*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.   Book by Alan Hollinghurst The Sparsholt Affair The Stranger’s Child The Swimming-Pool Library The Line of Beauty Books by Dimitri Nasrallah The Bleeds Blackbodying ..read more

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.   Books by Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives Prelude to Bruise   Referenced in this interview and other related material The Works of Toni Morrison (Toni Mor ..read more

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Books by Abbi Jacobson I Might Regret This Books by Rachel Giese Boys: What it Means to Become a Man Referenced in this interview and other related material The Broad St ..read more

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.   Book by Sally Rooney Normal People Conversation with Friends Books by Sheila Heti Women in Clothes Motherhood How Should A Person Be? The Middle Stories Ticknor Bo ..read more

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.   Books by Robyn Doolittle Had It Coming : What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? Crazy Town : The Rob Ford Story   Books by Megan Towhey She Said: Breaking the Sexual ..read more

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long?Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Book by Barry Lopez Horizon Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory Outside: Six Short Stories Of ..read more

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.  Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.   Book by Emily Nussbaum I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution Books by Rachel Giese Boys: What it Means to Become a Man Books on TV mention ..read more

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.    Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.   Books by Benjamin Moser Sontag: Her Life and Work (ebook) Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (translated by Moser) (ebook) The ..read more

Portions of this episode contain dialogue in the Innu language. For reasons of length, we have shortened the portions in Innu for English speakers. The transcript for the episode is available here. If you would like to hear the episode with the full Innu language dialogue left intact, please click please click here (link to YouTube video - audio only). Unfortunately, we can't yet offer a transcript of the portions that are in the Innu language. *Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials ..read more

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