Marketing Magazine is reporting that Harper Collins Canada will launch a podcast series in mid-July consisting of interviews with Canadian authors to promote their new books. Congratulations to Harper Collins. In late November 2005 House of Anansi joined Raincoast Books as a Canadian podcaster. Here’s the original post regarding Anansi. And it was way back on November 15 that Raincoast announced its first podcast. Here’s Raincoast’s first posting on the podcast series.

UPDATE: By the way, HarperCollins started podcasting in January 2006 with Jay Ingram. Steve Osgoode, Director Online Marketing and New Media, HarperCollinsCanada, (a guy definitely in the know) wrote me a note saying they did 21 episodes. You can hear the first podcast by visiting Jay Ingram’s website.

Today Raincoast launched Podcast Edition #5, a 3-part podcast series on Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, traveller and author of the bestsellers Kitchen Confidential and The Nasty Bits.

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Part One: Bourdain’s World
- Anthony Bourdain’s most surprising questions.
- How to train for a career in the entertainment business
- Listener mail
- grossest Canadian Food
- getting sick from food
- how Anthony stays trim
- How to succeed in just about anything you do
- Advice to would-be culinary school students

“Seal eyeball ... quite delicious ... I mean like sushi.”
“Having been a heroin addict is really good training for a career in the entertainment business.”
“I’ve only been poisoned to the point of needing immediate medical assistance once—in France, of all places.”

LISTEN NOW (16.9 MB, MP3 Runs: 14:57)

Part 2 in this series will be released next week on July 11, Part 3 on July 18.