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[28 Oct 2009]

The author and novelist Michael Crummey discusses his new book, Galore (Doubleday, 2009) with Joseph Planta; they also discuss Newfoundland, where the book is set, his writing habits, as well as awards and prizes, as this book has nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award.

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[28 Oct 2009]

David Allen Sibley, who succeeded John James Audubon and Richard Tory Peterson with the standard guide to birds, talks to Joseph Planta, about his latest book, The Sibley Guide to Trees (Knopf, 2009).

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[27 Oct 2009]

The novelist William Deverell talks about his latest novel, featuring Arthur Beauchamp, Q.C., Snow Job (McClelland and Stewart, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[27 Oct 2009]

The author and journalist Jane Christmas discusses her new memoir, Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy (Greystone, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[27 Oct 2009]

The broadcaster and actor David Berner discusses drug addiction treatment and his founding of the X-Kalay Foundation some forty years ago, which still exists helping people battling addictions in Winnipeg, with Joseph Planta.

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[26 Oct 2009]

Michael Byers, UBC professor of global politics and international law and bestselling author (Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For?) discusses his new book Who Owns the Arctic? Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North (Douglas & McIntyre, 2009), with Joseph Planta; other than the politics and issues of Arctic sovereignty, they also discuss whether Byers will run federally again.

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[26 Oct 2009]

Last week, Joseph Planta talked to CBC Radio host Eleanor Wachtel about interviewing and more. The host of Writers and Company, Wachtel hosts what is considered Canada’s foremost literary program. Podcasts of Writers and Company can be downloaded at here

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[26 Oct 2009]

2007 National Geographic Adventurers of the Year Colin Angus and Julie Angus talk to Joseph Planta about their new book, Rowed Trip: From Scotland to Syria by Oar (Doubleday, 2009), which chronicles their boat, bike and foot travels to the homelands of their parents.

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[21 Oct 2009]

Mark Garvey, the author of Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style (Touchstone, 2009), discusses the style guide, its history, its authors William Strunk Jr., and E.B. White, and who it’s influenced over fifty years now, with Joseph Planta.

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[21 Oct 2009]

Food columnist at the Calgary Herald’s Swerve magazine, artist, and graduate from the French Culinary Institute, Pierre Lamielle talks food and his new book, Kitchen Scraps: A Humorous Illustrated Cookbook (Whitecap, 2009), with Joseph Planta.