 March
7, 2010
On Bookmark this week, acclaimed Edmonton author Todd
Babiak talks about his new book Toby: A Man.
We also feature a conversation with Grande Prairie author,
poet and publisher Dymphny Dronyk, talking about the
new publication Home
and Away: Alberta's Finest Poets Muse on the Meaning of Home,
an anthology of poetry that has found its way onto best-seller
lists in Edmonton and Calgary.
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 February
28, 2010
Bookmark interviews author Kate
Pullinger about her Governor-General award-winning
novel Mistress of Nothing.
We also feature award-winning filmmaker Gil
Cardinal, Chinese dissident writer Sheng
Xue, and author and activist Minister
Faust, talking about writing and creating from outside
the Canadian mainstream.
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 February
21, 2010
Our guest this week is Winnipeg writer and British ex-pat
Rosie Chard, discussing her powerful new book of survival
and adaptation in an energy-starved Canadian winter, Seal
Intestine Raincoat, published by NeWest Press
of Edmonton.
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 February
14, 2010
Bookmark talks to Donna Coates, co-editor with George
Melnyk of the collection: Wild
Words: Essays on Alberta Literature.
And we feature Part Two of our Two-Part interview with Alberta
novelist and poet Robert Kroetsch and his new book
of poetry entitled Too
Bad: Sketches Toward A Self-Portrait.
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 February
7, 2010
Jerry
Auld of Canmore, Alberta, joins us to talk about his
debut novel Hooker & Brown, an adventure story
woven around the two mountain peaks of the title.
Part One of a Two-Part interview with acclaimed Alberta novelist
and poet Robert Kroetsch, looking back on the evolution
of a distinguished writing career and discussing his just-published
collection of poems entitled Too
Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait.
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 January
31, 2010
Author Jessica Simon from Whitehorse, Yukon, joins
us to talk about her Arctic thriller From
Ice to Ashes, just published by NeWest Press of
Edmonton. And Edmonton writer Vanna Tessier puts in
a first appearance on Bookmark, talking to us about a thriller
of her own, her 2007 novel Shooting
Picasso.
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 January
24, 2010
An interview with Dr.
Afua Cooper, a pioneer of Canada’s dub poetry scene
and a leading expert on black history in Canada, recently
a guest of the Canadian Literature Centre in Edmonton.
Kevin Aulenback provides a fascinating glimpse into
Alberta’s prehistoric history in his new book Identification
Guide to Fossil Plants of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of
Drumheller, Alberta, published by University of
Calgary Press.
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 January
17, 2010
An interview with Kat Flannery and Roberta Laurie
of Prairie Dog Publishing about their collection How
I Shot My Brother And Other Stories, featuring
the talents of writers in Spruce Grove, Stony Plain and surrounding
Parkland County.
Bookmark looks at the recent Frontenac Press publication
Moon
Nibbler: The Art of Pat Strakowski by Andrew
Oko. This book profiles the totally original artwork developed
by Strakowski over three decades.
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 January
10, 2010
Author Diane Wishart talks about her new book The
Rose That Grew From Concrete, a portrait of an
Edmonton inner-city highschool that reveals the unique challenges
to learning faced by Alberta’s disenfranchised youth and the
equally significant challenges facing their teachers.
Calgary’s Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy continues to give
new life to the Sherlock Holmes genre with its new publication
Gaslight
Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
Bookmark talks with the book’s editors Charles Prepolec
and J.R. Campbell.
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 January
3, 2010
Tony Whyte talks about his new book The
Meteorites of Alberta, a fascinating study of
the space rocks that have landed in our province and what
they tell us about the universe.
An interview with Warren Elofson, author of Somebody
Else’s Money: The Walrond Ranch Story, 1883-1907,
a look at the rise and fall of one of the great ranches of
the northern Great Plains.
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 December
27, 2009
University of Calgary Art History professor, Geoffrey
Simmins discusses his book about artist, poet and Zen
Buddhist lay priest Ron (Gyo-Zo) Spickett, Spirit
Matters.
Internationally renowned humourist and travel writer Will
Ferguson of Calgary talks about his latest work dedicated
to a walking tour of Northern Ireland entitled Beyond
Belfast.
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 December
20, 2009
Transplanted Maritimer and long-time Calgary poet Bob
Stallworthy talks about his collection of poetry entitled
Things
That Matter Now.
