The Taddle Creek Podcast: Recent Episodes

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Chris Chambers, Sharon Miki Chan, Andrew Daley, and Emily Pohl-Weary read at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 45, with special guest Lindsay Zier-Vogel, live-ish at the Jet Fuel Coffee Shop, August 26, 2020.

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Kerri Huffman and Chris Chambers read at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 15, live at Supermarket, December 8, 2005.

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Victoria Hetherington, J. R. McConvey, Sarah Gilbert, and Richard Kelly Kemick read at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 44, live at Famous Last Words, January 15, 2020.

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Stuart Ross rings in 2020 with his annual New Year’s poem.

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Stuart Ross rings in 2019 with his annual New Year’s poem.

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Terry Murray discusses her memoir about the integration of a local elementary school in her childhood Chicago neighbourhood, in the nineteen-sixties, with Bee Quammie at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 41, live at the LitBang! Pop-Up Shop, June 27, 2018.

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Jessica Westhead reads an excerpt from her short story collection And Also Sharks at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 41, live at the LitBang! Pop-Up Shop, June 27, 2018.

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Michael Redhill reads a selection of poems at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 41, live at the LitBang! Pop-Up Shop, June 27, 2018.

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Stuart Ross rings in 2018 with his annual New Year’s poem.

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Conan Tobias talks to Katherine Collins, creator of the comic book Neil the Horse, about her career and recent resurgence. Recorded live at the Toronto Reference Library during the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 13, 2017.

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Stuart Ross rings in 2017 with his annual New Year’s poem.

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Derek McCormack drops by talk about Pieface, Jeanette Winterson, and Bats in the Belfry.

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The author Derek McCormack makes his now-annual Halloween podcast appearance to wish Conan Tobias a Happy Halloween and to discuss the Holiday Arts Mail-Order School.

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Chris Chambers helps The Taddle Creek Podcast celebrate fifty episodes with a reading of his poem “Ventilator,” originally published in Taddle Creek No. 27.

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John Degen phones in to tell Conan Tobias everything he’s doing wrong.

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Shawn Syms reads an excerpt from his short story “Taking Creative Licence.”

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Conan Tobias gets a progress update from Hal Niedzviecki on the serialization of his novel The Archaeologists.

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Elana Wolff reads her poem “Think of a Name for the Bird in the Glossy Photo.”

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Conan Tobias chats with Natalia Hernandez, the real-life cover star of Taddle Creek No. 37.

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Taddle Creek contributing editor Alfred Holden interviews Conan Tobias on his feature story “Canada’s Greatest Cartoonist,” a look at the life of the cartoonist Lou Skuce.

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Jessica Westhead reads her story “Things Not to Do” at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 37, live at the Jet Fuel Coffee Shop, June 3, 2016.

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Michael e. Casteels reads a selection of poems at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 37, live at the Jet Fuel Coffee Shop, June 3, 2016.

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Jess Taylor reads a new short story, “I Moved Out When I Caught Him With the Dog,” at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 37, live at the Jet Fuel Coffee Shop, June 3, 2016.

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John Degen phones in to talk about this and that, in lieu of a proper guest.

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Julie Cameron Gray is back with another poem, “Dorothy and the First Tornado,” which originally appeared in Taddle Creek No. 34.

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Alexandra Leggat calls in for a quick interview on the launch of her new press, Two Wolves.

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Julie Cameron Gray reads her poem “Thoughts of a Drunken Tourist at the Bushmills Whiskey Distillery,” which originally appeared in Taddle Creek No. 31.

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Alfred Holden discusses the urban thinker Jane Jacobs, on the hundredth anniversary of her birth. (Correction: Alfred was mistaken on-air. Jacobs resided at 58 Spadina, not 56. Taddle Creek regrets the error.)

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Gary Barwin, the Penguin Random House Canada New Face of Fiction for 2016, shares an audio trailer for his new novel, Yiddish for Pirates.

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Katia Grubisic reads her poem “Sundays.”

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Sandy Pool reads her poem “The Offering.” Recorded in the men’s room of a Montreal Mexican restaurant, 2015.

