Brian Francis answers the question of what is a guilty pleasure and gives a book pick to match a few of his favourites; Mirian Njoh talks about Christian Allaire’s book and his journey from Nipissing First Nation to the pages of Vogue; Susan Swan, author of Big Girls Don’t Cry, answers the Proust Questionnaire; and Amanda Leduc on why her protagonists are talking coyotes on this episode of The Next Chapter.
Books discussed on this week's show include:
Big Girls Don’t Cry by Susan Swan
Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix
The Donut: A Canadian History by Steve Penfold
Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum
From the Rez to the Runway by Christian Allaire
Wild Life by Amanda Leduc
And Then She Fell by Alicia Eliott
Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findely
The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
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