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Podcast 92: Talking Books with Angie Abdou (In Case I Go) and Frank Busch (Grey Eyes)

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 20, 2018January 2, 2020

Angie Abdou is the author of “In Case I Go.” She and Frank Busch talk about the making of this novel.

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  • Fiction

The End of the World

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 13, 2016December 13, 2016

How does it end? they ask, because I have seen the future. I alone have seen it, not in a dream or a vision but in math.

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  • Fiction

Consummatum Est: a story

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 4, 2014January 3, 2015

“I have been ready to die for an eternity now.” THE KNIFE IN BOTH hands,…

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  • Writers and Writing

Jeremy Paxman and Poetry’s Bad Rap

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 3, 2014January 3, 2015

A GUARDIAN UK article, written by Alison Flood and published over the weekend, quotes the…

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  • Fiction

A Decent Life (a short story)

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 23, 2014January 3, 2015

HAROLD HAD KEPT in his mind the image of the newspaper’s doubled face, the luxurious…

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  • Books

Sei Shonagon and the Pillow Book

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 11, 2014January 4, 2015

A PILLOW BOOK is an open-ended and spontaneous collection of fragments, and as such may…

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Your Writing is Not Like a Barry Manilow Song

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 3, 2014January 2, 2015

AT DINNER, my good friend Adrian M. Kelly (author of Down Sterling Road, which can…

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  • Writers and Writing

Conversation and the Writer’s Voice

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 2, 2014August 28, 2015

A TOPIC CAN BE both vast and yet reducible to the most simple of terms.…

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  • Writers and Writing

Commonplacing Considered

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 14, 2012January 5, 2015

FOR THE PAST twenty years and more I’ve maintained a collection of quotations in black,…

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  • Writers and Writing

The Virtue of Watching Your Language

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 23, 2012January 6, 2015

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is not unique in having a fluid, ever-changing character. Best described as…

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  • Canada

Good fortune and Bob Rae weren’t always on the best of terms

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 13, 2012January 5, 2015

FEDERAL LIBERAL LEADER Bob Rae’s citation of William Shakespeare was an indirect invocation also of…

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  • Obituary

Remembering Christopher Hitchens

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 16, 2011January 4, 2015

I FIRST CAME across the writer Christopher Hitchens when he was a young Socialist contributing…

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  • Writers and Writing

How Writers Write

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 6, 2011January 2, 2015

THERE IS an enormous store of narrative concerning the working habits of authors, much of…

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  • Writers and Writing

Ulysses, Bloomsday, and the Best of All Literary Parties

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 12, 2011June 16, 2015

IN AN AGE which commends novels by citing their “accessibility,” one praises James Joyce’s Ulysses…

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  • Writers and Writing

When the Bookish Finish Last

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 1, 2011January 2, 2015

There is a famous anecdote concerning two nineteenth-century British Prime Ministers and bitter rivals, Benjamin…

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Wayne K. Spear has been a writer for over thirty years. His work has appeared in the National Post, Huffington Post, CBC, Ottawa Citizen, and elsewhere. He was a weekly CTV News panelist and currently hosts The Roundtable Podcast.

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Winner of the 2016 Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award and finalist of the 2015 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

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