In Episode 179, Gen and Jette team up with one of their favourite indie publishers, House of Anansi Press. We’re reading the newly released English translation of The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki. This one broke our hearts. Show Notes Ryad Assani-Razaki is a Beninese-Canadian writer and The Hand …
In Episode 156, we’ve teamed up with one of our favourite indie publishers, House of Anansi Press, to read the short story collection Who Will Bury You? Written by Zimbabwean author Chido Muchemwa, the stories take place across generations, in Toronto and Zimbabwe, and grapple with loss, family, and the …
In Episode 128, Gen and Jette team up with one of their favourite local publishers, House of Anansi Press, to read The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird. It’s the second book of poetry for the pod and we absolutely loved it. Show Notes House of Anansi’s namesake comes from …
In Episode 97, Gen and Jette collaborate with one of their favourite Toronto indie publishers, House of Anansi, to give you a preview of one of their upcoming new releases, A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm. This memoir chronicles Chisholm’s time in Paris, scraping out a living in a …
In Episode 70, Gen and Jette team up again with one of their favourite Toronto publishers, House of Anansi Press. This time we’re reading A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie, the sequel to Autopsy of a Boring Wife, which we talked about all the way back in …
In Episode 43 Gen and Jette interview Sidura Ludwig and chat about her new collection of short stories. You Are Not What We Expected offers an intimate portrait of a Toronto Jewish community in these interconnected stories. Ludwig paints a vivid picture of love, loss, hope, and disappointment. We loved …
In Episode 39 Gen and Jette discuss two House of Anansi new releases. We chat about Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger and Pallbearing by Michael Melgaard. Coming Up for Air follow three stories in different eras and countries–a young woman in present-day Canada with cystic fibrosis, a man …
In Episode 20 Gen and Jette team up with House of Anansi Press to discuss two of their 2019 Spring books: Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renee Lavoie and Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin. Autopsy of a Boring Wife, translated from French by Arielle Aaronson, is like a Québécois …
