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Chapter 152: Robin Sloan weaves wonder and weirdness into the warbly world of words
Season 1 Episode 152
Last year I picked up a book called 'Moonbound' by Robin Sloan and it blew me away.
Reading it was like riding some rainbow-speckled rocket ship where I experienced the bizarre combination of hav…
Published on 4 months ago
Chapter 30: Jerry Howarth on branding, bereavement, and Blue Jays baseball
Season 1 Episode 30
My friend Drew Dudley once told me that, other than his parents, he hadn't heard anyone speak to him more in his life than Jerry Howarth…
The voice of the Toronto Blue Jays.
I can relate. Growing …
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Chapter 151: The Holderness Family conquers content creation by corralling chaos
Season 1 Episode 151
What do Xmas Jammies, ADHD, and The Amazing Race have in common?
The Holderness Family!
Penn and Kim Holderness have created viral videos with ... billions of views.
They entered Season 33 of T…
Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Chapter 4: Sarah Ramsey on beating book blame with brilliant bookselling
Season 1 Episode 4
A few years ago, I settled into the children's section of Book City in the heart of Toronto's beautiful Bloor West Village for the first chapter of 3 Books recorded live in an open bookstore with my …
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Chapter 150: Prime Minister Jean Chrétien lays down lifelong lessons on leadership, liberalism, and longevity
Season 1 Episode 150
Born in 1934, the 18th of 19 children in the small blue-collar town of Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, Jean Chrétien has risen to become the "grandfather of Canada" and a definitive force in global politic…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
5 Beach Books to Stretch Your Mind
Season 1
Long before I oriented my life around reading, I would get the majority of my (4-5!) books per year read during the summer.
But summer reads get a bad rap for being too silly, too saucy, too simple…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
My New Book! 'Canada is Awesome' | Full Audiobook
Season 1
BIG NEWS!
I just finished writing CANADA IS AWESOME: A Little Book About A Big Country.
This podcast is me reading the whole book!
The book is about all the weird, wonderful, beautiful things that…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Chapter 149: John and Alison on fascism-fighting fiction fomenting freedom and fraternity
Season 1 Episode 149
It started with a modern plea for help:
"Can I charge my dead phone in your bookstore?"
I was in Del Mar, California, walking up the coast of the Pacific Ocean after birding all morning in Torrey…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Chapter 29: Michael Harris on queer questions and the quest for quiet
Season 1 Episode 29
Loneliness rates have doubled since the 1980s and Vivek Murthy, former US Surgeon General, says loneliness will be the next major epidemic. So if loneliness is being alone and sad … then what's bein…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
Chapter 148: Ginny Yurich obviates obsolete offspring with 1000 hours outside
Season 1 Episode 148
Ginny Yurich (@1000hoursoutside) drove 5 hours up the road from Michigan to Toronto to hang out with Leslie and me. We went for a walk outside (of course!) and recorded this podcast—our second outd…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago