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Mon Feb 22 • 7:30pm
On Property
with Rinaldo Walcott
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Thu Feb 25 • 7:30pm
Can You Hear Me Now?
with Celina Caesar-Chavannes
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 1 • Fri Feb 26
The Push
with Ashley Audrain
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 2 • Fri Feb 26
The Centaur’s Wife
with Amanda Leduc
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Mar 2 • 7:30pm
The New Age of Empire
with Kehinde Andrews
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Mar 4 • 12:00pm
One Page: This Strange and Violent World
with Elif Shafak
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 3 • Fri Mar 5
Blaze Island
with Catherine Bush
Podcast
Fiction
History
Episode 4 • Fri Mar 5
Speak, Silence
with Kim Echlin
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Mar 8 • 7:30pm
White Feminism
with Koa Beck
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 5 • Fri Mar 12
A Town Called Solace
with Mary Lawson
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 6 • Fri Mar 12
Gutter Child
with Jael Richardson
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Mar 15 • 7:30pm
Return of the Trickster
with Eden Robinson
Live Online Event
Fiction
Poetry
Tue Mar 16 • 7:00pm
If I Tell You The Truth
with Jasmin Kaur
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 7 • Fri Mar 19
Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted
with Gary Barwin
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
Episode 8 • Fri Mar 19
The Deficit Myth
with Stephanie Kelton
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Mar 22 • 7:30pm
Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders
with André Picard
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Mar 25 • 7:00pm
One Page: Foregone
with Russell Banks
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 9 • Fri Mar 26
The Relatives
with Camilla Gibb
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Episode 10 • Fri Mar 26
Four Lost Cities
with Annalee Newitz
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Mon Mar 29 • 7:30pm
Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity
With Darrel J. McLeod
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Apr 8 • 7:00pm
One Page: Klara and the Sun
with Kazuo Ishiguro
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 11 • Fri Apr 9
Tainna: The Unseen Ones
with Norma Dunning
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm
The New Climate War
with Michael E. Mann
Live Online Event
Memoir
Thu Apr 15 • 12:00pm
One Page: The Soul of a Woman
with Isabel Allende
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 12 • Fri Apr 16
Hana Khan Carries On
with Uzma Jalaluddin
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Mon Apr 19 • 7:30pm
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
with Seth Klein
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Apr 22 • 9:00pm
One Page: Under the Wave at Waimea
with Paul Theroux
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 13 • Fri Apr 23
Mythical Man
with David Ly
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 14 • Fri Apr 23
A Desolation Called Peace
with Arkady Martine
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Apr 26 • 7:30pm
Take Back the Fight
with Nora Loreto
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 15 • Fri Apr 30
The Girl from Dream City
with Linda Leith
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Episode 16 • Fri Apr 30
On Time and Water
with Andri Snaer Magnason
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Episode 17 • Fri May 7
Elizabeth & Margaret
with Andrew Morton
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 18 • Fri May 7
Why Birds Sing
with Nina Berkhout
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon May 10 • 7:30pm
Find You First
with Linwood Barclay
Live Online Event
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Memoir
Thu May 13 • 7:00pm
One Page: Goodbye, Again
with Jonny Sun
Podcast
Fiction
Youth
Episode 19 • Fri May 14
Bruised
with Tanya Boteju
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 20 • Fri May 14
Hummingbird Salamander
with Jeff VanderMeer
Live Online Event
Poetry
Mon May 17 • 8:00pm
The Shadow List
with Jen Sookfong Lee
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu May 20 • 7:00pm
One Page: Monkey Boy
with Francisco Goldman
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 21 • Fri May 21
The Good Father
with Wayne Grady
Podcast
Fiction
History
Episode 22 • Fri May 21
China
with Edward Rutherfurd
Live Online Event
Memoir
Tue May 25 • 7:30pm
All the Rage
with Brad Fraser
Live Online Event
Fiction
Wed May 26 • 7:35pm
Sufferance
with Thomas King
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Thu May 27 • 7:00pm
One Page: The Window Seat
with Aminatta Forna
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon May 31 • 7:00pm
Mayflies
with Andrew O’Hagan
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 23 • Fri Jun 4
Because the Sun
with Sarah Burgoyne
Podcast
Fiction
History
Youth
Episode 24 • Fri Jun 4
A Girl Called Echo
with Katherena Vermette
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 25 • Fri Jun 11
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
with Damon Centola
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 26 • Fri Jun 11
What You Are
with M.G. Vassanji
Live Online Event
Fiction
History
Poetry
Thu Jun 17 • 5:30pm
The Life and Times of Robbie Burns
with John Ivison and Pauline Mackay
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 27 • Fri Jun 18
Likeness
with David Macfarlane
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 28 • Fri Jun 18
The Bright Side
with Cathrin Bradbury
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Fri Jun 18 • 7:30pm
The Menopause Manifesto
With Dr. Jen Gunter
Live Online Event
Fiction
Non-Fiction
History
Poetry
Sun Jun 20 • 7:30pm
Gather
with Richard Van Camp
Podcast
Fiction
Youth
Episode 29 • Fri Jun 25
The Traitor's Blade
with Kevin Sands
Podcast
History
Poetry
Memoir
Episode 1 • Fri Aug 20
NISHGA
with Jordan Abel
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Episode 2 • Fri Aug 20
Better Not Bitter
with Yusef Salaam
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 3 • Fri Aug 27
The Snow Line
with Tessa McWatt
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 4 • Fri Aug 27
