Best Literary Technique Podcasts (2025)

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Special: Closing Talk by Sameer Pandya 32:52

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: "The Short Story" with Tom Barbash, Dana Johnson, Maceo Montoya, Gregory Spatz. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich 56:31

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: "Bringing History to Life: Techniques, Challenges, and the Social Responsibility of the Writer" with Jamie Ford, Charlie Haas, Julia Flynn Siler, Amy Tan. Moderated by Sands ... 52:21

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - "Oh What a World, What a World...! Worldbuilding - The Art of Creating and Sustaining a Fictional World" with Katy Hays, Rhoda Huffey, Brenda Lozano, Maceo Montoya. Moderated by ... 55:00

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Samuel Freedman: "Using Family History to Craft a Narrative." Introduced by Brian Eule 56:47

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Special Event: Research Rx: How to Address Research Roadblock with Bernice Yeung and Julia Flynn Siler 47:09

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - "Demystifying Publishing - The Book Editor's Panel" with Jessica Case (Pegasus Books), Ben George (freelance, formerly Little, Brown), Alexander Star (Farrar Straus Giroux), Maya ... 1:15:54

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - Agents (1/2)Hour with Michael Carlisle, Annie Hwang, Michael Mungiello, Peter Steinberg. Moderated by Maya Ziv 33:44

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Special Event: Lunch with my Editor, with Rickey Fayne and Maya Guthrie (Assistant Editor at Little, Brown) 57:06

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - "Methods of Revealing - Which Form Best Serves my Material - Memoir, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, or Some Hybrid" with Frances Dinkelspiel, Brian Eule, Robin Romm, Sands ... 56:09

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: “And Then the Queen Died of Grief: on Plot” with Venita Blackburn, Kirsten Chen, Jamie Ford, Amy Waldman. Moderated by Katy Hays 57:29

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Sands Hall: “Hurling the Boot. Boarding the Dog: On Scene” 49:17

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudio The views expressed in this program are t…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: Literary Magazines with Andrew Tonkovich (Santa Monica Review), Oscar Villalon (ZYZZYVA), Mary Melton (Alta Journal), and Maceo Montoya (Huizache) 49:09

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here: https://communityofwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-WW-Public-…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - "What We Talk About When We Talking - On Dialogue" with Vanessa Hua, Dana Johnson, Lauren Markham, Patricia Meyer. Moderated by Sands Hall 57:56

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here: https://communityofwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-WW-Public-…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Rickey Fayne: "Show and Tell: How Objects and Images Reveal Character and Advance Plot" 48:41

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here: https://communityofwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-WW-Public-…

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Writers Workshops 2025 - Opening Talk by Robin Romm: Your Imagination is Not a Capitalist: Attention as Craft" 33:48

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Welcome to the Podcast feed for the 2025 Summer Workshops in Olympic Valley. This week, we will upload daily craft talks, panels and readings as they happen. Be sure to subscribe to our feed to receive all recordings automatically. A full schedule of events can be found here: https://communityofwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-WW-Public-…

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Bibliocracy Radio: L. Annette Binder on Child of Earth and Starry Heaven 28:28

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This week: L. Annette Binder, the author of the short story collection Rise, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize, and the novel The Vanishing Sky. Now she’s out with a small, personal, if emotionally, scientifically, poetically encyclopedic book, a meditation exploring her late mother’s dementia. Titled Child of Earth and Starry Heaven, it’s a biogra…

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Invitation to Reparative Reading - An Interview with Canisia Lubrin About Code Noir 57:01

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In this episode, Linda interviews the phenomenal Canisia Lubrin - the acclaimed writer, critic, professor, poet, and editor. Her first book Voodoo Hypothesis (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) was named a CBC Best Book. Her second book, The Dyzgraphxst (M & S, 2020) won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the overall Literature prize, the Griffin Poetr…

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Bibliocracy Radio: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez on California Southern 28:41

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This week: journalist and poet Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, out with a collection decades in the making. Published by Hinchas Press, he joins me this week to read from and talk about California Southern: Writing from the Road 1992-2025. Longtime radio reporter for LAist (89.3 FM in Southern California), Guzman-Lopez is a chronicler of the personal and poli…

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That Kind of Meta: The Double Life of Benson Yu - An Interview with Kevin Chong 44:50

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In this episode, Linda chats with Kevin Chong about his novel The Double Life of Benson Yu (Simon & Schuster) shortlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize. It's a "meta" novel, in some ways - a concept that Linda explains in this episode - but it also had Linda thinking about the social media platform, Meta (formerly, Facebook). Whatever insights you migh…

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Bibliocracy Radio: Emily Greenberg on Alternative Facts 28:11

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Emily Greenberg joins us this week. She is the author of a debut short story collection, Alternative Facts, one of the most remarkable literary, political, and sociologically urgent --- not to mention funny and smart --- books I’ve read lately. Inspired in part by the writing of Thomas Pynchon, by what passes for reality, and offering a media and p…

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We, the Subplot (or Flying Monkeys) - An Interview with Michael Crummey about The Adversary 48:42

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What are flying monkeys?, Linda wonders - until her friend illuminates their place in relation to narcissists. Narcissism is key to understanding the Widow and Abe Strapp, two deliciously terrible main characters in Michael Crummey's novel, The Adversary (Knopf) -- which just won the Dublin Literary Award for 2025; this psychology is also key to un…

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Amy Gerstler on Is This My Final Form? 43:38

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This week: Acclaimed poet Amy Gerstler, author of 11 collections including Scattered at Sea, long-listed for the National Book Award and Creature, a New York Times Notable Book. Amy Gerstler’s newest book is out, a collection titled Is This My Final Form?, a funny, smart, polemical engagement or perhaps demand that we “keep walking,” keep living, k…

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Bibliocracy Radio: Sameer Pandya on Our Beautiful Boys 55:42

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This episode contains both parts of a two-part show featuring novelist and short story writer Sameer Pandya on his newest novel, Our Beautiful Boys. It is receiving enthusiastic reviews as well as both popular and critical attention. Pandya’s cultural criticism has appeared widely, including in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, Salon, …

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Adding People to a Family Isn't a Minus - Recalculating the Math Around Stepmothers (With Rachel McCrum and Amélie Prévost) 35:24

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It's Mother's Day - and, while Linda considers how the mother is represented in several books (specifically Rachel Deustch (6:30), Boum (5:50; 6:55), and Mary Thaler (5:47), in their respective works, The Mother, Jellyfish, and Ulfhildr), she turns her attention to the figure of the stepmother, inspired in part by her conversation with the authors …

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Why Vigilance Matters - Carol Off's At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage 41:33

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In this episode, Linda speaks with the award-winning CBC journalist of As it Happens, Carol Off, about her new (and fifth!) book, At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage (Listeners, keep your eye out: A new edition of Off's book will be available in the fall!). Published in 2024, Off wrote the book as a "cautionary tale," as she observe…

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Andrew Nicholls: As Man is to God 28:04

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My guest is Andrew Nicholls. He's written extensively for television print and stage, and produced both a memoir and a how-to comedy writing book. Now he’s out with a long poem on the making of filmmaker Werner Hertzog’s film Fitzcarraldo titled As Man is to God: A Poem on the Making of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. The views expressed in this prog…

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Revisioning the Three Rs - Michaela Di Cesare's Successions 48:30

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In this episode, Linda revisits and revisions the three “Rs” – reading, writing, and arithmetic – to reformulate a new triad. Why? Because, in her interview with Michaela Di Cesare about her play Successions, Linda learns more about Anthony, one of the main characters, and his disorder, known as prosopagnosia. Di Cesare explains that she thought of…

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Bibliocracy Radio: Janice Shapiro on Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship 27:41

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I welcome back screenwriter and short story writer Janice Shapiro, out with her full-length graphic novel Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship, a coming-of-age story about young women who discover their place in the world. The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Communi…

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Bibliocracy Radio: Nolan Higdon on the Industrial Information Media Complex 29:15

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I welcome Dr. Nolan Higdon, a longtime media/civic literacy expert and critical media scholar, as well as activist and educator. The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.By Community of Writers

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"Now is the Time that Artists Must Get to Work" - Zilla Jones' The World So Wide 42:26

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As a result of Zilla Jones’ The World So Wide, slated for publication with Cormorant Books on April 26, 2025, Linda reflects on opera (specifically Verdi’s La Forza Del Destino) – historically an elitist art form, but one that Felicity Alexander, the protagonist of Jones’ novel, in part challenges and overcomes through the very successes of her car…

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What We Oughta Know ... About Powerful, Internationally-Recognized & Accomplished Women 49:12

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In this first episode of Season 6 of Getting Lit With Linda, the host – Linda Morra – begins with a few important announcements: GLWL is now being supported by the Canada Council for the Arts! With that support, we have a "special" season that we're calling GETTING LIT GOES GLOBAL. It means we are emphasizing books or topics that take on internatio…

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Season 6: Happy International Women's Day Wishes + Teaser 1:38

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Happy International Women's Day - this is our Teaser for Season 6, in which a special guest joins Linda Morra to share our International Women's Day wishes with you, the listeners of Getting Lit With Linda! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Bibliocracy Radio: Lisa Alvarez Reads "False Flag" 35:34

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This week we simultaneously mark a maddening anniversary and celebrate joyful creative resistance with a reading of her 2021 short story “False Flag” by writer, teacher, and editor Lisa Alvarez. The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Boa…

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Bibliocracy Radio: The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism 28:51

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My guest is the art historian Stephen F. Eisenman, collaborator with legendary artist Sue Coe on the new collection The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism, out now from O/R Books. The views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its …

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Bibliocracy Radio: Andrew Tonkovich on A Lovely Wallpaper 46:25

