Tag: canada
-
Episode 58: Yellowface
View on Zencastr Editor and writer Robert Runte joins Mark and Joe on the podcast to encourage everyone to read R. F. Kuang’s satire of the publishing industry, Yellowface. Robert is a long-term science fiction reader and for many years a reviewer and critic. That turned into a new role when one of the small…
-
Episode 41: Planet of the Apes
View on Zencastr Mark kicks off the podcast with a diabolical question for Joe and their guest, renowned Canadian science fiction writer, Robert J. Sawyer. “If you could write – and consume – only one of these genres of science fiction, what would you pick? Space opera. Post-Apocalyptic. Or Cyberpunk?” Everyone has an answer and…
-
Episode 31: Paris in the 20s
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by beloved and bestselling Canadian author, Terry Fallis. Terry’s fiction has won the Leacock Medal for Humour twice, and his debut novel, Best Laid Plans, won Canada Reads in 2011. The annual CBC competition had a huge impact on his sales figures for that novel: more than…
-
Episode 26: The Camouflaged Piano
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by the visual artist, Gerard Pas, to discuss the work of Greg Curnoe. Gerard was born in The Netherlands and immigrated to Canada with his parents when he was a boy. He first met Curnoe when he was an art student at H.B. Beal. Then he moved…
-
Episode 5: The Traveler
Cape Breton speculative fiction writer Sherry D. Ramsey joins Mark and Joe to discuss a painting that has been “lost” to her, The Traveler.