Podcasts by Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations
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. Another season of Live Mic is currently in production and will be released in 2023.
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S2 Episode One - Will Aitken’s Antigone Undone: When Art Skewers Us Through from 2023-12-13T17:06:14.647699
Books by Will Aitken
Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, ...
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Yuri Herrera and Post-Apocalyptic Noir from 2023-12-13T17:06:14.602336
Books by Yuri Herrera
Emanuele Coccia: Plants Make Us Human from 2023-12-13T17:06:14.589930
Book by Emanuele Coccia
The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture...
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Phillipa K. Chong: Inside the Critics’ Circle from 2023-12-13T17:06:14.581750
Book by Phillipa K. Chong
Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in ...
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Elizabeth Penashue: Diary of an Innu Elder from 2023-12-13T17:06:14.575401
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
On Civil Society: #MeToo from 2023-12-13T17:06:14.566544
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Alan Hollinghurst: The Sparsholt Affair from 2020-06-27T18:11:55
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Saeed Jones: How We Fight for Our Lives from 2020-06-17T16:06:47
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Abbi Jacobson: I Might Regret This from 2020-06-10T13:26:07
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Sally Rooney: Normal People from 2020-05-20T21:02:03
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Barry Lopez: Surviving What’s Coming from 2020-04-28T16:04:16
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Emily Nussbaum: I Like to Watch from 2020-04-22T17:47:42
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Benjamin Moser: The Life of Susan Sontag from 2020-04-20T13:00:04
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The Chef’s Secret with Crystal King from 2020-01-16T23:01:07
Books by Crystal King
Vanessa Sasson and the Buddha’s Wife from 2019-12-30T17:23:58
Books by Vanessa Sasson
Ned Christie: Cherokee Outlaw or Hero? from 2019-12-17T23:39:12
Books by Devon Abbott Mihesuah
Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw a...
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Bruce Pascoe: A “Truer” Aboriginal History from 2019-12-13T14:13:05
Books by Bruce Pascoe
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Ag...
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree: Violence, Childhood and Escobar's Colombia from 2019-11-28T22:51:58
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree: Violence, Childhood and Escobar's Colombia from 2019-11-28T22:51:58
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Episode Five: Canada Reads Indigenous: Cherie Dimaline, Tracey Lindberg and Katherena Vermette from 2019-04-11T14:50
Three of Canada’s best-loved writers talk about their experiences as Indigenous artists competing on Canada Reads. With Canada Reads host Ali Hassan, Dimaline (Marrow Thieves), Lindberg (Birdie)...
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Episode Four: Tim Hague, Sr: Survive, Thrive and Accomplish More from 2019-03-14T18:31
The Amazing Race Canada season one winner (along with his son, Tim Hague, Jr.) talks about the ways his life has been a lottery of positive outcomes, despite being diagnosed with Parkinson’s dis...
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Episode Three: Jennifer Egan on Writing Historical Fiction from 2019-02-14T14:28
Listen as American writer, Jennifer Egan, talks to music and book journalist, Garvia Bailey, about the process of writing historical fiction and creating characters that are real and believable ...
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Episode Two: Marilynne Robinson and American Fear from 2019-01-10T17:15
Listen as novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson (one of Barack Obama’s favourite writers and author of the essay collection What Are We Doing Here?) talks to author and journalist, Rachel Gie...
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Episode One: Cannabis and You from 2018-12-13T22:08
Cannabis. Pot. Marijuana. Whatever you call it, Canada called it legal on October 17, 2018. More and more, the topic is going to come up; at your place of work, your place of worship, your hango...
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