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For this month’s fund drive first edition I air an edited version of a terrific podcast hosted by writer Abby Walthausen featuring me --- of all people! --- as a guest. Its topic is the writer and artist whose work I curated for an exhibition on December 3rd through December 13 at Cerritos College. The views expressed in this program are those of i…

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Bibliocracy Radio: Chuck Rosenthal on Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest 28:55

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I host novelist and memoirist Chuck Rosenthal, author of the Loop trilogy and Never Let Me Go, among many books. His latest, Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest, is what writer Michael Ventura calls a “gentle phantasm,” a short book which imagines the role of the reader right into the writing, and into the lives of the writer and characters…here, the …

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Bibliocracy Radio: David L. Ulin on Thirteen Question Method 27:33

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I host editor, anthologist, book reviewer, and essayist David L. Ulin, who has written about Los Angeles and Southern California for decades, assembling the defining Joan Didion collection for the Library of America, reviewing books and assigning articles and reviews of and about our literary region, and offering his own original short stories and …

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Bibliocracy Radio: Gary Amdahl reads "The Breezeway" 29:21

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Today, a reading by a favorite writer, Gary Amdahl, author of Visigoth, I Am Death, The Intimidator Still Lives in Our Hearts and, out now, The Creative Writers: A Burlesque of the Imagination on Totalitarian Themes in the Manner of Émile Cohl and Les Arts Incohérents Harry Everett Smith, and Hanna-Barbera. The views expressed in this program are t…

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The Nine Days Of/Before Christmas - and the Final One of Season 5 32:55

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n this 78th episode and the final one of season 5, Linda offers the “Nine Days of Christmas” with nine different book recommendations for the holidays. Who makes the cut? Well, we could say you need to listen to find out, but we want you to find the books easily, so here they are with their links: Alice Zorn’s Colours in her Hands (Freehand Books),…

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Bibliocracy Radio: Brittney Corrigan on The Ghost Town Collectives 29:33

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My guest for today is poet and, lately fiction writer Brittney Corrigan. Her recent poetry collection Solastalgia explored themes of ecological crisis and now, with The Ghost Town Collectives, she creates in short albeit very poetic short stories, a vision of the transformations around us, an emotional and political and mythic apprehending of the A…

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Writing milestones

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Rebecca Watts, Jeremy Treglown, Jini Reddy, Guinevere Glasfurd and Rebecca Colby on the milestones in their writing lives. The post Writing milestones appeared first on Royal Literary Fund.By Nicola Slavin

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Bibliocracy Radio: Banned Books Week with ALA President Cindy Hohl 28:54

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I present my annual program celebrating Banned Books Week (September 22-29) with special guest American Library Association (ALA) President Cindy Hohl. This year’s Banned Books Week 2024 theme is “Freed Between the Lines,” an observance of the freedom found in the pages of books and the need to defend that freedom from censorship. The views express…

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Bibliocracy Radio: Steve Wasserman: Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie 53:38

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My guest for the first of a three-part series is Steve Wasserman, the legendary editor, publisher, writer, agent, and arts and literature advocate with decades of experience and engagement and friendships which are now ours to read about in his essential collection, Tell Me Something,Tell Me Anything,Even If It’s a Lie: A Memoir in Essays. The view…

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"But I'm Holding a Pineapple" - An Open Letter to Ivan Coyote 14:57

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Linda writes an open letter to Ivan Coyote, in response to their book, Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures (published by McClelland & Stewart during the pandemic). This important volume of letters is extraordinary and, while we're no longer in the throes of a pandemic, it remains as relevant as ever. With references to WB Yeat's poem "The Seco…

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Focusing on location

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C.D. Rose, Elizabeth Cook and Mark Blayney explore the locations that have inspired and informed their writing. The post Focusing on location appeared first on Royal Literary Fund.By Nicola Slavin

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Bibliocracy Radio: Corey Robin on the Reactionary Mind 29:11

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I present excerpts from one of the most requested, most popular, and perhaps, alas, most enduring and relevant of the hundreds of shows I have hosted over more than fifteen years of Bibliocracy Radio. Corey Robin’s landmark The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin is a primer, a take-apart, an essential guide to understan…

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A Ghost Story Without Ghosts: Jenny Haysom's Keep 37:41

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In this episode, Linda converses with Jenny Haysom (2.48) about her novel Keep (published by Anansi). Featuring three main characters, the narrative is driven by the conflict that emerges when Harriet, an elderly poet, is diagnosed with the onset of dementia and must face selling her house -- and the two home stagers, Eleanor and Jacob, tasked with…

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Mark Blacklock

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Caroline Sanderson interviews novelist and culture historian Dr Mark Blacklock. The post Mark Blacklock appeared first on Royal Literary Fund.By Nicola Slavin

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Haunted by a Colonial Past - Michel Jean's Qimmik 24:05

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A bilingual episode/un épisode bilingue. Linda opens with her delight about having won the Women in Podcasting Awards in Education - she effusively thanks her listeners! e What kinds of books haunt us and why? In this episode, Linda considers Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach and Jessica Johns' Bad Cree, but ultimately picks a book that thoroughly haunt…