The Getting Lit Podcast

Send us a text On this episode, Steff joins me to talk about R.F. Kuang's Yellowface, which we've decided is YA posing as literary fiction (probably the marketers fault). Follow Steff on Twitter/X:  https://twitter.com/moonandmouth Follow Steff on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonandmouth/ Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscri...

Send us a text Writer E Rathke joins me for the second part of the Sally Rooney series, where we look at Sal's second novel, Normal People. We chat about the internet and writing, commercial fiction, chick lit, Trojan-horsing fucked up s**t into normal looking genres, writing craft, and much more. Follow Eddy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/radicalydde Subscribe to Eddy's Substack: https...

Send us a text Zach returns to kick off the Sally Rooney trilogy over the next few weeks. We will be looking at her books in chronological order with a different guest each week, starting with Conversations with Friends. The theme for this episode is "emotionality." We range over love, romance, sex, generational differences, online culture and more. A superb conversation with pod friends...

Send us a text This episode, one of my faves and host of the Unpopular podcast, Jacques Peterson, returns to mansplain the Britney Spears memoir "The Woman in Me" (because I'm not going to read it). How did Spears go from a pop sensation to an online meme, dancing scarily in her house with knives and such? I really haven't followed the drama with Britney and the conservatorship...

Send us a text Cody LaDuke from the Cents of Life podcast joins me for a Halloween special. We're talking ghost stories, specifically Henry James' classic, The Turn of the Screw, the 1961 film version The Innocents, and the 2001 film The Others starring Nicole Kidman. Subscribe to Cents of Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cents-of-life/id1701292933 Follow Cody on X (FKA Twitte...

Send us a text Part 4 of The Book of the New Sun series, looking at Volume IV: The Citadel of the Autarch. We have finally reached the end of our Gene Wolfe series, and we take a look back at the journey, a lot of writing talk, the psychological depth of Severian, Christian symbolism, whether it's a conservative book, why we can't leave genre fiction to the autists and much more. Listen...

Send us a text Part 2 of my chat with Max Easton, this time talking about a book he introduced to me, The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio di Maria. A haunting, unsettling, uneasy book, full of weird implications, surreal and gruesome imagery and a whole lot of dread. Such fun! If you're American and want to buy Max's new book but don't want to pay for exorbitant postage, you can pur...

Send us a text Joining me for a two part  special is novelist and friend of the pod, Max Easton. In part 1, we discuss Max's new book, Paradise Estate, a sequel to his amazing debut The Magpie Wing. In part 2, we will discuss The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria. This episode has a lot of writing talk, but we also discuss generational malaise, the horrors and the comedy of sharehousin...

Send us a text Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, the Portuguese notion of saudade, Pessoa's heteronyms as opposed to pseudonyms, occultism, voice and character in writing. Why this book is one of my favourites and I haven't finished it. The story I published where I tried to express "saudade": https://overland.org.au/2022/12/fiction-quitting/ Support the show This is...

Send us a text The second of four parts on Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun with the Agitator guys, J David Osborne and Kelby Losack. This episode covers volume two of the series: The Claw of the Conciliator. There is SO much heat in this episode: pulpiness, literariness, the novel form vs the epic form, and what most fantasy novels are trying to do vs what Gene Wolfe is actually doing, c...

Send us a text Photographer, musician, and podcaster Matthew DeNicola joins me for a discussion on Stephen King's haunted hotel short story "1408" and an exhaustive dissection of probably my favourite reality television makeover show, Gordon Ramsay's Hotel Hell (2012-2016). Matthew's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattiopattio/ Matthew's Twitter: https://twitter...

Send us a text This episode I'm joined by Organized Meat (aka Erik) to talk about Ayn Rand's dystopian novel Anthem and Michael Bay's 2005 science fiction thriller, The Island. As mentioned in this episode, for those of you who'd like to read the books BEFORE we do an episode on them, you can take a look at the reading list for upcoming episodes posted to my substack: https://i...

