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With Joshua Whitehead s Jonny Appleseed, Indigiqueer storytelling has a spotlight at Canada Reads
Whitehead s powerful debut novel is one of the books on this year s nearly all-LGBTQ shortlist.
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Whitehead s powerful debut novel is one of the books on this year s nearly all-LGBTQ shortlist
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Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens.
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib, Canada Reads has continued to prove just how much queer storytelling is leading the field of contemporary Canadian literature. Four of the five books selected this year were written by LGBTQ authors including Joshua Whitehead s transcendent and powerful debut novel
Canada Reads returns this year for its 20th edition, with the debates taking place March 8-11. This year the theme is âone book to transport usâ. It seems very fitting to have such a theme during a year where we could all us a little escape from reality.
For those who are unfamiliar with Canada Reads, it is CBC's annual battle of the books where five books go head-to-head in a competition to become the one book all Canadians should read.
The books are each defended by a Canadian personality and Ali Hassan returns for the fifth time to host and moderate the debates.
Anne Murray and the Grey Cup.
Great Big Sea had played part of the Grey Cup ceremony weekend in Toronto [in 2007]. I went to the game and then we made our way down, emboldened by our band passes. When the Saskatchewan Roughriders won the cup, I said to a couple of buds, Let s go down on the field. And lo and behold, we ended up down there. Then the next day, we were doing a fundraiser for Gilda s House. The headliner was Anne Murray. To make a long story short, the whole thing came full circle. My friend, he said to me, Alan, you just laid your hands on the Grey Cup and Anne Murray, within 24 hours. That has to be the most Canadian day in history.
Saskatchewan Weekend12:11Morgan Murray s debut novel makes Canada Reads longlistIn his novel Dirty Birds we re invited into the world of a young man from rural Saskatchewan who heads out to Montreal on a quest. Milton Ontario (yes that s his name!) finds more than he bargained for along the way. Host Shauna Powers checks in with the author.12:11
Congratulations! What did you think when you first heard your debut novel was longlisted for
I am still in shock. It hasn t really sunk in yet. It s hard to believe this little book I put out in the world a while ago is taking on a life of its own. And it s very exciting.