Brick Podcast: Recent Episodes
Brick magazine
A podcast from Brick magazine featuring interviews with writers, poets, artists, and storytellers featured in the journal’s pages. Hear what moves Brick’s contributors to create, what fuels their practice, and what they can’t stop thinking about. Hosted and produced by Sarah Melton.
Jan Zwicky reads from “George Whalley’s Contemplative Mind” and Robert Bringhurst reads from “The Bookseller,” both pieces from Brick 113. With an introduction by Brick publisher, Laurie Graham. . . .Source
Robert Bringhurst reads “Life Poem,” In memoriam Stan Dragland, from Brick 111. With an introduction by Brick publisher, Laurie Graham. . . .Source
We end our three-part series, Writer to Writer, with a conversation between Brick issue 106 contributor Cason Sharpe and novelist and Brick editor David Chariandy, which covers topics as wide-ranging as mentorship among generations of BIPOC writers in . . . Source
In the second episode of our three-part series Writer to Writer, poet and Brick issue 107 contributor Erica Violet Lee speaks with poet, professor, and author of The Dyzgraphxst Canisia Lubrin on writing against colonialism and capitalism, accepting . . . Source
The first episode in our special, three-part Writer to Writer series has writer Troy Sebastian turning the tables on the host of CBC’s Writers and Company and long-time Brick contributor Eleanor Wachtel in an interview about how she got . . . Source
Brick publisher Laurie Graham speaks with poet Sharon Olds to discuss everything from Olds’ strict religious upbringing to looming environmental catastrophe. They consider how even the most difficult or seemingly private things about us has the capacity for poetry. . . . Source
In this episode of Brick Podcast, Souvankham Thammavongsa pushes back against being underestimated. She discusses her new short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, her Randy Travis fandom, and giving Little Red Riding Hood a brand new ending. . . . Source
Brickeditor Liz Johnston in conversation with Amitava Kumar to consider the nature of memory, the interplay of fact and fiction, and the power (and limitations) of the written word. This interview was conducted pre-pandemic, so no social distancing was . . . Source
In this episode of Brick Podcast, Neve Dickson interviews Karen Solie. Solie reads a poem from her newest book, The Caiplie Caves, which was featured in Brick103, and discusses what drew her to write about the caves and the . . . Source
This episode of Brick Podcast features Saidiya Hartman’s Toronto book launch for Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Hartman’s latest book, examining the revolution of Black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth . . . Source
Ed Pavlić reads “Beyond Simplicity: The Journey Toward James Baldwin’s Letter from the Birmingham Motel, Part 2.” Where part 1 of the essay explores the complex motivations that sent Baldwin travelling through the Deep South, part 2 traces Baldwin’s journey . . . Source
Ed Pavlić reads “Beyond Simplicity: The Journey Toward James Baldwin’s Letter from the Birmingham Motel, Part 1.” Published in Brick 101, the piece explores the complex motivations that brought Baldwin back from France to the U.S. and sent him . . . Source
“After his usual taxi rounds, Gregory was supposed to pick us up from that restaurant on King Street…” Canisia Lubrin reads her short story “No ID or We Could Be Brothers,” which was published in Brick 101. Produced by . . . Source
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky’s third collaboration, following Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013). Exploring humankind’s impact on the planet in visually stunning but often devastating portraits, The Anthropocene Project spans a . . . Source
When Eden Robinson first started writing, she thought grim and gritty stories were the key to being taken seriously. In this episode of Brick Podcast, she reflects on how, amidst gluten intolerance and hot flashes, goofiness has crept back into . . . Source
In Brick Podcast’s first episode, Billy-Ray Belcourt reads his piece “Cree Girl Explodes the Necropolis of Ottawa.” He talks about winning the Griffin Poetry Prize, writing as resistance, and coming out to his kookum as queer. Hosted and produced by . . . Source