Billie Livingston on family, Daniel Heath Justice on badgers
Shelagh Rogers interviews novelist Billie Livingston and earns some major naturalist street cred with new books about beavers and badgers.
On this episode: (1) Billie Livingston talks candidly about the grieving family in her new novel, (2) Frances Backhouse on how the mighty beaver changed the course of Canadian history, (3) Dave Ritter of The Strumbellas falls hard for an Anne Carson book, (4) Treasa Levasseur draws parallels between Canadian short stories and touring the country as a blues musician and (5) Daniel Heath Justice on his latest unlikely hero: the badger.