In late March of last year, the national television network in my country, the CBC, aired its annual talk program, Canada Reads. Billed as ‘a battle of the books,’ it collects a small group of celebrities who debate their reading choices until one final book is selected as the winner. Full disclosure: as a writer, this is the kind of pseudo-intellectual show I despise. It’s book chat for people who want to be told what to read and who like to congratulate themselves on their good taste. Ne
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