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Adrienne Weiss drops by the Taddle Creek studios to eat pancakes and read her poem “A Member of the Wait Staff Delivers a Glass of Ice to Oprah,” which originally appeared in Taddle Creek No. 14.

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Jennifer LoveGrove reads her poem “Backyard Insurrection,’ from the upcoming Taddle Creek No. 37,

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In which Hal Niedzviecki takes exception to the episode title of his previous podcast appearance.

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Emily Schultz reads her poem “The Rain of a Thousand Days,” recorded in 2015 in her car on a Brooklyn side street. Egg creams for everyone at Peter Pan afterward.

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Taddle Creek’s editor-in-chief Conan Tobias gets Hal Niedzviecki on the phone to discuss the author’s time-consuming request.

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Jessica Westhead reads an excerpt from her short story “Empathize or Die,” debuting in the upcoming Taddle Creek No. 37.

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Billie Livingston reads another chapter from her novel The Crooked heart of Mercy.

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Billie Livingston reads a chapter from her novel The Crooked Heart of Mercy.

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JonArno Lawson reads his poem “Under a Billboard at Bathurst and Eglinton,” which originally appeared in Taddle Creek No. 35 (Summer, 2015).

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Stevie Howell reads her poem “Ontarioabandonedplaces.com,” which originally appeared in Taddle Creek No. 35 (Summer, 2015).

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Jennifer LoveGrove reads her poem “Tables.”

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The author Sofi Papamarko reads her short story “The Pollinators.”

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Patrick Rawley discusses the original Captain Marvel at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 36, live at the Ossington, December 3, 2015.

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The author Becky Blake reads her short story “Make-Believe.”

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Stuart Ross rings in 2016 with his annual New Year’s poem.

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The author Derek McCormack stops by the Taddle Creek studios to wish Conan Tobias a Merry Christmas and read from his book Christmas Days.

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Grace O’Connell reads her short story “For Ted, Who’s Never Coming Back Anymore.”

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Gary Barwin reads a selection of poems at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 36, live at the Ossington, December 3, 2015.

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Suzanne Alyssa Andrew reads a chapter from her debut novel, Circle of Stones, live at the Monarch Tavern, April 15, 2015.

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Lana Pesch reads at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 35, live at the Jet Fuel Coffee Shop, June 12, 2015.

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JonArno Lawson reads a selection of poems at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 35, live at the Jet Fuel Coffee Shop, June 12, 2015.

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Stevie Howell reads a selection of poems at the launch of Taddle Creek No. 35, live at the Jet Fuel Coffee Shop, June 12, 2015.

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Alfred Holden, Taddle Creek’s City Building columnist, talks to Conan Tobias about the architectural missteps of apartment house renovation in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood.

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The author Derek McCormack stops by the Taddle Creek studios to wish Conan Tobias a Happy Halloween and to discuss his new book, The Well-Dressed Wound.

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The author, critic, and indie publisher Hal Niedzviecki says the future looks bleak—but that the world will survive long enough for you to buy his new book, Trees on Mars. He discusses this and more with Conan Tobias.

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The author Emily Pohl-Weary reads her poem “Call Me Crab Apple Girl,” in memory of Ashley Smith. Recorded at the Pierre Berton House, Dawson City, Yukon.

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The author Saleema Nawaz reads an excerpt from the story-in-progress “Dear Julia.”

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The poet Sandy Pool reads her poem “On Slander.” Recorded in the men’s room of a Montreal Mexican restaurant.

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The poet Michael Boughn reads his poem “Eglinton at Five.”

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Emily Schultz reads her poem “Just Before the Night Ripped Open Like a Sash,” which originally appeared in Taddle Creek No. 17 (Christmas, 2006). Recorded in Emily’s car on a Brooklyn side street.

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Katia Grubisic reads her poem “Dreams of the Donkeys,” which originally appeared in Taddle Creek No. 25 (Christmas, 2010).

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Taddle Creek’s editor-in-chief Conan Tobias welcomes you to the podcast—without the assistance of Hal Niedzviecki.