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Frequency Squared Interview With David Lester

Read an interview with ARP author David Lester by Frequency Squared.

GirlTalk Interview with Fiona Joy Green

Fiona Green discusses her book Practicing Feminist Mothering on GirlTalk with Marlo.

Promotional Video from John K. Samson

A promotional video for the new solo album from John K. Samson from The Weakerthans. ARP will also be releasing a collection of John’s lyrics and poetry in January 2012.

David Lester Interviewed by Bill Baker for The Morton Report

David Lester is multi-talented creator whose work fuses the personal and political, the aesthetic and the mundane, even as it entertains and challenges. However, recently Lester entered new artistic territory with the release of The Listener, his first OGN (original graphic novel). Lester took a few moments from his work to talk about the roots and offshoots of The Listener, how his various projects often morph and cross disciplines, and reveal the secret source of his creative powers among other topics, in this exclusive interview for TMR.

You can read the full interview here.

David Lester on CBC Radio

David Lester, author of The Listener, on CBC’s North by Northwest with guest host and interviewer Paulo Pietropaolo. You can listen here.

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David Lester in The Globe and Mail

Read an article about author David Lester and his graphic novel, The Listener, in the Globe and Mail.

Nine boxes of books arrived in the afternoon. David Lester hauled each heavy box up the stairs to his third-floor apartment in eastside Vancouver.

And there they sat. Hour after hour. He could not bring himself to open a single carton. The boxes contained copies of his graphic novel fresh off the presses.

“I waited many hours,” he said. “I could not bear the thought of it looking badly.”

The books were the result of a project started years earlier, a laborious process involving thousands of sketches and detailed final drawings in stark black and white, rendered in pencil and pen ink, watercolour and acrylic paint. After a long, intimate relationship with each drawing, the work had been sent off to the printers.

Too much ink and the images would be blobs. Too little and the book would be a washout. (click link above to read more)

The Listener - What is it about?

David Lester discusses the plot of his new graphic novel.

The Listener - Who is the listener?

David Lester discusses who the listener is in his new graphic novel.

The Listener - What’s the history behind the story?

David Lester discusses the history behind his new graphic novel.