Tag: writing
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Episode 61: The Chronicles of Amber
Author Peter Darbyshire joins the lads to champion the classic Roger Zelazny fantasy series, The Chronicles of Amber.
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Episode 54: Nick Patterson
Joe and Mark are joined by the writer Tom Bradley. 3:AM magazine described Tom as “… one of the most criminally underrated authors on the planet.”
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Episode 51: Fahrenheit 451
The lads are joined by writer and poet, Abigail Grimes, so they can discuss the classic Ray Bradbury novel, Fahrenheit 451.
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Episode 50: Duck Soup
Writer and editor Ira Nayman returns to the podcast to help the lads appreciate and understand the early movies of the Marx Brothers, including Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business and Animal Crackers.
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Episode 48: René Magritte
View on Zencastr Author and critic Michael Antman joins Joe and Mark for a wide-ranging discussion about visual arts and writing. Michael started out as a poet. After switching to fiction, he’s had two novels published by indie presses: Cherry Whip and Everything Solid Has A Shadow. He likes to explore themes of self-knowledge in…
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Episode 45: Ambient Electronic Music
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…
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Episode 44: Crab Village
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe chat with the Canadian poet and science fiction doyenne, Candas Jane Dorsey. Candas is well-known in Canadian science fiction circles for her work as a novelist (Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth) and editor-in-chief of The Books Collective, which included River, Slipstream and Tesseract Books. They start the conversation…
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Episode 39: Babylon 5
View on Zencastr The lads are joined by Noah Chinn, a Canadian writer of SFF, contemporary fiction and retro mysteries. (The latter two under the pen-name Noah J.D. Chinn.) Mark kicks off the podcast by asking Joe and Noah if there was anything weird happening to their hair in the 90s, which is also when…
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Episode 22: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark join Matt Watts, writer, comedian and actor to discuss the classic radio series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTG). That’s right, before it was a book or a movie, the Douglas Adams classic was a radio series on the BBC. They get into the nature of writing. What…
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Episode 18: Maps & Music
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…