75 years of CanLit on CBC: Margaret Atwood's Survival

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by elizilla

There's a Canadian band, Moxy Fruvous, that does a song that could practically be the theme song for this forum... My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors

I like to go out dancing,
My baby loves a bunch of authors
We'll be together for ages
Eating and sleeping and
Eating and sleeping and
Eating und sleeping und
Turning pages!

They have been disbanded for quite some time. I saw them in Ottawa in what must have been 1992 or 1993. One of the members Jian Ghomeshi does a pretty good show called Q on CBC Radio now. He always interviews pretty entertaining people, generally from the arts. Today it's, of all people:

Margaret Atwood. There's a link for past episodes on the right-side menu.

Oh, I see I missed Susan Orlean (Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend) on the 12th.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by kennyc

...

Since I've recently taken an interest in Jennifer Egan I'm listening to her talk about
"A Visit from the Goon Squad":

http://www.cbc.ca/writersandcompany/...gan-interview/

That was GREAT! I'm pretty sure I'm going to seek out more of her work. (I read her short story selected for Best American Short Stories 2011 yesterday:
"Out of Body" which is an excerpt/section from the Goon Squad)