*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Book by Alan HollinghurstThe Sparsholt AffairThe Stranger’s ChildThe Swimming-Pool LibraryThe Line of BeautyBooks by Dimitri NasrallahThe BleedsBlackbodyingNikoIf you like Alan Hollinghurst…A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund WhiteIn Patagonia by Bruce ChatwinHowards End by E.M. Forster Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever. 

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations

Alan Hollinghurst: The Sparsholt Affair

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Books by Saeed JonesHow We Fight for Our LivesPrelude to Bruise Referenced in this interview and other related materialThe Works of Toni Morrison (Toni Morrison)Saeed Jones's Sensual Memoir of Race, Sex and Self-Invention   (article from the New Yorker)The Works of Yusef Komunyakaa  (Yusuf Komunyakaa)Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Saeed Jones: How We Fight for Our Lives

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.Books by Abbi JacobsonI Might Regret ThisBooks by Rachel GieseBoys: What it Means to Become a ManReferenced in this interview and other related materialThe Broad Strokes (Interview with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer in Grantland)Broad City Is Ending. Be at Peace With That. The Creators Are. (NY Times Article)Ilana Glazer Comedy Special, The Planet is BurningThe Genius of Broad City (article from The Guardian) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever. 

Abbi Jacobson: I Might Regret This

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Book by Sally RooneyNormal PeopleConversation with FriendsBooks by Sheila HetiWomen in ClothesMotherhoodHow Should A Person Be?The Middle StoriesTicknorBooks by authors Sheila talks about in this interviewThe Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerneyNight Boat to Tangier by Kevin BarryBeatlebone by Kevin BarryThe Wig my Father Wore by Anne EnrightActress by Anne EnrightBrooklyn by Colm TóibínNora Webster by Colm Tóibín Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Sally Rooney: Normal People

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Books by Robyn DoolittleHad It Coming : What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo?Crazy Town : The Rob Ford Story Books by Megan TowheyShe Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement Other Related MaterialsUnfounded: Why Police 1 in 5 Sexual Assault Claims as Baseless (Series from the Globe & Mail)With Weinstein Conviction, Jury Delivers a Verdict on #MeToo  (Article from the NY Times)A Year of Reckoning (Article from the NY Times) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

On Civil Society: #MeToo

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long?Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.Book by Barry LopezHorizonArctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern LandscapeAbout This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of MemoryOutside: Six Short StoriesOf Wolves and MenCrow and WeaselResistance Books by Alissa YorkThe NaturalistFaunaEffigyMercy If you like Barry Lopez…Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy SnyderThe Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West by John David UnruhDersu Uzala by Vladimir ArsenyevThe Ice: A Journey to Antarctica by Stephen J. PyneFisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea by Anna Badkhen Other Related MaterialsHow Climate Change has Influenced Travel Writing (article from The Atlantic)Why the World Needs Barry Lopez (article from Outside Online) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Barry Lopez: Surviving What’s Coming

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Book by Emily NussbaumI Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV RevolutionBooks by Rachel GieseBoys: What it Means to Become a ManBooks on TV mentioned in I Like To WatchI’ll Be There for You: The One About Friends by Kelsey MillerSex and the City by Candace BushnellI Think I’m Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families by Carroll O’ConnorThe Sopranos Sessions by Matt Zoller SeitzOther Seminal Books on TVTV (the book) by Alan SepinwallThe Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific by David BianculliSitcom: A History in 24 Episodes by Saul AusterlitzOther Related MaterialsI Love Top Ten Lists (article from The New Yorker)Critic Emily Nussbaum on the charms of modern television-watching (article from Vox)Critic Emily Nussbaum Weighs In on Best TV shows of the Decade (clip from NPR)Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Emily Nussbaum: I Like to Watch

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.  Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Books by Benjamin MoserSontag: Her Life and Work (ebook)Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (translated by Moser) (ebook)The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (edited by Moser) (ebook) Books by Sheila HetiWomen in Clothes (ebook)Motherhood (print book available when branches reopen)“My Life is a Joke” (link opens a 2015 story by Heti in The New Yorker) Materials by or about Susan SontagDebriefing: Collected Stories by Susan SontagAs Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks (of Susan Sontag), 1964-1980Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan SontagOn the Eve of the Met Gala, Andrew Bolton Takes Vogue on a Walking Tour of “Camp: Notes on Fashion” (link opens a Vogue magazine article from May 2019) Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA podcast A four-part Interview with Susan Sontag (can be listened to in any order)Episode One: This God-Damned Celebrity Culture (23 mins)Episode Two: The Little Illness Book (19 mins)Episode Three: The Arts Give Humans Dignity (19 mins)Episode Four: Make Something Better (19 mins) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Benjamin Moser: The Life of Susan Sontag

