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Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:24 AM

Exclusive Munro-Athill podcast

The Globe and Mail is presenting exclusive podcasts of many of the readings and interviews at the 30th International Festival of Authors. We begin with last night's opening gala, at which Bill Richardson hosted a conversation between two greats: Canada's Alice Munro and the British editor and memoirist Diana Athill. It was during the course of their discussion that Munro offhandedly revealed that she had just recovered from cancer.

In conversation: Alice Munro and Diana Athill at IFOA XXX

Hear the two authors discuss their lives and their work. Hosted by Bill Richardson (44 minutes)

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At the end of their discussion, Munro and Athill took questions from the audience. The Q&A is not included in the podcast because of audio problems (you can't hear the questions), but we are providing here Munro's answer to a question about what the 78-year-old author is currently working on.

What Alice Munro is writing now

The trials of a man who isn't interested in sex (2 minutes)

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Peter Scowen

Peter Scowen is a communities editor with the Globe and Mail and is responsible for the Globe Books website. He is a veteran reporter and editor who has worked for a number of dailies and alternative weeklies in Toronto and Montreal. He is the author of Rogue Nation: The America the Rest of the World Knows.

 
 

Judith Fitzgerald

Judith Fitzgerald -- poet, editor and cultural critic with 30 works (including poetry, biography, anthologies and children's books) to her credit -- writes about poetry for In Other Words and is a contributing reviewer for this newspaper as well as a Poetry Fellow of the Chalmers Arts Foundation. Short-listed for (or recipient of) several major honours including the Fiona Mee, Trillium, Governor-General's Poetry and Writers’ Choice Awards (among others), she recently completed The Adagios Quartet. The ex-Torontonian now calls the Almaguin Highlands home.

 
 

Linda Leith

Linda Leith is the founder and artistic director of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival. The annual festival was the world's first multilingual (including English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Italian, Urdu...) books festival when it was launched in 1999. Linda's most recent book is Marrying Hungary (2008).

 
 

Brian Joseph Davis

Brian Joseph Davis is an artist and writer based in Toronto. He's the co-founder of Joyland.ca and has written for Arthur Magazine, The Utne Reader, and Eye Weekly. He's the author of the books Portable Altamont (Coach House, 2005) and I,Tania (ECW, 2008), which Slate.com called "the book of your fever dreams."

 
 

Ben McNally

Ben McNally has been a bookseller in Toronto for more than 30 years and has been operating his own store, Ben McNally Books, in the heart of Toronto's financial district on Bay Street since September 2007. In partnership with the Globe and Mail, he co-ordinates the popular Sunday Authors Brunch Series at the King Edward Hotel, and has, for the past two years, been the bookseller at the International Festival of Authors.