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Episode 36 - Drawn to change: Comics, graphic novels and politics

radio book lounge — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:56:47 +0000

Listen in from the 2012 LeftWords Festival of Books and Ideas as Sean Carleton, Jeet Heer and Franke James discuss comics and social change with moderator Chris Cavanagh. Sean Carleton is a member of the Graphic History Collective, creators of May Day: A Graphic History of Protest. Jeet Heer is the co-editor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, Franke James is the author of Bothered By My Green Conscience.

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Episode 35: Committing Theatre! From caterpillar bouquets to flash mobs

radio book lounge — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:35:08 +0000

"Theatre history, then, is for the most part a history of the forgotten and unremarked," says Alan Filewod, Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and the author of Committing Theatre: Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada. From caterpillar bouquets, to war reenactments to "state produced agitprop" at the G20 to flash mobs, Professor Filewod discusses the history of political intervention theatre.

Episode 34 - Interview with Deb Barndt, editor of ¡VIVA!

radio book lounge — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:46:19 +0000

An interview with professor and popular educator Deborah Barndt about the book ¡VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas (edited by Barndt).

¡VIVA! presents examples from community arts projects in five countries, and is the product of a five-year transnational research project that integrates place, politics, passion, and praxis.

Matthew Adams from Between the Lines books interviews Deb about the history of the project, the challenges they faced working across culture, privilege and place and the offer of critical hope that emerged from the VIVA project.

Episode 33 - The Femme Monologues

rpn intern 2 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:37:07 +0000

The Femme Monologues is a graphic memoir series, written by Marusya Bociurkiw with graphics by Terri Roberton, that appears monthly in Xtra! Toronto and in Capital Xtra! (Ottawa).
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Episode 32 - The human library project

alex — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:12:53 +0000

Imagine a library where people are the books. Where reading a book takes the form of a dynamic conversation about an aspect of the author's lived experience.

The Human Library Project took place over a span of four days in March at the Winnipeg Public Library. There readers had the opportunity to borrow a human book for up to a half hour of conversation in the library about the book's specific topic.
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Episode 31 - Wrenna Robertson on 'I'll Show You Mine': A photography book celebrating vulva diversity

rpn intern — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:43:49 +0000

Meghan Murphy, host of The F Word radio show, speaks with Wrenna Robertson, editor of the book I'll Show You Mine. Wrenna is an activist, academic and an exotic dancer. After noticing that more and more women she knew were considering labiaplasty or Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery (FGCS) as a way to correct what they considered to be 'abnormal' or unattractive vulvas, Wrenna was inspired to create this provocative, original and touching work which celebrates vulva diversity via colour photographs placed alongside personal stories from women from all walks of life. To learn more about the book, and to hear more stories from women, please visit: http://www.showoffbooks.com/.
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Episode 30 - Sandy Pool on writing, poetry and Exploding into Night

alex — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:41:52 +0000

Sandy Pool compares her first poetry book Exploding into Night to a "choose your own adventure": this fictionalized account of a murder in one of Toronto's neighbourhoods can be read in fragments or from beginning to end to produce different narratives.

Cara Waterfall speaks to Pool about writing, poetry and her first book.

Click here to read the review.
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Episode 29 - George Fetherling reveals Walt Whitman's Secret

alex — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:15:27 +0000

Walt Whitman's Secret
by George Fetherling (Random House,2010;$32.00)

Alex Samur chats with George Fetherling about his latest novel Walt Whitman's Secret and the impact the American poet had on Canadians.

Click here to watch the book trailer!

George Fetherling, the "iconic Canadian poet, writer and editor" (Globe and Mail), has been called "a mercurial, liberal intelligence…the kind of which English Canada has too short a supply" (Montreal Gazette). His 50 books include fiction, memoir, travel narrative and cultural commentary. He lives in Vancouver and Toronto. His column on books appears on rabble.ca.
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Episode 28 - Peter Steven on The News

alex — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:06:05 +0000

Matt Adams, host of I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!, chats with author Peter Steven about his new book The News: A Groundwork Guide.

Peter Steven teaches media studies at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and is the author of The No Nonsense Guide to Global Media.

(00:00 - 00:54) - Intro

(00:55 - 01:45 ) - Peter Steven reads an excerpt from his book which explains why he wrote it.

(01:45 - 24:57) - Interview

Episode 27 - The art of publishing

radio book lounge — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:58:26 +0000

Vancouver-based author and publisher Robert Chaplin discusses his art, books and alternative forms of publishing.

(00:00-00:35) - Intro

(00:36-13:26) - Interview with Robert

(13:27-18:17) - Reading from The Elephant Book and Brussel Sprouts and Unicorns.

