Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations: Recent Episodes
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Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.
Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.
Book by Alan Hollinghurst
The Sparsholt Affair
The Stranger’s Child
The Swimming-Pool Library
The Line of Beauty
Books by Dimitri Nasrallah
The Bleeds
Blackbodying
Niko
If you like Alan Hollinghurst…
A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Howards End by E.M. Forster
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.
Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.
Books by Saeed Jones
How We Fight for Our Lives
Prelude to Bruise
Referenced in this interview and other related material
The Works of Toni Morrison (Toni Morrison)
Saeed Jones's Sensual Memoir of Race, Sex and Self-Invention (article from the New Yorker)
The Works of Yusef Komunyakaa (Yusuf Komunyakaa)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.
Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.
Books by Abbi Jacobson
I Might Regret This
Books by Rachel Giese
Boys: What it Means to Become a Man
Referenced in this interview and other related material
The Broad Strokes (Interview with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer in Grantland)
Broad City Is Ending. Be at Peace With That. The Creators Are. (NY Times Article)
Ilana Glazer Comedy Special, The Planet is Burning
The Genius of Broad City (article from The Guardian)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.
Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.
Book by Sally Rooney
Normal People
Conversation with Friends
Books by Sheila Heti
Women in Clothes
Motherhood
How Should A Person Be?
The Middle Stories
Ticknor
Books by authors Sheila talks about in this interview
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
The Wig my Father Wore by Anne Enright
Actress by Anne Enright
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.
Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.
Books by Robyn Doolittle
Had It Coming : What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo?
Crazy Town : The Rob Ford Story
Books by Megan Towhey
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Other Related Materials
Unfounded: Why Police 1 in 5 Sexual Assault Claims as Baseless (Series from the Globe & Mail)
With Weinstein Conviction, Jury Delivers a Verdict on #MeToo (Article from the NY Times)
A Year of Reckoning (Article from the NY Times)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.
Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long?Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.
Book by Barry Lopez
Horizon
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
Outside: Six Short Stories
Of Wolves and Men
Crow and Weasel
Resistance
Books by Alissa York
The Naturalist
Fauna
Effigy
Mercy
If you like Barry Lopez…
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West by John David Unruh
Dersu Uzala by Vladimir Arsenyev
The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica by Stephen J. Pyne
Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea by Anna Badkhen
Other Related Materials
How Climate Change has Influenced Travel Writing (article from The Atlantic)
Why the World Needs Barry Lopez (article from Outside Online)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.
Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.
Book by Emily Nussbaum
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Books by Rachel Giese
Boys: What it Means to Become a Man
Books on TV mentioned in I Like To Watch
I’ll Be There for You: The One About Friends by Kelsey Miller
Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
I Think I’m Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families by Carroll O’Connor
The Sopranos Sessions by Matt Zoller Seitz
Other Seminal Books on TV
TV (the book) by Alan Sepinwall
The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific by David Bianculli
Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes by Saul Austerlitz
Other Related Materials
I Love Top Ten Lists (article from The New Yorker)
Critic Emily Nussbaum on the charms of modern television-watching (article from Vox)
Critic Emily Nussbaum Weighs In on Best TV shows of the Decade (clip from NPR)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.
Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.
Books by Benjamin Moser
Sontag: Her Life and Work (ebook)
Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (translated by Moser) (ebook)
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (edited by Moser) (ebook)
Books by Sheila Heti
Women in Clothes (ebook)
Motherhood (print book available when branches reopen)
“My Life is a Joke” (link opens a 2015 story by Heti in The New Yorker)
Materials by or about Susan Sontag
Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks (of Susan Sontag), 1964-1980
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
On the Eve of the Met Gala, Andrew Bolton Takes Vogue on a Walking Tour of “Camp: Notes on Fashion” (link opens a Vogue magazine article from May 2019)
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA podcast
A four-part Interview with Susan Sontag (can be listened to in any order)
Episode One: This God-Damned Celebrity Culture (23 mins)
Episode Two: The Little Illness Book (19 mins)
Episode Three: The Arts Give Humans Dignity (19 mins)
Episode Four: Make Something Better (19 mins)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Portions of this episode contain dialogue in the Innu language. For reasons of length, we have shortened the portions in Innu for English speakers. The transcript for the episode is available here.
If you would like to hear the episode with the full Innu language dialogue left intact, please click please click here (link to YouTube video - audio only). Unfortunately, we can't yet offer a transcript of the portions that are in the Innu language.
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. All TPL print and other in-branch materials will be available once we re-open and are operating under normal conditions.
