In this literary podcast, we have a special holiday treat for you. It’s And to All a Good Night, HarperCollins
Canada’s lovely new holiday AudioBook. The collection includes readings and performances by George Stroumboulopoulos, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Sarah Harmer, and Gordon Pinsent. For the Prosecast, we’re happy to present Gordon Pinsent, reading Merry Christmas, by Stephen Leacock.
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This podcast is a brief excerpt of Gordon Pinsent reading Merry Christmas, by Stephen Leacock. It’s fromHarperCollins Canada’s new holiday AudioBook collection, And to All a Good Night.
In this edition of our literary podcast, we have a real event. Best-selling author, Wally Lamb, talks about his
new novel, The Hour I First Believed. This American epic follows the fortunes of Caelum Quirk, a failed husband and disenchanted teacher, as he tries to make sense of our 21st century world. It’s a landscape that features the Columbine massacre, damaged children, imprisoned women, and lost souls. Yet, amidst all this despair, hidden in a corner, Caelum also finds hope. I talked to Wally Lamb from his home in Connecticut.
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In this literary podcast, we hear from Francine Prose, talking about her new novel, Goldengrove. Prose is a
writer’s writer, but she’s also a reader’s writer. She has written fifteen novels, an impressive achievement by any measure. She’s also written the non-fiction book, Reading Like a Writer, a New York Times bestseller. She’s also the president of PEN American Center.
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In this episode of our literary podcast series, we talk to one of the star writers of historical fiction, 
Bernard Cornwell, about his latest novel, Azincourt. Many of us have heard of the famous battle, either from history class, or from Shakespeare’s Henry V, but I started our conversation by asking Bernard to give us a quick history lesson.
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In this literary podcast, I talk to Mo Hayder, Britain’s ‘Queen of Fear’. Mo has just completed Ritual, the first
in a new series of thrillers. This spine-chiller features Jack Caffery, a burnt-out, loner detective, running away from the skeletons in his closet. He finds himself in the middle of a gruesome mystery: Who belongs to a pair of severed hands? The hands in question are first discovered by police underwater diver, Flea Marley, who has secrets of her own to conceal. Caffery and Marley team up, only to find themselves in the middle of a world of drug addiction, ritual mutilation, and African medicine magic.
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In this literary podcast, we’ll hear from Michael Greenberg. Hurry Down Sunshine is Greenberg’s utterly
compelling new memoir about what happened one hot summer morning, when his 15 year old daughter, Sally, experienced a complete psychotic break.
Greenberg is a regular columnist for The Times Literary Supplement, and his fiction, criticism, and travel pieces have appeared in The Village Voice, O Magazine, and The Boston Review. Cathi Bond spoke to him from his home in New York City.
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In this literary podcast, Cathi Bond talks with Helen Humphreys. Her new novel, Coventry, is an 
astounding account of the night the Germans bombed the British manufacturing town. The story is told from the point of view of Harriet–a fortysomething widow who lost her husband during the First World War, and is still numbly walking the streets of Coventry, in a permanent state of emotional shell shock.
Maeve offers a completely different perspective. An only child of wealthy parents, Maeve has a child out of wedlock, and instead of opting for a respectful existence, she takes to the road with her baby boy, Jeremy, in tow, living a roving life. Weeks prior to the bombing, they’ve arrived in Coventry; Jeremy has taken a job in a factory. Maeve is along for love and support.
She decides to go to the pub to kill some time, while Jeremy takes his turn, walking the roof of Coventry Cathedral, watching for German planes. While he’s up there, he meets Harriet. It’s a beautiful night, full of brilliant light, casting what’s known as a ‘bomber’s moon’. Harriet sees something approaching. There is a flash of light and all hell breaks loose.
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This podcast features Tish Cohen, talking about her new novel, Inside Out Girl. Cohen already 
possesses an impressive pedigree. Her first novel, Town House, was snatched up by Ridley Scott’s production company, and the film is going to be directed by John Carney, the guy behind the indie smash, Once.
Now Cohen is back with Inside Out Girl, the riveting story of how two families collide when Rachel, a control-freak single Mom, pulls over to help out Len, a harried Dad who has blown out a tire. Love comes calling, but it’s a love that’s fraught with pain, joy, and plenty of unsuspected surprises.
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This time around, we’re talking to Brunonia Barry about her first novel, The Lace Reader. The novel has 
generated enormous buzz in the publishing world, because Barry decided on a grassroots approach to the business, and self-published. Word got out, the book took off like a rocket, and a bidding war ensued.
It’s no wonder everybody wanted a piece of this literary property. The Lace Reader is a supernatural thriller about Towner Whitney, a self-described “crazy woman”, who returns to Salem to find out what happened to her Great Aunt Eva. She’s the family’s eccentric matriarch, who has mysteriously vanished. Once home, Towner finds herself in the midst of a series of possible murders, a dangerous cult leader, and the horrors of a past she’s spent her life desperately trying to bury.
I spoke to Brunonia from her home in Salem, Mass.
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