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June 26, 2011
This is the final show of the fourth season of Bookmark. We will feature the best Bookmark shows of the past season in the same time slot over the summer. On this week’s show, we feature a conversation with Afghanistan member of parliament Fawzia Koofi, a courageous woman who plans to run for the presidency in 2014. We talk about her book Letters to My Daughters: A Memoir. Listen to the programSubscribe to the podcast feed
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June 12, 2011
On Bookmark this week, environmental journalist Hanneke Brooymans of Edmonton talks about her disturbing and insightful new book Water in Canada: A Resource in Crisis, published by Lone Pine Publishing of Edmonton, a book hailed by such readers as David Suzuki and Maude Barlow. We also talk with author and educator Gail Sidonie Sobat of Edmonton about her new book for teenagers entitled Chance to Dance for You, which tells the story of a young gay man trying to survive in a suburban city highschool. Listen to the programSubscribe to the podcast feed
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May 22, 2011
This week on Bookmark, we talk with the five champions defending the final five books in the running for this year's $10,000 Alberta Readers' Choice Award. And Toronto author Kirsten den Hartog discusses her new novel And Me Among Them, published this spring by Freehand Books of Calgary. Listen to the programSubscribe to the podcast feed
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May 8, 2011
Budding mystery writer Wayne Arthurson of Edmonton landed a big one when he went to New York and was given a two-book deal from publishing giant MacMillan. Bookmark talks to Wayne about the first of those two novels, Fall From Grace. Freehand Books of Calgary recently launched its Spring 2011 collection – three volumes, among them Ian Williams’ edgy set of short stories entitled Not Anyone’s Anything. Ian Williams joins us to talk about his work. Listen to the programSubscribe to the podcast feed
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March 6, 2011
Bookmark interviews Calgary writer Susan Calder about her first novel, a murder mystery called Deadly Fall, just about to be released by Touchwood Editions. We also talk with University of Alberta professor Roxanne Harde about the book she co-edited called Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of Bruce Springsteen. Listen to the programSubscribe to the podcast feed
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February 27, 2011
This week on Bookmark, an interview with an Irish student who fell in love with skiing and snowboarding in the Kootenay Mountains and abandoned her academic studies for a few years to be a ski bum in BC. Now in New Zealand getting a Ph.D. in English, Lisa McGonigle talks with us about her white powder memoir Snowdrift, published by Oolichan Books. Also on Bookmark, Edmonton first-time novelist Sheree Zielke talks about her big bold book Martha's Vine, a future landscape in which biker gangs and survivalists battle it out in post-apocalyptic Alberta. Listen to the programSubscribe to the podcast feed
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February 20, 2011
Calgary author Gordon Laird discusses his book The Price of A Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization, published by McClelland and Stewart. Bookmark also features a conversation with Calgary children's author Maureen Bush about her book Cursed!. Listen to the programSubscribe to the podcast feed
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February 6, 2011
Bookmark talks to a leading world scholar on modern Islam, Dr. Ibrahim Abu-Rabi’, about his new book The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam, published by University of Alberta Press. This book provides important insight into the complexity and challenges facing Muslim countries and communities around the world. We also feature an interview with JoAnn McCaig, owner of Calgary’s newest independent bookstore, Shelf Life Books.
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January 23, 2011
This week on Bookmark, we speak with painter, photographer and author Peter Dettling about his book Will of the Land, a strong attack on today’s Rocky Mountain Parks system.
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January 16, 2011
Bookmark talks with this year’s Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writer at the University of Calgary, Oana Avasilichioaei. And we also enjoy conversation with the founding editor and publisher of the late Legacy magazine, Barb Dacks, about a new book entitled Alberta Encore, celebrating the arts and culture in Alberta has expressed through the years in Legacy.
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January 9, 2011
On this week's show, Calgary book reviewer Alec Rettie joins us with his fave book picks for the new year. And we talk with Edmonton filmmaker and author Geo Takach about his new book, Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?
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December 26, 2010
This week on Bookmark, Calgary writer Ken Cameron talks about his newly-published trilogy entitled Harvest and Other Plays, published by NeWest Press of Edmonton. We also feature a conversation with Northern Alberta writer Beverly Lein about her new book, just in time for the festive season, entitled The Three Saints of Christmas.
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December 12, 2010
Canada's leading writer of creative non-fiction, Myrna
Kostash, joins us on Bookmark to discuss her newest work Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium. We also talk with acclaimed Calgary photographer George Webber about his intriguing collection of photographs about Calgary's notorious East Village, published in a book entitled Last Call.
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December 5, 2010
On this edition of Bookmark, we present part two of our two-part interview with acclaimed Alberta writer Rudy Weibe,
in which he discusses the changes he's seen in the western Canadian
literary landscape over the past 40 years. We also talk with High
Arctic explorer, writer and photographer Jerry Kobalenko about his new book Arctic Eden.
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November 28, 2010
Bookmark features one of a two-part interview with one of Alberta's great writers, Rudy Wiebe, talking about his newest volume Rudy Wiebe Collected Stories
1955-2010. Also on the program, provincial court judge John Reilly discusses the shocking revelations about the quality of justice on Canadian First Nations reserves found in his book Bad
Medicine.
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November 14, 2010
Writer, editor and professional journalist Lawrence Scanlan
recently spent a year volunteering his time and effort to 12 different
Canadian charitable organizations, to gain a deeper, personal
understanding of volunteerism, philanthropy and charity. He talks to
Bookmark about one of the results of that year: a new book entitled A Year of Living Generously. We also speak with accomplished Calgary poet and author Weyman Chan about his new volume of poetry, Hypoderm.
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November 7, 2010
Two award-winning writers based in Edmonton, Lynn Coady and Curtis Gillespie,
have joined forces to launch a new magazine they hope to make Canada’s
version of the New Yorker. Coady and Gillespie join Bookmark to talk
about Eighteen Bridges. Also on the program, Calgary Herald columnist Val Fortney discusses her new book Sunray: The Death and Life of Nichola Goddard.
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October 10, 2010
This week on Bookmark, a conversation with best-selling Toronto author Alissa York about her new novel Fauna, published by Random House Canada. Fauna is set in a Toronto autowrecker's yard that has become a haven for animals and the human wounded, in a tale of love and menace.
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October 3, 2010
Edmonton novelist Thomas Trofimuk has just returned from a book tour of Great Britain, where his latest published novel, Waiting for Columbus, is a 2010 pick of the immensely popular Richard and Judy Book Club. He'll join Bookmark to talk about Jolly Old and the renewed buzz in the Hollywood film community regarding his book.
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September 19, 2010
Much-acclaimed poet and novelist Tim Bowling, a one-time Gill-netter born and raised on the Fraser River, has been appointed this year's writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta. He joins us to talk about his work and his life. And Calgary author Gordon Cope joins us to talk about his new book, A Thames Moment, published by Rocky Mountain Books.
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September 12, 2010
This week, Bookmark features a conversation with Anne Green, the influential founder and General Director of the internationally acclaimed WordFest, held each October in Calgary and Banff. David and Jordan Stouck talk about their freshly published collection of letters from literary genius James Sinclair Ross entitled Collecting Stamps Would Have Been More Fun.
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