The Getting Lit Podcast

Send us a text Our discussion with the Rare Candy boys about Michael Hanson's Mind Webs continues. We talk radio, podcasting, audio dramas vs audiobooks vs what Mind Webs is doing. Listen to Mind Webs here: https://archive.org/details/MindWebs_201410 Normally, the Back Matter episode is paywalled, but we all feel so passionate about this stuff, we thought we should have it out in the world fo...

Send us a text Glen and Psi from Rare Candy podcast join us to talk about three stories from the science fiction writer, Thomas M Disch. The stories discussed include Descending, The Number You Have Reached, and The Squirrel Cage. Subscribe to Rare Candy's premium feed (we both do, it's great!): https://rarecandy.substack.com/ Follow Glen on X here: https://x.com/Rarecandypod1 Psi here:...

Send us a text Josh from The Dionysian Dream substack talks all things Wicked. The original novel, Wicked (1995) by Gregory Maguire, the stage musical (2003) by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, and the 2024 film version directed by Jon M Chu and starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. Read Josh's great theatre criticism here: https://substack.com/@thedionysiandream/ Support the show Thi...

Send us a text This week, we read Sigmund Freud's 1930 essay Civilization And Its Discontents and paired it with Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 film, Frenzy. Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit newmythologies.substack.com/subscribe

Send us a text For the full two hour episode, subscribe to the Getting Lit Podcast's Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit This week, we're celebrating Christmas with a discussion about the overtly Christian horror movie, Terrifier 3, released this year. We're joined by former guests Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist podcast, and Ryan Simón, Editor in Chief of Ameri...

Send us a text Yeerk joins the show once again to talk about the first book in Michael Moorcock's Corum series, The Knight of the Swords . We range across topics such as sword and sorcery, formula, the British New Wave science fiction, and much more. And for more talk about Moorcock, politics in fiction and social media, head on over to https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit Follow Yeerk on X:...

Send us a text This episode we chat about Ryunosuke Akutagawa's 'In A Grove' (1922) and Akira Kurosawa's adaptation, Rashomon (1950). What even is truth, man? Also, catch Fresta on Rare Candy's 'Psi Ops' series talking about Rudolf Steiner: https://rarecandy.substack.com/p/psi-ops-vol-2-how-to-know-higher Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like t...

Send us a text The New Era begins with new co-host Matt Fresta. Fresta is the editor of Rango Tango Magazine and is now the "second mic." For this first episode, we chat about William S Burroughs, 'The Place of Dead Roads', a psychedelic, gunslinging Western with science fiction elements and Burroughs' trademark deconstructionist schtick. On the Patreon-exclusive show, Bac...

Send us a text A return after a long hiatus! There was a family tragedy so I took some time off. But we are back to regular programming. I'm talking about how apparently it is bad to expect college students to read 100 pages per day, why straight men don't read novels, also doing a few recommends at the end! Recommends: Scavenger's Reign Crooked Smile by Jared Klickstein: https://ww...

Send us a text This episode, I go out in Deep Ellum, Texas with post-punk/goth icons Rosegarden Funeral Party and we talk about Bukowski with lead singer Leah Lane and drummer Dean Adams. Follow Leah and the band here: https://www.instagram.com/rosegardenfuneralparty/?hl=en If you're in Dallas on the weekend of the 6th of July, 2024, come to Obituary Fest, which Leah has organized. Details he...

Send us a text A short episode on the use (or lack thereof) of the third person omniscient point of view in modern novels after recently revisiting Dickens. Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit newmythologies.substack.com/subscribe

Send us a text Part 3 in our series on John Crowley's Little, Big, covering book 3: Old Law Farm. Subscribe to Patreon for the bonus episode where we talk about Alice Munro and her relationship to Crowley's work: www.patreon.com/gettinglit Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit newmythologies....

Send us a text Gldpny aka Erik joins me for part two of the two-part series on classic military science fiction. This episode is on Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, which is a "novel in response" to Heinlein's Starship Troopers, but also very much its own thing. And over on Patreon, we talk about online friendships, the power and downsides of "scenes", more about Erik&...

