Jan 8, 2023
Marta, Aïsha, and Meixi discuss Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a 2015 novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. They focus on the story’s treatment of time travel and its relation to the slice-of-life genre.
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Nov 26, 2022
Juliann speaks with Kaitlyn Matthews and Elaine Lee, winners of the Hart House Literary Contest in the prose and poetry categories, respectively, about their prize-winning pieces and contest-writing more broadly.
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Nov 4, 2022
Marta, Aïsha, and Meixi discuss Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif," the story’s deconstruction of racial codes in life and literature, and the challenges of the short story form.
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Oct 7, 2022
Juliann speaks with André Babyn (UofT English), author of Evie of the Deepthorn (2020, Dundurn), and Ali Pinkney (UofT English), author of a forthcoming novella, about the relationship between writing and memory.
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Sep 23, 2022
Alex and Madison introduce our new Dialogues theme, “Event.” They focus on the provisional thesis for the series: namely, that literature, as an artistic form for which the demarcation between the possible and the impossible is constitutively uncertain, intervenes decisively in the social processes that...