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fall reads on fresh air

September 17, 2012 //

Fall = big book season.

Erin Balser and I sat down with Mary Ito on CBC Radio One’s Fresh Air to talk about what we’re looking forward to this season.

We talked about:
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire
Sleeping Funny by Miranda Hill
NW by Zadie Smith
Y by Marjorie Celona
The Blondes by Emily Schultz
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen

And mentioned:
1982 by Jian Ghomeshi
Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Dear Life by Alice Munro

Listen to the audio.

 

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Categories Broadcast, Buzz Books, Reviews

50 shades and some canadian smut

April 22, 2012 //

First you couldn’t be online without hearing about it. Then you couldn’t open a newspaper without reading about it. Then you couldn’t even walk into a bookstore without seeing it piled high in all its suggestive tie-me-up-ishness.

Fifty Shades of Grey was everywhere. But is it any good …? Of course not.

Erin Balser and I went in to the CBC Fresh Air studio to talk to Mary Ito about why we think everyone’s going gaga for Christian Grey, and to offer some suggestions for smutty reading with a little more literary style.

Here’s the chat.

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on literary awards

October 15, 2011 //

Literary Awards: too few, too many, or just enough?

Erin Balser and I will be talking to Mary Ito on CBC Fresh Air tomorrow morning, October 15, about literary awards season and how readers can make sense of the slew of shortlists they’re confronted with throughout the year.

The segment airs at 8:30am EDT on CBC Radio One.

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Categories Broadcast, Literary Awards