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[3 Jun 2010]

The bestselling author Derek Lundy discusses his new book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America (Knopf, 2010) with Joseph Planta. In the book, Lundy travels the American borders with Canada and Mexico atop a motorcycle and offers his observations of border-life, as well as America’s security concerns.

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[12 Apr 2010]

The author Beth Powning talks to Joseph Planta about her newest book, The Sea Captain’s Wife (Knopf, 2010), the sea, writing, diary-keeping, and more.

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[17 Mar 2010]

The writer, journalist, comic, playwright, and now novelist (one of Random House’s New Faces of Fiction) Drew Hayden Taylor discusses his book, Motorcycles and Sweetgrass (Knopf, 2010), with Joseph Planta; it’s a novel about the aboriginal experience, magic, family, raccoons, and a mysterious stranger.

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[3 Dec 2009]

The historian and bestselling author John English discusses his second of two volumes on Pierre Trudeau, Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 (Knopf, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[23 Nov 2009]

The acclaimed and bestselling author and Globe and Mail columnist Stephen Brunt discusses his new book Gretzky’s Tears: Hockey, Canada, and the Day Everything Changed (Knopf, 2009), with Anjan Chaklader.

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[5 Nov 2009]

Terry O’Reilly, the award winning advertising writer and director and host of CBC Radio’s popular The Age of Persuasion discusses his new book, The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture (Knopf, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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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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[13 Oct 2009]

The novelist Lori Lansens talks to Joseph Planta about her new book, The Wife’s Tale (Knopf, 2009), a story about an obsese woman’s search for her husband who’s left her and the search for herself; as well, Lansens discusses moving from Canada to California, her writing and reading habits, and interacting with her readers at book clubs and elsewhere.

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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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[25 May 2009]

Bruce Lourie, co-author (with Dr. Rick Smith) of Slow Death By Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health, discusses the book with Joseph Planta.