Dec 25, 2023
Patrick sits down with
playwright Meg Braem to discuss her play
Flight
Risk, "an empathetic exploration of
grief, friendship, and hope, [which] asks what we lose when we
ignore the knowledge of our elderly, challenges the way that we
think about aging and death, and inspires a brighter, more
compassionate future."
Dec 18, 2023
In which we discuss the 1919
Winnipeg General Strike in relation to Michael
Ondaatje's In the Skin of a
Lion (1987). We get unhinged as we
discuss strike tactics, modernism/postmodernism, and
Christmas.
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Dec 11, 2023
In which Patrick talks to Governor General's Award winner katherena vermette to discuss how she brought Métis history to life through her comic series A Girl Called Echo.
Find the omnibus at your local bookstore or
here.
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Dec 4, 2023
In which we bring back Covid-19
pandemic memories by discussing the Spanish Flu in Canada with the
help of Kevin Kerr's excellent 2002
play Unity
(1918).
Sorry for having posted so
little in November - it was pure and simple a scheduling
mistake.
Nov 20, 2023
In which two tired & sick boys
try to talk coherently about Timothy Findley's major literary
achievement: a reckoning with the reality of World War One in his
seminal 1977 work The
Wars.
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