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Canada Reads American Style

Canada Reads American Style

Two friends -- one American, one Canadian -- who share a love for CBC’s Canada Reads and Canadian literature! https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads

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35:08

Interview - Merilyn Simonds and Walking with Beth:...

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/11/05

Tara chats with a special guest, the prolific and award-winning Canadian author Merilyn Simonds regarding her latest book, Walking with Beth: Conversations with My 100-year-old Friend.https://merilynsimonds.com/ "In the spring of 2021, Merilyn Simonds asked her friend Beth Robinson if she’d like to go for a walk. Simonds had just turned 70, still active, still writing, but entering what struck her as a mysterious, even frightening stage of life. Beth, a smart, vibrant woman who’d held a job

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30:50

Interview - Barbara Joan Scott and The Taste of Hunger

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/11/03

Rebecca is excited to speak with award-winning Canadian author Barbara Joan Scott about her debut novel, The Taste of Hunger.https://freehand-books.com/product/the-taste-of-hunger/#tab-description "In Saskatchewan in the late 1920s, a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant named Olena is forced into marriage with Taras, a man twice her age, who wants her even though she has refused him. Stuck in a hardscrabble life with a husband she despises, starved for a life of her own choosing, at every turn

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35:07

Interview - Lucy E.M. Black and A Quilting of Scars

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/10/30

Rebecca is excited to welcome back to the podcast Canadian author Lucy E.M. Black regarding her new historical novel, A Quilting of Scars, with its unforgettable main character, Larkin Beattie. https://nonpublishing.com/a-quilting-of-scars "Filled with the pleasure of recognizable yet distinctively original characters and a deftly drawn sense of time and place, A Quilting of Scars brings to life a story of forbidden love, abuse and murder. Pulsing with repressed sexuality and guilt, Larkin Beattie

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22:22

Interview - David Giuliano and The Upending of...

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/10/27

Tara is excited to chat with Canadian author David Giuliano, who lives on the north shore of Lake Superior. His storytelling has been compared to Miriam Toews and Elizabeth Strout in its emotional insight and narrative warmth. His books include The Undertaking of Billy Buffone, winner of the 2022 Bressani Prize; the bestselling Postcards from the Valley; and the cancer memoir It's Good to Be Here. His latest book is The Upending of Wendall Forbes from Latitude 46 Publishing. Reading

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22:47

Interview - Emily A. Weedon and Hemo Sapiens

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/09/24

Tara chats with Emily Weedon, a Canadian author and screenwriter, currently living in Toronto. Her web series Chateau Laurier was the most awarded web series in 2023 and won a Canadian Screen Award. Her debut novel Autokrator reimagines gender and power in society against the backdrop of a dystopian world. Her new novel, Hemo Sapiens, will be released into the world on September 30, 2025 from Dundurn Press. It is an erotic noir thriller that reimagines vampires through a lens of female sexuality and

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20:11

Interview - Jen Sookfong Lee and The Hunger We Pass Down

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/09/18

Tara speaks with Canadian author Jen Sookfong Lee regarding her latest novel, The Hunger We Pass Down, which is available September 30, 2025 from Erewhon Books.Jen was born and raised in Vancouver's East Side and now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her memoir, Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart, was a finalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award, was named a best book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada, and was a Today

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43:48

Book Chat 28

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/08/20

Rebecca and Tara are back with their "monthly" chat about the books they've read and recommend. Please check out the link below to the Instagram post by Hollay Ghadery on her River Street Writes account regarding independent and small press books sold through Indigo.Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): The Laundryman's Boy by Edward Y.C. Lee A Song for Wildcats by Caitlin Galway Brushed Aside: The Untold Story of Women in Art by Noah Charney The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson The Taste of

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46:55

Interview - Jinwoo Park and Oxford Soju Club

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/08/01

Rebecca is excited to speak with Korean Canadian author Jinwoo Park. Born and raised in Seoul, he has lived in various parts of North America and the UK since the age of 11 and is now based in Montreal.Jinwoo obtained his bachelor’s degree from McGill in 2013, followed by a master’s in political economics from the London School of Economics in 2014, and a master’s in creative writing at the University of Oxford in 2015. In 2021 he won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers’ Award for his first

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29:07

Hidden Gems with author Marion Agnew

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/07/24

Welcome to the latest episode of Hidden Gems in which Rebecca and Tara invite guests to recommend authors or titles that may be new to us.Rebecca is excited to introduce author Marion Agnew whose debut novel, Making Up the Gods, from Latitude 46 Publishing, was released in October, 2023. Kirkus Reviews calls it “A complex, heart-warming tale of love, absolution, and fortitude.” Marion began writing creative nonfiction in the late 1990s, after her mother’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s. Her essays

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38:11

Interview - Caitlin Galway and A Song for Wildcats

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/07/20

Rebecca is excited to interview Canadian author Caitlin Galway on this latest episode. Caitlin is a novelist and short fiction writer whose work can be classified as literary realism, surrealism, and magical realism. A Song for Wildcats, her new short story collection published by Dundurn Press, has been named an Indigo Best Book of 2025, and was featured as a must-read in The Globe and Mail, and a most anticipated book in The Toronto Star. She has been the recipient of grants from the Canada

