Shawn Hitchins, Gail Bowen
Shawn Hitchins, Gail Bowen and others cover the intrigue driving Canadian literature.
On this episode: 1) Why Shawn Hitchins's invented a new genre for his memoir A Brief History of Oversharing 2) Why Preetam Sengupta found Ragged Company to be good company 3) Journalist Aida Edemariam on her 20-year quest to share her grandmother's story 4) Mystery novelist Gail Bowen on how to write engaging fiction 5) How stereotypes about feminism drove novelist Sarah Henstra to write The Red Word 6) David Huebert on living in the future described by Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 7) Why novelist Catherine Leroux thinks you shouldn't fear translated books