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True North Country Comics PodcastsKris Bertin and Alex Forbes reveal ‘The Secret of the Saucer’
Here’s my chat with Kris Bertin and Alex Forbes about their new graphic novel Hobtown Mystery Stories: The Secret of the Saucer published by Oni Press.
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Kris Bertin is a writer of from Halifax, Nova Scotia. His first book of short stories, Bad Things Happen, won the Writers’ Union of Canada’s 2017 Danuta Gleed Award and the ReLit Award for short fiction. He’s had his work featured in The Walrus, The Malahat...
2025-11-2622 min
Buddy Read with LPEp. 12 - Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum (with Chris)SPOILER WARNING: LISTENER DESCRETION IS ADVISED.
LP is getting in a carriage filled with pillows (but also with dirt, grime, mysterious stains, and a flower) with her guest Chris to talk about the novella Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum.
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2025-04-1058 min
No Page UnturnedBookling: HelpmeetOn this Bookling, we're reading Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum, just in time for Halloween, a tale of intimacy, body horror, poverty, diseases, possession, infidelity, and identity. Your hosts are Joshua MacDougall (@FourofFiveWits), Christina Ladd (@christinaladd), and Steph Kingston (@StephOKingston), and you can find us all on Bluesky. Our art is by Mangoyu Art (@MangoyuArt), and our music is by Bad Sparrow (@BadSparrowMusic). You can find us on Twitter, BlueSky, and Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-10-2956 min
My Life In Books with Red SzellNaben RuthnumAbout AMIAMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca.Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+Learn more at AMI.caConnect with Accessible Media Inc. online:X /T...
2024-08-1955 min
We Bleed Orange and Black69 – Interview with Naben Ruthnum EPISODE #69 – Interview with Naben Ruthnum We Bleed Orange & Black: the podcast for Halloween & Horror Lovers! Join us as we interview creators, discuss our favorite horror and share original scary stories. ~~~ We chat with Naben Ruthnum about Ghost Stories as Literary Fiction, warm horror, magic vs deus machina, remixing monsters, and his new YA novel THE GRIMMER! ~~~ Special thanks to Johnathan Olson for composing our theme music. Follow us: Instagram: @webobpodcast Twitter: @webobpodcast
2024-01-0125 min
On The Shelf with Honora QuinnA New Wave of YA Horror is Upon Us and You Should Start Here! - The Grimmer with Naben RuthnumToday on OTS I got to talk with Naben Ruthnum about his debut YA novel THE GRIMMER. But that's not all, we talked about his varied career in both fiction and nonfiction, adult and now YA, as well as his work in both prose and for the screen!
I had a great time discussing and learning about his career and how these different types of writing are not as different as they may seem.
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2023-12-1042 min
Comic Book Bears PodcastComic Book Bears Podcast Issue #271: The Book Bears Podcast!It's the latest audio episode of The Comic Book Bears Podcast! That's right - strike "comic" out of the title this week because for this installment of our show we are putting the funnybooks away and will be talking about prose books, both ones we are currently reading and the fiction and non-fiction books that made up our formative literature over the years. Hit play and hear Steve, Caleb and Bill discuss the current reads which include Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill, Under the Whispering Door by TJ Clune, Helpmeet by Naben...
2023-10-302h 23
The Colin McEnroe Show‘It’s OK with me’: The Nose rewatches ‘The Long Goodbye’ at 50This week’s Nose got a couple other cans, ya know, and came back and switched the labels and the cans around. The Long Goodbye is a satirical neo-noir mystery feature film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel. It is the eighth feature directed by Robert Altman and the second-to-last screenplay by the science fiction writer Leigh Brackett (who also wrote The Empire Strikes Back and the 1946 version of The Big Sleep, among others). It stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in 1970s Los Angeles. This year is The Long Goodbye’s 50th anniversary. Plus: A look...
2023-09-2950 min
Read The NorthSkeletons In The ClosetFace your fears with host Rebecca Diem, and dive deep into the spine-tingling mystery, thriller, and horror genres.—Hosted by Rebecca DiemProduced by Quinton BradshawMusic by James EllercampProduction Assistance and Episode Art by Haley RichardsonSpecial thanks to our guests, Amy Stuart, Naben Ruthnum, and Chris Krawczyk of Little GhostsPresented by The Word On The Street & Met Radio 1280AMFollow @torontoWOTS on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.Follow @metradio1280 on Instagram and Twitter—Explore ever...
