# susan sontag (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover susan sontag. Page: Feed: --- ## [Martha Gellhorn: The Face of War](https://writersoffthepage.ca/episodes/martha-gellhorn-the-face-of-war-RxPE4KDo) _2026-04-22 · toleksuik@tpl.ca (Randy Boyagoda, martha gellhorn, ernest hemingway, gregory mccormick) · Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives_ In this electrifying episode of Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives , travel back to October 1992 to hear Martha Gellhorn — novelist, journalist, and witness to nearly every major conflict of the twentieth century — read from the newly revised conclusion to her landmark book The Face of War , first published in 1959 and updated across five editions as Gellhorn found herself, again and… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/5ee3d993-a497-405d-b644-ae20ccc79b21/e92b733b-c0fd-42e3-81f4-909648a07d21/episodes/audio/group/b4b86f6f-07bc-44b0-9b5c-ff8c9704b5b3/group-item/09e1a8aa-a9e4-4946-abb7-1ef5960b6950/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=4iwqIVZJ) ## [Linda Gray Sexton: Anne Sexton's 45 Mercy Street](https://writersoffthepage.ca/episodes/linda-gray-sexton-anne-sextons-45-mercy-street-d0r8J7bb) _2026-01-21 · toleksuik@tpl.ca (Linda Gray Sexton, Randy Boyagoda) · Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives_ Content Warning : This episode contains references to suicide. Listener discretion is advised. Please take care of yourself and seek support if needed. In this moving episode of Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives, travel back to October 1994 to hear Linda Gray Sexton speak candidly about the complex legacy of being Anne Sexton's daughter. Her intimate presentation at Harbourfront, allows… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e92b733b-c0fd-42e3-81f4-909648a07d21/episodes/237ad05a-927f-4758-90cf-cf214022fa5c/audio/a4862601-0751-4080-b292-e7d82c9c1aa0/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=4iwqIVZJ) ## [Seamus Heaney: Death of a Naturalist](https://writersoffthepage.ca/episodes/seamus-heaney-death-of-a-naturalist-Se1XiGbf) _2025-05-02 · toleksuik@tpl.ca (Toronto Public Library) · Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives_ In this captivating episode of Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives, step back in time to 1990 Toronto and immerse yourself in the lyrical world of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. The recording captures Heaney in an intimate reading at the Harbourfront Reading Series, where his distinctive Irish voice brings to life some of his most beloved poems, including "Digging," "Follower,"… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e92b733b-c0fd-42e3-81f4-909648a07d21/episodes/e47f32d5-ad90-42c9-afdb-7520d19cdc57/audio/98267174-8a22-409e-89e0-c001607caedd/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=4iwqIVZJ) ## [Carlos Fuentes: From Illusion to Reality](https://writersoffthepage.ca/episodes/carlos-fuentes-from-illusion-to-reality-VL91uERC) _2025-03-20 · toleksuik@tpl.ca (Toronto Public Library) · Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives_ This conversation between Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes and Bob Rae, recorded in 2000, offers a time capsule of North American relations at a pivotal moment. The interview captures Fuentes just after Mexico's historic election that ended the PRI party's 71-year rule—a seismic political shift that he explains with characteristic depth and nuance. While Fuentes delves into Mexican politics with a… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e92b733b-c0fd-42e3-81f4-909648a07d21/episodes/318d1bdb-3370-4f63-983c-a9b78d252e38/audio/9dfa1468-13c4-4a6a-b9e7-8a45081efb6b/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=4iwqIVZJ) ## [Ursula Le Guin: Don't Push the River](https://writersoffthepage.ca/episodes/ursula-le-guin-dont-push-the-river-HvZGi1_c) _2025-01-30 · toleksuik@tpl.ca (Randy Boyagoda, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula Le Guin, Marilyn Powell) · Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives_ In October of 2000, Ursula K. Le Guin sat down with CBC's Marilyn Powell to discuss