Public policy consultant, journalist and author Satya
Das of Edmonton discusses his view that the Athabasca
oilsands can be exploited in an environmentally sustainable
manner, the subject of his book Green
Oil.
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 December
13, 2009
81-year-old author Joseph Lothian talks about his
powerful historical fiction The
Grasshopper, set in the southwestern Alberta coal
mining communities of the 1930s.
Calgary author Tom
Wayman discusses his extraordinarily black comedy
about coming-of-age in the 1960s entitled Woodstock
Rising.
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 December
6, 2009
One of the world’s foremost advocates for the protection
of the planet’s freshwater supplies, Robert
William Sandford talks about his new book Restoring
the Flow: Confronting the World's Water Woes.
Edmonton financial consultant Chad
Viminitz has written an informative and challenging
book entitled Money
Assassins: How they stole your financial freedom and how you
can get it back, in which he calls for a return
to some of our grandparent’s values in order to help avert
financial and environmental disaster.
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 November
29, 2009
Calgary author Betty
Jane Hegerat talks about her new and second novel
entitled Delivery,
a powerful emotional novel about family secrets.
Leilah
Nadir attended Edmonton’s Litfest this fall to share
her powerful book The
Orange Trees of Baghdad, the story of her quest
to discovery her lost family in Iraq. She talks with Ken Davis
about her journey.
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 November
22, 2009
Calgary CAA-writer-in-residence Lori
Hahnel talks about her new collection of short fiction
entitled Nothing
Sacred, in which she ravages many of the myths
of the happy ending.
The unofficial keeper of Edmonton’s history, Tony Cashman,
talks with Bookmark about his latest of sixteen books
on the early days of the city, this book entitled When
Edmonton Was Young.
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 November
15, 2009
A leading writer of Canadian creative non-fiction, Myrna
Kostash of Edmonton, discusses her latest work, the
uniquely assembled Frog
Lake Reader, which revisits the Frog Lake Massacre
of 1885. And Calgary businesswoman and lawyer Donna
Kennedy-Glans talks about her book Unveiling
the Breath: One Woman's Journey into Understanding Islam and
Gender Equality.
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 November
8, 2009
Award-winning writer Deborah
Willis talks with Bookmark about her acclaimed
collection entitled Vanishing
and Other Stories, nominated for this year’s Governor-General’s
Literary Award for Fiction. And author and social critic Hal
Niedzviecki talks about the new book he presented at WordFest
in Calgary this fall, The
Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves
and Our Neighbors.
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 November
1, 2009
Bookmark talks with acclaimed Edmonton artist Ian
Sheldon about his new book of paintings marking the
800th anniversary of the founding of Cambridge University,
the book entitled Cambridge
Footsteps: A Passage Through Time. And we speak
with the head of University
of Calgary Press, Donna Livingstone, about
the unique role of the university press in Alberta.
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 October 11, 2009
This week on Bookmark, Margaret
Atwood reads from her new book Year
of the Flood. And head of the book publishing
program at Simon
Fraser University, Rowland
Lorimer, discusses the turbulent changes sweeping
the book world and what we might expect to see in the future
of book publishing.
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 October
4, 2009
On Bookmark this week, Calgary Herald columnist Bob
Remington and crime reporter Sherri Zickefoose
talk about their new book Runaway
Devil, recounting one of the most sensational
stories in the annals of Canadian crime. We also feature a
conversation with Fort Langley author Don Hunter about
his terrific new mystery Incident
at Willow Creek, published by NeWest Press of
Edmonton.
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 September
27, 2009
Anne Green talks with Bookmark about this year's
edition of Wordfest:
The Calgary-Banff International Literary Festival.
We also feature an interview with long-time political observer
Rich Vivone
about his new book Ralph
Could Have Been A Superstar.
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 September
20, 2009
On Bookmark this week, Edmonton author Thomas
Trofimuk discusses his blockbuster third novel, Waiting
for Columbus. We also talk with Calgary playwright
Gordon Pengilly about his new published collection
of plays entitled Metastasis.
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 September
13, 2009
Bookmark returns for a third season this Sunday at
12:30pm. On this week’s program, we profile a simultaneous
two-city book launch of Susan Minsos’ Squire
Davis and the Crazy River, with video links between
the University of Alberta in Edmonton and McMaster University
in Hamilton. We’ll also interview Susan about her new book
and we’ll report on what else Alberta’s literary community
is up to in celebrating this year’s Alberta
Arts Days, September 18 to 20th.
