Bookmark

Bookmark is a new program dedicated to exploring the Alberta literary scene.

Non-fiction exposés, spellbinding mysteries, performance poets and poets-laureate, authors, booksellers, publishers - we will encompass all things literary and "of-the-book" as they may emerge in Alberta. Tune in for feature readings, interviews, book reviews, round-table discussions on contemporary literary and social issues, Alberta best-seller lists and just about anything else that seems just too good to leave out!

Bookmark is hosted by broadcaster, journalist and book publishing executive Ken Davis.

Bookmark airs Sundays from 12:30-1pm

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Please send comments or inquiries to bookmark@ckua.com.

The Canadian Authors Association is holding its CanWrite! National Conference in Edmonton, July 3-6, 2008. Bookmark host Ken Davis will moderate one of the forums. For more information visit canauthorsalberta.ca/CanWrite.

Upcoming Features and Author Interviews

May 11, 2008

Bookmark talks with Edmonton author Peter Boer about his book Wrongfully Convicted, about Canadians sentenced to prison for crimes they did not commit.

And we visit with author Jason Brink and artist Jim Westergard, both of Red Deer, about their deliciously dark new work of so-called "punch fiction" entitled Fly on the Wall.

May 18, 2008

Bookmark features an in-depth interview with Padma Viswanathan, author of the acclaimed debut novel The Toss of a Lemon. Padma, who grew up in St. Albert, Alberta, but now makes her home in Arkansas, is the 2008 New Face of Fiction author for Random House Canada.

May 25, 2008

Canadian nationalist extraordinaire Mel Hurtig recently returned to Alberta to promote his new book The Truth About Canada and, of course, dropped into Bookmark's studios for a chat.

We also feature an interview with Edmonton poet Alice Major about a major new work, the extended narrative poem The Office Tower Tales.

June 1, 2008

Bookmark features interviews with author William Neil Scott, about his new book Wonderfull and the fictional town of Garfax...as well as with Thomas Wharton, the acclaimed Alberta author of such award-winning novels as Icefields and Salamander.

June 8, 2008

On Bookmark this week, we feature a conversation with a retired school teacher from rural Alberta who has been called the "Lucy Maud Montgomery of the Prairies." Ardith Trudzik is author of two books, Freckles and Core of My Apple and is working on a third book in the series. Ardith took up writing at the age of 73, telling the story of her childhood growing up in poverty on a farm in rural Alberta during World War II.

We also sit down with Carl Honoré, the Edmonton-raised author of the best-selling book In Praise of Slowness. Honoré has a new book out entitled Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting.

June 15, 2008

The Canadian Authors Association is holding its national conference in Edmonton in July. On this week's show, Bookmark features a round-table interview with organizers and writers from the C.A.A.

June 22, 2008

Bookmark talks with Regina lawyer turned author Garrett Wilson, about his epic account of the end of the Old West in the 1870s, a book entitled Frontier Farewell.