The University of Alberta Press Podcast

The University of Alberta Press Podcast

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Interviews with authors of University of Alberta Press books.

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Linda Quirk, "Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates" (U Alberta Press, 2025)

February 14, 2026

Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates

Linda Quirk
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains a…

Arnab Roy and Paul Ugor eds., "The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions" (U Alberta Press, 2025)

October 22, 2025

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman

Arnab Roy and Paul Ugor
Hosted by Gargi Binju

Offering a fresh comparative lens, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions (U Alber…

Patrick Grace, "Deviant" (U Alberta Press, 2024)

October 15, 2025

Deviant

Patrick Grace
Hosted by Hollay Ghadery

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with poet Patrick Grace about his stunning poetry collection, Deviant (U Alberta Press, 2024). Devian…

rob mclennan, "On Beauty: Stories" (U Alberta Press, 2024)

March 26, 2025

On Beauty

rob mclennan
Hosted by Hollay Ghadery

NBN host and CanLit fangirl extraordinaire Hollay Ghadery speaks with rob mclennan about his collection of stories, On Beauty (University of Alberta P…

Claire Carter et al., "Contemporary Vulnerabilities: Reflections on Social Justice Methodologies" (U Alberta Press, 2024)

August 23, 2024

Contemporary Vulnerabilities

Claire Carter, Chelsea Temple Jones, and Caitlin Janzen

Contemporary Vulnerabilities: Reflections on Social Justice Methodologies (U Alberta Press, 2024) centres on critical reflections about vulnerable mom…

Astrid Blodgett, "This Is How You Start to Disappear" (U Alberta Press, 2023)

January 25, 2024

This Is How You Start to Disappear

Astrid Blodgett
Hosted by Judith Tanen

Astrid Blodgett is the author of the short story collections This Is How You Start to Disappear (U Alberta Press, 2023) and You Haven’t Changed a Bit …

Ernest R. Zimmermann, "The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R" (U Alberta Press, 2015)

November 13, 2023

The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior

Ernest Robert Zimmermann
Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres nort…

Juliane Okot Bitek, "100 Days" (U Alberta Press, 2016)

February 12, 2021

100 Days

Juliane Okot Bitek
Hosted by Susan Thomson

Juliane Okot Bitek, of the Emily Carr University of Art and Design and writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University, has written a terrific book of …

Earle H. Waugh, “Al Rashid Mosque: Building Canadian Muslim Communities” (U Alberta Press, 2018)

October 9, 2020

Al Rashid Mosque

Earle H. Waugh

In the early 20th-century Muslims, primarily with roots in Lebanon, began to settle in Canada’s interior plains. In 1938, the small community in Edmon…