To order Robert's books visit his website robertchaplin.ca and to read more about his work visit his blog.

Amy Goodman detained at Canadian border services

alex — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:58:58 +0000

Amy Goodman launched her new book Breaking The Sound Barrier at an event co-hosted by community radio stations CJSF, Co-op Radio and CiTR in Vancouver, B.C. last night. Despite being detained by Canadian border services delaying her book launch by over an hour Amy Goodman delivered an impassioned lecture to a standing room only audience.

Goodman's 90-minute lecture touched on topics including the U.S. health care debate, the recent death of her mother, her arrest at the Republican National Convention, the importance of independent media, the upcoming summit in Copenhagen and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Episode 26 - The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle

SamPower — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:44:44 +0000

On the tenth anniversary of the Battle of Seattle we talk to organizer David Solnit about his new book compiling stories and evaluations of the success of the protest in Seattle. Solnit speaks about the negative messaging in the mainstream media during and after the Battle of Seattle and how activists need to control their messaging.

Solnit also speaks about building a sustainable movement. After Seattle activists moved on to other projects and didn't evaluate the successes and failures of the Battle. Ten years later activist movements are combating crimes against the climate and need to learn from and build on these successes.

Episode #25.2 Amy Goodman: 'Dissent is what will save us' Full Lecture Part 2

SamPower — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:07:25 +0000

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! launched her new book Breaking The Sound Barrier at an event co-hosted by community radio stations CJSF, Co-op Radio and CiTR in Vancouver, B.C. last night. Despite being detained by Canadian border services delaying her book launch by over an hour Amy Goodman delivered an impassioned lecture to a standing room only audience.
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Episode 25.1 Amy Goodman: 'Dissent is what will save us' Full Lecture Part 1

SamPower — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:06:11 +0000

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! launched her new book Breaking The Sound Barrier at an event co-hosted by community radio stations CJSF, Co-op Radio and CiTR in Vancouver, B.C. last night. Despite being detained by Canadian border services delaying her book launch by over an hour Amy Goodman delivered an impassioned lecture to a standing room only audience.

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Frog Lake Massacre, Part 2

SamPower — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:59:44 +0000

On April 2, 1885 Alberta Cree led by Wandering Spirit rose up against unfair Canadian treaties and dwindling buffalo. Cree attacked settlers in the village of Frog Lake in Northern Alberta killing many of the settlers and resulting in their own death by hanging after being convicted by the Canadian government. Alberta Author Myrna Kostash's new book The Frog Lake Reader explores the diaries, memoirs, and interviews with historians to provide a perspective on an event largely obscured by Riel's rebellion that same year.
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Frog Lake Massacre, Part 1

SamPower — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:53:27 +0000

On April 2, 1885 Alberta Cree led by Wandering Spirit rose up against unfair Canadian treaties and dwindling buffalo. Cree attacked settlers in the village of Frog Lake in Northern Alberta killing many of the settlers and resulting in their own death by hanging after being convicted by the Canadian government. Alberta Author Myrna Kostash's new book The Frog Lake Reader explores the diaries, memoirs, and interviews with historians to provide a perspective on an event largely obscured by Riel's rebellion that same year.
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Documenting Global Activism: Denise Chong on Egg On Mao

meagan perry — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:06:34 +0000

In 1989 Hunanese bus mechanic Lu Decheng joined in with the student protests at Tienanmen Square. Weeks into the demonstration, he and two friends filled eggshells with paint and launched them at the portrait of Chairman Mao that presides over Tienanmen. That action set Lu Decheng on course for a life of imprisonment and harassment. After serving 11 years of a 16-year sentence, Lu Decheng is now in Canada.

Denise Chong has written his story, and she joined us in the rabble book lounge.

Who's Your Daddy: Writings on Queer Parenting

meagan perry — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:09:47 +0000

From the L to the T to the G to the B to the Q to fathers across Canada. Editor Rachel Epstein talks about her latest project, a collection of essays on queer parenting.
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Episode 19, Part 1 - Getting back into nature

allendria — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:36:24 +0000

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, speaks at a conference held by Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC.

Louv discusses how the lack of nature in the lives of our youngest generations has long-lasting psychological, physical and emotional effects.

Episode 19, Part 2 - Getting back into nature

allendria — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:05:54 +0000

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, speaks at a onference held by Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC.

Part 2 includes an inerview with Louv held after the conference.

Louv discusses how the lack of nature in the lives of our youngest generations has long-lasting psychological, physical and emotional effects.

