Live Mic Classic Books
by Toronto Public Library
Live Mic Classic Books features curated discussions that explore classic literature from a variety of perspectives, with some of the most important names in contemporary literature. Recorded for Toronto Public Library both virtually and in-person, these episodes offer fresh insights into timeless works.
Episodes
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Alan Hollinghurst: The Sparsholt Affair
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or...
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Saeed Jones: How We Fight for Our Lives
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or...
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Abbi Jacobson: I Might Regret This
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or...
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Sally Rooney: Normal People
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or...
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On Civil Society: #MeToo
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or...
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Barry Lopez: Surviving What’s Coming
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or...
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Emily Nussbaum: I Like to Watch
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or...
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Benjamin Moser: The Life of Susan Sontag
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or...
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Elizabeth Penashue: Diary of an Innu Elder
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…
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Phillipa K. Chong: Inside the Critics’ Circle
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:...
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Emanuele Coccia: Plants Make Us Human
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...
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The Chef’s Secret with Crystal King
Books by Crystal King The Chef’s Secret Feast of Sorrow: a Novel of Ancient Rome Books by Roberta Rich The Midwife of Venice The Harem Midwife Other Related Materials The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavours & Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City Here Let Us Feast: a...
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Yuri Herrera and Post-Apocalyptic Noir
Books by Yuri Herrera Signs Preceding the End of the World The Transmigration of Bodies Kingdom Cons Other Related Materials Twenty Questions with Yuri Herrera (opens a Times Literary Supplement article) Literature as Political Responsibility: an Interview with Yuri Herrera (opens a Latin…
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Vanessa Sasson and the Buddha’s Wife
Books by Vanessa Sasson Yasodhara: A Novel about the Buddha’s Wife Other Related Materials Stars at Dawn: Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha’s Life Eminent Buddhist Women Women and Asian Religions Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated...
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Ned Christie: Cherokee Outlaw or Hero?
Books by Devon Abbott Mihesuah Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero Recovering our Ancestor’s Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism Books and other related materials by Falen Johnson The…
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Bruce Pascoe: A “Truer” Aboriginal History
Books by Bruce Pascoe Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? The Little Red Yellow Black Book: an Introduction to Indigenous Australia Books by Kim Anderson A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood Life Stages and...
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree: Violence, Childhood and Escobar's Colombia
Related Books from TPL’s Collection Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras La fruta del borrachero by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (translation of Fruit of the Drunken Tree) Pablo Escobar: my Father by Sebastián Marroquín Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia by Tom Feiling...
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S2 Episode One - Will Aitken’s Antigone Undone: When Art Skewers Us Through
Books by Will Aitken Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove and the Art of Resistance Realia Death in Venice Books by Anne Carson (writer or translator) Antigone Antigonick Autobiography of Red: a Novel in Verse Float Other Related Materials Antigone by Slavoj Žižek Clouds…
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Episode Five: Canada Reads Indigenous: Cherie Dimaline, Tracey Lindberg and Katherena Vermette
Three of Canada’s best-loved writers talk about their experiences as Indigenous artists competing on Canada Reads. With Canada Reads host Ali Hassan, Dimaline (Marrow Thieves), Lindberg (Birdie), and Vermette (The Break) consider how their works have been received by the public in both positive…
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Episode Four: Tim Hague, Sr: Survive, Thrive and Accomplish More
The Amazing Race Canada season one winner (along with his son, Tim Hague, Jr.) talks about the ways his life has been a lottery of positive outcomes, despite being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at age 46. Born of a mixed-race couple who gave him up for adoption, he found joy and happiness…
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Episode Three: Jennifer Egan on Writing Historical Fiction
Listen as American writer, Jennifer Egan, talks to music and book journalist, Garvia Bailey, about the process of writing historical fiction and creating characters that are real and believable - whether they are a woman diver bucking conventions in 1920s New York (Manhattan Beach) or a 1980s…
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Episode Two: Marilynne Robinson and American Fear
Listen as novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson (one of Barack Obama’s favourite writers and author of the essay collection What Are We Doing Here?) talks to author and journalist, Rachel Giese (Boys: What It Means to Become a Man). This event was recorded on Wednesday, March 14 in the Toronto...
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Episode One: Cannabis and You
Cannabis. Pot. Marijuana. Whatever you call it, Canada called it legal on October 17, 2018. More and more, the topic is going to come up; at your place of work, your place of worship, your hangouts and most importantly, your home. Toronto Star has assembled dedicated journalists and outside…
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About this show
Live Mic Classic Books features curated discussions that explore classic literature from a variety of perspectives, with some of the most important names in contemporary literature. Recorded for Toronto Public Library both virtually and in-person, these episodes offer fresh insights into timeless works.
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