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Hey folks! Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding Our Future Through the Wampum Covenant is a fascinating and important book. To be honest, it feels like information we could all use for living in this part of the world and existing alongside the original peoples of this land. I chat with author Daniel Coleman and illustrator Rick Hill about it. Enjoy the show!

Hey folks! This week we're joined by best-selling thriller author Robert Rotenberg . Listen in as we talk about the latest Ari Greene novel, One Minute More .

Hey folks! We are joined once again by mystery author (amongst other things)  Melodie Campbell . We talk about her latest,  The Silent Film Star Murders . Check it out.

Hey all! The name  Max Kerman  might be familiar to you from other artistic endeavours. Max is the front man for  Arkells , the immensely popular rock band from Hamilton. They're set to perform another enormously successful  Rally  show here in town soon. Max and I go back a ways and it's always great to chat with him. We talk about the band a tiny bit, but mostly about his #1 non-fiction bestsell...

Doubling up today! First we'll chat with Dave Pomfret about his novel  Lilly , and then we are joined by Keith Hazzard to talk about his newest,  Brief Lives .

Hey folks!  Catherine Bush  returns to the program to talk about her collection of short stories,  Skin . Catch her at  The City & The City Books (181 Ottawa St. N., Hamilton) on June 17th at 7 pm.

Hey folks! This week I spoke with  Jeff Apter , Australian music journalist and author. Probably could have talked for hours, given my history (and semi-current status) as a rock write. We discuss his recent book,  Carl Perkins – The King of Rockabilly . Enjoy!

Hey all! Just got back from an incredible trip to Europe. I'm lucky to be able to do these things, lucky to have friends to draw us there (us being my family), and lucky that I could still continue to GET LIT while I was away. This week we chat with Hamilton-based author  Maxie Dara  about her novel, the first "S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery,"  A Grim Reaper's Guide To Catching A Killer . Enjoy!

Hey all!  Greg Rhyno 's back on the show this week to talk about the second Dame Polara mystery,  Who By Water . Enjoy!

Hey folks! Greetings from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. This week we talk to Sara Flemington about her novel, R.I.P. Scoot . Check out the show (and the book)!

Hey folks! I'm headed off on some adventures soon so I'll keep it brief. Today's show features author Tim Welsh, talking about his cool and fairly wild novel  Ley Lines . Check it out!

Hey folks! Poets in the house today. My pal  Chris Bailey  joins us to talk about  Forecast: Pretty Bleak , followed by the excellent  Tolu Oloruntoba , discussing his latest,  Unravel . Listen in.

Great conversation with my friend  Jess Rose , Artistic Director for the super  GritLit  festival coming up this month in Hamilton. Lots happening this year, it promises to be a blast. Also,  come see me and some great local authors!

This week! We talk to author  Julie Salverson  about her new book  A Necessary Distance: Confessions of a Scriptwriter's Daughter . It's a blend of memoir, confessional, investigative journalism, biography, and more. Enjoy the show.

A pleasure to see fellow Hamiltonian and friend  Amanda Leduc  back in the studios. She joins us to talk about her newest novel,  Wild Life . Please ignore the shoddy sound at the very start, it improves!

Hey folks! Double shot today. We speak with  Kelly Watt  about her collection  The Weeping Degree , and then with  Grant Douglas Linney  about  Outdoor Magic . Enjoy the show.

Hey everyone. Who'd have thought this would be an issue in 2025? Well.  Ira Wells  joins me to talk about his latest in the Biblioasis Field Notes series,  On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy . Read it and listen in! But not necessarily in that order.

This week we have a great conversation with author  Peter Darbyshire , about his reissued (and ongoing) Book of Cross series, especially the first one,  The Mona Lisa Sacrifice  since that's the one I read hahaha. Tune in! And also read on… Even if you've never actually listened to 93.3 FM or cfmu.ca the importance of local and independent media continues to expand. Here in Hamilton, local media h...

This week we welcome  J.R. McConvey  back to the program to talk about his new sea monster/cosmic horror series-bound novel  False Bodies . Thanks again for your support on last week's show with  Jason Pargin , too!

would check out cracked.com, largely for the work of David Wong. His essays were hilarious, human, and insightful; he had a rational way of looking at the world that resonated deeply. Fast forward: cracked.com is not the same. The current top story is "29 Inopportune Times People Farted" (okay, the title  did  make me laugh, but it still suggests a downward slide). On the other hand, Wong – aka au...

Hey folks! It's been a long time since I last talked to author Zoe Whittall . Listen in to the great conversation with her about her latest, No Credit River .

Hey folks! This week we speak with author  Jules Delorme  about his latest,  I Heard A Crow Before I Was Born . Hope you enjoy the show.

As I type this it's a brisk -17 degrees here in Hamilton, so stay warm and GET LIT with author  Andrew Boden ! We talk about his novel  When We Were Ashes .