Literature

Canada's Queen of the Written Word, author, poet and environmental activitist Margaret Atwood sat down with Spartan Youth Radio reporter Madeline Lemire as part of her Year of the Flood book tour. Hear Atwood's thoughts about her new book, the moon landing conspiracy, biotechnology, religion, the future of novels and ways to protect our environment. In her Globe and Mail blog, Atwood wrote that Lemire "was a credit to radio. She did a fine job of it: well-prepared, poised, and a million times friendlier than my first radio interviews back in 1969." LISTEN HERE.

Adam Kenneth Wilson plays creepy villains and he's fine with that. In fact, it's the darker personalities who he finds tastiest to play. From famed serial killer and cult leader Charles Manson to hungry vampire Samuel Gradius, Adam Wilson knows how to terrify audiences. He also likes to laugh. Spartan Youth Radio movie reporters Ross Raguth spoke with Adam on the phone about writing, sketch comedy, sparkly vampires, gore and the nature of evil. LISTEN HERE.

She doesn't have any friends, and has been pulled out of school after school to travel to some new exciting place with her military parents. But this time, Megan is putting her foot down. Which is why her parents are on their way to South Korea, while she is headed for Boston, and the McGowan family. The McGowan family consists of two parents, and seven boys - no daughters. And while Megan remembers all of the boys as being uber brats, she never expected them to grow into total hotties. Total hotties whom she's sharing a bathroom with. But Megan never realized that infiltrating a family of guys would lead her to find out so many strange quirks about all of them. And leave her crushing on more than one. Now Megan has to try and fight her romantic feelings, communicate with Miller - one of the boys who happens to have Asperger's Syndrome, a type of Autism - and survive the McGowan household. Otherwise, she'll be headed to South Korea, where she'll have to wear a uniform to school. Listen here.

From craphound.com: Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.
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No one, I repeat, NO ONE had handwriting as cryptic and undecipherable as that of grade ten student, Madeline Lemire. There are urban legends of the CIA wanting to use her code-making skills to encrypt their most secretive of documents but she didn't get the job (their human resources couldn't read her job application.) In this episode, Madeline forces her friends and classmates to attempt to read one of her notes. Listen here.

The two groups of students at Espanola High School just couldn't stand being near each other. Tempers flare when they are forced to all be in the same class together...and then in counselling. What happens when someone defects to "the other side?" Listen here.



DJ Smiles explores the dark truth that can hide beneath a pretty face. International musical sensation Adrienne Pierce shares her song "Beauty". Listen here.




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