Should you stay or should you go? In the final episode of our series, poet and playwright Talya Rubin and fiction writer Tom Abray talk about the constant push and pull of Montreal, which simultaneously draws them in and spits them out. Will they end up leaving the island? Listen to find out, and to hear readings from both writers.Tom Abray, the au…

We begin with a reading by fiction writer Lesley Trites, from her new collection A Three-Tiered Pastel Dream. Then, have you ever wondered about the difference between solid and liquid gaskets? Neither has Fawn Parker, but sometimes you have to earn a buck. Episode 9 features Parker and Trites on (very) odd jobs, family secrets, mom jokes, and the …

A couple of well-travelled writers talk about what makes Montreal a unique place to live and create, and why you need to leave a place in order to write it. Anita Anand takes us into the airless world of a couple imprisoned by winter and their stifling relationship, while Greg Santos puts on his detective hat and goes on the trail of the missing ha…

Two writers find overlap in their very different experiences—of migration, language, and of writing in the wake of a traumatic experience. Listen in on a fascinating conversation that travels from childhood to aging to money and its attendant problems, and ends up somewhere neither writer expected to be.A two-time winner of the Quebec Writers' Fede…