Pasha Malla talks about his favourite sentences and what makes them good and Catriona Wright and Matthew Tierney discuss children in their poetry.

Shawn Micallef, author of the newly updated Stroll, and Kate Black, author of Big Mall: Shopping for Meaning, talk about malls: mall culture, urbanism, and how the play a part of the national landscape.

Tamara Faith Berger, author of Yara, interviews writer and performer Andrea Werhun.

Matthew Gwathmey, author of Tumbling for Amateurs, reads and discusses “If I Had to Say” from Love Language by Nasser Hussain.

Martha Baillie, author of There is no Blue, talks with Moez Surani about poetry and grief in their work. And Canadian independent booksellers give us their favourite books to gift this season!

Meghan Kemp-Gee reads from After Beowulf by Nicole Markotic, and Aaron Tucker talks with film critic Alicia Fletcher about the significance of the classic wester The Searchers in his new novel, Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys.

We talk with recent Archibald Lampman and Ottawa Book Award winner David O'Meara about "Blue Filter" by Sheryda Warrener, author Matt Cahill about how he balances work and writing, and Michael Winkler about his debut "exploded nonfiction novel," Grimmish.

First-time novelist Geoffrey Morrison talks with his first-time editor André Alexis (author of Fifteen Dogs and the Quincunx series) about editing his debut novel, Falling Hour. We discuss the writer-editor relationship and what it's like to work with someone else's writing.

Happy Holidays edition!

Suzette Mayr talks about winning the Giller Prize, booksellers give Holiday book buying recommendations, and Matthew James Weigel and Derek Beaulieu talk about why visual poetry isn't that difficult.