Toronto-based fiction writer Ibi Kaslik has today received a Trillium Book Award nomination, for her second novel, The Angel Riots, released in March 2008. DRIVEN’s editorial personnel are unabashed fans of the book; it was an honour when Kaslik agreed to interview 2008 Giller Prize-winning author Joseph Boyden for our December issue (read it here: pp38-42).
Archive for May 27th, 2009
Interviews: The Closer’s Sedgwick
and SVU’s Hargitay
The moment actress Angie Dickinson flashed her Detective Pepper Anderson I.D. badge in the very first episode of the seminal 1970s cop series Police Woman, female crime-fighters would never be portrayed the same way again on the small screen. In separate conversations with Earl Dittman, two of modern television crime-fighters, The Closer’s Kyra “One degree of Kevin Bacon” Sedgwick and Law and Order: SVU’s Mariska “I feel sorry for Tom Cruise” Hargitay, talk about their shows’ respective “Daughters of Dickinson.” Plus, a special crime & punishment-themed edition of this week’s DVDs, all after the jump.
