Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations
24 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -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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Episodes
Alan Hollinghurst: The Sparsholt Affair
June 27, 2020 18:11 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MB*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 Hollinghurst The Sparsholt Affair The Stranger’s ...
Saeed Jones: How We Fight for Our Lives
June 17, 2020 16:06 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MB*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 Jones How We Fight for Our Lives Prelude to Bru...
Abbi Jacobson: I Might Regret This
June 10, 2020 13:26 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB*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 Jacobson I Might Regret This Books by Rachel Giese ...
Sally Rooney: Normal People
May 20, 2020 21:02 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MB*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 Rooney Normal People Conversation with Friends ...
On Civil Society: #MeToo
May 06, 2020 18:59 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB*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 Doolittle Had It Coming : What's Fair in the Age...
Barry Lopez: Surviving What’s Coming
April 28, 2020 16:04 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MB*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 Lopez Horizon Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire ...
Emily Nussbaum: I Like to Watch
April 22, 2020 17:47 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MB*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 Nussbaum I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through...
Benjamin Moser: The Life of Susan Sontag
April 20, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MB*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 Moser Sontag: Her Life and Work (ebook) ...
Elizabeth Penashue: Diary of an Innu Elder
April 09, 2020 21:07 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBPortions 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...
Phillipa K. Chong: Inside the Critics’ Circle
April 01, 2020 18:40 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBBook by Phillipa K. Chong Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times Books co-written by Johanna Schneller Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable: How I Tried to Help the World's Most Notorious Mayor Woman Enough: How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport Kathryn Bigelow: interviews Other Related Materials 7 of the Most Vicious Book Reviews (article from Electric Literature) Is Book Reviewing a Public Service or an Art? (article from the NY Times) Liv...
Emanuele Coccia: Plants Make Us Human
March 05, 2020 19:38 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBBook by Emanuele Coccia The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture Books by Adria Vasil Ecoholic: 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) Roof Check out more about Adria and her work on her website. Other Related Materials What If Plants Wer...
The Chef’s Secret with Crystal King
January 16, 2020 23:01 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBBooks by Crystal King The Chef’s Secret Feast of Sorrow: a Novel of Ancient Rome Books by Roberta Rich The Midwife of Venice The Harem Midwife Other Related Materials The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavours & Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City Here Let Us Feast: a Book of Banquets Cooking for the Pope: Bartolomeo Scappi, the Renaissance’s Most Innovative Chef, Revolutionized the Culinary Arts (link opens Paris Review article) Live Mic: Best...
Yuri Herrera and Post-Apocalyptic Noir
January 09, 2020 22:12 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBBooks by Yuri Herrera Signs Preceding the End of the World The Transmigration of Bodies Kingdom Cons Other Related Materials Twenty 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 Created A Concise History of Mexico Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussio...
Vanessa Sasson and the Buddha’s Wife
December 30, 2019 17:23 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBBooks by Vanessa Sasson Yasodhara: A Novel about the Buddha’s Wife Other Related Materials Stars at Dawn: Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha’s Life Eminent Buddhist Women Women 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 a...
Ned Christie: Cherokee Outlaw or Hero?
December 17, 2019 23:39 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBBooks by Devon Abbott Mihesuah Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero Recovering our Ancestor’s Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism Books and other related materials by Falen Johnson The Secret Life of Canada: a Podcast series Salt Baby Indian Act: Residential School Plays Other Related Materials Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation: Learn from All I Observe Cherok...
Bruce Pascoe: A “Truer” Aboriginal History
December 13, 2019 14:13 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBBooks by Bruce Pascoe Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? The Little Red Yellow Black Book: an Introduction to Indigenous Australia Books by Kim Anderson A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings and Story Medicine Inichaag: My Soul in Story, Anishnaabe Poetics in Art and Words (with Rene Meshake) Other Related Materials Growing Up Aboriginal in...
Fruit of the Drunken Tree: Violence, Childhood and Escobar's Colombia
November 28, 2019 22:51 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBRelated Books from TPL’s Collection Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras La fruta del borrachero by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (translation of Fruit of the Drunken Tree) Pablo Escobar: my Father by Sebastián Marroquín Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia by Tom Feiling The Stone Thrower: a Daughter’s Lessons, a Father’s Life: a Memoir by Jael Richardson Other Related Materials For Debut Novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras Home is What You Carry With You (...
Fruit of the Drunken Tree: Violence, Childhood and Escobar's Columbia
November 28, 2019 22:51 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBRelated Books from TPL’s Collection Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras La fruta del borrachero by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (translation of Fruit of the Drunken Tree) Pablo Escobar: my Father by Sebastián Marroquín Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia by Tom Feiling The Stone Thrower: a Daughter’s Lessons, a Father’s Life: a Memoir by Jael Richardson Other Related Materials For Debut Novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras Home is What You Carry W...
S2 Episode One - Will Aitken’s Antigone Undone: When Art Skewers Us Through
October 09, 2019 20:14 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBBooks by Will Aitken Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove and the Art of Resistance Realia Death in Venice Books by Anne Carson (writer or translator) Antigone Antigonick Autobiography of Red: a Novel in Verse Float Other Related Materials Antigone by Slavoj Žižek Clouds of Sils Maria, a film by Olivier Assays starring Juliette Binoche Certified Copy, a film by Abbas Kiarostami starring Juliette Binoche Bleu, a film by Krzysztof Kieślowski starring ...
Episode Five: Canada Reads Indigenous: Cherie Dimaline, Tracey Lindberg and Katherena Vermette
April 11, 2019 14:50 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBThree 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), and Vermette (The Break) consider how their works have been received by the public in both positive and negative ways and what their celebrity defenders learned about Indigenous experiences in the process. Recorded in the Toronto Public Library’s Appel Salon (part of the TPL’s regular event series,...
Episode Four: Tim Hague, Sr: Survive, Thrive and Accomplish More
March 14, 2019 18:31 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBThe 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 disease at age 46. Born of a mixed-race couple who gave him up for adoption, he found joy and happiness with a loving family that helped shape into the activist and hero that is now. His book Perseverance: the Seven Skills You Need to Survive, Thrive, and Accomplish More than You Ever Imagined was a bes...
Episode Three: Jennifer Egan on Writing Historical Fiction
February 14, 2019 14:28 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBListen 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 - whether they are a woman diver bucking conventions in 1920s New York (Manhattan Beach) or a 1980s rock and roll executive in A Visit from the Goon Squad. This event was recorded on Monday, October 30, 2017, in the Toronto Public Library’s Bram and Bluma Appel Salon. In this 18 minute discussion, Ega...
Episode Two: Marilynne Robinson and American Fear
January 10, 2019 17:15 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBListen 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 Giese (Boys: What It Means to Become a Man). This event was recorded on Wednesday, March 14 in the Toronto Public Library’s Appel Salon. In this 18 minute discussion, Robinson talks about American Fear. Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack ...
Episode One: Cannabis and You
December 13, 2018 22:08 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MBCannabis. 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 hangouts and most importantly, your home. Toronto Star has assembled dedicated journalists and outside experts to help walk you and yours through this major cultural shift in our day to day lives. In conjunction with the Toronto Star/TPL series, Star Talks, join Star Editor Irene Gentle and a panel of exp...