Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Today's Show with Sally Cooper

Thanks to Sally Cooper for coming in to be interviewed on the show today, and thanks to everyone who listened.

Today's playlist can be found here http://ckln.fm/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=79 and yeah, I know I misspelled "Illinois." Click on "In Other Words" under the Tuesday heading, then on the date of March 25th.

Congratulations to Dayle for winning the signed copy of Tell Everything.

Cheers,
Jennifer LoveGrove

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Sally Cooper - Tuesday, March 25, 2008

This Tuesday, March 25th from 2-3pm, host Jennifer LoveGrove will interview writer Sally Cooper about her new novel Tell Everything (The Dundurn Group, 2008).

About the writer:
Sally Cooper grew up in Inglewood, Ontario, population 400. She has an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Guelph, and has published widely in such places as Shift, Blood & Aphorisms, Carousel, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and eye weekly. Her first novel, Love Object, came out in 2002 to critical acclaim. She wrote her second novel, Tell Everything, with the generous support of The Canada Council for the Arts and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. She lives and writes in Hamilton, Ontario.

About the novel:
It is the summer of 1985. Seventeen-year-old Pauline has just moved from northern Ontario to the Westwoods subdivision when she first meets Ramona, who looks like she just walked out of a ZZ Top video. Their friendship is intense and immediate, and they spend their time writing and acting out plays. To complicate matters, Pauline shares a murder fixation with Ramona’s fiancĂ©, James, who likes to role-play serial killers. As plans for her wedding advance, Ramona insists on involving Pauline in her games with James. Before long, their activities reach a climax that severs Pauline and Ramona’s relationship.

A few years later, Ramona is accused of murdering her husband. Police find Pauline living in a stable, if bland, domesticity with intern Alex Shore. She gives them a statement and ends up testify for the Crown at Ramona Hawkes’ murder trial. As her story goes public, Pauline struggles to understand her feelings for Ramona and the extent to which she consented to their sexual activities.

Tell Everything is a complex, innovative novel about characters so deeply involved in their macabre fixations that they need to live them out. Trial transcripts, tabloid columns and other alternative perspectives balance and challenge Pauline’s growing sense that she is not a victim; that submission and individual power may be contained in the same act.


Tune in this Tuesday at 2pm as Jennifer LoveGrove and Sally Cooper discuss the novel, the writing process, literary and other influences, and Sally reads excerpts from Tell Everything.

CKLN 88.1FM or online at ckln.fm (click "listen live")


Cheers,
Jennifer LoveGrove

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Welcome!

Welcome to the "In Other Words" blog!

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I hope to eventually be able to upload mp3 audio clips from various shows, but I haven't quite managed that yet. Stay tuned!


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Best,
Jennifer LoveGrove