{"id":606,"date":"2018-10-11T15:58:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/?p=606"},"modified":"2018-10-11T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:58:02","slug":"e99-with-dionne-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/e99-with-dionne-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"E99 with DIONNE BRAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks!<\/p>\n<p>Quick time-sensitive announcement: if you&#8217;re in the Toronto area tonight and are in the mood for a reading, I will be participating in the Pivot Reading series tonight, Oct 11. I&#8217;m reading with <a href=\"http:\/\/transatlanticagency.com\/2018\/05\/welcoming-djamila-ibrahim\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Djamila Ibrahim<\/span><\/a> and <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Paul Vermeersch<\/span>, and you can find more info <a href=\"https:\/\/pivotreadings.ca\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">here<\/span><\/a>! I will read from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/books\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Captain of Kinnoull Hill<\/span><\/a> (as always) but may do my first, very brief reading from the novel in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s show features award-winning author and poet (and member of the Order of Canada) <a href=\"https:\/\/canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca\/brand\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Dionne Brand<\/span><\/a>. We talk about her two &#8211; yes, two &#8211; new books, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/564847\/theory-by-dionne-brand\/9780735274235\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Theory<\/span> <\/a>(a novel) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/562935\/the-blue-clerk-by-dionne-brand\/9780771070815\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Blue Clerk<\/span> <\/a>(poetry, recently nominated for the <a href=\"https:\/\/ggbooks.ca\/#finalists\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">GG<\/span><\/a>). I was a little intimidated by this one, for sure&#8230;but she was amazing and I think you&#8217;ll enjoy our conversation. Cheers!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Get Lit E99 Oct 11 2018 Brand by James Tennant\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F512802927&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks! Quick time-sensitive announcement: if you&#8217;re in the Toronto area tonight and are in the mood for a reading, I will be participating in the Pivot Reading series tonight, Oct 11. I&#8217;m reading with Djamila Ibrahim and Paul Vermeersch, and you can find more info here! I will read from The Captain of Kinnoull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,17,23,402,399,31,20,403,24,16,13,170,398,34,400,404,405,401],"class_list":{"0":"post-606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-books","8":"tag-captain-of-kinnoull-hill","9":"tag-cfmu","10":"tag-dionne-brand","11":"tag-djamila-ibrahim","12":"tag-fiction","13":"tag-get-lit","14":"tag-governor-general-award-for-poetry","15":"tag-hamilton","16":"tag-jamie-tennant","17":"tag-literature","18":"tag-mcmaster-university","19":"tag-paul-vermeersch","20":"tag-penguin-random-house","21":"tag-pivot-reading-series","22":"tag-the-blue-clerk","23":"tag-theory","24":"tag-toronto","25":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}