Interview - Hollay Ghadery and Widow Fantasies

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National Geographic photographer and conservationist Jaime Rojo has spent decades capturing the beauty and fragility of the monarch butterfly. Their epic migration is one of nature’s most breathtaking spectacles, but their survival is under threat. In this episode, Jaime shares how his passion for photography and conservation led him to document the monarchs’ journey. He and host Brian Lowery discuss the deeper story behind his award-winning images, one about resilience, connection, and the urgent need to protect our natural world. See Jaime's story on the monarch butterflies at his website: rojovisuals.com , and follow Brian Lowery at knowwhatyousee.com .…

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Tara talks with Hollay Ghadery, an award-winning Iranian-Canadian multi-genre writer living in rural Ontario on Anishanaabe land. Fuse, her acclaimed memoir of mixed-race identity and mental illness, was published by Guernica Editions' Microland imprint in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for nonfiction/memoir. (Check out Rebecca's interview with Hollay on the January 11, 2023 episode.) Her debut collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, was released with Radiant Press in April 2023. Her short fiction collection, Widow Fantasies, will be released on September 1, 2024, with Gordon Hill Press. Hollay is also the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township as well as the founder of and senior publicist with River Street Writing, a team of creatives who aim to produce and celebrate amazing writers. Books, authors highlighted:

Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook by David Galef
Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang by Ava Farmehri
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
The Boulevard by Jerrod Edson
Poet Bronwen Wallace
Most of All the Wanting by Amanda Merpaw
Whylah Falls by George Elliott Clarke
A Simple Carpenter by David Margoshes
Author Adele Wiseman
Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel by Pamela Mulloy
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by Ben Berman Ghan
The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (The Book of Cross #1) by Peter Roman

Publishers:

Radiant Press https://radiantpress.ca/
Latitude 46 https://latitude46publishing.com/
Wolsak & Winn https://www.wolsakandwynn.ca/

Literary Festivals:

The Word on the Street Toronto https://toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca/
Eden Mills Writers' Festival https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/
The & Festival https://theampersandreview.ca/the-festival-2024
Wordstock Sudbury https://wordstocksudbury.ca/

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Interview - Hollay Ghadery and Widow Fantasies

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Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook by David Galef
Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang by Ava Farmehri
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
The Boulevard by Jerrod Edson
Poet Bronwen Wallace
Most of All the Wanting by Amanda Merpaw
Whylah Falls by George Elliott Clarke
A Simple Carpenter by David Margoshes
Author Adele Wiseman
Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel by Pamela Mulloy
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by Ben Berman Ghan
The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (The Book of Cross #1) by Peter Roman

Publishers:

Radiant Press https://radiantpress.ca/
Latitude 46 https://latitude46publishing.com/
Wolsak & Winn https://www.wolsakandwynn.ca/

Literary Festivals:

The Word on the Street Toronto https://toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca/
Eden Mills Writers' Festival https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/
The & Festival https://theampersandreview.ca/the-festival-2024
Wordstock Sudbury https://wordstocksudbury.ca/

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Interview - Joanne Jackson and Sunset Lake Resort 12:50

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Tara chats with Joanne Jackson, an award-winning author of three novels: The Wheaton (2019); A Snake in the Raspberry Patch (2023), winner of the Crime Writers of Canada's Best Crime Novel set in Canada and short listed for the Saskatchewan Book Awards; and her latest novel Sunset Lake Resort (2024) published by Stonehouse Publishing. Regardless of what weather Saskatchewan throws at her, she can often be found walking outside. Joanne's recommendations: The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins The Husband's Secrets by Liane Moriarty. https://www.joannejackson.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/joannejacksonauthor/ https://www.stonehousepublishing.ca/store/sunset-lake-resort…

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Book Chat 24 39:44

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Rebecca and Tara chat about their latest reads, some of which include CBC's Canada Reads titles for the 2025 debates airing March 17-20 on CBC TV, CBC Radio, and CBC Books (website and YouTube). Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): How We Move the Air by Garnett Kilberg Cohen Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper American War; What Strange Paradise; One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew The Immortal Woman by Su Change Watch Out for Her by Samantha M. Bailey Lost Women, Banished Souls by Garnett Kilberg Cohen Tara (@onabranchreads): Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich God Isn't Here Today by Francine Cunningham Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell…

