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[29 Apr 2010]

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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[29 Apr 2010]

The author Douglas Smith discusses science fiction and his new collection of stories Chimerascope (ChiZine, 2010), with Joseph Planta.

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[27 Apr 2010]

The writer Scott Carter talks about writing, teaching high school English, and his new novel Blind Luck (Napoleon & Company, 2010), a book about gambling, luck and chance, with Joseph Planta.

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[26 Apr 2010]

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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[15 Apr 2010]

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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[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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[25 Mar 2010]

A new collection The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning (Random House, 2009) is discussed. The book’s editors, George Bowering and Jean Baird talk to Joseph Planta about grief, mourning, and this collection of essays written by well-known Canadian writers.

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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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[26 Feb 2010]

The writer Graeme McRanor, music writer for the Vancouver Sun, talks to Joseph Planta about the Winter Olympic Games, music in Vancouver, the Oscars, and more.

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[14 Dec 2009]

The writers and marketers Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo discuss their new book Friends With Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook (No Starch Press, 2009), with Joseph Planta; they also discuss the world of social media and how people and business can use it, their writing, their blogs, and more.