My conversation with Kerry Regier

Host of Vancouver Co-op Radio show Why a Duck? (that features classical and jazz music and lighthearted conversation), Kerry Regier, joined me for a book conversation on October 13.

My apologies for some uneven audio levels on this recording.

Here's what and who we mentioned:

Poems of Miroslav Holub, Czech poet and immunologist. Kerry read his poem: “Half a Hedgehog”

Solaris and His Master’s Voice by Stanisław Herman Lem 

The Game by Ken Dryden
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Moby Dick, Pierre and The Confidence Man by Herman Melville
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Bomber by Len Deighton
Diaspora by Greg Egan
IQ84 by Haruki Marukami
Erasure by Percival Everett
The Three Cornered World by Natsume Sōseki

Authors mentioned: Theodore Sturgeon (originator of “Sturgeon’s Law: 95% of everything is crap”)
Yasunari Kawabata, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, O. Henry, Anton Chekhov, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Jeremy Bernstein

Films mentioned: Europa Report directed by Sebastián Cordero and written by Philip Gelatt, American Fiction
Surrealist filmmaker mentioned Luis Buñuel