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SEASON TWO
 June
28, 2009 Calgary author Carolyn
Pogue, founder of The Art of Peace: A Camp for Kids, talks about
her new book for young adults entitled Gwen,
the tale of one of England's destitute Barnardo children coming to Canada in search
of a new life. And Edmonton poet Pierette
Requier, one of four poets featured in this year's Quartet series by Frontenac
House, talks about her collection of poems details
from the edge of the village, which centres around the experience
of Francophone Albertans. Listen
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 June
21, 2009 Well known Calgary author Sydney Sharpe is our guest,
talking about her new book Staying
in the Game: The Remarkable Story of Doc Seaman. We also are
in conversation with Peter Atkinson, author of Making
Game: An Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things and the Strangeness of Being Who One
Is. Listen to the program
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 June
14, 2009 A conversation with Calgary's ultra-conservative activist
Ezra Levant, about
his book Shakedown,
a best-selling work published by McClelland and Stewart. Meantime, well-known
Edmonton playwright Marty
Chan and illustrator Lorna
Bennett talk about their collaboration in creating the children's book
True Story.
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 June
7, 2009 Bookmark talks with teacher Dale Wallace about
the publishing
company run by his students out of Beaverbrook High School in Calgary. And
we meet Valerie Mason-John, an award-winning author and journalist from
Britain who emigrated to Edmonton just two months ago. Valerie shares her impressions
of her new life and of Alberta and talks about her acclaimed book Broken
Voices, about the 'Untouchable' women of India. Listen
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 May
31, 2009 A conversation with Jennifer Ford (Brower), author
of Lost
Tracks: Buffalo National Park 1909–1939, a fascinating account of
a conservation effort doomed to failure. Bookmark also speaks with
children’s author Hazel
Hutchins about her new book After,
which tells the story of two young teens whose families are plunged into grief
following a random shooting. Listen
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 May
24, 2009 Sharon Stratton spends her summers watching for forest
fires and her winters writing in Calgary. She talks about her experience as revealed
in a new book Between
Forest and Sky: A Fire-Tower Journal. We also speak with Daniel
Coleman, author of In
Bed With The Word, a new book that celebrates the joy of reading.
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 May
17, 2009 Calgary author Michael
Davie discusses his raw and funny new book Fishing
for Bacon, published by NeWest
Press. And Edmonton writer Wendy Davis shares her memories of
growing up in India under the British Raj, in a new book entitled Dal
& Rice. Listen
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 May
10, 2009 The Very Reverend Bill
Phipps of Calgary, former moderator of the United Church of Canada, talks
about his new book Cause
for Hope: Humanity at the Crossroads. We also feature Annari
van der Merwe, a renowned figure in South Africa’s book publishing community,
who delivered a keynote address last weekend at the Get
Publishing conference in Edmonton. Listen
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 April
12, 2009 Bookmark talks with the Dean of the U of A’s Augustana
Campus in Camrose, Dr. Roger Epp, about his new book of essays entitled
We
are All Treaty People, published by University of Alberta Press. And
we share a conversation with Asish Gupta, publisher of the intriguing independent
Calgary publisher Bayeux Arts.
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 April
5, 2009 On Bookmark this week, novelist Ann
Erikssen discusses her critically acclaimed new love story In the
Hands of Anubis, published by Brindle and Glass. And University
of Alberta history professor Sarah Carter shares insights into the battle
over monogamy waged in western Canada in the late 1800s, the subject of her book
The
Importance of Being Monogamous. Listen
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 March
29, 2009 Calgary author Anne
Metikosh talks about her latest book Chance,
published by NeWest Press of Edmonton. Chance tells the story of the family
into which Metikosh married: Dragan is a young Yugoslavian thrown into a German
prison camp in the Second World War. Galina survives the German siege of Leningrad
only to be also thrown into the prison camp. The two meet and marry and survive
in a world where survival has become merely a matter of chance. Also on
Bookmark this week, we interview writer and mountain climber Bill
Corbett about the updated new version of his fascinating book The
11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies. Listen
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 March
22, 2009 Bragg Creek author Jacqueline
Guest discusses her new book War Games. And retired
professor M. Ann Hall of Edmonton talks about her history Immodest
and Sensational: 150 Years of Canadian Women in Sport. Listen
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 March
15, 2009 University of Calgary English professor and acclaimed sound
poet Christian Bok talks with Bookmark about his work Eunoia,
which recently found its way onto the bestseller lists in England, six years after
it was first published. We also speak with acclaimed Edmonton author Marina
Endicott discusses life since her book Good To A Fault was
nominated for a Giller Prize last fall. She also talks about her new book currently
being written and the re-release of her debut title Open Arms. Listen
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 March
8, 2009 Calgary author Cecelia Frey talks to Bookmark
about her stunning novel, A
Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing - the story of two young musicians
growing up in Edmonton and discovering the western Canadian music scene. We
also speak with Lou Morin and Douglas Barbour about the future and
unique history of one of Alberta's most influential and enduring publishers NeWest
Press. Listen to the
program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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 March
1, 2009 This week on Bookmark, Calgary author John Lathrop
talks about his new thriller set in the Middle East, entitled The
Desert Contract. And Edmonton poet Su Croll reads from
and discusses her new book Blood
Mother. Listen
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 February
22, 2009 This week on Bookmark, a conversation with the indomitable
Verna Reid. Reid, now in her 80s, is a writer, artist, mother through great-grandmother,
and a legendary figure on the Calgary arts and culture scene. We talk about her
new book: Women
Between: Construction of Self in the Work of Sharon Butala, Aganetha Dyck, Mary
Meigs and Mary Pratt. Peers, Alberta, author and forest ranger
Dave Hugelschaffer discusses his new book One
Careless Moment, the second book in the Porter Cassel Mystery
series, published by Cormorant Books of Toronto. Porter Cassel is a different
type of crime investigator, one who investigates deliberately started forest fires.
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 February
15, 2009 This week on Bookmark, we sit down with Rose and
David Scollard to talk about Frontenac
House, their respected if modest Calgary literary press that this year
celebrates its tenth anniversary. They are marking the occasion by publishing
10 books of poetry in a series called Dektet 2010. We also
talk with an Edmonton writer who is unabashedly one of the most intensely self-promoting
authors in the marketplace today. Cheryl
Kaye Tardif, author of Whale
Song and other suspense novels, shares her insights into what any
writer should do to help ensure success for their published work. Listen
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 February
8, 2009 Author Shirlee Smith Matheson talks about her biography
Maverick
in the Sky: The Aerial Adventures of WWI Flying Ace Freddie McCall,
published by Frontenac House of Calgary. And we caught up with Canadian
filmmaker Larry Krotz to discuss his new book The
Uncertain Business of Doing Good: Outsiders in Africa. Listen
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 February
1, 2009 Editor Richard C. Davis discusses his book Nahanni
Journals: R.M. Patterson’s 1927-1929 Journals, which reveal the fascinating
escapades of an Oxford graduate seeking gold and adventure in the wilds of the
Canadian north. We also feature an interview with Gordon R. Freeman,
an Edmonton scientist who unveils remarkable new archaeological discoveries in
his just-released book Canada’s
Stonehenge: Astounding Archaeological Discoveries in Canada, England, and Wales.
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 January
25, 2009 Bookmark interviews Edmonton poet Mohammed
Al-Nassar about his work When Will I Awaken From This Life? Selected
Poems in English and Arabic. We also interview the world’s leading
expert on freshwater preservation, Dr.
David Schindler, talking about his new book The
Algal Bowl, which analyses the threat to global freshwater supplies
posed by nutrient pollution. Listen
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 January
18, 2009 This week’s Bookmark program is dedicated to upcoming observances
around National
Literacy Day on January 27th. We feature a roundtable discussion on a
variety of literacy issues. Our guests include Sandra Irving, executive
director of the Centre for Family
Literacy in Edmonton. We also speak with a a mother of three boys who is highly
involved in literacy programs for youngsters and we talk with an adult student
working to achieve greater literacy. Listen
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 January
11, 2009 Sociologist and Author J. Peter Rothe discusses the
fascinating research behind his new book Driven
to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons. Edmonton author Caterina
Edwards discusses her book Finding
Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer’s, a Daughter in Search of the Past.
