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Episodes (62)
TPL’s Sensory Room
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
Works by Umberto Eco
Other Related Books or Materials
Signs and Secrets: the Worlds of Umberto Eco (2013 documentary)
Always Narrating: The Making and Unmaking of Umberto Eco (link opens a 2020 Los Angeles Review of Book article)
The Man Who Loved Books: Interview with Umberto Eco (link opens a 2020 Counterpunch article)
Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction, No. 197 (link opens a 2008 Paris Review article)
Umberto Eco, 84, Best-selling Academic Who Navigated Two Words (link opens a 2016 New York Times obituary)
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About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.
Austin Clarke: Sometimes, A Motherless Child
Works by Austin Clarke
They Never Told Me and Other Stories
Other Related Books or Materials
Odetta’s 1960 recording of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” (link opens a Youtube video)
Austin Clarke’s Harlem (link opens part of a CBC audio documentary produced by Austin Clarke in 1963 about the Civil Rights Movement)
Why Literary Critics Failed to Define and Understand Austin Clarke (link opens a National Post article from 2016)
Austin Clarke Quotes (link opens a Twitter account devoted to the quotes and other aspects of Clarke’s work)
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About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.
Doris Lessing: Homage to the New Man
Works by Doris Lessing
The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
The Grass is Singing (ebook)
Other Related Books or Materials
Doris Lessing: A Biography by Carole Klein
Doris Lessing: First Visit to Toronto (link opens a 1984 photo by Reg Innell, courtesy of Toronto Star Archives at Toronto Public Library)
Doris Lessing, Author Who Swept Aside Convention (link opens New York Times obituary from November 2013
Doris Lessing, The Art of Fiction (link opens Paris Review interview from 1988)
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About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.
Eduardo Galeano: Memory of Fire
Works by Eduardo Galeano
Memory of Fire Volume One: Genesis
Memory of Fire Volume Two: Faces and Masks
Memory of Fire Volume Three: Century of the Wind
Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
Las venas abiertas de américa latina (ebook)
Other Related Books or Materials
The Pan American: The World of Eduardo Galeano (link opens an August 2018 article from The Nation)
Women of the Mine - Les Mujeres de la mina - 2006 Film
My Hero: Eduardo Galeano by Tariq Ali (link opens an April 2015 article from The Guardian)
Eduardo Galeano (photo) "His vivid survey of the Latin American past is an impressive achievement." (link opens a photograph by Reg Innell in 1988 from TPL’s Special Collections, part of the Toronto Star Archives)
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About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.
Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus
Works by Angela Carter
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks
Writers Talk: Angela Carter with Lisa Appignanesi (evideo)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (ebook)
Other Related Books or Materials
Angela Carter: A Literary Life by Sarah Gamble
Nights at the Circus is Feminist... (link opens an article from The Guardian from Feb 2017)
Taking Flight with Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (link opens a piece from Tor.com from Apr 2017)
Angela Carter: a staggering command of language (link opens TPL Special Collections page of the Toronto Star Archives featuring a 1988 photo of Carter by John Mahler)
About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.
Luisa Valenzuela: Love of Animals
Works by Luisa Valenzuela
The Lizard’s Tail (print book)
The Wanderer by Luisa Valenzuela, translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz (link opens a short story from The Brooklyn Rail's InTranslation)
He Who Searches Latin American Literature Series (link opens Dalkey Archive Press site with two translated works - print on demand)
Collections/Anthologies Containing Stories from Luisa Valenzuela
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories From Latin America and the United States (print book)
Brevity by David Galef
The Will to Heal: Psychological Recovery in the Novels of Latina Writers (print book)
Other Related Books or Materials
Luisa Valenzuela, The Art of Fiction No. 170 (link opens an article from The Paris Review from 2001)
Luisa Valenzuela on Writing, Power and Gender (link opens an article from the Cervantes Virtual Library
About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.
Richard Wagamese: A Quality of Light
Works by Richard Wagamese
A Quality of Light (ebook)
One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet (all formats)
One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet (audiobook)
Starlight (ebook)
Other Related Books or Materials
Honouring Richard Wagamese (link opens a 2017 article from Indian Horse)
Richard Wagamese’s final novel ‘a captivating and ultimately uplifting read.’ (link opens a 2018 article from Toronto Star)
Richard Wagamese, Whose Writing Explored his Ojibwe Heritage, Dies at 61 (link opens a 2017 New York Times obituary)
Three ‘Meditations' from Richard Wagamese (link opens a 2016 article from The Tyee)
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About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.
