Getting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature Podcast
By Linda Morra
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Using her expertise as a seasoned literature professor, Linda M. Morra develops provocative, timely insights about books from Canada and elsewhere to show why stories are relevant for all of us. Hosted and written by Linda Morra.
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The Other Problem that Has No Name - The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Digital Trespassing: Human Rights in the Digital Age-- An Interview with Dr. Wendy Wong
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Equity on a Bookshelf: An Interview with Stephanie Sinclair, Publisher of McClelland & Stewart
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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The Truth About Memoirs
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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The Lost City of Atlantis: Looking Back (and Forward) to the End (and Beginning) of an Era – Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and James Cairns’ In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Invitation to Reparative Reading - An Interview with Canisia Lubrin About Code Noir
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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That Kind of Meta: The Double Life of Benson Yu - An Interview with Kevin Chong
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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We, the Subplot (or Flying Monkeys) - An Interview with Michael Crummey about The Adversary
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Adding People to a Family Isn't a Minus - Recalculating the Math Around Stepmothers (With Rachel McCrum and Amélie Prévost)
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May 12, 2025 |
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Why Vigilance Matters - Carol Off's At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage
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May 06, 2025 |
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Revisioning the Three Rs - Michaela Di Cesare's Successions
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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"Now is the Time that Artists Must Get to Work" - Zilla Jones' The World So Wide
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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What We Oughta Know ... About Powerful, Internationally-Recognized & Accomplished Women
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Season 6: Happy International Women's Day Wishes + Teaser
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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The Nine Days Of/Before Christmas - and the Final One of Season 5
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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"But I'm Holding a Pineapple" - An Open Letter to Ivan Coyote
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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A Ghost Story Without Ghosts: Jenny Haysom's Keep
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Haunted by a Colonial Past - Michel Jean's Qimmik
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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What I Was Meant to Do - An Interview with Amanda Peters
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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An Unconventional Love Story in a Brat Summer: Corinna Chong’s Bad Land
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Breathing Life into the Drowning Girls
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Being Educated About Being Educated
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Intergenerational Power: Reclaiming Indigenous parenting
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Wishing Happy Anniversary / Birthday Wishes to The Geography of Pluto - An Interview with Christopher DiRaddo
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May 16, 2024 |
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"Learning Gently" about Reconciliation: Andrew Stobo Sniderman & Douglas Sanderson's Valley of the Birdtail
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May 01, 2024 |
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Bad Beauty: Marie Claire Blais' Mad Shadows
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Plucking Women's Lives (and Messages) from the Shorelines of History
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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"Radical Self-Inclusion" - An Interview with Michael V. Smith
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Radical Self-Love, with Eloise Marseille
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Season 4 - Holiday Wishes ... and Some Hints for Season 5
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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These Short Cuts Go a Long Way - The SpokenWeb Podcast
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Feminist Killjoys - An Interview with Erin Wunker
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Milestones: A Sixtieth and Live Episode - An interview with Catherine Hernandez and Eva Crocker
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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An Entry Without an Exit: Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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And this is how we get here - Keith Barker's This is How We Got Here
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Taking Exception to Narratives of Exceptionality - Japanese-Canadian Internment Camps & Canadian Literature
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Manatees and Magical Thinking - Amy Jones' Novel, Pebble & Dove
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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People (Do) Change; (C’mon) People, Change - Vivek Shraya's People Change
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Morality & Well-Meaning - #BelievingWomen in Erum Shazia Hasan's We Meant Well
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Wider Circles of Love and Faith - Lisa Moore's This is How We Love
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Bleed - The Unmasking of the Medical System in Endo-Patient Care
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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It Really is All About Our Mothers
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May 16, 2023 |
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"And the Oscar Goes to ..." - Film Adaptation of Canadian and Indigenous Novels
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May 02, 2023 |
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She Shoots, She Soars - Changing the Face of Hockey & Its Representation in Literature
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Not Fooling Around - Jason Camlot's Vlarf
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Five Books Worth Leaving Behind the Sunscreen for During the Winter Break
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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It Begins with a Conversation - Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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February 2023 - A Season is Around the Corner (Teaser)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Empathy, Sympathy, and the Literary Litmus Test
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Season's Greetings - From GLWL Guests 2022
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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To Discover or to Divine
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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The Baggage of Atlas: Amy Spurway's Crow
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Top Five Picks for a Haunting Hallowe-'en
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The Stories Behind the Strike: Kevin Lambert's Querelle of Roberval
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Ali Hassan Brings Home the Bacon -- and the Joy
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Who's on First? Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague, with Dr. Kate Ready
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Bad Boundaries & Good Relationships: Thomas King & Natasha Donovan
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Night Vigils & Varieties of Looking
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Leos, Lovers, Loss - and Lunar Tides
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Indigenous Voices Awards - "Where Your Heart is Leading You"
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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The Robot Keepers - Part 2 of an Interview with Terri Favro
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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There's Motive For You, Part 2 - An Interview with Marissa Stapley
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May 27, 2022 |
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There's Motive For You - An Interview with Roland Gulliver
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May 27, 2022 |
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Robots & Radioactivity: An Interview with Terri Favro
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May 05, 2022 |
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Biographer's Regret - Alice Munro and the Autobiographer's Right
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Just Sayin'/Not Saying, Part 2: An Interview with Stephen Collis
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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"Just Sayin' / Not Saying": An Interview with Stephen Collis (Part 1)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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"Of What Use is Poetry at a Time Like This?" An Interview with Shani Mootoo
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Ever Receding Fruit: Wayde Compton, the Black Archive, and the Call for a Black Cultural Centre
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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You Have to Decide: Rita Wong's Forage and Clayton Thomas-Muller's Life in the City of Dirty Water
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Holiday Wishes & A Gift from the Archives - An Interview with Ali Hassan (from 2020)
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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"Show Me Yours"
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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The Quebec Writers' Federation Finalists & the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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"Sharing the Light" - Interview with Mitali Ruths
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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The Body / Book in the Doghouse
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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"A Certain Kind of Activism": Witnessing and Jordan Abel's "Nishga"
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Paper Postcards - Eden Robinson's "Traplines"
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony - Connecting Across Generations & Genders
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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When the Body Complains - Jane Rule's Taking My Life and Sara Ahmed's Complaint!
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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"What Blossoms Long For" - Chantel Lavoie
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Thomas King's One Good Story, That One: Relationships & Stories
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Our Daily Heroes: Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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Literature Heals and Connects Us: Heather O'Neill's "Messages in Bottles"
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Bonus Episode: Interview with Lori Schubert, Executive Director of the Quebec Writers' Federation
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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How Remembering Defines You - Lorena Gale's Je Me Souviens
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Bonus Episode: Interview with Marco Timpano, Author of 25 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Podcast
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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The Languages & Sounds That Are Home: Kaie Kellough's Magnetic Equator
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Bonus Episode: Interview with Michael Nest, author of Cold Case North
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May 27, 2021 |
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Bonus Episode: Interview with Dr. Deanna Reder (Cree Métis), collaborator behind Cold Case North
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May 27, 2021 |
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Cold Case North is Smoking Hot
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May 27, 2021 |
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Apocalypse Now (and Then) - Saleema Nawaz's Songs for the End of the World
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May 27, 2021 |
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Hiatus / Teaser Episode
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May 25, 2021 |
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Episode 3: My Body is a Record - Madeleine Thien's Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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May 23, 2021 |
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Episode 2: This is the Present Me - Rawi Hage's DeNiro's Game
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Episode 1: Not All About Atwood
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Introduction to Getting Lit with Linda
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Jul 09, 2020 |