Talkingbooksandstuff's podcast Dennis Rimmer
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Dennis Rimmer is talking about books, and writing and stuff.
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Episode 260 - John M Gray
John MacLachlan Gray is a writer-composer-performer for the stage, film, television, radio and print. Dennis talks Mr. Good-Evening with John MacLachlan Gray. The case of the Fatal Flapper just won’t stay closed in this thrilling novel of 1920s Vancouver.
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Episode 259 - Brooke Lockyer
Brooke Lockyer holds a BA from Barnard College and an MA in English in the Field of Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. She was the winner of the 2009 Hart House Literary Contest and a co-recipient of both the Peter S. Prescott and the Lenore Marshall Barnard prizes for prose. Her work has been published in Toronto Life, carte blanche, the Hart House Review, White Wall Review and Geist. Born in Southwestern Ontario, she’s lived in rural Japan, New York City, Bristol and the Mojave Desert. Lockyer currently resides with her family in Toronto. Burr (Nightwood Editions) is her first book.
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Episode 258 - Amanda Swinimer
Amanda Swinimer’s deep love of the ocean brought her to the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada where she started her own business, Dakini Tidal Wilds, in 2003. For two decades, Amanda has been sustainably harvesting, by hand, wild, edible seaweeds. She shares her passion for the wild seaweeds of her coastline and their continued health with a diverse audience. Check out her book The Science & Spirit of Seaweed.
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Episode 257 - Deborah Kimmett
She is a regular on CBC’s Winnipeg Comedy Festival, CBC Debaters, LOL and is an accomplished author of four books, Reality is Overrated and That Which Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Funnier, and Out Running Crazy. Deb’s new book Window-shopping for God will be published in spring 2024. She was nominated twice for the National Magazine Award for Humour. As well, she has been shortlisted for the Governor-General Award for her play Miracle Mother in 1984.
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Episode 256 - Brent Butt
Brent Butt- known for Corner Gas, is with us today to talk about his book "Huge"