Kai Cheng Thom

In the final episode of semi-prose, Kai Cheng Thom joins us to assure us we can survive hard conversations (2:50); the performance of virtue in Chinese Christian, SJW, and queer communities (6:00); on the ethics of mentorship (14:15); our boundaries do not hurt other people (21:45); seasons in the sun, gender-queer magic gem stones, and holy wild (47:00).

The Thom-Thom Club: I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom

Shane Chartrand

Golly Tawâw

Jennifer Cockrall-King

Indigenous food for the future (6:10); Saskatoon berries, rose hips, stinging nettles (18:55); on the generosity of Indigenous communities (27:45); check out a round dance, check out a pow wow (31:00); New Moon, Red Chef Revival, The Sous Chef (32:40)

Betcha By Golly Tawâw: Tawâw by Shane Chartrand, with Jennifer Cockrall-King

Cherie Dimaline

A special live episode from this year's Toronto International Festival of Authors, featuring:Storytelling as survival (12:49); the qualities of Hot Jesus (17:55); what happens when colonization comes for our gods (22:40); on showing the absolute joy of Indigenous love (28:30); put a comma after cock (30:20); tips on surviving the Rogarou(36:40); Jeremy Dutcher, the southern wild, and Half-Breed (41:55)

A special live episode from this year's Toronto International Festival of Authors, featuring:<br>Storytelling as survival (12:49); the qualities of Hot Jesus (17:55); what happens when colonization comes for our gods (22:40); on showing the absolute joy of Indigenous love (28:30); put a comma after cock (30:20); tips on surviving the Rogarou(36:40); Jeremy Dutcher, the southern wild, and Half-Breed (41:55)

A Cherie on Top: Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

Jia Tolentino

when seeming good gets in the way of actually being good (4:15); that time Jia was in 'Cats' (19:30); magazines that tell girls that their entire purpose is improving themselves (20:30); the 'side hustle', aka capitalism tilling every last inch of your selfhood (24:00); melancholia, the rainbow, and how to do nothing (39:30)

Jia Whiz: Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Pico Iyer

When life gives us dress rehearsals for, you know, death (2:20); it's the impermanence that gives us joy (9:45); California for the possibility, Japan for the reality (11:30); some writing advice from the Dalai Lama (23:55); the perfect foreigner, Leonard Cohen, and a quiet Lear (35:00).

Pico the Guy-o: Autumn Light by Pico Iyer

Emily Nussbaum

Emily Nussbaum joins Evan and Kristina to discuss her book I Like to Watch and how Buffy the Vampire Slayer changes lives (2:00); when black sitcoms were gentrified off the air (13:02); Game of Thrones was not that interesting, True Detective was fake philosophical (24:20); a show can be flawed and be worth talking about (30:30); Fleabag and her compulsiveness to seduce (33:50)

She's The Baum: I Like To Watch by Emily Nussbaum

Téa Mutonji

Allie, Kristina, Evan, and Max discuss Shut Up, You’re Pretty by Téa Mutonji and whether you’re more defined by your good sex or your bad sex (11:30); Fleabag and Lynda Barry (15:40); getting to have formative sexual experiences that are positive is just luck (16:40); Téa Mutonji joins the conversation (18:01); on working with Vivek Shraya and getting more fearless (26:50); SZA, Thirteen, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

Spilling the Téa: Shut Up, You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

Anar Ali

Allie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss Night of Power by Anar Ali and that one girl in high school who could quote Rumi (10:22); trauma doesn’t just go away (13:07); Anar joins the conversation (15:37); they fuck you up, your mum and dad (15:59); the economics of prayer (19:47); on how Dolly Parton is Bollywood (30:00)

Anar-ea of Expertise: Night of Power by Anar Ali

Derek Mascarenhas

Allie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss their childhood Ikea awakenings (4:42); 5AM breakfast stampedes (5:49); why why why Delilah (9:23); Derek Mascarenhas joins the conversation (17:07); what’s Goa on (18:24); Neighborhood #1, Mara Wilson, and Small Things (27:38)

Hey, Mascarenhas: Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas

Sk Ali

Allie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss the things they have done to get a kiss (6:26); brown female anger (10:52); SK Ali joins the conversation (16:48); on being both devout and desirous (17:38); you’re beautiful, good, valued, and wanted (25:36); CCR, Hailee Steinfeld, and a disreputable history (33:09)

Going Back to Ali: Love From A to Z by SK Ali

semi-prose is the books podcast that’s half as serious and twice as smart as your other favourite books podcast. Join Evan, Allie, Kristina, and Max: four semi-professional readers as they explore new Canadian books through their personal histories, stores of pop culture, and readerly curiosities, before the pros – the authors themselves – join the conversation. Because when you’re done the last page, you’ve only really read the half of it.

semi-prose is the books podcast that’s half as serious and twice as smart as your other favourite books podcast. <br>Join Evan, Allie, Kristina, and Max: four semi-professional readers as they explore new Canadian books through their personal histories, stores of pop culture, and readerly curiosities, before the pros – the authors themselves – join the conversation. Because when you’re done the last page, you’ve only really read the half of it.

semi-prose

Mona Awad

Allie, Evan, Kristina and Max explain the differences between Smutty Sunday and Smut Salon (4:39); the fantasy of the half-formed man (6:30); that time in undergrad when Evan escaped a cult (11:34); Mona Awad joins the conversation (16:40); bunnies because they're androgynous (17:00); you look so good I just want to kill you (20:50); 'The Noise Made by People', 'Carrie', and Rebecca Godfrey (28:20)

We on Awad Tour: Bunny by Mona Awad

Leanne Shapton

Allie, Kristina, Evan, and Max discuss what makes for a good ghost story (7:50); telling a ghost story is an intimate thing (12:51); the most frightening hauntings are your exes (14:58); Leanne Shapton joins the conversation (17:02); it’s photography that’s sinister (20:24); when you smell someone, you kind of know (22:10); Edith Wharton bringing the scary (27:21)

