Johnston to be featured on The Good Sentence, with Paul MacDougall, on The Coast 89.7
The Good Sentence, with Paul MacDougall, on The Coast 89.7
CKOA-FM The Coast 89.7’s weekly Dialogue (Sundays 6-7 p.m.; encores Tuesday and Thursday 11 p.m. to midnight) will now include a monthly literary segment with Cape Breton writer Paul MacDougall.
The segment, called “The Good Sentence” will have its inaugural broadcast this Sunday, May 4. The Coast also streams live over the web at http://www.coastalradio.ca/about/listen-live/ and is available throughout Atlantic Canada on Bell Aliant FibreOp TV, Channel 773.
Each episode of “The Good Sentence” will feature interviews with authors, book reviews and other conversations about regional literature.
The May 4 episode will feature Paul’s conversation with A.J.B. Johnston, whose new novel The Maze, A Thomas Pichon Novel (CBU Press) launches in June (#themaze). The Maze is the second in a series of novels, following Thomas, A Secret Life CBU Press (2012).
Paul MacDougall is well-known to the literary community of Cape Breton. He is the author of a number of plays and short stories and of Distinction Earned: Cape Breton’s Boxing Legends (CBU Press 2010).
The Coast 89.7 (Coastal Community Radio Co-operative Ltd.) operates from studios on Reserve Street in Glace Bay. It was founded by current General Manager Bill MacNeil who had the idea for a community-owned radio station dedicated to promoting local artists and culture to an interested local audience.