About this podcast
A monthly series produced and curated by Toronto Public Library (TPL), celebrating the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA). Episodes feature recorded on-stage interviews, readings or panel discussions with some of the 20th century's best-known writers and thinkers. Hosted by novelist, Randy Boyagoda.
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Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives
Latest episodeMartha Gellhorn: The Face of War
About this podcast
A monthly series produced and curated by Toronto Public Library (TPL), celebrating the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA). Episodes feature recorded on-stage interviews, readings or panel discussions with some of the 20th century's best-known writers and thinkers. Hosted by novelist, Randy Boyagoda.
Recent episodes
- Linda Gray Sexton: Anne Sexton's 45 Mercy Street21 Jan · 45 min
- Seamus Heaney: Death of a Naturalist2 May 2025 · 31 min
- Carlos Fuentes: From Illusion to Reality20 Mar 2025 · 46 min
- Ursula Le Guin: Don't Push the River30 Jan 2025 · 44 min
- Saul Bellow: Wires not Roots19 Dec 2024 · 49 min
- Jamaica Kincaid: Brothers, Mothers and Antigua20 Nov 2024 · 54 min
- Mario Vargas Llosa: Literature Can Help People Live16 Oct 2024 · 49 min
- Hilary Mantel: Experiments in Love18 Sept 2024 · 48 min
- Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose15 Oct 2020 · 36 min
- Austin Clarke: Sometimes, A Motherless Child24 Sept 2020 · 43 min
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