This week we have two guests. First up, Amanda Leduc will tell us about how the Festival of Literary Diversity managed to take their entire festival online, and what they’ve got going on in the future. After that, we talk with poet Tanja Bartel, whose excellent collection Everyone At This Party is available through Goose Lane. Hope you enjoy!
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E165 with J.R. McCONVEY
For those who don’t know, this program/podcast is recorded at 93.3 CFMU FM in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. I gleefully pilfer company time to pre-record interviews and piece shows together in our production room. Alas, our production computer has collapsed, so I’ve been duct-taping shows together with speakerphones and microphones and, for the first time every, broadcasting live on FM just so I can capture the web download after.
Good times.
All that to say: apologies for a few tech problems (such as our voices being at different levels) but the show must go on! Today we talk to J.R. McConvey about his excellent short story collection, Different Beasts. Dig!
E157 with REBECCA FISSEHA
I’m on vacation this week…so I’ll keep it short! Today we talk to Rebecca Fisseha about her excellent novel, Daughters of Silence. Tune in!
E123 with JONATHAN ROTONDO
Hey folks!
Just a quick note about the show this week, that’s all…busy prepared for a mini-retreat to dive headlong into a new draft of the current novel.
Our guest is writer, former journalist and biplane pilot Jonathan Rotondo. Airborne: Finding Foxtrot Alpha Mike is a result of all three of those descriptors. Hope you enjoy the show!
E121 with AMY SPURWAY
Hey folks!
The wonders of publishing never cease. Incredibly, two and a half years after publication, The Captain of Kinnoull Hill has received a review in the University of Toronto Quarterly. It was an overdue issue, by about nine months. Still, will the wonders never cease? I have posted it in another blog – as the Quarterly is not free and I can’t post a link, the author has given me permission to cut and paste. Read it here.
This week’s guest is Dartmouth-based author Amy Spurway. Her book, Crow, is a wonderful read, I enjoyed getting to know its titular character. There’s a lot of personality in this one, and I hope you dig the interview.
E110 with IAN WEIR
Hi there everybody! Hope you are having an amazing holiday.
To add to the amazing, you should pick up The Death and Life of Strother Purcell, a terrific “revisionist Western” and thoroughly enjoyable read. In the meantime, listen to author Ian Weir talk about it.
Have a Happy New Year as well!
E109 with PAUL CARLUCCI
Hey there.
Remember, if you’re one of those people who goes into a bookstore to browse, but then brags about how you’re going to go home and order those books on Amazon because they’re cheaper there…? You’re kind of a jerk. Santa will bring you a lump of coal, which Krampus will then put into a sock in order to beat you with it. You will deserve every moment. Support authors, support bookstores!
(Also, because authors need to put in promo time once in a while – my own Captain of Kinnoull Hill makes a fine gift).
But most of all, Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas and the like. Today’s program features Ottawa-based author Paul Carlucci. We talk about his collection of interconnected short stories, The High Rise in Fort Fierce, available via Goose Lane. Enjoy 😀
GET LIT E76 with GENEVIEVE SCOTT
The lifespan of a novel is still a mysterious thing to me. The little bumps that come along when someone goes on the CBC and mentions your work (thanks, Terra Lightfoot), or when some fella says something on a Facebook page, or when you get shortlisted for awards. This weekend I’ll be doing my part to sell one or two by traveling to Windsor, ON for a reading at Biblioasis. A great chance to meet up with my publisher/editor Aimee at Palimpsest too. Details below the show link!
This week’s show features Goose Lane author Genevieve Scott. We talk about her great book, Catch My Drift. Hope you enjoy…!
GET LIT 40 with Michael Kaan
Hello folks,
Things are getting more and more wacky around here – I am the Program Director at 93.3 CFMU, which hosts this program, and as the students return, our schedules go haywire. Still keeping up the writing, though! I’m excited to tell you that I’ve booked a research trip to Japan, starting Nov 1. I’m also excited that if I’m super lucky, the Canada Council might help me do it!
Get Lit is probably going to be busy as well. You can tell it’s fall release season…I have too many books. There’s only such a thing when you have limited airtime 😀
On today’s program, we have Michael Kaan, talking about his excellent novel The Water Beetles. I had the pleasure of reading with him and Jennifer Robson at East Plains United Church a few months back, and I was happy to talk to him again on Get Lit. Enjoy!