Greenest, Cleanest and Most Energy-Efficient Information Under One (Canadian) Roof

Check out more about Adria and her work on her website.

Other Related Materials

What If Plants Were One of Us (link opens an article from The Nation)

Emanuele Coccia: philosophe de la métamorphose (link open a broadcast interview in French from France Culture)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Books by Crystal King

The Chef’s Secret

Feast of Sorrow: a Novel of Ancient Rome

Books by Roberta Rich

The Midwife of Venice

The Harem Midwife

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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavours & Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City

Here Let Us Feast: a Book of Banquets

Cooking for the Pope: Bartolomeo Scappi, the Renaissance’s Most Innovative Chef, Revolutionized the Culinary Arts (link opens Paris Review article)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Books by Yuri Herrera

Signs Preceding the End of the World

The Transmigration of Bodies

Kingdom Cons

Other Related Materials

Twenty Questions with Yuri Herrera (opens a Times Literary Supplement article)

Literature as Political Responsibility: an Interview with Yuri Herrera (opens a Latin American Literature Today article)

A Narco-History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created

A Concise History of Mexico

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Books by Vanessa Sasson

Yasodhara: A Novel about the Buddha’s Wife

Other Related Materials

Stars at Dawn: Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha’s Life

Eminent Buddhist Women

Women and Asian Religions

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Books by Devon Abbott Mihesuah

Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero

Recovering our Ancestor’s Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness

Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism

Books and other related materials by Falen Johnson

The Secret Life of Canada: a Podcast series

Salt Baby

Indian Act: Residential School Plays

Other Related Materials

Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation: Learn from All I Observe

Cherokee: an Independent Nation

Beginning Cherokee (learning the language of the Cherokee; multi-media materials)

Sequoyah and the Invention of the Cherokee Alphabet

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Books by Bruce Pascoe

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture

Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?

The Little Red Yellow Black Book: an Introduction to Indigenous Australia

Books by Kim Anderson

A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood

Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings and Story Medicine

Inichaag: My Soul in Story, Anishnaabe Poetics in Art and Words (with Rene Meshake)

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Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

Utopia: a film by Alan Lowery and John Pilger

The Swan Book by Alexis Wright

Dreamtime: Aboriginal Stories by Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Related Books from TPL’s Collection

Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

La fruta del borrachero by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (translation of Fruit of the Drunken Tree)

Pablo Escobar: my Father by Sebastián Marroquín

Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia by Tom Feiling

The Stone Thrower: a Daughter’s Lessons, a Father’s Life: a Memoir by Jael Richardson

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For Debut Novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras Home is What You Carry With You (link opens Clever article from July 2018)

How Women Survive the World: an Interview with Ingrid Rojas Contreras (link opens Long Reads article from August 2019)

The National Center for Historical Memory (link to organization’s website)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Books by Will Aitken

Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove and the Art of Resistance

Realia

Death in Venice

Books by Anne Carson (writer or translator)

Antigone

Antigonick

Autobiography of Red: a Novel in Verse

Float

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Antigone by Slavoj Žižek

Clouds of Sils Maria, a film by Olivier Assays starring Juliette Binoche

Certified Copy, a film by Abbas Kiarostami starring Juliette Binoche

Bleu, a film by Krzysztof Kieślowski starring Juliette Binoche

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Three of Canada’s best-loved writers talk about their experiences as Indigenous artists competing on Canada Reads. With Canada Reads host Ali Hassan, Dimaline (Marrow Thieves), Lindberg (Birdie), and Vermette (The Break) consider how their works have been received by the public in both positive and negative ways and what their celebrity defenders learned about Indigenous experiences in the process. Recorded in the Toronto Public Library’s Appel Salon (part of the TPL’s regular event series, Indigenous Celebrations) in October 2018.

Books or books-related topics referenced in Episode Five:

The Amazing Race Canada season one winner (along with his son, Tim Hague, Jr.) talks about the ways his life has been a lottery of positive outcomes, despite being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at age 46.

Born of a mixed-race couple who gave him up for adoption, he found joy and happiness with a loving family that helped shape into the activist and hero that is now. His book Perseverance: the Seven Skills You Need to Survive, Thrive, and Accomplish More than You Ever Imagined was a bestseller and helped launch him into an international speaking career. Hague delivers the annual June Callwood Lecture at the Toronto Public Library in May 2018, demonstrating how perseverance is a skill that we can all learn to develop.

Interview Transcript