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TRB Podcast: Issue One Author Podcasts Now Up!

By Jessica Duffin Wolfe
December 5, 2011

Thanks to our marvelous podcast producer Allegra Young, we’ve posted recordings of our authors reading their first-issue pieces!

If you like, listen here, on the Issue One article pages themselves (linked below), or subscribe to our podcast in iTunes.

Review Essays:

Anna Karenina, her Android, the Aliens and the Train
By Tim Ormond

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You Ask Me Whether I Approve of Violence?
By Brett Story

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Morals and Mean Reviews
By Phillipa Chong

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Just Now Soba
By Dylan Gordon

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Toronto Twitter Scene
By Shawn Micallef

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Artfulness:

Poem: From the Windows the Alley
By Damian Rogers

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Poem: Wake Up
By Birgitta Jónsdóttir

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University Calendar
By Simon Reader

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Editorial:

Why TRB Why Now
By Jessica Duffin Wolfe

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Jessica Duffin Wolfe

Jessica Duffin Wolfe is the Editor-in-Chief of The Toronto Review of Books.

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