Friday Special Blend
Friday November 29th, 2024 with Susan Johnston, Gianluca Petti
Gianluca's Music Hour. Katie Tallo talks Buried Road. Chuqiao Yang on The Last to the Party. Versefest.

Gianluca's Music Hour. Katie Tallo talks Buried Road. Chuqiao Yang on The Last to the Party. Versefest. Katie Tallo's Buried Roads launches Tuesday December 3! She'll also be around town, visiting bookstores and signing books, next Saturday December 7. About Katie Tallo: For three decades, Katie has been an award-winning screenwriter and director, collaborating on projects in animation, television and motion pictures. After winning an international novel contest for women writers in 2013, Katie landed a publishing deal for her debut novel. The thriller Dark August is set in the Wellington West neighbourhood where she lives. The novel became an international bestseller and was chosen as an Apple Book of the Month and New York Times Editor’s Choice. It inspired a trilogy including the follow-up, Poison Lilies, which brings Augusta and Levi back for another cold case when a body emerges from a frozen pond, and the final installment, Buried Road, which tumbles forward more than a decade to find Gus and her daughter, Bly, on a precarious road trip to find a missing person. Katie is currently working on a new mystery thriller. Chuqiao Yang's The Last to the Party About Chuqiao Yang: Chuqiao Yang’s poems have appeared in The Unpublished City, Ricepaper, Arc Poetry Magazine, Canthius, Prism, Grain, CV2, Room, and on CBC Radio. She was a finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and her chapbook, Reunions in the Year of the Sheep, won the bpNichol Chapbook Award. The Last to the Party is her first full-length collection. Yang lives in Ottawa. She'll be appearing at Versefest tonight - 9:00 PM Eastern - Arts Court Studio. cash or card at the door. $10