2023-08-0239 min
The Colin McEnroe Show‘It’s OK with me’: The Nose rewatches ‘The Long Goodbye’ at 50This week’s Nose got a couple other cans, ya know, and came back and switched the labels and the cans around. The Long Goodbye is a satirical neo-noir mystery feature film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel. It is the eighth feature directed by Robert Altman and the second-to-last screenplay by the science fiction writer Leigh Brackett (who also wrote The Empire Strikes Back and the 1946 version of The Big Sleep, among others). It stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in 1970s Los Angeles. This year is The Long Goodbye’s 50th anniversary. Plus: A look...
2023-05-1949 min
Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory PodcastEpisode 172 - Domestic ThrillersThis episode we're talking about Domestic Thrillers! We discuss lies, stressful reading, spoiling endings, characters who are not great people, and whether we'd read other books from this genre. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Serial Killer's Wife by Alice Hunter Recipe for a Perfect Housewife by Karma Brown The Majesties by Tiffany Ts...
2023-04-041h 01
PaperlessThe DriveIt's 1974, and Richard Molfer has just started his own labor consulting firm and zeroed in on his first client: a hospital in Elizabeth, New Jersey. A union drive is about to start here, the employees are already organizing, and administrators are terrified. But Molfer, a seasoned veteran of hardcore union fights in the mines of Utah, has a plan. He's going to divide and conquer the staff, and make sure Local 1199 never sets foot in that hospital—all for a price, of course. Little does he know that he's about to meet his greatest protegee, a young man with an...
2023-03-0231 min
Kobo in ConversationBeneath the veneer with Naben Ruthnum and André ForgetThe final of three interviews we recorded at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre as part of the Toronto International Festival of Authors. With novelists André Forget author of In the City of Pigs, and Naben Ruthnum author of A Hero of Our Time we spoke about their darkly comic novels that play with themes of work, art, and the unreality of even so-called real estate. Beneath the veneer with Naben Ruthnum and André Forget
2022-11-2551 min
Books & Ideas AudioTry Not to Be Strange: Michael HingstonBetween the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean lies the tiny island of Redonda. Uninhabitable by humans, Redonda is home instead to a variety of wildlife—including untold generations of seabirds that produce the island’s prized source of fertilizer. Though it might not seem like much, this peculiar island is the figurative home of a fantastical and international community of writers, with a highly-contested lineage of kings that includes John Gawsworth, Jon Wynne-Tyson, Dylan Thomas, Umberto Eco, Javier Marías, Alice Munro, and Pedro Almodóvar. In an exclusive Festival Week episode of the Books & Ideas Audio podcast, author...
2022-10-1745 min
The Writer and The CriticEpisode 94: Helpmeet | Our Wives Under the SeaOn this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, spend a few minutes discussing the work of Peter Straub, who sadly passed away this month. Listeners might like to revisit Episode 17 in which Kirstyn and Ian, along with special guest Rob Shearman, discuss Straub's marvelously unsettling collection, Houses Without Doors.
The books up for discussion this month are Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum [10:25] and Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield [34:00].
Kirstyn also highly recommends The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise from her new favourite sm...
2022-09-161h 12The Writer and the CriticEpisode 94: Helpmeet | Our Wives Under the SeaOn this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, spend a few minutes discussing the work of Peter Straub, who sadly passed away this month. Listeners might like to revisit Episode 17 in which Kirstyn and Ian, along with special guest Rob Shearman, discuss Straub's marvelously unsettling collection, Houses Without Doors.
The books up for discussion this month are Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum [10:25] and Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield [34:00].
Kirstyn also highly recommends The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise from her new favourite sm...
2022-09-161h 12The Writer and The CriticEpisode 93: Such a Pretty Smile | Checkout 19On this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, spend a few minutes discussing the aftermath of COVID-19 by which Kirstyn was unfortunately struck down last month. She is not happy about it.
