The incomparable, award-winning author of Season of Fury and Wonder, Sharon Butala joins us from her aerie high above the Calgary skyline where she yearns for company but finds hope under a “measureless silent sky” (swoon).

Sharon’s book: A Season of Fury and Wonder

While we hungrily await Ethan Lou‘s upcoming book Once a Bitcoin Miner, we vow to seek love and comfort akin to what he discovered in Germany via dutifully following the “rules of plague.”

Ethan’s book: Field Notes from a Pandemic

Bob Wiseman is many things — writer, producer, composer, musician, PhD student. But his most striking gift, fearlessly revealed last night, is his willingness to share his discomfort and vulnerability in this altered state of connection and communication.

Bob’s book: Music Lessons

With writerly expectations dashed and a baby on the way, author Omar Mouallem had to pivot, fast, for his family and his own sanity. His Pandemic University School of Writing lifted a world of fellow storytellers and earned him a well-deserved honorary degree in Being Awesome.

Omar’s alma mater: Pandemic University

A national treasure and the storyteller we’d most want to be washed ashore with in lieu of a stack of books, Vancouver’s Bill Richardson is all surprise and delight. Here, he shares the artful fate of all the would-be-daughters-in-law who, sadly, didn’t make the cut into the Richardson family.

Bill’s Book: I Saw Three Ships