Hey folks! Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding Our Future Through the Wampum Covenant is a fascinating and important book. To be honest, it feels like information we could all use for living in this part of the world and existing alongside the original peoples of this land. I chat with author Daniel Coleman and illustrator Rick Hill about it. Enjoy the show!
Daniel Coleman
E108 with DAVID SMALL
CONGRATS to the winners of the Hamilton Literary Awards! Our winners are
Poetry: Shane Neilson, Dysphoria
Non-Fiction: Daniel Coleman, Yardwork
Fiction: Pasha Malla, Fugue States
Kerry Schooley Award: Daniel Coleman, Yardwork
Check out our interviews with these fine folk in the links. Congrats to all the nominees as well! We had a full house and it was a fun, inspiring time for all of us.
Today’s feature interview is with David Small, award-winning children’s author and graphic novelist. His first graphic novel, Stitches, was a huge success and his newest should be as well. Home After Dark is wonderful, I encourage you to pick it up. Enjoy our interview!
GET LIT E42 with DANIEL COLEMAN
Another week, another show!
The autumn is a time of general frenzy at my day job (I may have mentioned before, I’m the program director at 93.3 CFMU FM, where I record Get Lit). That’s why there’s been nothing pithy or interesting, assuming you ever find me pithy or interesting, in these blog entries. What can I say? I spent some time in Killarney before rushing headlong into the return of McMaster students.
Speaking of McMaster, today’s show features Daniel Coleman, Ph.D., McMaster professor and author of Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place. I tweeted about this book a few weeks ago. When it was described to me as a guy writing about the history of his backyard (that may be a paraphrase), it sounded pretty unusual. However, I trusted the enthusiasm of his publisher Noelle Allen of Wolsak & Wynn. Sure enough, it’s a fantastic read, filled with interesting information for locals and beyond. Heck, it even gave me useful information for my day to day life (read: I used Daniel’s facts to reply to Neko Case on Twitter. Awesome, but maybe sad that I consider that “useful…for my day to day life.” Though I really really like Neko Case).
Enjoy!