The books up for discussion this month are Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi Demeester [4:10] and Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett [29:25].
Ian also heartily recommends Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett and Berg by Ann Quin.
Congratulations are due to Ian as well for his recent nomination for the William Atheling Jr Award for C...
2022-08-271h 10The Writer and the CriticEpisode 93: Such a Pretty Smile | Checkout 19On this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, spend a few minutes discussing the aftermath of COVID-19 by which Kirstyn was unfortunately struck down last month. She is not happy about it.
The books up for discussion this month are Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi Demeester [4:10] and Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett [29:25].
Ian also heartily recommends Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett and Berg by Ann Quin.
Congratulations are due to Ian as well for his recent nomination for the William Atheling Jr Award for C...
2022-08-271h 10
Weird EraEpisode 41: LSHB's Weird Era feat. Naben RuthnumABOUT NABEN RUTHNUM:
Naben Ruthnum lives in Toronto, and is the author of Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race. As Nathan Ripley, he is the author of two thrillers, Find You In the Dark and Your Life is Mine. He also writes for film and television.
ABOUT A HERO OF OUR TIME
A wry comic novel with an acerbic wit, A Hero of Our Time is a vicious takedown of superficial diversity initiatives and tech culture, with a beating heart of broken sincerity.
Osman Shah is a pitstop on his white colleague Olivia Robinson’s...
2022-07-0139 min
Rite GudWriting Beyond Limits with Naben Ruthnum
Writers are often under pressure to follow rules, to write to the market, to carefully fit themselves into a safe cultural and commercial niche. You have to stick to one genre, and follow the standard recipe for that genre, or else audiences will get mad and your book won’t sell. At least, that’s what publishers say. But some writers know better.
In this episode, Naben Ruthnum joins us to talk about body horror, the pressures of the market, and how Indian diaspora writers get pushed into writing formulaic “curry” books.
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2022-06-301h 02
Podcasts Archives - KittysneezesWriting Beyond Limits with Naben Ruthnum
Writers are often under pressure to follow rules, to write to the market, to carefully fit themselves into a safe cultural and commercial niche. You have to stick to one genre, and follow the standard recipe for that genre, or else audiences will get mad and your book won’t sell. At least, that’s what publishers say. But some writers know better.
In this episode, Naben Ruthnum joins us to talk about body horror, the pressures of the market, and how Indian diaspora writers get pushed into writing formulaic “curry” books.
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Find You in t...
2022-06-301h 02All Kittysneezes PodcastsWriting Beyond Limits with Naben Ruthnum
Writers are often under pressure to follow rules, to write to the market, to carefully fit themselves into a safe cultural and commercial niche. You have to stick to one genre, and follow the standard recipe for that genre, or else audiences will get mad and your book won’t sell. At least, that’s what publishers say. But some writers know better.
In this episode, Naben Ruthnum joins us to talk about body horror, the pressures of the market, and how Indian diaspora writers get pushed into writing formulaic “curry” books.
(Image via NEON)
Links:
Helpmeet
Find You in t...
2022-06-301h 02
Writers Festival RadioS4 E16 A Hero of Our Time with Naben RuthnumPeter Schneider interviews Naben Ruthnam about his novel, A Hero of Our Time, a vicious takedown of superficial diversity initiatives and tech culture, with a beating heart of broken sincerity.
Osman Shah is a pitstop on his white colleague Olivia Robinson’s quest for corporate domination at AAP, an edutech startup determined to automate higher education. Osman, obsessed by Olivia’s ability to successfully disguise ambition and self-interest as collectivist diversity politics, is bent on exposing her. Aided by his colleague turned comrade-in-arms Nena, who loathes and tolerates him in equal measure, Osman delves into Olivia's twisted past. But at ever...
2022-06-2145 min
Your Favorite BookAzadi with Madhushree Ghosh (Author of Khabaar)Our guest this week is Dr. Madhushree Ghosh, author of the memoir Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family. The book defies all real genre constraints by combining food writing, immigrant stories, journalism, explorations of trauma and violence, and so much more. Ghosh brings together her background as a scientist as well as her love for food and her Bengali heritage and creates a work unlike any other, a collection of related essays that embrace the idea as food as a personal and political symbol.