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Love Stories 34:55

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Rebecca and Tara celebrate some of their favorite Love Stories in all their different forms in honor of Valentine's Day. Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery Bob by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead Cam & Beau by Maria Cichosz The Magic of Ordinary Days by Ann Howard Creel https://www.hallmarkfamily.com/the-magic-of-ordinary-days Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf Griffin & Sabine Trilogy: Griffin & Sabine; Sabine's Notebook; The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock Tara (@onabranchreads): The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage by Carol Off The Outlander; Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin The River by Peter Heller The Brickworks by Lucy E.M. Black Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite…

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Interview - Dr. Louise Ells and Lies I Told My Sister 31:01

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Rebecca is excited to speak with author Dr. Louise Ells. Louise is the author of Lies I Told My Sister, published in 2024 by Latitude 46 Publishing. She was born and raised in Northeastern Ontario. After years of travel, she moved to Cambridge, England where she earned her PhD in Creative Writing. Louise teaches at universities and colleges in England and Canada and currently lives north of Toronto, where she can often be found in her library surrounded by books and snuggled up with her cats. https://www.louiseells.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/louiseellsauthor/?hl=en https://store.latitude46publishing.com/products/lies-i-told-my-sister Recommendations: Waiting for a Star to Fall by Kerry Clare A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott Treed: Walking in Canada's Urban Forests; Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon Cottagers and Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor Death of Persephone: A Murder by Yvonne Blomer Poet Joy Williams Vandals by Alice Munro: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/10/04/vandals…

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Interview - Adelle Purdham and I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself 42:25

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Tara is excited to chat with Adelle Purdham, who is an educator, parent disability advocate and author of the memoir-in-essays I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself published by Dundurn Press in 2024. It was named a Fall 2024 Most Anticipated Memoir & Biography by Indigo and 49th Shelf. Her prose and poetry appear in literary journals, anthologies, magazines, newspapers and online. Adelle has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and is a qualified French teacher. She currently woks as a Seasonal Part-time Faculty member at Trent University where she teaches creative writing in her hometown, Nogojiwanong (Peterborough), ON. https://adellepurdham.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/adellepurdham/?hl=en https://www.dundurn.com/ Recommended titles: Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence by Catherine McKercher An Astonishment of Stars: Stories by Kirti Bhadresa The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros…

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2025 CBC’s Canada Reads Short List 24:38

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Rebecca and Tara discuss CBC's Canada Reads Short List, how well they did in selecting what would make the short list, and who they predict will win based on the slightest amount of research possible and their gut feelings. https://www.cbc.ca/books/meet-the-canada-reads-2025-contenders-1.7431920 The Contenders: Olympic gold medalist Maggie Mac Neil champions Watch Out for Her by Samantha M. Bailey Podcaster and wellness advocate Shayla Stonechild champions A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer Heartland actor Michelle Morgan champions Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper Thriller writer Linwood Barclay champions Jennie's Boy by Wayne Johnston Pastry chef Saïd M'Dahoma champions Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew…

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Book Chat 23 55:05

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Rebecca and Tara are back for their first book chat of 2025! They share the titles they've read recently and want to recommend. Stay tuned to the end where a bit of CBC's Canada Reads pops into the discussion. Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables) by L.M. Montgomery Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1); A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky Chambers Lies I Told My Sister by Louise Ells https://www.louiseells.ca/ Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada's North by Kathleen Lippa Tara (@onabranchreads): Sunset Lake Resort by Joanne Jackson Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding Our Future Through Wampum Covenant by Daniel Coleman A Different Hurricane by H. Nigel Thomas The Reinvention of Love by Helen Humphreys…

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Interview - Erin Steele and Sunrise over Half-Built Houses: Love, Longing and Addiction in Suburbia 29:15

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Rebecca is excited to speak with Canadian author Erin Steele. Her queer coming-of-age and addiction memoir, Sunrise over Half-Built Houses: Love, Longing and Addiction in Suburbia (Caitlin Press) was published in Canada in 2024 and will be available in the US on February 21, 2025. Erin also writes “ On Being Human” on Substack. She was a 2022 Writing by Writers fellow and is published in Human Parts, WordWorks, and other online publications. She lives in Kelowna, BC Canada. https://erinsteele.com/ https://www.instagram.com/erinsteelewrites/ https://caitlinpress.com/Contributors/S/Steele-Erin…

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2025 CBC's Canada Reads Long List 32:13

