Articles tagged 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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The Globe and Mail’s Deirdre Kelly talks to Joseph Planta about her memoir, Paris Times Eight: Finding Myself in the City of Dreams (Greystone, 2009), a look at the trips she made to France over the years, and how each shaped her life, giving her an understanding of herself, her family and more.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