Episode 18 - Shani Mootoo introduces Valmiki's Daughter

allendria — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:40:44 +0000

Shani Mootoo, author of Valmiki's Daughter, discusses her latest novel with Allendria Brunjes. Set in Mootoo's home country,Trinidad, Valmiki's Daughter examines how class and race touch upon gender and sexuality in multi-faceted and unconventional characters.
The music featured in this podcast is provided courtesy of the Trinidadian-Canadian band, Kobo Town.
Allendria Brunjes is an intern in rabble's book lounge who recently graduated from Carleton University's journalism program, with a second major in English literature.

Episode 17 - Rushdie's far off fairy tale

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:52:54 +0000

Salman Rushdie's latest novel, The Enchantress of Florence, is a highly imaginative, historical novel that spans Mughal India and Renaissance Florence. It's about the uses of power, both the wielding of banal political power and the seductive power of beauty and art. Rushdie is the author of nine other novels including the Man Booker winning Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sigh and The Satanic Verses. Stuart and Brendan Woods caught up with Rushdie this summer in Toronto.
Stuart Woods is a journalist living in Toronto. Brendan Woods is a producer also living in Toronto. Yes, they are brothers, both in the biological and spiritual sense of the word.

Episode 16 - Travel and recipes from the other China

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:22:17 +0000

It's really only in the last 20 years or so that China has opened its borders to Western tourists and even as thousands of people prepare to descend on Beijing this summer the fact is most of China is still untouched by mass tourism — that may be changing. Stuart Woods gets the low down from Toronto food-writers and authors of Beyond the Great Wall Recipes and Travels in the Other China, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, on culinary traditions beyond the urbanized eastern third of China.
Stuart Woods is a journalist living in Toronto. Brendan Woods is a producer also living in Toronto. Yes, they are brothers, both in the biological and spiritual sense of the word.
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Episode 15 - Sadie Jones on her haunting new novel The Outcast!

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:22:02 +0000

The Outcast, the debut novel of UK author Sadie Jones published by Chatto and Windus in the UK and by Knopf Canada, is now short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Stuart Woods is a journalist living in Toronto. Brendan Woods is a producer also living in Toronto. Yes, they are brothers, both in the biological and spiritual sense of the word.
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Episode 14 - Who to trust in times of crisis?

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:21:21 +0000

On October 16, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, launched Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and law enforcement in Canada. The book examines developments contributing to ongoing conflicts between law enforcement officials in Toronto and the city's African Canadian community and features a history of racial profiling in Canada, U.S. and the U.K., as well as ongoing efforts to reduce and eliminate racial profiling in domestic law enforcement. Listen to Charles C. Smith discuss the book here!
Also featured at the book launch were Dr. Monia Mazigh, Faisal Kutty, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Dr.
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Episode 13 - Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine considered

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:21:05 +0000

Book lounge editor Lisa Rundle chats with Naomi Klein, best selling author of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, about her new book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. The podcast includes an excerpt of a 6-minute short film created by Klein and award-winning director Alfonso Cuaron and selected for screening at the Venice Biennale and the Toronto International Film Festival.

Episode 12, Part 1 - Spoken word in focus with Naila Keleta Mae

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:20:38 +0000

Part 1 of this two-part podcast features spoken word artist, writer and scholar, Naila Keleta Mae featured at the 2007 CBC Poetry Face Off and Mayworks Festival discusses her art, activism and perspectives on spoken word, dub poetry and education with book lounge editor Lisa Rundle.

Episode 11, Part 1 - Poet Suzanne Zelazo reads from Parlance

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:20:33 +0000

In Part 1 of this two-part podcast Poet and York University Professor, Suzanne Zelazo, reads from her first poetry collection, Parlance, which was published in 2003 by Coach House Press. Part 2 of the podcast features Zelazo in conversation with Matt Shaw. Matt is the author of a collection of stories entitled The Obvious Child, and a freelancer for the book lounge. A native of Sarnia, ON, he lives in Toronto.

Episode 11, Part 2 - Poet Suzanne Zelazo reads from Parlance

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:20:33 +0000

In Part 2 of this two-part podcast Matt Shaw interviews Poet and York University Professor, Suzanne Zelazo, about her first poetry collection, Parlance, which was published in 2003 by Coach House Press. Matt is the author of a collection of stories entitled The Obvious Child, and a freelancer for the book lounge. A native of Sarnia, ON, he lives in Toronto.

Episode 10, Part 2 - Inventory: Writers Tracking Conflict and War

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:20:19 +0000

(02:43 - 11:37) Ann-Marie MacDonald reads from her novel, The Way the Crow Flies. (13:36 - 24:35) Rawi Hage reads from his novel, DeNiro's Game. (26:38 - 37:50) Dionne Brand reads from her collection of poetry, Inventory.