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Hey folks. Happy New Year! Show's up a day early. Today we talk with  Rob McLennan  about his latest,  The Book of Sentences . Check it out.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Releasing the show a day early so I can devote tomorrow to family. This week we talk to  David Bergen . Always great to have him on the show. We're discussing his latest, Days of Feasting and Rejoicing. Enjoy and have a great holiday!

Hey folks! Just fresh back off Toronto Island, now hoping to maintain some of the forward momentum. In the meanwhile, had a great talk with  Sadiqa de Meijer  about her collection of essays,  In The Field . Hope you enjoy. By the way yes there will be a show "Christmas Day" though I'll probably get it out a touch early!

Hey folks! I'm currently sitting at a desk overlooking the frozen road (and, if I squint through the trees, the Toronto skyline) in front of the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts. I'm half-way through a seven-day retreat, working on my current MS. Still, the show goes on! This week we talk with  Sean Minogue  about his novel,  Terminal Solstice . Listen in.

Hey folks! Lots of folks on the show today, all for the same project –  Muttertongue: What Is A Word In Utter Space , both a collaborative collection and also a  sound recording  of the same name. Great conversation with  Lillian Allen ,  Gregory Betts  and  Gary Barwin . Enjoy!

Hey all! Today's guest is Hamilton resident and author  Sky Gilbert  who has, you know, done a thing or two (check out his  Wiki  page). He joins me to talk about his recent novel,  The Blue House . Dig!

Hey folks! Double shot of poetry this week with  Rebecca Salazar  ( antibody: poems ) and  Aisha Sasha John  ( total ). Hope you enjoy the show.

Time to talk with another rock journo compatriot of mine,  Jason Schneider . You might know him as co-author of the legendary rock epic  Have Not Been The Same  (with Ian A.D. Jack and  Michael Barclay ). He's here to talk about his latest,  That Gun in Your Hand: The Strange Saga of 'Hey Joe' and Popular Music's History of Violence .

Hey everyone! Paige from Grit Lit pop in to tell us about what the Hamilton readers & writers festival is up to. After that, we talk once again with  Jarrett Mazza , this time about his new  Custodian  series. Tune in!

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.

This week on GET LIT we talk with author  Kasia Jaronczyk  about her novel,  Voices in the Air . Check it out!

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.

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 Wri...

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!

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!

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.

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!

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!

Hey folks! Today's show features author  Karen Smythe  who was last here waaay back on  E49 . We chat about her newest novel,  A Town With No Noise .

Hey folks! Today's program features author  Heather Ramsay.  We talk about her novel,  A Room In The Forest . Enjoy.

Hey folks! I'm back in town and diving into interviews once again. First up, the poet known as  MA|DE.  It's a collaborative voice, created by poets Mark Laliberte and Jade Wallace. We talk about a bunch of things (it was supposed to be half a show, but it wound up a full one) including their latest collection,  ZZOO .

Hey folks! I'm still hiding out in Toronto. Well, that's not true. I'm cat-sitting for a friend (who's been on the show, but that's the only clue I'll give) and visiting with folks I haven't seen in a long while. In the days, though, I'm writing, working on turning a manuscript from junk into gold. So far we're at bronze, which ain't such bad progress. Today's show is with author  Giles Blunt , wh...

Hey folks! Today we're joined by author  Blaine Newton  as we discuss his collection of short stories,  Rag Pickers . Good stuff. Enjoy!

Hey everyone! Had a great conversation with author  Noël Stark  about her new romance novel,  Love Camera Action . Listen in!