Joining us on our epic journey to the Helen of the West Indies and beyond is Richard French, a retired pastor and fiction writer from Toronto, as we discuss colonialism, identity, myth and history in Derek Walcott's Omeros, as well as the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and our upcoming book, A Permanent Member of the Family, by podcast favorite Russell Banks.Richards's website: http://www.rfrenchnovelist.com/A handy guide to Richard's published works: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/7234170.Richard_French