View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by the super successful and super-fun science fiction writer, John Scalzi. Scalzi tells the lads about how he almost missed his first WorldCon, in Toronto, 2003, because he forget his passport at the airport. He rushed there just in time to sit on his first panel, where…
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by entrepreneur, cyclist and avid reader Ben Fox to discuss a book that had a huge impact on him. Native Son, by Richard Wright, was assigned to Ben as a senior in high school. “I hated it from the depths of my soul, but now this book…
View on Zencastr This episode is a Re-Creative first, as Joe and Mark host two guests on the same show. Celu Amberstone and Paula Johanson are both writers and educators with a love of the natural world. They also both live in British Columbia. Paula’s inspiration is the map, particularly a map of Salt Spring…
View on Zencastr When author and jazz singer Krista Wallace saw Tunnel Vision, a painting by Burnaby artist Jane Appleby [see below], she knew she had to buy it. “I walked around the corner, and I saw it, and I was just locked on,” Wallace says. She was in the process of writing her first…
View on Zencastr The Overstory is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel that had quite a meaningful and moving impact on this week’s guest: the writer, naturalist and limnologist, Nina Munteanu. Nina considers herself an environmental activist and ecologist, and much of her fiction is written in a sub-genre of SF: eco-fiction. She’s also a lover…
Joe and Mark chat with prodigious author and filmmaker Susan Rodgers about the oil painting, Setting Day.
Mark and Joe host Re-Creative, a podcast about creativity in which creative people from all walks of life talk about the art that inspires them. Joe continues the conversation by introducing Mark to Canadian author D.G. Valdron’s The Mermaid’s Tale, a dark, compelling, and utterly original fantasy.