Articles tagged with: Knopf
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The author Amanda Boyden discusses her new novel, Babylon Rolling (Knopf, 2008), a novel set in pre-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, with Joseph Planta.
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Governor General’s prize winning author for A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews discusses her new novel The Flying Troutmans (Knopf, 2008) with Joseph Planta.
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Giller and Booker nominated Joan Barfoot talks to Joseph Planta about her new novel, Exit Lines (Knopf, 2008)
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The bestselling author, essayist, and historian Ronald Wright discusses his new book, What is America? A Short History of the New World Order (Knopf, 2008) with Joseph Planta.
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Author Katherine Ashenburg looks at how clean we are, and were, in her new book, the fascinating The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (Knopf, 2007).
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Author and military historian Mark Zuehlke recently talked to Joseph Planta about his book, For Honour’s Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace (Knopf, 2006). He tells the story of Canada’s most famous war vividly recreating the war as never before, providing context to some of countless legends that have come from the conflict which pitted the British and the Americans, that saw Canadians and Indians fight with the British, seeing Canadians burn down the White House.
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The Globe and Mail’s Stephen Brunt, one of the nation’s premier sports writers talked with Joseph Planta about his new book, Searching for Bobby Orr (Knopf, 2006).
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Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow’s new book, The Story of French (Knopf, 2006), is a study of the life of the French language, its development, spread, history, and future, and just how the French language has survived despite English’s prevalence, as well as other languages. Nadeau joined Joseph Planta to talk about the book, how he learned English, how Barlow learned French, and their plans to adopt twins from Haiti.
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Bestselling and acclaimed author Wayne Johnston recently spoke with Joseph Planta about his latest novel, The Custodian of Paradise (Knopf, 2006). As well, Johnston talked about how he wrote, and how he created his most remembered characters.
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Journalist Julian Sher recently spoke with Joseph Planta about his new book, Angels of Death: Inside the Bikers’ Global Crime Empire (Knopf, 2006), which he co-authored with William Marsden, a timely look at the Hells Angels, and other bikers who’ve met the attention of the public, not to mention law enforcement.