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43:04

Interview - Alma Sarai and Tottering Biped Theatre

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/07/10

Tara welcomes Alma Sarai, a Canadian artist, actor, musician, and arts advocate, to promote Tottering Biped Theatre's summer production of "The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged)" at Dundurn Castle Park in Hamilton, ON in August 2025. Alma graduated from the Theatre and Drama Studies program at the University of Toronto Mississauga, a joint program with Sheridan College. She has been deeply involved with Tottering Biped Theatre (TBT) since 2016, serving as Associate Artistic Director and

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32:24

2025 Reading Goals - Midyear Review

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/07/07

Join Rebecca and Tara as they review the progress they've made (or not) on their 2025 reading goals. Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): Currently reading: A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 2025 Goals: Complete Anne of Green Gables and The Chronicles of Narnia series and read more Redwall; read children's books that have "mischievous, clever, independent girl characters"; track "mood reads"; plus, a secret goal! Tara (@onabranchreads): Currently reading: The Queen's Spade by Sarah Raughley 2025

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46:23

Interview - Saad Omar Khan and Drinking the Ocean

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/07/03

Rebecca is excited to speak with Pakistani-Canadian author Saad Omar Khan about his debut novel, Drinking the Ocean, published by Wolsak & Wynn in 2025. Saad was born in the United Arab Emirates to Pakistani parents and lived in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and South Korea before immigrating to Canada. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics and has completed a certificate in Creative Writing from the School of Continuing Studies at the University of

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55:31

Book Chat 27

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/06/22

Rebecca and Tara share their latest vacation highlights as well as their favorite reads over the past month.Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): https://www.thehenryford.org/ A Song for Wildcats: Stories by Caitlin Galway Stella's Carpet by Lucy E.M. Black Oxford Soju Club by Jinwoo Park A Psalm for the Wild-Built; A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers Drinking the Ocean by Saad Omar Khan The Fairy-Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm #1) by Michael Buckley Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton Tara

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24:18

Interview - Su Chang and The Immortal Woman

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/06/11

Rebecca is excited to speak with Chinese-Canadian author Su Chang. Su was born and raised in Shanghai and is the daughter of a former and reluctant Red Guard leader, which was the paramilitary arm of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution beginning in the 1960s. Today, they will be talking about her debut novel, The Immortal Woman, published by House of Anansi in March of this year. It has already garnered a lot of attention and praise from CBC, Indigo Books, and Amazon, to name a few high-powered

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31:41

Sharing Our Shelves

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/05/31

Rebecca and Tara introduce a new feature, Sharing Our Shelves, that may appear again from time to time in which they each review the other's To Be Read shelf and pick their co-host's next book to read. Rebecca selected Tear by Erica McKeen for Tara and Tara selected Stella's Carpet by Lucy E.M. Black for Rebecca.Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): A Psalm for the Wild-Built; A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis A Feast of Wolves by Wilson

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23:14

Interview - Harman Burns and Yellow Barks Spider

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/05/21

Tara chats with author Harman Burns, a Saskatchewan-born trans woman, writer, filmmaker, and sound artist. Her work has been published in Rebelle Zine, Untethered Magazine, and Metatron Press, and her story “Among Strange Machines” was shortlisted for the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction. Her debut novella, Yellow Barks Spider was published in 2024 by Radiant Press. She currently resides in Vancouver on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh

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53:24

Book Chat 26

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/05/12

Rebecca and Tara are finally back after a six-week break with lots of great titles to share!Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): One of Ours by Willa Cather Oxford Soju Club by Jinwoo Park King Leary by Paul Quarrington Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell Blue Horses by Mary Oliver If I Wanted a Boat" "Watering the Stones" "Franz Marc's Blue Horses" "Garnett Kilberg Cohen and Cravings" podcast, February 13, 2024 Tara (@onabranchreads): https://riverbookshop.com/ in

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04:17

Hidden Gems with author Joanne Jackson

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/03/30

Tara chats with author Joanne Jackson about Canadian Prairie authors.Saskatchewan Hidden Gems: --Beatrice and Virgil; The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel --Life on the Refrigerator Door; Polly Diamond series by Alice Kuipers --Going to Beautiful; Russell Quant Mysteries by Anthony Bidulka --Snake in the Raspberry Patch by Joanne Jackson --A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews --Author Gail Bowen https://www.joannejackson.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/joannejacksonauthor/

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16:39

Reader Repartee with Zeralda

Canada Reads American Style ·

2025/03/27

Rebecca is joined by friend of the podcast Zeralda to answer the Five Questions for Reader Repartee: How did you become a reader? What book do you wish you could read again for the first time? Which author, living or dead, would you like to meet in person and why? What fictional character would you like to meet and why? What are you currently reading? Responses: The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny The Iliad by Homer Anna Karenina by Leo

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