Articles tagged with: novel
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The author and writer Linda L. Richards talks to Joseph Planta about the project she and David Middleton are working on, The Greatest 100 Books of British Columbia, which will be published next year. In the meantime, people can contribute their own selections of the greatest BC books on their website: www.greatest100books.com.
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The international bestselling author Joy Fielding discusses her new novel The Wild Zone (Doubleday, 2010), writing, kissing Elvis Presley, living in America and Canada, with Joseph Planta.
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The author Adam Lewis Schroeder discusses his new novel, In the Fabled East (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010), traveling in Asia, writing, and a used book store in Penticton, with Joseph Planta.
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The prize winning and bestselling novelist Joan Thomas talks to Joseph Planta about her new book, Curiosity: A Love Story (McClelland & Stewart, 2010), which features Mary Anning and Henry de la Beche as leading characters.
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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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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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UBC librarian emeritus Joseph Jones talks to Joseph Planta about the translation he’s just published of Hubert Aquin’s Les sables mouvants / Shifting Sands (Ronsdale Press, 2009); they also discuss Aquin’s life, his place in Quebec culture, 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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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 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.
