The Next Chapter

Barbara Gowdy, Cary Fagan, Catherine Leroux

Shelagh Rogers talks with Barbara Gowdy about her new novel, and Catherine Leroux about her favourite books in French.
Little Sister — a novel about inhabiting someone else's body — is Barbara Gowdy's first book in a decade. (Ruth Kaplan/Tin House Books)

On this episode: (1) Barbara Gowdy wants to inhabit another body (2) What inspired Amanda Rheaume to tell stories through song (3) The most thrilling writing experience Cary Fagan ever had (4) Catherine Leroux on the art of translation (5) Trevor Herriot and Norman Fleury make the case for atonement.