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Podcast: What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books
Episode: Valérie Bah
Description: My guest on this episode is ValĂ©rie Bah. ValĂ©rie is a multidisciplinary QuĂ©bĂ©cois artist, filmmaker, documentarian, photographer, and writer whose first book was the collection The Rage Letters, translated from the French and published by Metonymy Press. ValĂ©rieâs most recent book is their first novel (and first book in English) Subterrane. That book was published by VĂ©hicule Press in 2024 and was the winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. The Montreal Review of Books said that Subterrane âhums with high-context, sublingual information, the kind that resists total comprehension joyfully and exactingly.âVal...