Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations
Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Another season of Live Mic is currently in production and will be released in 2023.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 23
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2020
Alan Hollinghurst: The Sparsholt Affair
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and avail…
Saeed Jones: How We Fight for Our Lives
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Abbi Jacobson: I Might Regret This
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Sally Rooney: Normal People
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On Civil Society: #MeToo
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Barry Lopez: Surviving What’s Coming
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Emily Nussbaum: I Like to Watch
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Benjamin Moser: The Life of Susan Sontag
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Elizabeth Penashue: Diary of an Innu Elder
Portions of this episode contain dialogue in the Innu language. For reasons of length, we have shortened the portions in Innu for English speakers. The transcript for the episode is available here.
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Phillipa K. Chong: Inside the Critics’ Circle
Book by Phillipa K. Chong
Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times
Books co-written by Johanna Schneller
Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable: How I Tried to Help the World's Most Notori…
Emanuele Coccia: Plants Make Us Human
The Chef’s Secret with Crystal King
Books by Crystal King
Feast of Sorrow: a Novel of Ancient Rome
Books by Roberta Rich
Other Related Materials
Yuri Herrera and Post-Apocalyptic Noir
Books by Yuri Herrera
Signs Preceding the End of the World
Other Related Materials
Twenty Questions with Yuri Herrera (opens a Times Literary Supplement article)
Vanessa Sasson and the Buddha’s Wife
Books by Vanessa Sasson
Yasodhara: A Novel about the Buddha’s Wife
Other Related Materials
Stars at Dawn: Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha’s Life
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree: Violence, Childhood and Escobar's Colombia
Related Books from TPL’s Collection
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
La fruta del borrachero by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (translation of Fruit of the Drunken Tree)
S2 Episode One - Will Aitken’s Antigone Undone: When Art Skewers Us Through
Books by Will Aitken
Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove and the Art of Resistance
Books by Anne Carson (writer or translator)
Episode Five: Canada Reads Indigenous: Cherie Dimaline, Tracey Lindberg and Katherena Vermette
Three of Canada’s best-loved writers talk about their experiences as Indigenous artists competing on Canada Reads. With Canada Reads host Ali Hassan, Dimaline (Marrow Thieves), Lindberg (Birdie), and…
Episode Four: Tim Hague, Sr: Survive, Thrive and Accomplish More
The Amazing Race Canada season one winner (along with his son, Tim Hague, Jr.) talks about the ways his life has been a lottery of positive outcomes, despite being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease …