Glass Bookshop Radio
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago -The official podcast of Edmonton's Glass Bookshop. Tune in for interviews with our favourite writers, publishers, and readers.
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Episodes
Episode 08: James Lindsay
February 05, 2021 07:01 - 43 minutes - 79.2 MBIn this episode we hear from poet James Lindsay, author of DOUBLE SELF-PORTRAIT and OUR INLAND SEA, about writing, reading, and psychoanalysis.
Episode 07: David Ross
January 15, 2021 16:25 - 1 hour - 116 MBIn this episode, Jason ask David Ross how he started his career as an editor, he shares what he thinks an editor’s most important role is, we talk about his impressive and important book list that features so many queer writers of colour and about what it means to be a white editor working on these books. David Ross works at Penguin Canada, where he acquires and edits memoir and fiction from underrepresented voices, with a particular focus on the queer community. Titles on his list...
Episode 06: C.E. Gatchalian & Berend McKenzie
December 11, 2020 07:09 - 1 hour - 129 MBA conversation between C. E. Gatchalian and Berend McKenzie that explores each other’s recent projects and their attendant concerns: queerness, brownness and white supremacy, theatre, and art. This recording comes out of what we hoped would have been an in-person event to celebrate Gatchelian’s book DOUBLE MELANCHOLY, published by Arsenal Pulp Press, planned in the days before covid, but done virtually now instead and preserved here.
Episode 05: Brandon Wint & Titilope Sonuga
November 27, 2020 23:43 - 49 minutes - 91.2 MBTitilope Sonuga interviews Brandon Wint about his debut poetry collection, DIVINE ANIMAL.
Episode 04: Cicely Belle Blain & Makda Mulatu
November 13, 2020 07:16 - 48 minutes - 89.6 MBPoet and Glass Bookshop Radio podcast producer Makda Mulatu interviews Cicely Belle Blain about their debut poetry collection Burning Sugar, published by VS. Books and Arsenal Pulp Press. It is Cicely Belle Blain’s debut poetry collection wherein they revisit spaces of geography, art, and personal history to expose the legacy of colonization and its impact on Black bodies. Their poetry and their activist work speak to one another: this collection exposes racism, especially anti-Blac...
Episode 03: jaye simpson & Emily Riddle
October 30, 2020 06:01 - 48 minutes - 89.4 MBIn this episode, nehiyaw writer Emily Riddle talks with Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer writer jaye simpson about their debut poetry collection, it was never going to be okay. jaye simpson is a Two-Spirit Oji-Cree person of the Buffalo Clan with roots in Sapotaweyak and Skownan Cree Nation who often writes about being queer in the child welfare system, as well as being queer and Indigenous. simpson’s work has been performed at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (2017) in Peterboro...
Episode 02: Vivek Shraya & Juliana Neufeld
October 16, 2020 05:54 - 48 minutes - 88.6 MBJoin Jason as he talks with bestselling writer and artist Vivek Shraya about the tenth anniversary of her first book God Loves Hair, interspersed with clips from the Instagram launch event with illustrator Juliana Neufeld. Get your signed copy of God Loves Hair here. Get your limited-edition God Loves Hair bundle here. Visit Vivek Shraya’s website here and Juliana Neufeld’s here. Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art...
Episode 01: Jason Purcell & Matthew Stepanic
October 01, 2020 07:20 - 59 minutes - 108 MBGet to know Glass Bookshop with co-owners Jason Purcell and Matthew Stepanic. They'll walk you through how the bookshop came to be, how COVID-19 has affected their bookstore, what Amazon has done to publishing and bookselling, and more! Books mentioned: Project Compass by Lizzie Derksen, Matthew Stepanic, Robert Strong, and Kristina Vyskocil Relying on that Body by Matthew Stepanic A Place More Hospitable by Jason Purcell How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine Against Amazon ...