With joy and affection, CanLit heavy-weights Margaret Atwood and Ian Williams have much to discuss, not least of which is what footwear they chose at the age of 25.
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Successful marriages are rare. So are monumental novels. Combine the two and you’ve got, well, Esi Edugyan and Steven Price who discuss love and literature from their home on Vancouver Island.
Pick up a copy of Edugyan's Washington Black here: https://wordfest.com/25at25/book-recommendations/esi...
Koa Beck fearlessly asks, and answers, questions about race and misogyny that expose the urgent need to break rules that uphold the patriarchy. As referenced by actor Viola Davis in her Emmy speech, Black icon Harriet Tubman saw that as a line that black women couldn’t cross. Beck decides, howeve...
With extraordinary depth and candour, the Scotiabank Giller Prize winning authors dive into an illuminating and powerful conversation that ranges from what makes us uncomfortable (and getting comfortable with that) to brownness and whiteness, age and innocence, water and wind. Humble, entertainin...
