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[21 Sep 2011]

The environmentalist and Greenpeace International Climate and Energy Co-Director Tzeporah Berman discusses her new book, This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge (Knopf, 2011), with Joseph Planta.

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[19 Sep 2011]

The author (My Mother’s Daughter), journalist and former editor of Chatelaine Rona Maynard joins Joseph Planta to discuss eReaders, teachers, being a mentor, memoir writing, and more.

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[2 Jun 2011]

Andre Gerard discusses the new collection he’s edited, Fathers: A Literary Anthology (Patremoir, 2011), fatherhood, with Joseph Planta.

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[20 May 2011]

The author Shari Graydon talks about the collection she’s edited, I Feel Great About My Hands: And Other Unexpected Joys of Aging (Douglas & McIntyre, 2011), with Joseph Planta.

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[19 May 2011]

The playwright and theatre artist Carmen Aguirre discusses her first book, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (Douglas & McIntyre, 2011), being a member of the Chilean resistance, Chile today, and more, with Joseph Planta.

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[16 May 2011]

The life, death and memory of Captain Jeff Francis is at the centre of a new book, For Your Tomorrow: The Way of An Unlikely Soldier (Random House, 2011); Killed in Afghanistan by an IED, his aunt, the author Melanie Murray, talks about loss, mourning and service in the book, and in this interview with Joseph Planta.

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[28 Apr 2011]

The writer and broadcaster Steve Burgess discusses his memoir, Who Killed Mom? A Delinquent Son’s Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles (Greystone, 2011), with Joseph Planta.

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[14 Apr 2011]

The bestselling author John Elder Robison discusses his new book Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian (Doubleday, 2011), with Joseph Planta; they also discuss Asperger’s, its symptoms, and how Robison coped with being different.

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[12 Apr 2011]

The author Rupinder Gill discusses her new memoir, On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life (McClelland & Stewart, 2011), with Joseph Planta.

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[28 Mar 2011]

The author and chef Cory Parsons discusses his new cookbook Cooking with Cory: Inspirational Recipes for the Fearless Cook (Whitecap, 2010), food, as well as the diving accident that left him a quadriplegic, with Joseph Planta.