Articles tagged with: history
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The author Rosemary Cunningham discusses her new book Bravo! The History of Opera in British Columbia (Harbour Publishing, 2009), with Joseph Planta; discussed is how opera has been received in BC, the great artists who’ve sung here, and the people who helped promote the arts in the province.
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The legendary Dal Richards discusses his new memoir One More Time! The Dal Richards Story (Harbour Publishing, 2009), with Joseph Planta; they discuss his robust health at 91, his wife Muriel Honey’s influence on his life and career, the music that many Vancouverites have danced to, giving Michael Bublé his first paying singing engagement, as well as the many gigs he’s got down the road.
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Simon Fraser University criminologist Neil Boyd discusses the book he’s co-authored with Larry Campbell and Lori Culbert, A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future (Greystone, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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The author and poet Karen Connelly talks to Joseph Planta about her new memoir, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story (Doubleday, 2009). Amidst the military dictatorship in Burma, Connelly has a love affair with a young revolutionary named Maung, which is discussed, as well as Connelly’s writing process, and prize winning.
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The journalist and author Andrew Scott discusses his new work, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia (Harbour Publishing, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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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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The director of communications for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former Newsweek correspondent Michael Meyer discusses his new book, The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Scribner, 2009), with Joseph Planta; they talk about the events in eastern Europe twenty years ago in Hungary and throughout the communist bloc that led to the fall of the Wall, Romania and the Ceausescu’s, and the lessons we can apply to today.
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Nathalie Cooke, the associate dean of arts at McGill University and editor of CuiZine: The (e)journal of Canadian Food Cultures, talks to Joseph Planta about the new collection she’s edited, What’s to Eat? Entrée’s in Canadian Food History (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009), an informative and fascinating look at Canada’s foodways.
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The economist and commentator Brian Lee Crowley, president of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, discusses his new book Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values (Key Porter, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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The Dominion Institute’s co-founder and National Post columnist, Rudyard Griffiths discusses his new book, Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto (Douglas & McIntyre, 2009) with Joseph Planta.
