Vast Digital Trove of Recordings by Canadian Literature Greats Nears Completion

Vast Digital Trove of Recordings by Canadian Literature Greats Nears Completion
Atwood arrives on the red carpet for the 2019 Giller Prize in Toronto, on Nov. 18, 2019. The Canadian Press/Chris Young
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Jason Camlot was chatting with his new boss in the English department of Montreal’s Concordia University in 1999 when he spotted a dusty cardboard box of 80 reel-to-reel tapes in a corner of the department head’s office.

He asked about it. Oh, he was told, it’s just a bunch of old poetry readings from the ‘60s and ’70s that nobody’s ever heard.