• Episode 087: Bad Cree

  • May 2 2025
  • Length: 57 mins
  • Podcast
  • Summary

  • Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Bad Cree by Jessica Johns. We are delighted to be joined by WPL's Writer-In-Residence, Nora Decter. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club. We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODEBad Cree by Jessica Johns (short story originally published in 2019 in Grain Literary Magazine and inspiration for the novel)No Exit by Taylor AdamsYou Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro EnrigueThe Thursday Murder Club (film adaptation)Murderbot series on Apple TV (trailer)Hark! a vagrant by Kate BeatonGod of the Woods by Liz MooreA Truce that is Not Peace by Miriam Toews (forthcoming memoir!)TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!Nora: And Then She Fell by Alicia ElliotToby: NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray BelcourtTrevor: Ducks by Kate BeatonDennis: Empire of Wild by Cherie DimalineNERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDSNora: Biblichor and PetrichorToby: panicTrevor: jerky Dennis: "just deserts" Next month we will be discussing I Only Read Murder by Ian and Will Ferguson.Thank you to everyone who read Bad Cree with us and for those who left comments on our social media.We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.
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