Shelf Esteem
59 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago -I'm a reader, a writer, and a talker. On Shelf Esteem I talk to people about what they're reading and the books they love.
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Episodes
Episode 09: He Lost His Shirt Playing Solitaire
September 17, 2017 01:27 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBAirdate: September 17, 2017. I invited up-and-coming Newfoundland writers Bridget Canning, author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes, and Sharan Bala, author of the upcoming The Boat People, to the studio to talk about books we love, books that shaped us as kids, and why you should be careful what you say around writers -- we're always taking notes.
Episode 8: Miserable People Dying Miserably
September 03, 2017 03:27 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBAir date: September 3, 2017. Shannon Sullivan and Sarah Aubert came to talk about what they're reading and especially about fantasy, a favourite genre for all three of us. Don't be misled by the episode title: we talked about lots of positive, inspiring, encouraging books. But we also talked about Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire.
Episode 7: We Do Not Want to be Becky
June 12, 2017 13:28 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBAir date: June 11, 2017. Andreae Callanan and Diana Daly came to the studio to tell me (and you!) all about their intersectional feminist book club. The conversation ranged from feminism, to books, to the need for women to run for St. John's City Council, to, oddly enough, skin care. And if you're not sure what "intersectional feminist" means, then you'll definitely want to listen to this.
Episode 06: Waking Up Dead Would be a Real Drag
May 28, 2017 02:53 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBAirdate: May 28, 2017. Actors/comedians/writers Berni Stapleton and Amy House came by the studio to talk about what we're reading, whether or not we think of ourselves as "readers," and what it means to be "women of a certain age" in our culture. Hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did!
Episode 05: A Dragon With the Face of Benedict Cumberbatch
May 13, 2017 20:38 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBAirdate: May 14, 2017. For Mother's Day, I invited another book-loving mom, Martha Muzychka, along with her son Nick Gushue, to talk with me and my daughter Emma Cole about what we're reading now, what we read with our kids when they were younger, why every YA novel has to include romance and be set in a school, and what could have improved the Hobbit movies (see episode title).
Episode 04: We Are All as Old as Marilla Now
April 29, 2017 10:37 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBAirdate: April 30, 2017. Today's episode finds me hanging out with three of my best friends: Jennifer Morgan, Tina Chaulk, and Lori Savory. We talk about facing down your fears as a writer and why it might be easier to do that if you've already written a bestseller; about the books we read as kids and how many of them were available in the library near Tina's home in Aspen Cove, and, inevitably, Anne of Green Gables.
Episode 03: It's Not Fit to Leave the House for Five Months of the Year
April 07, 2017 21:40 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBAir Date: April 9. 2017. Award-winning playwrights and short-story writers Robert Chafe and Megan Coles apologized repeatedly for straying into theatre-talk when we started talking about books. The conversation was wide-ranging and lovely, and we uncovered the real reason for Newfoundland's rich literary culture, as well as establishing the fact that Robert Chafe does not, in fact, have all the answers. Check out the book list from this podcast at http://shelfesteem2017.wordpress.com
Episode 02: We All Carry a Bag Because of Harriet the Spy
March 24, 2017 11:49 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBAir Date: March 24, 2017. Writers Michelle Butler Hallett and Christine Hennebury came to the Shelf Esteem studio to discuss historical fiction, how storytelling helps us rehearse for our lives, why Orwell's 1984 is always relevant, why everyone is so obsessed with Shakespeare, and how Harriet the Spy shaped our lives as young writers.
Episode 01: We Have Conflicted Feelings About Margaret Atwood
March 07, 2017 23:58 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBAir date: March 12, 2017. Elayne Greeley and Lynne Sheppard dropped by to talk about dystopian fiction, book quotes that become part of your family vocabulary, and books you try to get everyone else to read. We learned that Elayne is in love with Anthony Doerr (in a literary sense), Lynne is in love with a book by Salmon Rushdie, and I am not in love with dystopia. Also, all the characters in Fall on Your Knees are really unhappy people.