Books by Tsaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue:
Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep The Land Alive
Books or Materials About Activism
When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir by PatrisseKhan-Cullors (audiobook) (ebook available here)
She Takes a Stand: 16 Fearless Activists Who Changed the World (ebook)
Indigenous Women, Work and History (ebook)
Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance by Allison Hargreaves (ebook)
Books or Other Materials about the Innu
Innu of Labrador (link opens an article on the Virtual Museum of Labrador)
Innu People: A History (link opens a Youtube video on Indigenous Americans)
Peoples: Innu (link opens an article on Circum-Arctic Gallery)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Book by Phillipa K. Chong
Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times
Books co-written by Johanna Schneller
Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable: How I Tried to Help the World's Most Notorious Mayor
Woman Enough: How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport
Kathryn Bigelow: interviews
Other Related Materials
7 of the Most Vicious Book Reviews (article from Electric Literature)
Is Book Reviewing a Public Service or an Art? (article from the NY Times)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is byThe Worst Pop Band Ever
Book by Emanuele Coccia
The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture
Books by Adria Vasil
Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Products, Information and Service in Canada.
Ecoholic Body: Your Ultimate Earth Friendly Guide to Living Healthy and Looking Good.
Ecoholic Home: the Greenest, Cleanest and Most Energy-Efficient Information Under One (Canadian) Roof
Check out more about Adria and her work on her website.
Other Related Materials
What If Plants Were One of Us (link opens an article from The Nation)
Emanuele Coccia: philosophe de la métamorphose (link open a broadcast interview in French from France Culture)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Books by Crystal King
The Chef’s Secret
Feast of Sorrow: a Novel of Ancient Rome
Books by Roberta Rich
The Midwife of Venice
The Harem Midwife
Other Related Materials
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavours & Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City
Here Let Us Feast: a Book of Banquets
Cooking for the Pope: Bartolomeo Scappi, the Renaissance’s Most Innovative Chef, Revolutionized the Culinary Arts (link opens Paris Review article)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Books by Yuri Herrera
Signs Preceding the End of the World
The Transmigration of Bodies
Kingdom Cons
Other Related Materials
Twenty Questions with Yuri Herrera (opens a Times Literary Supplement article)
Literature as Political Responsibility: an Interview with Yuri Herrera (opens a Latin American Literature Today article)
A Narco-History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created
A Concise History of Mexico
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Books by Vanessa Sasson
Yasodhara: A Novel about the Buddha’s Wife
Other Related Materials
Stars at Dawn: Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha’s Life
Eminent Buddhist Women
Women and Asian Religions
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Books by Devon Abbott Mihesuah
Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero
Recovering our Ancestor’s Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness
Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism
Books and other related materials by Falen Johnson
The Secret Life of Canada: a Podcast series
Salt Baby
Indian Act: Residential School Plays
Other Related Materials
Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation: Learn from All I Observe
Cherokee: an Independent Nation
Beginning Cherokee (learning the language of the Cherokee; multi-media materials)
Sequoyah and the Invention of the Cherokee Alphabet
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Books by Bruce Pascoe
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture
Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
The Little Red Yellow Black Book: an Introduction to Indigenous Australia
Books by Kim Anderson
A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood
Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings and Story Medicine
Inichaag: My Soul in Story, Anishnaabe Poetics in Art and Words (with Rene Meshake)
Other Related Materials
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Utopia: a film by Alan Lowery and John Pilger
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
Dreamtime: Aboriginal Stories by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Related Books from TPL’s Collection
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
La fruta del borrachero by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (translation of Fruit of the Drunken Tree)
Pablo Escobar: my Father by Sebastián Marroquín
Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia by Tom Feiling
The Stone Thrower: a Daughter’s Lessons, a Father’s Life: a Memoir by Jael Richardson
Other Related Materials
For Debut Novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras Home is What You Carry With You (link opens Clever article from July 2018)
How Women Survive the World: an Interview with Ingrid Rojas Contreras (link opens Long Reads article from August 2019)
The National Center for Historical Memory (link to organization’s website)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Books by Will Aitken
Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove and the Art of Resistance
Realia
Death in Venice
Books by Anne Carson (writer or translator)
Antigone
Antigonick
Autobiography of Red: a Novel in Verse
Float
Other Related Materials
Antigone by Slavoj Žižek
Clouds of Sils Maria, a film by Olivier Assays starring Juliette Binoche
Certified Copy, a film by Abbas Kiarostami starring Juliette Binoche
Bleu, a film by Krzysztof Kieślowski starring Juliette Binoche
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Three of Canada’s best-loved writers talk about their experiences as Indigenous artists competing on Canada Reads. With Canada Reads host Ali Hassan, Dimaline (Marrow Thieves), Lindberg (Birdie), and Vermette (The Break) consider how their works have been received by the public in both positive and negative ways and what their celebrity defenders learned about Indigenous experiences in the process. Recorded in the Toronto Public Library’s Appel Salon (part of the TPL’s regular event series, Indigenous Celebrations) in October 2018.