For this episode, Dr. Ghosh chose the recent collection of...
2022-04-1455 min
City Girl TalksMeredith Garritsen - Let's talk about navigating change with grace, finding joy in the new and New York moments.And... welcome back to City Girl Talks! It's been approximately 525,600 minutes and I've missed you! After a little hiatus, the podcast is back. To start us back up in style, I caught up with a past guest, the lovely Meredith Garritsen. Meredith is a savvy business consultant and the founder of the Hervana Coworking Collective in Vancouver. In this episode, Meredith shares how she's navigated recent life changes, how she finds joy in the new and a special New York moment. (If you've had an NYC moment, you know these are always standout events in your life.)...
2022-03-101h 02
Can't Lit104 - Can't Lit - Naben RuthnumHello! This month we talk to the incredible writer and lovely person, Naben Ruthnum! In this episode we talk about his new novel, A Hero of Our Time, writing compelling dialogue, writing with humour, lies as storytelling, and so much more, including a tangent on Naben's cat and there are some important Rosie interjections. Rage and emotions and so much more! It's a fantastic conversation and very fun.
2022-02-281h 05
Voices of The WalrusIn Bad CompanyFrom diversity charades to token promotions, Naben Ruthnum's new novel is a cynical look at office politics.
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2022-02-0714 min
semi-proseNaben'd It Like BeckhamAllie, Evan, Kristina, and Max discuss 'Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race' by Naben Ruthnum and how Gordon Ramsay brought the realness (0:33); Harold and Kumar, trailblazers (8:38); defending Fieri and mourning Bourdain (12:37); Naben Ruthnum joins the conversation (16:07); white girlfriends, longing for home, authenticity through food (17:04); curious, intelligent, and non-prescriptive (25:33)
2019-01-0134 min
Bite65 – What to Cook for Your Favorite AuthorAuthor Rick Bass toured the country and made dinner for the literary giants who inspired him throughout his career. There was pistachio-encrusted salmon for the late Denis Johnson, elk burgers for Zen poet Gary Snyder, paella for short-fiction genius Lorrie Moore, and ginger ice cream sandwiches for Terry Tempest Williams. Shopping for quail with essayist David Sedaris in rural England proved awkward and anxiety-inducing. Hear Rick talk about these meals and more. Then, MoJo fellow Kari Sonde interviews author Naben Ruthnum about the complicated connotations of the word curry—and how our search for authenticity sometimes leads us astray. Ep...
2018-08-2434 min
GravyNative Strangers of the SouthWriter Naben Ruthnum compares outsiders' expectations and assumptions about the South Asian diaspora to those about the American South. This week's episode is adapted from a lecture Ruthnum gave at SFA's Taste of the South at Blackberry Farm in Walland, TN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-05-3131 min
PIVOTcastPivot on Dec 14 2017– Martinello, Hardcastle, Dolman, RuthnumWelcome back to the PIVOTcast! We have readings from Anita Dolman, Naben Ruthnum, Kevin Hardcastle and Domenica Martinello. Enjoy!
2018-01-0900 min
DetangledDetangled Episode 73 - November 20, 2017.SLACK & SEXISM with Leah Fessler BAD WEED with Manisha Krishnan CURRY & CREATIVE WRITING with Naben Ruthnum TUNES: They Say I’m Different by Betty Davis Tinseltown Swimming In Blood by Destroyer Running Water by Cat Clyde
2017-11-2057 min
The Racist Sandwich PodcastEP39: Namaste Motherfucker (with Mitali Desai and Naben Ruthnum)In this episode, we address the politics of the word “curry.” In part one, Barnard College student Mitali Desai shares her poem “Chicken Tikka Masala” about being bullied at her predominantly white school. In part two, we interview the Toronto based writer Naben Ruthnum about his new book “Curry” which unpacks the history, and the limitations, of the word “curry.”
2017-11-1531 min
All the Books!New Releases and More for September 12, 2017This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Little Fires Everywhere, Warcross, What Happened, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove and Montpelier Parade. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.Trigger warning for racialized violence in the book description at the 24:15 mark.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books d...
2017-09-1346 min