In “Vancouver Biotech Startup Launches World’s First Book Pill,” the eighth and final podcast in the debut series of 128 Sterling, host Noah Richler reveals details of the development and testing of a revolutionary new platform for literature,

Episode 7: Friends & Frauds

Dec 12th, 2016 31m 17s

Noah Richler talks to Walter Kirn about Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (a.k.a. Clark Rockefeller), imposter and convicted murder, and subject of Walt’s book Blood Will Out. Noah also speaks to Katherena Vermette about the people, places, and sto

Episode 6: School's In

Nov 24th, 2016 34m 44s

In “School’s In,” host Noah Richler talks to publisher Sarah MacLachlan; Sunday Times columnist Lynn Barber, author of the acclaimed memoir (and movie), An Education; Russian-American graphic illustrator Dasha Tolstikova about her memoir, A Yea

Episode 5: Anthology of Lost Things

Nov 13th, 2016 32m 33s

In this month of the American elections and literary contests, Noah Richler presents an anthology of lost things from fights to old ways and mystery itself, with original contributions by Gary Barwin, Craig Davidson, Andray Domise, Kevin Patter

Episode 4: It Could Happen Here

Nov 3rd, 2016 36m 23s

Authors Guy Vanderhaeghe, David Frum, and Walter Kirn discuss the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election with Noah Richler by examining the two candidates as they relate to Jack London's "The Iron Heel," Robert Penn Warren’s "All the King's Men,"

Episode 3: A Foot in Two Worlds

Oct 28th, 2016 37m 9s

Noah Richler talks to Anosh Irani, whose novel The Parcel has been nominated for the Governor-General's and Writers' Trust Awards; to Teva Harrison, author of In-Between Days, a memoir of her cancer in words and pictures; and to Patti Laboucane

Episode 2: How Many People do you Have to Know?

Oct 20th, 2016 29m 52s

Noah Richler and Christy Ann Conlin discuss the challenges and pleasures of being a writer in rural Canada — away from the city and cosmopolitan centres. How many people, really, does a writer have to know? Christy Ann Conlin also reads from he

Episode 1: Three for TV

Oct 13th, 2016 30m 32s

In the premiere of 128 Sterling, host Noah Richler asks film producer Nicholas Rose and authors Marina Endicott and Alain Farah, "what is the Great Canadian Book or Novel that will make a great and distinctively Canadian TV miniseries or film?"

128 Sterling Trailer

Oct 5th, 2016 2m 41s

In 128 Sterling, author and broadcaster Noah Richler looks to fellow writers in Canada and abroad to explain not themselves, but the world as it is — the circus of the American election, the perils and punishments of school, the appeal of impos

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