Satellite Love
with Genki Ferguson
Live Online Event
Fiction
Tue Aug 31 • 7:30pm
Operation Angus
with Terry Fallis
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 5 • Fri Sep 3
How to Be Animal
with Melanie Challenger
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 6 • Fri Sep 3
Where Beauty Survived
with George Elliott Clarke
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 7 • Fri Sep 10
The Last Exiles
with Ann Shin
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 8 • Fri Sep 10
Life in the City of Dirty Water
with Clayton Thomas-Muller
Live Online Event
Memoir
Mon Sep 13 • 7:30pm
My Own Blood
with Ashley Bristowe
Live Online Event
Fiction
Tue Sep 14 • 7:30pm
August into Winter
with Guy Vanderhaeghe
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 9 • Fri Sep 17
The Retreat
with Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 10 • Fri Sep 17
Undersong
with Kathleen Winter
Live Online Event
History
Memoir
Tue Sep 21 • 7:30pm
Unreconciled
with Jesse Wente
Live Online Event
Fiction
Wed Sep 22 • 7:30pm
The Mystery of Right and Wrong
with Wayne Johnston
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Thu Sep 23 • 7:30pm
"Indian" in the Cabinet
with Jody Wilson Raybould
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 11 • Fri Sep 24
The Spectacular
with Zoe Whittall
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 12 • Fri Sep 24
Tenderness
with Alison MacLeod
Live Online Event
Poetry
Sun Sep 26 • 5:30pm
Book Launch: Masses on Radar
by David O’Meara
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Sep 27 • 7:30pm
All's Well
with Mona Awad
Live Online Event
Fiction
Tue Sep 28 • 7:30pm
The Strangers
with Katherena Vermette
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Wed Sep 29 • 7:30pm
Return
with Kamal Al-Solaylee
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 13 • Fri Oct 1
Ripping down half the trees
with Evan J
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 14 • Fri Oct 1
The Death of Francis Bacon
with Max Porter
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Oct 4 • 7:30pm
Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and the Future
with Esi Edugyan
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Tue Oct 5 • 7:30pm
BOOK LAUNCH: Off the Record
with Peter Mansbridge
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Thu Oct 7 • 7:30pm
An Embarrassment of Critch’s
with Mark Critch
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 15 • Fri Oct 8
The Listeners
with Jordan Tannahill
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 16 • Fri Oct 8
The Book of Form and Emptiness
with Ruth Ozeki
Live Online Event
Fiction
Tue Oct 12 • 7:30pm
Not a Happy Family
with Shari Lapena
Live Online Event
Fiction
Thu Oct 14 • 7:30pm
Em
with Kim Thuy
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 17 • Fri Oct 15
What Storm, What Thunder
with Myriam J.A. Chancy
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 18 • Fri Oct 15
On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years
with Elaine Dewar
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Oct 17 • 7:00pm
Books and Biryani: A Muslim History of the Americas
with Omar Mouallem
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Oct 18 • 7:30pm
The Class
with Chris Hedges
Live Online Event
Fiction
Youth
Tue Oct 19 • 7:30pm
BOOK LAUNCH: Hunting by Stars
with Cherie Dimaline
Live Online Event
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Wed Oct 20 • 6:00pm
THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS & PRIX DU LIVRE D’OTTAWA
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Episode 19 • Fri Oct 22
Nice White Ladies
with Jessie Daniels
Live Online Event
Poetry
Mon Oct 25 • 7:30pm
BYWORDS JOHN NEWLOVE AWARDS
with Megan Misztal and John Ian
Live Online Event
Memoir
Tue Oct 26 • 7:00pm
Book Launch: My Stories, My Times, Volume 2
with The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Wed Oct 27 • 7:30pm
My Best Mistake
with Terry O’Reilly
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 20 • Fri Oct 29
A Time Outside This Time
with Amitava Kumar
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
Mon Nov 1 • 7:30pm
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future
With Alexander McClelland, Eddie Walker, Kate Doyle Griffiths and Ryan Conrad
Live Online Event
Poetry
Thu Nov 4 • 7:30pm
Book Launch: Best Canadian Poetry 2021
With Anita Lahey, Souvankham Thammavongsa and many more!
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 21 • Fri Nov 5
Umbilical Cord
with Hasan Namir
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Tue Nov 9 • 7:30pm
Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future
with Drew Hayden Taylor, Norma Dunning and Darrel J. McLeod
Live Online Event
Poetry
Wed Nov 10 • 7:30pm
Launch of ARC 96
Featuring: Junie Désil, Simone Dalton and Shery Alexander Heinis
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 22 • Fri Nov 12
Permanent Astonishment
with Tomson Highway
Live Online Event
Fiction
Poetry
Mon Nov 15 • 7:30pm
Exile: Celebrating 50 Years in Publishing
with Barry Callaghan, Michael Callaghan, Darlene Madott, Katie Zdybel and George Elliott Clarke
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 23 • Fri Nov 19
It Doesn't Matter What We Meant
with Rob Winger
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 24 • Fri Nov 19
Finish this Sentence
with Leslie Roach
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 25 • Fri Nov 26
The Spirits Up
with Todd Babiak
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 26 • Fri Nov 26
The Weight of Sand
with Edith Blais
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Nov 29 • 7:30pm
What Strange Paradise
with Omar El Akkad
Live Online Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Tue Nov 30 • 7:00pm
Writing and Activism: Words in Action
with Monia Mazigh
Memoir
Sun Dec 5 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
Talking to Canadians
with Rick Mercer
Live Online Event
Youth
Tue Dec 14 • 12:00pm
Changing the World One Story at a Time with Natasha Deen
In Conversation with Neil Wilson
Live Online Event
Youth
Tue Dec 14 • 12:30pm
The Healing Power of Stories: A Muslim View with Rukhsana Khan
In Conversation with Neil Wilson
Live Online Event
Youth
Tue Dec 14 • 1:00pm
Seen and Heard: Children’s Art and Activism with Marah Gubar
In Conversation with Neil Wilson