Get Lit

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 .  

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!