Send us a text Part 2 of our read-along of John Crowley's Little, Big. John joins me once again, and we have special guest star Yeerk (from the recent Mr Palomar episode) on the episode as well. Don't be a b***h and read this book about fairies with us! For extra content, including access to Getting Lit Podcast aftershow, Back Matter, head to http://patreon.com/gettinglit Suscribe to Yee...

Send us a text This is a cross post from Rare Candy's Gain of Fiction series featuring yours truly as well as former guest Eddy Rathke, hosted by Glen and Psi from RC. We look at Samuel R. Delany's classic and very wild science fiction experimental novel, Dhalgren. To access the full episode as well as Getting Lit Podcast's aftershow, Back Matter, go to patreon.com/gettinglit . Enjo...

Send us a text Gldpny aka Erik joins me once more for a two-part series on classic military science fiction. First up is Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers. The next episode, released in a couple of weeks, will be on Joe Haldeman's The Forever War. And over on Patreon, we talk about the film Starship Troopers, whether it is a 'failed satire' as claimed in a recent online debat...

Send us a text Talking about a recent online discussion about the Starship Troopers film and how people who are into the death of the author concept tend to invoke the author when expedient, as well as how the death of the author concept is used and abused these days. Subscribe to the Patreon for extra content: patreon.com/gettinglit Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to disc...

Send us a text Former guest John joins me for the first of a six-part, monthly slow read of John Crowley's Little, Big. This quirky, beautiful novel is sizeable. So over the next six months, we will be meeting and discussing each section of the book. Read along with us. Join our cute little book club dedicated to the greatest American fantasy novel ever. This week, we talk about fantasy vs ma...

Send us a text This episode, I'm joined by the wonderful Yeerk to chat about Italo Calvino's final novel, Mr Palomar. We talk about Yeerk's battles against people who believe in "misinformation" and "AI art", humanism, encountering the world as it is and describing it, Italo Calvino's work more generally, looking at art and literature texturally, and the sen...

Send us a text Australian crime writer Iain Ryan joins me live from a bar in Brunswick East to talk about his new book of Gold Coast noir, The Strip, as well as his major inspiration, James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential. We talk about the crime novel genre, hardboiled style, the difficulties in reading Ellroy, Australian culture and literature and more, until we got kicked out of the bar. This i...

Send us a text On this episode, writer and podcaster J David Osborne returns to talk about several short stories by the late science fiction grandmaster, Ursula K Le Guin. We talk about cultural relativism, anthropology, how Ursula's father's work with a lost Indian influenced her, influences in general, whether we would have sex with our clones, writers folding stuff they read into thei...

Send us a text Recording on location from the smoke-wreathed vista at Siglo in Melbourne, I am joined by writer and researcher Nicolas Hausdorf to discuss German writer Ernst Jünger's post-apocalyptic novel, Eumeswil.  We talk about the novel as a metaphor for Europe in the 70s, parapolitics, Jünger's politically awkward position, his aristocratic outlook, his concept of "The Anarch...

Send us a text Hoodrat noir/cyberpunk writer, Agitator podcast host, and former guest on the show, Kelby Losack, joins me to talk about his collection God is Wearing Black. A lot of writing talk, Texas, writing places, class and the publishing industry, honesty and truth in writing and more in this wide ranging discussion on Kelby's short fiction. And over on the Getting Lit Podcast's ne...

Send us a text Surrounded by vinyl records and cassette tapes, I joined editor of the Rango Tango zine, and former GLP guest Matthew Fresta (in his lounge room!) to talk about the very literary songwriting of British band, The Kinks. With some selections from their discography playing in the background, we talk about the way lead singer Ray Davies writes songs like short stories, the influences on...

Send us a text Jayson Young, writer and co-host of the Mangaroos podcast, joins me to talk about David Mitchell's novel about stories, life, death, perception, rebirth, and reincarnation: Cloud Atlas. We also talk about the 2012 film version by Tom Twyker and the Wachowskis. Jayson's substack: https://jaysonyoung.substack.com/ Listen to Mangaroos: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ma...