Apr 29, 2020
Hey all! Today we chat with two people on the show. First up is Jaime from Epic Books, talking about how they’ve been keeping business alive and getting people books during the pandemic shutdown. After that, we chat with poet Canisia Lubrin about her newest work, The Dyzgraphxst. I’m always intimidated by poets –...
Apr 23, 2020
Hi folks! As I type this, we’re still on self-imposed lockdown. Hope you’re all ok out there and getting lot of reading done!
Today’s guest is Jane Christmas. Open House: A Life in Thirty-Two Moves is a wonderful memoir. Doesn’t matter if you frequently move house or renovate or any of that, the book can speak...
Apr 15, 2020
Hey all! This week’s show features Whitehorse-based writer Eva Holland. Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear isn’t directly about the fear we’ve all been feeling – this creeping-dread-end-of-times type fear – but it certainly seemed timely when it landed in my mailbox.
We talk about fears, the...
Apr 7, 2020
We’re all having unique, difficult experiences these days, and I don’t want to dwell on it but: be safe, take care of yourselves, take care of each other. There’s been a lot of loss in my family in the last 10 days, and now it’s harder than ever to deal with such things. So…be kind to people. You can’t know...
Apr 1, 2020
Hey readers! Back with another isolated episode of Get Lit.
This week’s episode features Hamilton-based journalist and author Paul Weinberg. We discuss his book When Poverty Mattered: Then and Now. Hope you enjoy!