Portions of this episode contain dialogue in the Innu language. For reasons of length, we have shortened the portions in Innu for English speakers. The transcript for the episode is available here.If you would like to hear the episode with the full Innu language dialogue left intact, please click please click here (link to YouTube video - audio only). Unfortunately, we can't yet offer a transcript of the portions that are in the Innu language.*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. All TPL print and other in-branch materials will be available once we re-open and are operating under normal conditions. Books by Tsaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue:Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep The Land Alive Books or Materials About ActivismWhen They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir by PatrisseKhan-Cullors (audiobook) (ebook available here)She Takes a Stand: 16 Fearless Activists Who Changed the World (ebook)Indigenous Women, Work and History (ebook)Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance by Allison Hargreaves (ebook) Books or Other Materials about the InnuInnu of Labrador (link opens an article on the Virtual Museum of Labrador)Innu People: A History (link opens a Youtube video on Indigenous Americans)Peoples: Innu (link opens an article on Circum-Arctic Gallery)Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever. 

Elizabeth Penashue: Diary of an Innu Elder

Book by Phillipa K. ChongInside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times Books co-written by Johanna SchnellerMayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable: How I Tried to Help the World's Most Notorious MayorWoman Enough: How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of SportKathryn Bigelow: interviewsOther Related Materials7 of the Most Vicious Book Reviews  (article from Electric Literature)Is Book Reviewing a Public Service or an Art? (article from the NY Times) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is byThe Worst Pop Band Ever

Phillipa K. Chong: Inside the Critics’ Circle

Book by Emanuele CocciaThe Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture Books by Adria VasilEcoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Products, Information and Service in Canada.Ecoholic Body: Your Ultimate Earth Friendly Guide to Living Healthy and Looking Good.Ecoholic Home: the Greenest, Cleanest and Most Energy-Efficient Information Under One (Canadian) RoofCheck out more about Adria and her work on her website.  Other Related MaterialsWhat If Plants Were One of Us (link opens an article from The Nation)Emanuele Coccia: philosophe de la métamorphose (link open a broadcast interview in French from France Culture) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever. 

Emanuele Coccia: Plants Make Us Human

Books by Crystal KingThe Chef’s SecretFeast of Sorrow: a Novel of Ancient Rome Books by Roberta RichThe Midwife of VeniceThe Harem Midwife Other Related MaterialsThe Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniTasting Rome: Fresh Flavours & Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient CityHere Let Us Feast: a Book of BanquetsCooking for the Pope: Bartolomeo Scappi, the Renaissance’s Most Innovative Chef, Revolutionized the Culinary Arts (link opens Paris Review article) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

The Chef’s Secret with Crystal King

Books by Yuri HerreraSigns Preceding the End of the WorldThe Transmigration of BodiesKingdom Cons Other Related MaterialsTwenty Questions with Yuri Herrera (opens a Times Literary Supplement article)Literature as Political Responsibility: an Interview with Yuri Herrera (opens a Latin American Literature Today article)A Narco-History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly CreatedA Concise History of Mexico Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

Yuri Herrera and Post-Apocalyptic Noir

Books by Vanessa SassonYasodhara: A Novel about the Buddha’s Wife Other Related MaterialsStars at Dawn: Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha’s LifeEminent Buddhist WomenWomen and Asian Religions Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. 

Vanessa Sasson and the Buddha’s Wife

Books by Devon Abbott MihesuahNed Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee HeroRecovering our Ancestor’s Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and FitnessIndigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism Books and other related materials by Falen JohnsonThe Secret Life of Canada: a Podcast seriesSalt BabyIndian Act: Residential School Plays Other Related MaterialsLeadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation: Learn from All I ObserveCherokee: an Independent NationBeginning Cherokee (learning the language of the Cherokee; multi-media materials)Sequoyah and the Invention of the Cherokee Alphabet Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. 

Ned Christie: Cherokee Outlaw or Hero?

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.

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Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations

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