The Getting Lit Podcast

Send us a text Matt talks about some old polaroids that made him cry, Roland Barthes' book on photography, Camera Lucida, and Chris Marker's 1962 science fiction still image film, La Jetée. 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 Matt is joined by Dallas songwriter, poet, multi-instrumentalist, Young Dean to talk Flannery O'Connor's short stories Everything That Rises Must Converge and The Partridge Festival, as well as Dean's songwriting process, influences, and his new album, Terror on Vacation ( https://open.spotify.com/album/6Sv1LICDiPLZUqWbxtSEb8?si=e-fi-T-uRrCHbjZ1jLchOQ ) Dean's Tw...

Send us a text Writer, producer, and radiomaker, Sheila Ngoc Pham joins Reuben and Matt to discuss Kay Dick's dystopian "sequence of unease", They . Nonconformity, enemies of art, Western Sydney, identity politics in writing, and much more.  Follow Sheila on Twitter: https://twitter.com/birdpham Read Sheila's essay on the Western Sydney writing scene: https://sydneyreviewofbook...

Send us a text Nick from Tokyo ( https://twitter.com/NickFromTokyo ) joins us to discuss Sayaka Murata's 2018 novel, Convenience Store Woman, and Juzo Itami's 1996 film, Supermarket Woman. 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 Poet and writer Andrew Ketcham joins us to talk about YA literature as well as the 2011 film starring Charlize Theron, Young Adult. Read Andrew's latest poem here: https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/horse-girl Matt has also started a substack. You can read the first essay here: https://impieties.substack.com/ Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to disc...

Send us a text Weeaboo princess, drag icon, and enfant terrible podcaster Zach Langley Chi Chi returns to talk Bruce Wagner's novel of sex, death, and celebrity, Dead Stars, as well as David Cronenberg's 2014 film, Maps to the Stars. Subscribe to Zach's podcast, I'm So Popular:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/im-so-popular/id1523827234 Support the show This is a public e...

Send us a text Using the anonymous messaging app, NGL, we asked our listeners for questions. And boy did we get some! Everything from Reuben's PhD, plagiarism scandals, past guest hotness levels, and much more! 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 Reuben and Rio speak with Rio's friend Liam about Australian writer Max Easton's The Magpie Wing. Order here: https://giramondopublishing.com/books/the-magpie-wing/   ...or anywhere you order your books. 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/subscrib...

Send us a text Returning guest Paul Dalla Rosa takes us on a tour around some of his favourite places to eat and drink while we talk about his new collection, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, out now from Allen and Unwin in Australia and Serpent's Tail in the UK. We also chat about many other things, and we revel in the fact that this is the first time all three of us have recorded together...

Send us a text Josh and Maddie from the amazing Evil Thespian podcast join us to discuss Oscar Wilde's one act play, Salome, and Wilde, the 1997 biopic directed by Brian Gilbert starring Stephen Fry and Jude Law. Subscribe to Evil Thespian here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evil-thespian/id1562330987 . Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with othe...

Send us a text The wonderful Angela Nagle joins us to talk about Robert Hughes' fantastic study of modern art, The Shock of the New. Subscribe to Angela's substack: https://angelanagle.substack.com/ Buy Angela's book, Kill All Normies: https://www.amazon.com/Kill-All-Normies-Culture-Alt-Right/dp/1785355430   Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this wi...

Send us a text Gian from Twinkrev (RIP) joins Rio and Matt to talk about two Vegas movies: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam 1998) and Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995). 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 week: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of lot 49. Meaning, postmodernism, why Pynchon is like David Lynch (and Tolkien!) and more. 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 Alice Gribbin, poet and author of the wonderful Notes of an Aesthete, joins the lads to talk about Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's luxurious novel of fading Sicilian nobility, The Leopard (1958). Find Alice's work here: https://alicegribbin.substack.com/ Alice's twitter: https://twitter.com/asgribbin Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss t...

Send us a text Bookish brawls, literary violence, bitter fights and unbecoming scraps between egotistical writers . For our season finale, we each choose one of our favourite feuds from literary history.  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 It's a Q & A episode! Join us as our lovely, twisted, perverted, overly serious, and sincere subscribers ask us all sorts of questions, including the most important one: f**k marry kill our last three guests?! 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/sub...

Send us a text This episode, Reuben gets an aneurysm reading Robert E Howard's first Conan story, " The Phoenix on the Sword ," and asks Crom to grant revenge on Matt for inflicting this pulp trash on him. We also watch one of Matt's favourite films, Conan the Barbarian (1982), directed by the incomparable John Milius and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his breakout role. Com...

Send us a text This week, we're much more tiddly than usual, so what better time to talk about anonymous authorship and literary theory? First we go through our favourite pieces of literature penned by anonymous or pseudonymous authors, including some very old medieval poems. Then we rant about the misuses of Roland Barthes' concept of the death of the author, the art of s**t posting and...

Send us a text We're changing it up this episode, with Reuben conducting the first of our author interview series. Each season of the podcast we'll be doing a one-on-one, deep dive discussion with an author we think you should read.   For the inaugural interview, we've chosen Michael Winkler, author of the "exploded novel," Grimmish. This is a daring, challenging, and odd...

Send us a text Across three timezones, a quartet of homosexuals gather for a symposium on faggotry. Rio and Matt are joined by Zach Langley Chi Chi from I'm So Popular podcast and Josh from Evil Thespian podcast to talk F*****s, Larry Kramer's seminal book (yes very seminal, and urinal, and fecal). All four plunge into the pit of sexuality to sample the Dionysian extremities of gay sex,...

Send us a text This episode we're joined by an impromptu guest: Sydney drag queen, Aaron Manhattan, who found out we were doing Gore Vidal's gender adventure Myra Breckinridge and just had to come aboard.  Join us as we plumb the uterine depths of womanhood and the fluidity of the sex roles with Myra. It's a freewheeling discussion about the novel and the film too, which stars the m...

Send us a text It's a literary hot topics episode, baby! We engage in some capital D Discourse, talking about how saying facts about poetry will get you sacked from your editing job, complaining about Sally Rooney's writing and complaining about complaints about Sally Rooney's writing, and the plague of Gay Sincerity. Poetry editor fired: https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/barren-poet...

Send us a text This week, Matt, Rio, and Reuben are joined by connoisseur of f**ked-up films, Alison Taylor, to discuss Georges Bataille's seminal (or perhaps that should be "urinal"?) pornographic opus, Story of the Eye, as well as Jörg Buttgereit's cinematic ode to necrophilia, Nekromantik.  Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other s...

Send us a text Rio and Matt talk Christos Tsiolkas' explosively gay novel, Loaded, and its film adaptation, Head On. They explain "wogs" for the international listeners, then discuss gays, immigration, Australian and Greek culture, and how formative this novel has been for a lot of Aussies of the..ahem...homosexualist persuasion.  Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd...

Send us a text This episode, we're joined by River Page ( @gayliaronline on Twitter), contributing editor at Twink Revolution and Twitter enfant terrible . We chat about The Road to Wigan Pier , George Orwell's harrowing account of the plight of the poor and working class in northern English coal mining towns. We talk about the disconnect between the working class and the middle class so...