My conversation with Kerry Regier

Host of Vancouver Co-op Radio show Why a Duck? (that features classical and jazz music and lighthearted conversation), Kerry Regier, joined me for a book conversation on October 13.

My apologies for some uneven audio levels on this recording.

Here's what and who we mentioned:

Poems of Miroslav Holub, Czech poet and immunologist. Kerry read his poem: “Half a Hedgehog”

Solaris and His Master’s Voice by Stanisław Herman Lem 

The Game by Ken Dryden Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Moby Dick, Pierre and The Confidence Man by Herman Melville Blindsight by Peter Watts Bomber by Len Deighton Diaspora by Greg Egan IQ84 by Haruki Marukami Erasure by Percival Everett The Three Cornered World by Natsume Sōseki

Authors mentioned: Theodore Sturgeon (originator of “Sturgeon’s Law: 95% of everything is crap”) Yasunari Kawabata, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, O. Henry, Anton Chekhov, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Jeremy Bernstein

Films mentioned: Europa Report directed by Sebastián Cordero and written by Philip Gelatt, American Fiction Surrealist filmmaker mentioned Luis Buñuel