In keeping with the spooky season, we’re gonna talk about vampires! Emily A. Weedon is on to discuss her novel, Hemosapiens. Happy Hallowe’en (I really do prefer that spookier old-school spelling.
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E466 with KASIA JARONCZYK
This week on GET LIT we talk with author Kasia Jaronczyk about her novel, Voices in the Air. Check it out!
E465 with DANILA BOTHA
Hey folks! Today we chat with author Danila Botha about her novel, A Place For People Like Us. Hope you dig. I’m sick so I’m gonna go lie down now.
E464 with JIM JOHNSTONE and DORIANNE EMMERTON
Today on the show we’re joined by Jim Johnstone! He was last on the show several years ago to talk about the collection he edited, The New Wave. Today he talks about his own work, mainly the latest collection of poetry criticism, Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry.
Joining Jim on the episode is Dorianne Emmerton, here to talk about the Brockton Writers Series. They, like everyone else, are facing funding issues, and you can help out at the link above.
E463 with MATT BOBKIN and ADAM FEIBEL
Hey folks! Got to drive right into my wheelhouse (wait, is that how the idiom works?) and talk to some fellow music journalists again. Today we feature Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel, discussing their book In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over The World. It features everyone from Avril to Alexisonfire (and other non-A-related artists). Enjoy!
E462 with MARK SAMPSON
Hey all! This week we talk to my pal (and friend of the show) Mark Sampson, who surprised me with the cosmic horror darkness of Lowfield. Check it out, and listen to our conversation on GET LIT!
E461 with DANNY JACOBS
Hey folks! This week we speak to author Danny Jacobs about his novel The Ignis Psalter. I called it “horror-adjacent” but it’s also been called “part lyric fairy tale, part small town gothic.” Listen in.
E460 with JESSICA POPESKI and NOELLE ALLEN
Hey folks! This week Jessica Popeski is here to talk about her poetry collection The Problem With Having A Body. For the locals, Noelle Allen from Wolsak & Wynn joins us to talk about the Author Tent at Supercrawl. I’ll be there off and on all weekend, but definitely Saturday, Sept. 13 at 4:30 pm when I’ll be having a conversation with Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel, authors of In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over The World. You’ll find us in the tent at Colborne and James St. North!
E459 with RUSSELL SMITH
Hey folks! I first read Russel Smith back in the ’90s when he released How Insensitive. Now he joins GET LIT to talk about his latest novel, Self Care. Listen in!
E458 with STEVEN MAYOFF and LAURIER TIERNAN
Hey folks! Double shot of interviews today with PEI poet Steven Mayoff (Swinging Between Water and Stone) and Alberta-by-way-of-Tokyo artist Laurier Tiernan (Fifty-Five Ways To Survive). Enjoy the show!