In Episode 122, Gen and Jette keep up their CanCon with a discussion of Canadian authors.
Show Notes
If you're unfamiliar with CanCon, it's the stipulation that all Canadian media contain a certain percentage of content produced, written, etc. by Canadians.
It turns out we have a lot of episodes about books by Canadian authors (though not 35% as dictated by CanCon...we're working on it LOL). Find them all listed below.
Listen to the CBC Massey Lectures for free on the CBC Radio website
Alicia Elliot's new novel, And Then She Fell, is expected September 26.
Anne Michael's new novel, Held, is expected November 9.
Should we do an episode on Marian Engle's Bear?
We did our best to list everything we talked about below, but it's very likely that we left something out since we talked about a lot. (Buckle in, she's a long one)
Our next episode we'll be talking about Tegan and Sara's new graphic novel, Junior High (more CanCon!)
Books & Authors Mentioned
Robert Munsch
Fiona Staples (Saga)
Chip Zdarsky (Sex Criminals)
Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer)
Margaret Atwood
Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers)
Carol Shields (The Stone Diaries)
Margaret Laurence (The Stone Angel)
L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
Roberston Davies
Alice Munro
Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang)
Lawrence Hill (The Book of Negroes)
Yann Martel (Life of Pie)
Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)
Miriam Toews (A Complicated Kindness, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows)
Esi Edugyan (Hald-Blood Blues, Washington Black)
Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, Sea of Tranqulity)
Courtney Summers (Sadie, The Project)
Silvia-Moreno Garcia (Mexican Gothic, Certain Dark Things, Velvet Was the Night, Silver Nitrate)
Madeleine Thein (Do Not Say We Have Nothing)
Anne Michaels (Fugitive Pieces)
Marian Engle (Bear)
Douglas Coupland (Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma, Hey Nostradamus, All Families Are Psychotic, Terry, Microserfs)
Episodes with Canadian Authors & Books
10: Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey
20: House of Anansi Press 2019 Spring Books (Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renée Lavoie & Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin)
25: Sadie by Courtney Summers
26: Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier
36: Disfigured by Amanda Leduc
39: House of Anansi New Releases (Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger &
Pallbearing Stories by Michael Melgaard)
42: The Shale Project (Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver & The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen)
43: You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig
50: From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
51: Coach House Books 2021 Fall Releases (Imago Stage by Karoline Georges & Fauna by Christiane Vadnais)
59: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
62: Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne
70: A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie
74: And Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier
82: Pegamoose Press
88: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
92: Interview with Stephanie Cooke

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