{"id":885,"date":"2019-11-28T15:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T15:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/?p=885"},"modified":"2019-11-28T15:01:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T15:01:55","slug":"e158-with-sean-michaels-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/28\/e158-with-sean-michaels-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"E158 with SEAN MICHAELS (Pt 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey folks! A few weeks back, I was given the opportunity to host <a href=\"http:\/\/byseanmichaels.com\/\">Sean Michael<\/a>s in conversation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpl.ca\">Hamilton Public Library<\/a>. I&#8217;ve known Sean since 2013, before his <a href=\"https:\/\/scotiabankgillerprize.ca\/\">Giller<\/a>-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/227734\/us-conductors-by-sean-michaels\/9780345813336\">Us Conductors <\/a>was released; we met on the grand jury for the <a href=\"https:\/\/polarismusicprize.ca\/\">Polaris Music Prize.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was fantastic to get to talk to Sean, at length, about his newest novel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/607035\/the-wagers-by-sean-michaels\/9780735278110\">The Wagers<\/a> is a very different book than Us Conductors, but I loved it immensely just the same.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This episode is separated into two parts (the second comes next week). I must apologize for the sound quality; there was no way to monitor as we recorded and any time one of us speaks too loudly there is distortion. I weighed the pros and cons and decided to air it anyhow, as the conversation was so good and Sean is so entertaining and insightful.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GET LIT E158 Michaels 1 Nov 2 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%2F719779018&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks! A few weeks back, I was given the opportunity to host Sean Michaels in conversation at the Hamilton Public Library. I&#8217;ve known Sean since 2013, before his Giller-winning Us Conductors was released; we met on the grand jury for the Polaris Music Prize. It was fantastic to get to talk to Sean, at [&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":[14,23,31,20,24,16,13,170,34,487,302,484,585,485],"class_list":{"0":"post-885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-books","8":"tag-cfmu","9":"tag-fiction","10":"tag-get-lit","11":"tag-hamilton","12":"tag-jamie-tennant","13":"tag-literature","14":"tag-mcmaster-university","15":"tag-penguin-random-house","16":"tag-polaris-music-prize","17":"tag-scotiabank-giller-prize","18":"tag-sean-michaels","19":"tag-the-wagers","20":"tag-us-conductors","21":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}