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 January
4, 2009 The second and final part of an interview with Linda Cook,
CEO of the Edmonton Public Library,
in conversation about the changing roles and challenges of today's public library
system. We also interview Calgary writer Brian
Brennan about his book The
Good Steward: The Ernest Manning Story, the first biography to be
written about one of Alberta’s and Canada’s political giants of the past. Listen
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 December
28, 2008 Bookmark talks with Linda C. Cook, the CEO of the Edmonton
Public Library, about the role of the modern library in society, the crisis
facing school libraries across Canada, and the importance of literacy to our success
as a nation. We also speak with Dr. Bill Preshing, the 80 year old
writer of Chronicle
of Commerce: A History of the School of Business at the University of Alberta,
published during this, the U of A’s 100th anniversary. Listen
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 December
21, 2008 On Bookmark this week, we speak with journalist and
author Andrew
Nikiforuk about his new book Tar
Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent. We also feature
an interview with senior business writer for the Globe & Mail Report on Business,
Gordon Pitts, author of Stampede!
The Rise of The West and Canada’s New Power Elite. Listen
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 December
14, 2008 An interview with scholar, researcher, painter and forester,
A.K.
Hellum, about the book Listening
to Trees, published by NeWest Press. This book tells the story of
Hallum’s lifelong journey around the world to save the planet’s declining forests.
And we speak with one of Canada’s great writers of children’s literature,
Sheree Fitch,
talking about her new novel – this one for adults – entitled Kiss
The Joy As It Flies. Listen
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 December
7, 2008 Bookmark speaks with Edmonton writer Gail
Sidonie Sobat about her book Gravity
Journal, a book geared to young women that paints an unflinching portrait
of eating disorders. We’ll also feature an interview with Austin
Clarke, a great Canadian writer known for his richly textured prose that
blends Canadian and Caribbean cultural nuances. Listen
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 November
30, 2008 On this week’s Bookmark program, acclaimed Ontario
writer Susan
Olding talks about her new work Pathologies.
The book is published by Calgary’s new literary publishing house, Freehand
Press. Susan was a featured writer at Edmonton’s LitFest in October. We
also speak with Edmonton journalist and author Linda Goyette, editor of
a new collection of stories and poems by Canadian immigrant writers. The
Story That Brought Me Here: To Alberta From Everywhere features 36
Alberta writers from 27 countries of origin. Listen
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 November
23, 2008 Bookmark interviews Calgary writer Samantha Warwick
about her new book Sage
Island. Samantha was a featured writer at October’s WordFest
in Calgary and Banff. Also on the program, an interview with a Calgary
publisher who over the past decade has built one of Canada’s most prestigious
and successful science fiction and fantasy publishing houses. Brian Hades
of Edge Science Fiction
and Fantasy is our guest. Listen
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 November
16, 2008 On Bookmark this week, we talk with Canada's hottest
writer, Rawi
Hage. His new book Cockroach
is nominated for the Governor-General's Literary Award, the Scotiabank Giller
Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His book De Niro’s Game
won the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the largest monetary prize
for a single work of fiction in the English language. Hage, one of the stars at
this year’s WordFest in
Banff and Calgary, talks with us about Cockroach,
which centres on the immigrant experience in Montreal. We also feature
an interview with Jack Brink, curator of archaeology at the Royal Alberta
Museum. He has written a well-researched and fascinating new book entitled Imagining
Head-Smashed-In that reveals the world of buffalo hunting by aboriginals
on the Canadian prairies prior to contact with Europeans. Listen
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 November
9, 2008 On this week’s program, an interview with celebrated Canadian
author and intellectual John
Ralston Saul, talking about his new book: A
Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada. And Bookmark
talks with Montreal author Saleema
Nawaz, one of four writers who launched Calgary’s new literary press Freehand
Books earlier this fall. We talk with Saleema about her collection of
short stories and novellas entitled Mother
Superior. Listen
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October 12, 2008Bookmark this week features an interview
with acclaimed Alberta writer Fred
Stenson about his new book The
Great Karoo, an epic novel that places southern Alberta cowboys on
the battlefields of the Boer War. Meantime, new writer R.L. Prendergast
of Edmonton is doing it the hard way. He has self-published his first novel, entitled
The Impact of a Single
Event. The book tells the fascinating story of a fatal car accident
and the chance discovery of an ancient journal. Bookmark talks with Prendergast
about the experience of writing and publishing the book. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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 October
5, 2008
This week, we talk with artistic director of WordFest:
Calgary-Banff International Writers Festival, Anne Green, about
this year's festival which gets underway October 14th. We also feature
an interview with military historian and author Norman
S. Leach about his new book Passchendaele:
Canada's Triumph and Tragedy on the Fields of Flanders. Leach was
the history consultant on Paul Gross' new movie Passchendaele, set to open
in Canadian theatres on October 15th. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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 September
28, 2008 This week, Bookmark features an interview with acclaimed Edmonton
author Thomas
Wharton, discussing his new book for younger readers, The
Shadow of Malabron. We also feature an interview with Calgary
writer Garry Ryan,
talking about the latest book in his Detective Lane Series, A
Hummingbird Dance. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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 September
21, 2008 On this week's program, we sit down with Melanie Little,
editor of Calgary's newest publishing house, Freehand
Books, to talk about the mandate for the literary press. And we
feature an interview with storyteller and wildlife veterinarian Dr.
