Hey folks! Had a great chat with Emily Urquhart about her collection of essays, Ordinary Wonder Tales. A little more of me in here, at the end, than usual. We also run a little long but…I had a story to tell…
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E317 with MATT CAHILL
Hey all! This week’s guest and I could have gone on for an extra thirty minutes, I’m sure, even if that was just time spent nerding out about music. Matt Cahill joins us to talk about his novel Radioland. Hope you like it!
E316 with PAUL SUNGA
Hi folks! Join us on GET LIT today for an interview with author Paul Sunga! His latest, Because Of Nothing At All, is fantastic. Hope you enjoy our conversation.
Soundcloud is down today! I will post the link when it’s back but in the meantime try this: https://bit.ly/3ULqOTY
E315 with REBECCA CAMPBELL
Hi folks! This week we speak with author Rebecca Campbell about her book Arboreality. Check it out!
E314 with JOHN WALL BARGER and DAVID LY
GET LIT first aired exactly 6 years ago! Nov 24, 2016. My 47th birthday!
We celebrate this week talking to two great poets – John Wall Barger and David Ly. When I launched River, Diverted, both came to read at the event and it was wonderful. Check out their latest releases – John’s Smog Mother and David’s Dream of Me As Water
Ignore the dates on the link and possibly the filename, it’s E314 Nov 24.
E313 with KIM CONKLIN
Hey everyone!
Kim Conklin was a guest at my Oct 12 book launch for River, Diverted and I went down to Windsor to read with her at Biblioasis last week. Love meeting and getting to know new authors in person! On today’s show we discuss her debut novel, King of Hope.
E312 with SHEILA MURRAY
Super excited about this week’s show! First, I had the privilege of meeting Hamilton-based author Sheila Murray, and she was wonderful. Second, her debut novel Finding Edward is up for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction (announced Nov 16) which is exciting. Third, it was that rare in-studio conversation which always feels good. Hope you enjoy!
(Also I know there’s a typo in the file name – oops!)
Also: if you live in the Windsor area, I’m there tonight (Nov 10) at Biblioasis Bookshop to read from my new novel, River, Diverted. Drop by! More info here.
E311 with EMILY SASO
Hey friends! This week we talk with Emily Saso about her excellent book Nine Dash Line. The first reading I ever did from a novel was in Midland, ON with Emily. Our second novels also came out at the same time. It’s been fun having semi-parallel careers with a cool individual like Emily. Tune in!
E310 with FAREH MALIK
Hey everyone. Today we talk with the poet Fareh Malik. We discuss his work and specifically his collection Streams That Lead Somewhere. Keep your eye out for him; Fareh won the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award this year. Really enjoyed our conversation (and we got a couple readings here too). Hope you enjoy!
E309 with CARL WATTS
Hey all! Today Hamiltonian Carl Watts joins us to talk about his book, I Just Wrote This Five Minutes Ago: Essays on Contemporary Poetry. I feel like I’ve just begun to grasp my own understanding of poetry and was concerned that discussing poetry criticism would be way over my head. Maybe it was? Ha! It was a great conversation anyway. Check it out.
Also: River, Diverted somehow ended up in the top ten! Even adjusting for scope (it’s indie bookstores only, it’s Canadian indie publishers only) I’m still flabbergasted and thrilled. Thanks, book-buyers!