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The day everyone has been waiting for!! CBC Books has released the long list for the 2025 Canada Reads debates and Rebecca and Tara offer their predictions for the five books that will compete for the title! Tara suggests at the end that their predictions are submitted as a podcast rather than as two individuals. It seems they are looking to raise the odds on how many they get right! lol (The asterisk below highlights the titles they predict will be announced on January 23, 2025 for the short list.) • The Whispers by Ashley Audrain* • Watch Out for Her by Samantha M. Bailey* • A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer • What I Know About You by Éric Chacour, translated by Pablo Strauss* • The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue • When the Pine Needles Fall by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, with Sean Carleton* • Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper* • The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard** • Jennie’s Boy by Wayne Johnston • Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott • Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew • However Far Away by Rajinderpal S. Pal* • Clyde Fans by Seth • Girl Runner by Carrie Snyder* • All Our Ordinary Stories by Teresa Wong* For extensive detail and ongoing coverage, see https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/the-canada-reads-2025-longlist-is-here-1.7421861…

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Our 2025 Reading Goals 26:43

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Happy New Year!! Rebecca and Tara sum up their 2024 goals and introduce their reading goals for 2025! Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): 2024: Brothers Grimm; Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur; Inclusive Picture Book Challenge; 12 classic women authors 2025: 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" Tara (@onabranchreads): 2024: Giller Long List; Agatha Christie; Helen Humphreys 2025: Carol Shields Prize for Fiction; Agatha Christie; Helen Humphreys; weed physical TBR; read more short stories Mentioned: https://carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/ https://www.instagram.com/carolshieldsprize/ https://www.riverstreetwriting.com/ https://www.instagram.com/river_street_writes/…

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Our 2024 Top Ten Books 44:57

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As Rebecca and Tara close out 2024 and a great year of reading, they share their Top Ten list of books! Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): Ginny Ross Series by Heather Stemp: Amelia & Me; Under Amelia’s Wing; Beyond Amelia The Street by Ann Petry My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Sisters of the Spruce by Leslie Shimotakahara Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele Making Up the Gods by Marion Agnew Eleanor Courtown by Lucy E.M. Black James by Percival Everett Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain, and the Search for a Hidden Past Tara (@onabranchreads): Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast by John Vaillant Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper; The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan; Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder by Julia Zarankin I'm So Glad we Had This Time Together by Maurice Vellekoop My Body is Distant by Paige Maylott The Knowing by Tanya Talaga Coexistence by Billy-Ray Belcourt James by Percival Everett Followed by the Lark by Helen Humphreys All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whittaker Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo Rebecca and Tara want to thank all of you for listening to and supporting the podcast this past year or longer. They look forward to creating more fun and interesting content in 2025!…

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Book Chat 22 58:10

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Rebecca and Tara have lots of books to share since their last book chat! Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holliday The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain Skid Dogs by Emelia Symington-Fedy The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry The Pearl by John Steinbeck Passing by Nella Larsen Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit Tara (@onabranchreads): Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys My Body is Distant: A Memoir by Paige Maylott The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1 and 2: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island by Kent Monkman, Gisele Gordon I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself by Adelle Purdham All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby…

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Tara's Holiday Picks! 31:15

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Tara shares her holiday reading list! Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077 by Craig Davidson Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit Passing by Nella Larsen The Street by Ann Petry Tara (@onabranchreads): The Queen by Nick Cutter The Saturday Night Ghost Club; Rust and Bone: Stories by Craig Davidson The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict The Christmas Countdown by Holly Cassidy Author Hannah Mary McKinnon The Christmas Party by Karen Swan Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen…

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Top Canadian Authors Continued 41:55

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Rebecca and Tara shared their Top Ten Canadian Books of the 21st Century on YouTube Live on August 24, 2024 but decided they wanted to share additional authors and titles that they highly recommend. Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle): Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit The Pearl by John Steinbeck Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense; Driven: the Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers; Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers by Marcello Di Cintio The Lost Ones; In the Grip of It; It All Falls Down; No Going Back; Fight Like a Girl by Sheena Kamal The Red Chesterfield; Fall from Grace; A Killing Winter; Blood Red Summer; The Traitors of Camp 133 by Wayne Arthurson Tara (@onabranchreads): I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I Told Myself by Adelle Purdham The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict The Doctor's Sweetheart and Other Stories by L.M. Montgomery Fayne; Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald The Fionavar Tapestry series; The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay The Spoon Stealer; Nosy Parker by Lesley Crewe Fallsy Downsies by Stephanie Domet Hollay Ghadery Helen Humphreys…

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Book Chat #21 42:48

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