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 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.
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program (28 minutes)
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here.)
 April 13, 2008
This week on Bookmark, Winnipeg poet Mary
Murphy reads from her searing volume of poetry Shattered
Fanatics.
And we feature part two of a two-part interview with mountain
man, poet, author and musician Sid
Marty. This week, Sid talks about his new book The
Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek.
Listen to the
program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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Media Player. To install the latest player, click
here.)
 April 6, 2008
Bookmark talks with Sam
McKegney of Mount Royal College in Calgary, author
of a groundbreaking book entitled Magic Weapons: Aboriginal
Writers Remaking Community After Residential Schools.
And we present part one of a two-part interview with Pincher
Creek poet, author, singer-songwriter, environmental activist
and honest-to-God mountain main Sid
Marty. On this week’s program, Sid talks about a crusade
to protect an endangered area of southwestern Alberta wilderness
and call it Andy Russell Provincial Park.
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program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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Media Player. To install the latest player, click
here.)
 March 30, 2008
Bookmark has a word this week with Edmonton’s Doris Maron,
author of Untamed
Spirit, the story of her remarkable 3-year around-the-world
journey on a motorcycle.
And Calgary’s Glen
Dresser talks about his debut novel Correction
Road, the first draft of which was written during
a 3-day novel writing competition.
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program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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Media Player. To install the latest player, click
here.)
 March 23, 2008
This week on Bookmark, writer Ted
Ferguson talks about his new book Back
Roads, an account of his decision to leave his
stress-filled life in Vancouver for a quiet corner of northern
Alberta.
And we take a look at the Check Out the Writer!
rural writer-in-residence program, a partnership of the Writers
Guild of Alberta and the Library
Association of Alberta. Seven rural library systems in
Alberta currently have writers-in-residence through this program.
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program (28 minutes and 10 seconds)
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Media Player. To install the latest player, click
here.)
 March 16, 2008
Bookmark features an interview with award-winning Calgary
poet and novelist Roberta
Rees, discussing her first work of short fiction Long
After Fathers.
And we feature an interview with University of Alberta writer-in-residence
Rob
McLennan of Ottawa.
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program (28 minutes)
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here.)
 March 9, 2008
Bookmark talks with Kurdish writer Jalal
Barzanji, Edmonton’s first writer-in-exile, a man
targeted for death until he fled Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
We also feature an interview with John Weinstein,
author of Quiet
Revolution West: The Rebirth of Métis Nationalism.
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program (28 minutes)
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here.)
March 2, 2008
Bookmark interviews Mary-Ann Kirkby, author of I
Am Hutterite, the fascinating national best-seller
about one woman's account of her own growing up in a Hutterite
colony and her family's struggle to adapt to the outside world
when they left their community.
We also speak with David Finch, author of Pumped:
Everyone's Guide to the Oilpatch, the authoritative
guide to understanding Alberta's oil industry.
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program (28 minutes and 15 seconds)
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Media Player. To install the latest player, click
here.)
 February 24, 2008
Bookmark takes a closer look at the Alberta government’s
recently announced new
cultural policy and find out what’s in it for
Alberta literature. We’ll talk to writers, publishers,
librarians, politicians and analysts.
We’ll also feature part two of our two-part tribute
to one of Canada’s most famous authors - W.O.
Mitchell - on the eve of the 10th anniversary of his
death.
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program (28 minutes and 15 seconds)
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Media Player. To install the latest player, click
here.)
February 17, 2008
Bookmark interviews author Angie
Abdou of Cranbrook, BC, about her acclaimed debut
novel The Bone Cage published by Edmonton’s
NeWest
Press.
We also present part one of a two-part tribute to the late
great spiritual grandpappy of many an Alberta writer - W.O.
Mitchell - leading up to the 10th anniversary of his
passing.
Listen to the
program (28 minutes and 8 seconds)
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Media Player. To install the latest player, click
here.)
 February 10, 2008
Bookmark talks with Susan Scott, Calgary-based author
of All
Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada.
We also head over to the University
of Alberta Bookstore in Edmonton, head down into the
basement, and get a look at a weird contraption that can print
any book you want in about 4 minutes.
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program (28 minutes and 15 seconds)
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here.)
February 3, 2008
Bookmark talks to Michael
Kryton, Yardley
Jones and Spyder
Yardley-Jones, Edmonton-based artists, and illustrators
of the phenomenally best-selling Bachelor
Guides series of books.
We also put the spotlight on internationally acclaimed performance
poet Sheri-D
Wilson of Calgary. She talks about, among other things,
the new surrealist movie she’s just filmed on location
in Paris and the new book of poetry she has coming out this
spring.
Listen to the
program (28 minutes and 12 seconds)
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here.)
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