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Since the podcast began, Rebecca has wanted to interview an editor to better understand their role in working with authors.  On today's episode, she chats with author, editor, and publisher Lee D. Thompson.
Lee was born and raised in Moncton, New Brunswick and has had fiction published in five anthologies and in more than a dozen literary journals across Canada and the US. His most recent novel, Apastoral: A Mistopia, was published last year and won the fiction prize at the 2022 New Brunswick Book Awards.
When not writing, Lee is a busy editor and book designer and is the publisher and founder of Galleon Books, a small literary publishing house  
https://leedthompson.blog/
X: @lee_thomp
 
 

Rebecca and Tara combine two great Christmas-related subjects. 
First, an interview with Canadian author and storyteller extraordinaire Jeremy John (@jjjeremyjohn)!
Robert’s Hill (Or the Time I Pooped My Snowsuit) and Other Christmas Stories
The Strange Grave of Mikey Dunbar: and Other Stories to Make You Poop Your Pants
The Death Swing at Falcon Lake: and S'more Summer Stories to Make You Poop Your Pants (available May 2024)
Second, Tara (@onabranchreads) shares her recommended Christmas or winter books for the upcoming season!
Three Holidays and a Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley
The Holiday Match by Tori Samuels
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
All I Want for Christmas; The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox
Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli
 

Rebecca and Tara celebrate Non-Fiction November by sharing some of their highly anticipated non-fiction reads!
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Skid Dogs by Emelia Symington-Fedy
Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s by Gary Gulman
Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall 
Green Book (film) starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and and Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center https://freedomcenter.org/
Tara (@onabranchreads):
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami by Linden MacIntyre
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery by Harrison Mooney
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic BIrds by Jennifer Ackerman
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Transister: Raising Twins in a Gender-Bending World by Kate Brookes
Fifteen Thousand Pieces by Gina Leola Woolsey
Canada Reads American Style is now an affiliate of Bookshop.org, where your purchases support local independent bookstores.  Our curated shop includes books discussed on the podcast.  When you purchase a book through our virtual bookshop, a portion of the sales benefits a local bookstore, as well as the podcast, which helps offset the costs of the show. 

Tara is excited to welcome Jerrod Edson to discuss his latest book, The Boulevard. 
Jerrod was born in St. John, New Brunswick and raised in the  Kennebecasis Valley of southern New Brunswick.  He graduated from Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, with a BA in English lit and history, studied journalism at Sheridan College, Oakville, ON, and received his teaching degree in 2007 from York University, Toronto, ON.
Jerrod received the David Adams Richards Prize for Fiction for his book The Moon is Real (2016) and his novel The Goon (2010) was shortlisted for the ReLit Award.  His sixth novel The Boulevard was published by Galleon Publishing in May 2023.
Paintings mentioned in The Boulevard are listed in order on Jerrod's blog: https://jerrodedson.blogspot.com/2022/03/some-paintings-mentioned-in-boulevard.html
Jerrod is currently reading: Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella and The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey.
Instagram: @jerrodedson99
 

Rebecca and Tara share their favorite podcasts and YouTube content creators.
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
Currently reading: The Boulevard by Jerrod Edson
NPR's Book of the Day (pod) 
NYT-The Book Review (pod)
What're You Reading w/Kyle Johnson (pod)
Book Cougars (YT)
Bookworm Adventure Girl (YT)
ThePoptimist (YT)
Tara (@onabranchreads):
Currently reading: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Next Chapter (CBC pod)
What Should I Read Next? (pod)
The Currently Reading Podcast (pod)
Book Cougars Podcast (pod)
Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe (pod)
Levar Burton Reads (pod)
My Dad Wrote a Porno (pod)
 

Rebecca and Tara discuss their latest reads in Book Chat #12.
Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):
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A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Sorrow's Knot by Erin Bow
A Quality of Light by Richard Wagamese
Aesop's Fables
Where the Falcon Flies by Adam Shoalts
Shelterbelts by Jonathan Dyck (WFPBC is Nov. 1, 2023 at 7:00pm CT)
To sign up for the Winnipeg Free Press Book Club https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/book-club
Tara (@onabranchreads):
The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami by Linden MacIntyre
Birnum Wood by Eleanor Catton
Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
 
Canada Reads American Style is now an affiliate of Bookshop.org, where your purchases support local independent bookstores.  Our curated shop includes books discussed on the podcast.  When you purchase a book through our virtual bookshop, a portion of the sales benefits a local bookstore, as well as the podcast, which helps offset the costs of the show.