her novel, The Telling . Listening to their conversation now feels like opening a time capsule – one that paradoxically contains prescient observations about how we both preserve and erase our past. Le Guin speaks of editing with razor blades, of physically cutting away words from paper – a practice that feels… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e92b733b-c0fd-42e3-81f4-909648a07d21/episodes/0bc68dd4-d72e-46ae-9f1f-4371b2798369/audio/93aba06b-05e8-4c8f-899f-76779d8235d8/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=4iwqIVZJ) ## [Saul Bellow: Wires not Roots](https://writersoffthepage.ca/episodes/saul-bellow-wires-not-roots-2pvH30RS) _2024-12-19 · toleksuik@tpl.ca (Randy Boyagoda, Adrienne Clarkson, Saul Bellow, Yuka) · Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives_ EPISODE SUMMARY Listening to this 1988 conversation between Nobel-prize winning American writer, Saul Bellow, and former Canadian Governor General, Adrienne Clarkson, we possess the advantage of hindsight. In the midst of a US presidential election, Bellow bemoans the vapid discourse between candidates George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis—their language constrained by groupthink and moral rigidity… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e92b733b-c0fd-42e3-81f4-909648a07d21/episodes/349f9a9e-7a29-4489-88e7-fd3aefc58d94/audio/58b4cbe2-298f-42fe-b137-89ed53c1f353/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=4iwqIVZJ) ## [Jamaica Kincaid: Brothers, Mothers and Antigua](https://writersoffthepage.ca/episodes/jamaica-kincaid-brothers-mothers-and-antigua-DofPBotd) _2024-11-20 · toleksuik@tpl.ca (Randy Boyagoda, Jamaica Kincaid, Dionne Brand) · Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives_ The best kinds of conversations should meander and detour, trip over delicate areas, double down when a point must be emphatically asserted. After all, the ostensible subject of this 1997 on-stage chat between Dionne Brand and Jamaica Kincaid is the release of Kincaid's memoir, My Brother. But this book gets only a brief nod early on and the subject is largely abandoned for other thoughts and… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e92b733b-c0fd-42e3-81f4-909648a07d21/episodes/be63e13b-c5c2-4813-a104-cb13bba82e08/audio/b702929f-f0b4-4e47-abab-85cacdae655e/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=4iwqIVZJ) ## [Mario Vargas Llosa: Literature Can Help People Live](https://writersoffthepage.ca/episodes/mario-vargas-llosa-literature-can-help-people-live-l_MDgdGf) _2024-10-16 · toleksuik@tpl.ca (Randy Boyagoda, Adrienne Clarkson, Mario Vargas Llosa) · Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives_ In 1988, when Mario Vargas Llosa sat down on a Toronto stage with Adrienne Clarkson, he hadn't yet won his Nobel Prize for Literature (that came in 2010) so he wasn't yet a "central" figure in the world of writing. In this conversation, he teases out the hazy line between being an artist (who inhabits the world of the imagination), and being a professional politician (who inhabits the world of… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e92b733b-c0fd-42e3-81f4-909648a07d21/episodes/aa4d5344-2567-47a7-a47d-4fac41099f4a/audio/8aaabb25-ace1-4db0-9b5f-bd80bbf2b004/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=4iwqIVZJ) ## [Hilary Mantel: Experiments in Love](https://writersoffthepage.ca/episodes/hilary-mantel-experiments-in-love-Bmpu1EP7) _2024-09-18 · toleksuik@tpl.ca (Randy Boyagoda, Hilary Mantel, Rosemary Sullivan) · Writers Off the Page: From the TIFA Archives_ This audio recording of Hilary Mantel in conversation with Rosemary Sullivan was recorded on stage at Harbourfront Reading Series in 1997. It is used with the kind permission of the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Thanks to TIFA for allowing us access to their archives for this series. Find out more about the Festival and its annual festival along with many other activities at… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e92b733b-c0fd-42e3-81f4-909648a07d21/episodes/32a8e482-4b41-48d5-9bdd-10c0828081ce/audio/247710a7-e1be-4864-be23-cd3952bc5b2e/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=4iwqIVZJ)