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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

Niko

If you like Alan Hollinghurst…

A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

Howards End by E.M. Forster

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

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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 Morrison)

Saeed Jones's Sensual Memoir of Race, Sex and Self-Invention   (article from the New Yorker)

The Works of Yusef Komunyakaa  (Yusuf Komunyakaa)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

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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 Strokes (Interview with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer in Grantland)

Broad City Is Ending. Be at Peace With That. The Creators Are. (NY Times Article)

Ilana Glazer Comedy Special, The Planet is Burning

The Genius of Broad City (article from The Guardian)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

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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

Books by authors Sheila talks about in this interview

The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry

Beatlebone by Kevin Barry

The Wig my Father Wore by Anne Enright

Actress by Anne Enright

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

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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 Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Other Related Materials

Unfounded: Why Police 1 in 5 Sexual Assault Claims as Baseless (Series from the Globe & Mail)

With Weinstein Conviction, Jury Delivers a Verdict on #MeToo  (Article from the NY Times)

A Year of Reckoning (Article from the NY Times)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. 

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

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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 Wolves and Men

Crow and Weasel

Resistance

Books by Alissa York

The Naturalist

Fauna

Effigy

Mercy

If you like Barry Lopez…

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West by John David Unruh

Dersu Uzala by Vladimir Arsenyev

The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica by Stephen J. Pyne

Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea by Anna Badkhen

Other Related Materials

How Climate Change has Influenced Travel Writing (article from The Atlantic)

Why the World Needs Barry Lopez (article from Outside Online)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. 

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

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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 mentioned in I Like To Watch

I’ll Be There for You: The One About Friends by Kelsey Miller

Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell

I Think I’m Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families by Carroll O’Connor

The Sopranos Sessions by Matt Zoller Seitz

Other Seminal Books on TV

TV (the book) by Alan Sepinwall

The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific by David Bianculli

Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes by Saul Austerlitz

Other Related Materials

I Love Top Ten Lists (article from The New Yorker)

Critic Emily Nussbaum on the charms of modern television-watching (article from Vox)

Critic Emily Nussbaum Weighs In on Best TV shows of the Decade (clip from NPR)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
 

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

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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 Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (edited by Moser) (ebook)

Books by Sheila Heti

Women in Clothes (ebook)

Motherhood (print book available when branches reopen)

“My Life is a Joke” (link opens a 2015 story by Heti in The New Yorker)

Materials by or about Susan Sontag

Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks (of Susan Sontag), 1964-1980

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

On the Eve of the Met Gala, Andrew Bolton Takes Vogue on a Walking Tour of “Camp: Notes on Fashion” (link opens a Vogue magazine article from May 2019)

Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA podcast 
A four-part Interview with Susan Sontag (can be listened to in any order)

Episode One: This God-Damned Celebrity Culture (23 mins)

Episode Two: The Little Illness Book (19 mins)

Episode Three: The Arts Give Humans Dignity (19 mins)

Episode Four: Make Something Better (19 mins)
 

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
 

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

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.

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Books by Tsaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue:

Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep The Land Alive

Books or Materials About Activism

When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir by PatrisseKhan-Cullors (audiobook) (ebook available here)

She Takes a Stand: 16 Fearless Activists Who Changed the World (ebook)

Indigenous Women, Work and History (ebook)

Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance by Allison Hargreaves (ebook)
 

Books or Other Materials about the Innu

Innu of Labrador (link opens an article on the Virtual Museum of Labrador)

Innu People: A History (link opens a Youtube video on Indigenous Americans)

Peoples: Innu (link opens an article on Circum-Arctic Gallery)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Book by Phillipa K. Chong

Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times

Books co-written by Johanna Schneller

Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable: How I Tried to Help the World's Most Notorious Mayor

Woman Enough: How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport

Kathryn Bigelow: interviews

Other Related Materials

7 of the Most Vicious Book Reviews  (article from Electric Literature)

Is Book Reviewing a Public Service or an Art? (article from the NY Times)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is byThe Worst Pop Band Ever

Book by Emanuele Coccia

The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture

Books by Adria Vasil

Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Products, Information and Service in Canada.

Ecoholic Body: Your Ultimate Earth Friendly Guide to Living Healthy and Looking Good.

Ecoholic Home: the Greenest, Cleanest and Most Energy-Efficient Information Under One (Canadian) Roof

Check out more about Adria and her work on her website.

Other Related Materials

What If Plants Were One of Us (link opens an article from The Nation)

Emanuele Coccia: philosophe de la métamorphose (link open a broadcast interview in French from France Culture)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.