Welcome to Survive It Well, the podcast that had a little bit of audio difficulties. We talk about the best books we’ve read since submitting our dissertations. Haley realizes she doesn’t know what first-person writing is. Aparna tells us why her post-submission reading was a complete slump. For the main discussion, Aparna interviews Haley about her creative ambitions. Aparna discovers the reality of yearly economic growth and Haley discovers the 2022 inductees to the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame.
Aparna spotlights Be My Eyes app (https://www.bemyeyes.com/).
Haley spotlights the film “Make the Yuletide Gay” directed by Rob Williams, 2009.
Mentions:
“Episode 2: Popcorn” from “Have You Heard George’s Podcast?” (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-popcorn/id1436036246?i=1000453801491)
Claudia Emmerson’s “Environmental Awareness: The Right Whale”
“At Last Count” by Claire Ross Dunn, 2022
“Shopgirl” by Steve Martin, 2000
The play mentioned by Aparna written by Claire Ross Dunn and her husband, Kirk, is called “Spy Craft” (https://www.littleliontheatrecompany.com/spycraft.html)
“In: A Graphic Novel” by Will McPhail, 2021
“The Sky in Essex is not like the Sky in Ontario” on the Wild Writers Blog (https://wildeasters.wordpress.com/2021/12/28/the-sky-in-essex-is-not-like-the-sky-in-ontario/)
3 of Haley’s poems in Blank Spaces Magazine December 2021: Volume 6, Issue 2 (https://www.blankspaces.ca/contributors-list/haley-down)
“Bud the Spud” by Stompin’ Tom Connors, 1969
The Day the World Stops Shopping, by J. B. MacKinnon, 2021
Thank you to Pádraig Ó Tuama whose poem “The Facts of Life” inspired the title of this podcast.
Cover image by Sanjana Kapur.
