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[24 Jun 2008]

To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey Through West Africa (Dundurn, 2008) is funny and fun memoir from Tourism Vancouver’s Rick Antonson. He talks to Joseph Planta about his unforgettable trip through Senegal and Mali.

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[4 Jun 2008]

Legendary broadcaster and writer Rafe Mair talks to Joseph Planta about his new collection of essays, What the Bleep Is Going On Here? (Harbour, 2008).

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[27 May 2008]

Author and journalist Patricia Pearson talks to Joseph Planta about her new book A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine) (Random House Canada, 2008).

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[26 May 2008]

Author Abigail Carter talks to Joseph Planta about her new first book, The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow’s Transformation (McClelland & Stewart, 2008), which chronicles her life through grief after her husband was killed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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[31 Mar 2008]

Writer and journalist Jane Christmas talks to Joseph Planta about her book What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago de Compostela (Greystone, 2007).

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[12 Feb 2008]

Andrew Merrifield talks to Joseph Planta about his new book The Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World, a thoughtful and pensive look at life in Southern France’s Haute-Auvergne region, life’s larger mysteries, and his faithful companion, a donkey, Gribouille.

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[24 Jan 2008]

James Long, co-artistic director of Theatre Replacement, writer, and performer talks to Joseph Planta about a suitcase of photos he found a couple of years ago, which is now the basis of a show, Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut.

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[15 Nov 2007]

BC author Doreen Armitage talks to Joseph Planta about her latest book, Tales from the Galley: Stories of the Working Waterfront (Harbour Publishing, 2007).

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[22 Oct 2007]

Tom Flanagan talks to Joseph Planta about his new book Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power (McGill-Queen’s, 2007), and the central role he played in Stephen Harper’s political campaigns.

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[17 Oct 2007]

Cold-Cocked On Hockey (Biblioasis, 2007) is a new memoir from writer Lorna Jackson, who discussed her book-length appreciation of hockey with Joseph Planta.