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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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[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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[14 Oct 2009]

The editor of the Vancouver Observer, veteran journalist Linda Solomon talks to Joseph Planta about her website, journalism, civic engagement, blogs and blogging, and the unique media landscape in Vancouver.

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[8 Oct 2009]

Terry Walters joins Joseph Planta to discuss her new book, Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You (Sterling Epicure, 2009).

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[6 Oct 2009]

One of Time magazine’s most influential people, the primatologist from Emory University’s Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Center and author Frans de Waal discusses his new book, The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society (McClelland & Stewart, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[1 Oct 2009]

University of Michigan Afro-American literature and culture professor Michael Awkward discusses his new book, Burying Don Imus: Anatomy of a Scapegoat (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), with Imus in the Morning listener Joseph Planta; they discuss the 2007 firing of talk personality Don Imus over comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team which ignited a firestorm over race, free speech and language in America.

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[28 Sep 2009]

The bestselling author and Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen discusses her new book, You Were Always Mom’s Favorite!: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives (Random House, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[16 Jun 2009]

The novelist and journalist Jim Lynch discusses his new novel, Border Songs (Knopf, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[9 Jun 2009]

The noted satrist and author Christopher Buckley discusses the memoir he’s written about his parents, William F. Buckley Jr. and the Vancouver-born Patricia Taylor Buckley, Losing Mum and Pup (McClelland & Stewart, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[25 May 2009]

Jane Ganahl, journalist and author, discusses the collection of essays she’s edited, Single Woman of a Certain Age: Romantic Escapades, Shifting Shapes, and Serene Independence (New World Library, 2009).