A Spirited Conversation: Guestbook by Leanne Shapton

Joshua Whitehead

Jonny Appleseed

Allie, Kristina, and Max discuss the novel's stickiest sex scenes (1:14); how telling stories is different than giving advice (5:38); the narrator as sex worker, the reader as client (12:18); Joshua Whitehead joins the conversation (14:07); stories do everything (16:00); a humility is just a humiliation you love so much (23:15); doing bear sex better than Marian Engel did (26:59)

Just Joshing Around: Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Welcome to Season 2 of semi-prose! Allie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss 'A Mind Spread Out on the Ground' by Alicia Elliott and how Kristina used to hate on all your selfies, but no longer(6:12); explanation or excuse? (9:00); seeing mental illness in Kanye, Britney, and Jean Grey (12:00); Alicia joins the conversation (13:30); another semi-prose related story of theft (21:40); to love someone who you sometimes don't know who they are (25:45); to love someone who's an abuser (27:00)

A State That's Untouchable Like Elliott-ness

Allie, Evan, Kristina and Max discuss 'The Beauty of the Moment' by Tanaz Bhathena and being cheated on (4:40); on finally seeing your parent as a shitty person (8:23); if you wait for that, you're going to be waiting for a long time (15:11); Tanaz joins the conversation (15:20); why not Mississauga? (16:30); there's hope in YA (24:58); Coldplay, Drew Barrymore, and 'The Sun is also a Star' (27:20)

Tanaz Good As It Gets

Allie, Evan, Kristina and Max discuss ‘Original Prin’ by Randy Boyagoda and feeling guilty about being attracted to your ex (3:24); Catholic residue and the hypest hymns (11:24); it’s my cross(fit) to bear (15:11); Randy joins the conversation (16:04); it ain’t that hard being a Catholic today (18:15); Allie asks her heavy question about women (22:00); I Can’t Feel My Face when I’m with Thee (28:20)

Prin and Redemption

Allie, Evan, Max, and Kristina discuss Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez and dancing to Whitney (3:17); Filipino signposts (4:28); clear eyes, hard lives, can’t lose (10:31); Catherine Hernandez joins the conversation (16:49); on keeping that lipstick neat for church (19:28); Bonnie Raitt, ballroom dancing, and Little Criminals (31:52).

Scarborough Fare

Allie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung, and the many musical artists – Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Billy Joel, Donna Summer – referenced within (0:47); how all basement parties are important (5:05); Nelly’s Nellyville and Kristina’s Air Force Ones (9:51); Po Po as a good ally for Nav (13:38); Carrianne Leung joins the conversation (18:05); putting Scarborough on the literary map (21:13); one spicy Po Po (27:53); the importance of volleyball in Chinatowns (30:10); a slow dance with a Flying Tiger (35:04)

Crouching tiger, shadow dragons

Allie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss I’m Afraid of Men and what’s up, exactly, with masculinity (0:46); the myth of the good man (6:01); it’s not like people are not dating incels because they’re not ripped, they’re not dating incels because they hate women (12:30); Cruise, Swayze, Keanu (14:10); Vivek Shraya joins the conversation (17:56); being enlisted into and resisting masculinity (19:15); good is a nebulous standard (22:52); on the bus with the communicative jock (27:48); you had me at hello (36:33)

International Shraya's Anthem

A special preview episode featuring outtakes from our episode with Vivek Shraya (I’m Afraid of Men).“I’m afraid of men …” (1:26); Allie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss the canon of toxic masculinity (3:21); Still Processing, Donald Glover, SZA, and Infinite Jest (3:59); spitting on the Dufferin bus (4:44); Kristina is very throw-able (7:50); reading your horoscope (10:57); best-dressed author Vivek Shraya talks about her fashion journey (11:50); an empty onion bag as a hat (12:58); women’s clothes are more expensive and shoddily made (15:35); “Can a girl get a flower in this plus-size section?” (16:27)

A special preview episode featuring outtakes from our episode with Vivek Shraya (I’m Afraid of Men).<br>“I’m afraid of men …” (1:26); Allie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss the canon of toxic masculinity (3:21); Still Processing, Donald Glover, SZA, and Infinite Jest (3:59); spitting on the Dufferin bus (4:44); Kristina is very throw-able (7:50); reading your horoscope (10:57); best-dressed author Vivek Shraya talks about her fashion journey (11:50); an empty onion bag as a hat (12:58); women’s clothes are more expensive and shoddily made (15:35); “Can a girl get a flower in this plus-size section?” (16:27)

I'm afraid of men-tioning this is only a preview

Allie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss An Ocean of Minutes and time travel as nostalgia (2:33); “Drop It Like It’s Hot”, Stadium Arcadium, “Me &amp; U” by Cassie (5:03); time travelling to avoid breaking up with someone (11:40); Thea Lim joins the conversation (13:12); WG Sebald and The Rings of Saturn (15:27); What’s done is done (16:28); Kazuo Ishiguro, Rashida Jones, Rhye (25:12)

Going out on a Lim

David Chariandy

Allie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss the novel Brother and Scarborough food-culture (3:59); Otis Redding, DJ Kool, and Toots and the Maytals(7:23); Kristina’s first trip back to Jamaica (10:11); author David Chariandy joins the conversation (15:01); writing through his stomach and his love of cookbooks (20:03); new writing on the Canadian suburb by Carrianne Leung and Catherine Hernandez (22:05); Dionne Brand, Moonlight, Maestro Fresh Wes, and Frank Ocean (29:59)

He ain’t heavy, he’s David Chariandy

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