The Next Chapter from CBC Radio

Dave Hugelschaffer on "Whiskey Creek" * Buck 65, aka Rich Terfry, on "You Can't Win" by Jack Black * Vish Khanna reviews "Writing Gordon Lightfoot" by Dave Bidini * Giles Blunt answers the Proust Questionnaire * Peggy Blair, author of "The Poisoned Pawn"

Maureen Jennings on "Beware This Boy" * Hilary Davidson on "Evil in All Its Disguises" * Lilian Nattel on her day job as an accountant * Literary Smackdown with Brian Francis and C.S. Richardson: To tweet or not to tweet * Margaret Cannon says if you like

Michael McKinley on "The Penalty Killing" * Alan Bradley on the creation of his 12-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce * Peter Robinson answers the Proust Questionnaire * Pat Capponi on "The Corpse Will Keep" * Linwood Barclay on his day job running a cottage

Shelagh's extended conversation with Susan Swan, author of "The Western Light".

Susan Swan on "The Western Light" * Andrew Kaufman on "Born Weird" * George Elliott Clarke on his day job in the Toronto traffic control centre * David Gilmour reviews "I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen" by Sylvie Simmons * Patrick Ledwell on "I Am

Shelagh's extended conversation with Stephen Marche about his novel, "Love and the Mess We're In"

Stephen Marche on "Love and the Mess We're In" * Luke Doucet on "Porno" by Irvine Welsh * Lynne Van Luven and Lenore Rowntree on "Hidden Lives: coming out on mental illness" * Randy Boyagoda reviews "The Bukowski/Purdy Letters 1964-1974"

Donna Morrissey on "The Deception of Livvy Higgs" * Marjorie Celona on "Y" * Kevin O'Leary on "Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money and Life" * Gail Vaz-Oxlade takes the Proust Questionnaire * Giles Blunt ("Until the Night") recalls the job he should never

Shelagh's extended conversation with Thomas King, author of "The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America".

Thomas King on "The Inconvenient Indian" * Will Whitwham from the band The Wilderness of Manitoba on "Three Day Road" by Joseph Boyden * Ing Wong-Ward says if you liked "A Cook's Tour" by Anthony Bourdain, you'll love "The Devil's Picnic" by Taras Grescoe

There are as many ways to write as there are writers. So, The Next Chapter and Canada Writes created Literary Smackdown, a forum for authors to debate which way works best. In this tenth instalment, Cathy Marie Buchanan and Andrew Kaufman face off in a

Shelagh's extended conversation with Lorna Crozier, author of "The Book of Marvels". Recorded on stage at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts in Seychelt, British Columbia.

Richard Wagamese on "Indian Horse" * Sarah Tsiang on "Desperately Seeking Susans" * Lorna Crozier on "The Book of Marvels" * Neil Pasricha, author of "The Book of Awesome", answers the Proust Questionnaire

Eden Robinson on "The Sasquatch at Home" * Jason Collett on "A Fair Country" by John Ralston Saul * Randy Boyagoda on the life and work of Josef Škvorecký * Shauna Singh Baldwin on "The Selector of Souls" * Lisa Moore on "February"

David Bergen on "The Age of Hope" * Julie Wilson on "Seen Reading" * Donna Morrissey on her short-lived day job at a factory * Amanda Lang on "The Power of Why" * Robert J. Sawyer answers the Proust Questionnaire