John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Works by John Irving
The World According to Garp (book in various formats)
The World According to Gary (1982 film starring Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow)
Other Related Books or Materials
13 Facts about A Prayer for Owen Meany (link opens an article from Mental Floss from Apr 2015)
John Irving in 1990 (link opens TPL Special Collections page of the Toronto Star Archives featuring a 1990 photo of Irving by Doug Griffin)
Episode 162: A Prayer for Owen Meany (link opens a podcast episode by Overdue Podcast)
John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany (link opens a podcast episode by BBC Radio 4 Bookclub)
About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.
Alan Hollinghurst: The Sparsholt Affair
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.
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Book by Alan Hollinghurst
Books by Dimitri Nasrallah
If you like Alan Hollinghurst…
A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Howards End by E.M. Forster
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines
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Works by Bruce Chatwin
Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings, 1969-1989 (ebook)
On the Black Hill (ebook)
Utz (ebook)
Books About Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
Anywhere Out of the World: the Work of Bruce Chatwin by Jonathan Chatwin
Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin, Edited by Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare
Other Related Books or Materials
Bowie’s Bookshelf: the Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie’s Life (ebook)
Walking With Bruce Chatwin by Rory Stewart (about the importance and influence of The Songlines] (link opens a New York Review of Books article from June 2012)
Travel and Endless Talk Connected me to Details of Chatwin’s Songlines Missed (link opens an article from The Guardian from Oct 2017)
Bruce Chatwin, the Forgotten Travel-Writer is At-Last Being Remembered by Nicholas Shakespeare (link opens an article from The Oldie)
About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.
Saeed Jones: How We Fight for Our Lives
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Books by Saeed Jones
Referenced in this interview and other related material
The Works of Toni Morrison (Toni Morrison)
Saeed Jones's Sensual Memoir of Race, Sex and Self-Invention (article from the New Yorker)
The Works of Yusef Komunyakaa (Yusuf Komunyakaa)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Abbi Jacobson: I Might Regret This
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Books by Abbi Jacobson
Books by Rachel Giese
Boys: What it Means to Become a Man
Referenced in this interview and other related material
The Broad Strokes (Interview with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer in Grantland)
Broad City Is Ending. Be at Peace With That. The Creators Are. (NY Times Article)
Ilana Glazer Comedy Special, The Planet is Burning
The Genius of Broad City (article from The Guardian)
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Shelve Under: Distancing (Part Ten)
Books and resources discussed in this episode:
Storytime with Toronto Mayor John Tory
"Helping your Child Cope with the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Children's Mental Health Ontario
My Hero is You: How Kids Can Fight COVID-19! from the World Health Organization
The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Dork Diaries series by Rachel Renee Russell
Dog Man Unleashed by Dav Pilkey
Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
The Fire Station by Robert Munsch
Real Friends by Shannon Hale
You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel
Shelve Under: Distancing (Part Nine)
Books and resources discussed in this episode:
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Great Mortality by John Kelly
Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style by W. David Marx
Appel Salon author events online
Toronto Public Library Reading Challenge
Shelve Under: Newcomers
Books and films discussed:
7 Suitcases by Ahmed Marie, Farah Marie, Hala Marie and Cynthia Spring
We are Displaced: My Journey and Stories From Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai
My Journey by Olivia Chow
The Boat People by Sharon Bala
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey From Syria in a Wheelchair by Nujeen Mustafa and Christina Lamb.
Resilience and Triumph: Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories by the Book Project Collective
Grandfather's Journey by Alley Say
Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith
The Ward: the Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg, and Tatum Taylor
For Sama (on PBS) directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
Library services and partnerships discussed:
Using the library if you're new to Canada
Shelve Under: Distancing (Part Eight)
Books and resources discussed in this episode:
The List 2020 YouTube playlist
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Verify by Joelle Charbonneau
Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Sally Rooney: Normal People
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.
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Book by Sally Rooney
Books by Sheila Heti
Books by authors Sheila talks about in this interview
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
The Wig my Father Wore by Anne Enright
Actress by Anne Enright
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.
Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Lee Maracle: The Raven
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Books by Lee Maracle
Memory Serves (ebook)
My Conversations with Canadians (ebook)
Celia’s Song (ebook)
Hope Matters (ebook)
Other Related Books or Materials
‘We Have the Same Language, But Definitely Different Rules’: An Interview with Lee Maracle (link opens a Hazlitt article)
High-schooler Catricia Hiebert reads the poem “War” by Lee Maracle for Les Voix des poésie competition (link opens a Youtube video)
Activist Lee Maracle On Why Every Question Is Worth Answering (Even If It's Racist) (link opens a Chatelaine article)
Lee Maracle Reflects on her Legacy as One of Canada's Most Influential Indigenous Writers (link opens a CBC site)
About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
Music is by Yuka
From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.