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[5 Aug 2010]

The author and poet George Fetherling discusses his new novel, Walt Whitman’s Secret (Random House, 2010), with Joseph Planta.

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[29 Apr 2010]

The international bestselling author Joy Fielding discusses her new novel The Wild Zone (Doubleday, 2010), writing, kissing Elvis Presley, living in America and Canada, with Joseph Planta.

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[29 Apr 2010]

The author Douglas Smith discusses science fiction and his new collection of stories Chimerascope (ChiZine, 2010), with Joseph Planta.

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[26 Apr 2010]

The author Adam Lewis Schroeder discusses his new novel, In the Fabled East (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010), traveling in Asia, writing, and a used book store in Penticton, with Joseph Planta.

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[16 Apr 2010]

Zsuzsi Gartner, the editor of the short story collection, Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010), talks to Joseph Planta.

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[15 Apr 2010]

The prize winning and bestselling novelist Joan Thomas talks to Joseph Planta about her new book, Curiosity: A Love Story (McClelland & Stewart, 2010), which features Mary Anning and Henry de la Beche as leading characters.

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[12 Apr 2010]

The author Beth Powning talks to Joseph Planta about her newest book, The Sea Captain’s Wife (Knopf, 2010), the sea, writing, diary-keeping, and more.

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[17 Mar 2010]

The writer, journalist, comic, playwright, and now novelist (one of Random House’s New Faces of Fiction) Drew Hayden Taylor discusses his book, Motorcycles and Sweetgrass (Knopf, 2010), with Joseph Planta; it’s a novel about the aboriginal experience, magic, family, raccoons, and a mysterious stranger.

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[30 Dec 2009]

In less than a week, I’ll find myself on a long haul flight. It’s not the destination that worries me, rather it’s the journey. I’m not enthusiastic about the several hours I’ll be flying, and so I’ve sought advice from regular travellers like Rafe Mair and Rona Maynard. They have both suggested reading mid-air.

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[9 Dec 2009]

The Governor General’s Prize winning author William Gilkerson discusses his new book A Thousand Years of Pirates (Tundra Books, 2009), with Joseph Planta; as well as talking about pirates past and present (online and on the seas currently), they talk about Donald Sutherland, who is adapting one of the books for an animated series.