Send us a text This episode, a look back on fifty episodes, going over where I've been and where I want to take the podcast, along with some clips from three of my favourite episodes and three of your favourite episodes :) 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 Melbourne novelist Tobe Ellen joins me for a few pints at the pub, where we discuss Australian writer Rod Jones' Julia Paradise. It's a highly evocative novel of psychosexual manipulation set in a dreamy 1920s expat Shanghai. Eroticism, Freudian psychoanalysis, how Australian writers write about other countries and how the smart ones defamiliarize their own, and more. Buy...

Send us a text Jacques Peterson from Unpopular podcast joins me to discuss Sam Levinson's The Idol, the unhinged reaction to it online by media illiterate critics, and three films with similar vibes: Body Double (Brian de Palma 1984), Sliver (Phillip Noyce 1993), and The Voyeurs (Michael Mohan 2021). Sex, violence, erotic thrillers, degradation, eroticism, dead eyed zoomer sex negativity, Syd...

Send us a text This episode I'm recommending some new things I have read, watched, and listened to that I've loved, as well as responding to a goofy Andrew Tate tweet about reading (sorry). New things I've read: American Vulgaria Issue 2: https://americanvulgaria.com/product/magazine-issue-2/ Mercy, by Kelby Losack: https://www.amazon.com/Mercy-Kelby-Losack-ebook/dp/B0BPPHPVK7 New t...

Send us a text Glen Rockney, one half of the fabulous podcast, Rare Candy, joins me to talk about some of Harlan Ellison's greatest science fiction stories, including: I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream ""Repent Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman," Paingod, and  A Boy and His Dog (both the original novella and the movie version directed by T.Q. Jones, starring Don Johnson) Su...

Send us a text Matthew Fresta, editor of the fabulous zine, Rango Tango, joins me to talk about Cormac McCarthy's novel of grim depravity in the American West, Blood Meridian, as well as the films Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler, 2015) and Mad Dog Morgan (Phillipe Mora, 1976). Buy Rango Tango zine, here: https://cowardpunchrecords.com.au/ Follow Matthew on twitter: https://twitter.com/newfacen...

Send us a text Sam from The Third Place , an excellent videogames podcast, joins me to discuss Hideo Kojima and his wonderful book of influences, inspirations, memetics and...genetics (?), The Creative Gene. Listen to The Third Place here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-third-place/id1643088847 Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribe...

Send us a text Musician Erik Harris joins me to talk about Alfred Bester's classic science fiction novel of revenge, redemption, and transcendence, The Stars My Destination (sometimes known as Tiger! Tiger!). Electronic music, creative individualism, Bester's influential but troubled place within the science fiction genre, why science fiction is great, the layers to Bester's work, f...

Send us a text Josh, formerly of the Evil Thespian podcast, and currently of The Dionysian Dream, joins me for his third appearance on the pod! We're talking about Baz Luhrmann's sumptuous, vital, and very theatrical "Red Curtain" Trilogy: Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! (2001) Subscribe to The Dionysian Dream here: https://thedionysiandream.subs...

Send us a text This episode, Ryan Simón , editor of the fabulous magazine, American Vulgaria, joins me to talk about Philip K Dick's mind-bending science fiction masterpiece, Ubik . Arty sleaze, "pick me straights," beauty and art and reading as the way out of Current Thingism, making a magazine an aesthetic object, bubbles of irreality, Gnosticism, Dick's constant destruction...

Send us a text This episode I talk about two of my favourite Biblical adaptations: Jesus Christ Superstar and The Prince of Egypt. Australian 1992 cast of Jesus Christ Superstar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea9mtQ1RM8I Support me on Patreon. At the moment, it's just the archive, but we will be launching an aftershow soon: https://www.patreon.com/GettingLit Support the show This is a publi...

Send us a text Poet Andrew Ketcham joins me for a deep dive into celebrity poetry books, specifically Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass and Jewel's A Night Without Armor.  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 This episode Matt invites six guests for a series of one on one segments. Each has brought along something old and something new to discuss that they're passionate about. Guests include: Paul Dalla Rosa (buy his collection here ) River Page ( Pirate Wires) Max Easton (buy The Magpie Wing here ) Miss Unity ( https://www.missunity.net/ ) Sheila Ngoc Pham Zach Langley Chi Chi ( I&...