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This week our guest is Renée D. Bondy , here to talk about her novel, [non]disclosure . Hope you enjoy!

Hey everyone! On this week's episode, Mark Kingwell returns. We talk about his latest, Question Authority: A polemic about trust in five meditations .

We kick off 2025 with  Nina Berkhout , talking about her latest,  This Bright Dust . Thanks for listening!

Hey folks. Hope you're enjoying the season. If you're off for a few days you've got some time to catch up on GET LIT! This week's guest is the excellent  Hollay Ghadery , talking about her collection,  Widow Fantasies .

Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, etc! It fast approaches. Hope you're all enjoying it. Today's guest is  Rob McLennan , here to talk about his collection,  On Beauty . Listen in.

He's baaaack! Gary Barwin joins us today for the (6th? 23rd?) time. We talk about his collection of short fiction, Scandal At The Alphorn Factory . Check it out!

Hey folks. Today we chat with the excellent  Pasha Malla  about  All You Can Kill , a continuation of the story begun with his last novel,  Kill the Mall . Hope you enjoy.

Hey folks! This week we talk with writer and author  Jeffrey Round . His latest novel is  The Sulphur Springs Cure (and for you Hamilton locals, it's set in Ancaster!). Enjoy the program.

Hey folks! Two of my favourite people on the show today. First up is  Liz Worth , talking about her newest poetry collection  Inside Every Dream, A Raging Sea . Then we talk with fellow music critic  Steacy Easton  about their  33 1/3  entry,  White Limozeen . Very different books, very excellent people. Listen in!

Hey all! I first met  Jarrett Mazza  at the GritLit fest years ago, and now here's on the scene with not one but a whole  series of books . Listen to our conversation here!

Hey folks! Great chat this with week  Lynne Kutsukake  about her novel  The Art of Vanishing . Hope you enjoy!

What better day than Hallowe'en (yes, I like the apostrophe) to talk to Craig Davidson , aka Nick Cutter? The newest Cutter book, The Queen , hit in all the right spots for a horror fan like me. It's a heckuva ride. Highly recommended! Enjoy our conversation on Get Lit.

Hey all! Excellent double bill today with author  Kit Dobson  (author of  We Are Already Ghosts ) and my pal  Ben Robinson  (discussing his first collection of poetry,  As Is ). Tune in! Also: tune in on Hallowe'en for spooky seasonal programming – we talk horror with Nick Cutter!

Hey folks! Today's guest is author Ai Jiang . She's a Nebula winner and a Hugo nominee, which is amazing, but she's also just a great storyteller and a cool, humble person. Check out both her recent works, Linghun and I am AI - and check out our show!

Today on the show, we chat with journalist/columnist/author  Elizabeth Renzetti  about her collection of essays,  What She Said: Conversations About Equality . Listen in!

Hey all! Fun interview with author  Ben German Ghan , talking about his wildly inventive spec fic novel (if we have to classify it)  The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits . Listen in!

Hey folks! Had a great chat with  Sarah Henstra , author of  The Lost Tarot . Tune in! Also: Oct 11 is my deadline for my novel's first crappy draft to be completed. Wish me luck.

  Today we talk with the Director of the  Toronto International Festival of Authors , Roland Gulliver. The festival runs Sept 19 – 29. As an added bonus we chat with author  Anuja Varghese  about the  LitLive reading series here in Hamilton. Enjoy the show.

Hey folks! This one's for the locals (or the folks willing to travel). Two great events coming up. This weekend, we have the Author's Tent at Supercrawl (Sept 13 - 15). Noelle Allen joins us to flesh out some of the details. Then we have Bailey Duff from the Telling Tales Festival , talking about their exciting event, focusing on lit for kids (Sept 21 & 22). Listen in! :D

Hey folks! Just back from adventures in Ontario's near north...September is upon us in mere days...things are bananas but there's still gonna be more Get Lit. Today's guest is filmmaker and author Lulu Keating , talking about their collection of stories, Splinter & Shard . Listen if you can!

This week on GET LIT we talk with Jeff Rubin . He's an economist and author and his newest book is A Map of the New Normal: How Inflation, War, and Sanctions Will Change Your World Forever . An extremely interesting read. Listen in!

Don't confuse the episode number with an "Error 404" okay? You might miss my conversation with Leslie Shimotakahara , who is here to talk about her latest, Sisters of the Spruce !

This week we have my pal Margaret Nowaczyk back on the show, to talk about her collection Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery . Enjoy!

Autokrator is one of the most original books I've read in a while (also: thought-provoking, exciting, horrifying). That's why I wasn't surprised by how much enjoyed this conversation with author Emily A. Weedon . Check it out!