Jerry Haig, talking about his new book The
Trouble with Lions, published by University of Alberta Press. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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 September
14, 2008 Bookmark opens Season Two featuring an interview with Edmonton
English professor and motorcycle enthusiast Ted
Bishop, whose book Riding
with Rilke has been selected as the designated book for this fall's
Edmonton Reads
campaign. We also speak with Marina
Endicott about her critically acclaimed new novel Good
to a Fault, published by Freehand Books of Calgary. And Sharon
Bodnarchuk of Audrey's Books in Edmonton drops by to talk about what's
"Hot Off The Shelf." Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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SEASON ONE
 June
29, 2008 This week, Bookmark speaks with Dr.
James Orbinski, former president of the international organization Médecins
Sans Frontières. Dr. Orbinski discusses his book An
Imperfect Offering. We also feature a beautiful new book published
by Frontenac House of Calgary. Breathing
Stone, written by a leading authority on Northwest Coast culture and
art, Carol
Sheehan, reveals the modern generation of artists and art expressed through
Haida argillite sculpture. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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 June
22, 2008 On this week's Bookmark, a conversation with well-known Regina
lawyer Garrett Wilson, now retired. Wilson talks about his book Frontier
Farewell, which examines the 1870s of western Northern America and
how the events of that decade changed the West forever. We also talk with
Edmonton author and journalist Linda Goyette about her new book for children
entitled Rocky
Mountain Kids. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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 June
15, 2008 The Canadian
Authors Association is holding its national conference in Edmonton, July
3-6. On this week's show, Bookmark features a round-table interview with organizers
and writers from the C.A.A. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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 June
8, 2008 On Bookmark this week, we feature a conversation with a retired
school teacher from rural Alberta who has been called the "Lucy Maud Montgomery
of the Prairies." Ardith
Trudzik is author of two books, Freckles
and Core of My Apple and is working on a third book in the series.
Ardith took up writing at the age of 73, telling the story of her childhood growing
up in poverty on a farm in rural Alberta during World War II. We also sit
down with Carl Honoré,
the Edmonton-raised author of the best-selling book In Praise of Slowness.
Honoré has a new book out entitled Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from
the Culture of Hyper-Parenting. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 20 seconds)
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 June
1, 2008 Canadian nationalist extraordinaire Mel
Hurtig recently returned to Alberta to promote his new book The
Truth About Canada and, of course, dropped into Bookmark's studios
for a chat. We also feature an interview with Thomas
Wharton, the acclaimed Alberta author of such award-winning novels as
Icefields
and Salamander.
Listen to the program (28 minutes
and 10 seconds)
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here.)
 May
25, 2008 Bookmark features an interview with author William
Neil Scott, about his new book Wonderfull
and the fictional town of Garfax. We also feature an interview with Edmonton
poet Alice Major about a major new work, the extended narrative poem The
Office Tower Tales. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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 May
18, 2008
Bookmark features an in-depth interview with Padma
Viswanathan, author of the acclaimed debut novel The
Toss of a Lemon. Padma, who grew up in St. Albert, Alberta, but now
makes her home in Arkansas, is the 2008 New Face of Fiction author
for Random House Canada. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 20 seconds)
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 May
11, 2008
Bookmark talks with Edmonton author Peter
Boer about his book Wrongfully
Convicted, about Canadians sentenced to prison for crimes they did
not commit. And we visit with author Jason Brink and artist Jim
Westergard, both of Red Deer, about their deliciously dark new work of
so-called "punch fiction" entitled Fly
on the Wall. Listen
to the program (28 minutes)
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 April
13, 2008
This week on Bookmark, Winnipeg poet Mary
Murphy reads from her searing volume of poetry Shattered
Fanatics. And we feature part two of a two-part interview with
mountain man, poet, author and musician Sid
Marty. This week, Sid talks about his new book The Black Grizzly
of Whiskey Creek. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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 April
6, 2008
Bookmark talks with Sam
McKegney of Mount Royal College in Calgary, author of a groundbreaking
book entitled Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After
Residential Schools. And we present part one of a two-part interview
with Pincher Creek poet, author, singer-songwriter, environmental activist and
honest-to-God mountain man Sid
Marty. On this week’s program, Sid talks about a crusade to protect an
endangered area of southwestern Alberta wilderness and call it Andy Russell Provincial
Park. Listen to the program (28
minutes and 10 seconds)
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here.)
 March
30, 2008 Bookmark has a word this week with Edmonton’s Doris Maron,
author of Untamed
Spirit, the story of her remarkable 3-year around-the-world journey
on a motorcycle. And Calgary’s Glen
Dresser talks about his debut novel Correction Road, the
first draft of which was written during a 3-day novel writing competition. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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 March
23, 2008 This week on Bookmark, writer Ted
Ferguson talks about his new book Back
Roads, an account of his decision to leave his stress-filled life
in Vancouver for a quiet corner of northern Alberta. And we take a look
at the Check Out the Writer! rural writer-in-residence program,
a partnership of the Writers
Guild of Alberta and the Library
Association of Alberta. Seven rural library systems in Alberta currently have
writers-in-residence through this program. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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order to listen you must have Windows Media Player. To install the latest player,
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 March
16, 2008 Bookmark features an interview with award-winning Calgary poet
and novelist Roberta
Rees, discussing her first work of short fiction Long
After Fathers. And we feature an interview with University
of Alberta writer-in-residence Rob
McLennan of Ottawa. Listen
to the program (28 minutes)
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 March
9, 2008 Bookmark talks with Kurdish writer Jalal
Barzanji, Edmonton’s first writer-in-exile, a man targeted for death until
he fled Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. We also feature an interview with John
Weinstein, author of Quiet
Revolution West: The Rebirth of Métis Nationalism. Listen
to the program (28 minutes)
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March 2, 2008 Bookmark interviews Mary-Ann Kirkby, author
of I Am
Hutterite, the fascinating national best-seller about one woman's
account of her own growing up in a Hutterite colony and her family's struggle
to adapt to the outside world when they left their community. We also speak
with David Finch, author of Pumped:
Everyone's Guide to the Oilpatch, the authoritative guide to understanding
Alberta's oil industry. Listen to
the program (28 minutes and 15 seconds)
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 February
24, 2008 Bookmark takes a closer look at the Alberta government’s
recently announced new
cultural policy and find out what’s in it for Alberta literature.
We’ll talk to writers, publishers, librarians, politicians and analysts.
We’ll also feature part two of our two-part tribute to one of Canada’s
most famous authors - W.O.
Mitchell - on the eve of the 10th anniversary of his death. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 15 seconds)
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 February
17, 2008
Bookmark interviews author Angie
Abdou of Cranbrook, BC, about her acclaimed debut
novel The Bone Cage published by Edmonton’s
NeWest
Press.
We also present part one of a two-part tribute to the late great
spiritual grandpappy of many an Alberta writer - W.O.
Mitchell - leading up to the 10th anniversary of his passing. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 8 seconds)
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 February
10, 2008
Bookmark talks with Susan Scott, Calgary-based
author of All
Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada. We also head
over to the University
of Alberta Bookstore in Edmonton, head down into the basement, and get
a look at a weird contraption that can print any book you want in about 4 minutes.
Listen to the program (28 minutes
and 15 seconds)
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here.)
 February
3, 2008 Bookmark talks to Michael
Kryton, Yardley
Jones and Spyder
Yardley-Jones, Edmonton-based artists, and illustrators of the phenomenally
best-selling Bachelor
Guides series of books. We also put the spotlight on internationally
acclaimed performance poet Sheri-D
Wilson of Calgary. She talks about, among other things, the new surrealist
movie she’s just filmed on location in Paris and the new book of poetry she
has coming out this spring. Listen
to the program (28 minutes and 12 seconds)
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