Books or books-related topics referenced in Episode Five:
- Katherena Vermette: The Break (TPL holdings)
- Tracey Lindberg: Birdie (TPL holdings)
- Cherie Dimaline: The Marrow Thieves (TPL holdings)
- CBC's Canada Reads webpage
- Maria Campbell (TPL holdings)
- Lee Maracle (TPL holdings)
The Amazing Race Canada season one winner (along with his son, Tim Hague, Jr.) talks about the ways his life has been a lottery of positive outcomes, despite being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at age 46.
Born of a mixed-race couple who gave him up for adoption, he found joy and happiness with a loving family that helped shape into the activist and hero that is now. His book Perseverance: the Seven Skills You Need to Survive, Thrive, and Accomplish More than You Ever Imagined was a bestseller and helped launch him into an international speaking career. Hague delivers the annual June Callwood Lecture at the Toronto Public Library in May 2018, demonstrating how perseverance is a skill that we can all learn to develop.
Interview Transcript
Listen as American writer, Jennifer Egan, talks to music and book journalist, Garvia Bailey, about the process of writing historical fiction and creating characters that are real and believable - whether they are a woman diver bucking conventions in 1920s New York (Manhattan Beach) or a 1980s rock and roll executive in A Visit from the Goon Squad. This event was recorded on Monday, October 30, 2017, in the Toronto Public Library’s Bram and Bluma Appel Salon. In this 18 minute discussion, Egan talks about how she creates these characters from the past, what research she does and how the issues from her own life are subtlely embedded in her work.
Jennifer Egan is the author of five previous books of fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine.
Garvia Bailey is a regular host for TPL's Bram and Bluma Appel Salon series, having interviewed Roxane Gay, Dave Bidini and others, and is the former host of Good Morning Toronto on JazzFM. She is currently working on a forthcoming podcast series with the Toronto Public Library featuring some of Canada's best-known writers and their views on the Harlem Renaissance.
Interview transcript
Listen as novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson (one of Barack Obama’s favourite writers and author of the essay collection What Are We Doing Here?) talks to author and journalist, Rachel Giese (Boys: What It Means to Become a Man). This event was recorded on Wednesday, March 14 in the Toronto Public Library’s Appel Salon. In this 18 minute discussion, Robinson talks about American Fear.
Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for "her grace and intelligence in writing." She is the author of many works, including Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
RACHEL GIESE is an editor-at-large at Chatelaine and a regular contributor to CBC Radio. Her award-winning journalism has appeared in Toronto Life, The Walrus, TheGlobe and Mail and Today’s Parent and on NewYorker.com. She lives in Toronto with her wife and son. Her book, Boys: What It Means to Become a Man.
Click here for a transcript of this episode.
Cannabis. Pot. Marijuana. Whatever you call it, Canada called it legal on October 17, 2018. More and more, the topic is going to come up; at your place of work, your place of worship, your hangouts and most importantly, your home. Toronto Star has assembled dedicated journalists and outside experts to help walk you and yours through this major cultural shift in our day to day lives.
In conjunction with the Toronto Star/TPL series, Star Talks, join Star Editor Irene Gentle and a panel of experts as they start the cannabis conversation and how it will impact your family, your health and your community.
This event was recorded on October Monday, September 17 in the Toronto Public Library’s Appel Salon, a part of our ongoing series, On Civil Society.
Panelists:
Irene Gentle: Editor, Toronto Star
Trina Fraser: co-managing partner at Ottawa business law firm Brazeau Seller Law, and head of the firm’s CannaLaw group. Her area of expertise is cannabis law. In addition to acting for licensed producers and (soon-to-be) licensed retailers of cannabis in Canada, Trina advises cannabis industry participants such as clinics, software/application providers, service providers and investors.
Dr. Melissa Snider-Adler: chief medical review officer for DriverCheck and a Board-certified addiction medicine physician. She teaches residents at Queen’s University’s Family Medicine department about addiction medicine and also provides expert opinions and assessments of health-care workers who may be struggling with substance use. With the upcoming legalization of cannabis, Melissa has been speaking at conferences and to companies across Canada about the impact of legalization on the workplace.
Mitchell Osak: managing director of Business Consulting at Grant Thornton, one of Canada’s largest advisory and accounting firms. He has extensive experience consulting to the cannabis industry including licensed producers, investors and governments. Mitchell is also a cannabis thought leader, speaking and writing extensively on global cannabis industry trends, regulatory issues and consumer behaviour.
Click here for a transcript of this episode.