The Getting Lit Podcast
Casual yet stimulating talks about books and media.
Episodes
This week, a big episode discussing a slim novel. We're joined by a couple of our favourite Southerners (Kalob Petty and Banjer Jack) and our favourite Montanan (Ryan Simón) to chat about Carson McCullers' classic Southern Gothic novel about repressed eros and dark desires, Reflections in a Golden Eye.
We talk about the Southern Gothic tradition, why Southerners are so chill, why Carson McCullers was likely ...
Jasper Ceylon, author of the hoax poetry journal Echolalia Review, has been unmasked as Aaron Barry. Aaron joins us to talk about what's been happening in his life since he revealed himself in The Free Press, his new novel "£, flesh", the internet novel, writing under pseudonyms and much more.
Listen to Jasper/Aaron's previous episode with us here:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/po...
Jack Norman is the author of the new short story collection Sleep Capricorn, coming in October from Bonfire Books. Like Fresta and Sini, he also grew up in North Queensland. This episode features three northerners yarning about Jack's fiction, as well as fatherhood, Australian fiction in general, The Honourable Member for Kennedy Bob Katter, craft discussions on narration, and writing literary fiction as a gamer/...
We talk about The Independent article about men "performatively reading", as well as Fresta's realisation that he is "Unc" now after a night out.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/performative-male-trends-books-matcha-pilates-attention-b2811124.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1756101761
Music:
To Die Among Strangers - Rome
Can't Fight The Moonlight - LeAnn Rimes
This episode, we are joined by the best book YouTuber around, Mr Cliff Sargent. Cliff hosts the popular channel "Better Than Food," where he reviews everything from classics to difficult postmodern tomes and sci fi. Truly a great discussion from one of the best in the game right now. We talk about how he makes his book content, developing a reading practice, filmmaking, as well as a long digression on black ...
This week we are joined by Passage Prize winner Michael Button to discuss Alice Munro's short story cycle, Who Do You Think You Are? (aka The Beggar Maid in the US).
Follow Michael on X: https://x.com/Michaelknife1
Music: Time Fades Away by Neil Young
This week Fresta talks to Will Samson about Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Bend Sinister and the Fall record of the same name. As Fresta and Will are both avant-garde music-spazz’s the conversation ends up in a discussion about other artists such as The Country Teasers, Lana Del Rey, Kanye, Pere Ubu, The Melvins, Townes Van Zandt, Oasis, Throbbing Gristle, Roky Erickson and The Kinks.
Note: there are a couple of audio issues...
Bigmac McCarthy joins Fresta (who is hosting solo this ep) to talk about Haruki Murakami’s surrealistic tome The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle as well as some music nerd talk at the end.
Mac’s Twitter: https://x.com/bigmac_mccarthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Mac’s music, Heavy Body: https://heavybody.bandcamp.com/
Country Teasers episode with Fresta on Mac's podcast, Nice: https://open.spotify....
Zach Langley Chi Chi joins us once again to talk about William Shakespeare's final play, The Tempest, as well as Julie Taymor's 2010 film adaptation starring Helen Mirren as a gender-swapped Prospero.
Subscribe to Zach's wonderful podcast, I'm So Popular: https://www.patreon.com/imsopopular
And for a special episode of Back Matter where a lot of tea is spilled, subscribe to our Patreon: https://www....
Our guest this week is David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize Winner and America's foremost playwright, known for such plays as American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross, and movies such as Oleanna, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and The Untouchables.
He joins us to talk about his masterful new novel, Some Recollections of St. Ives, which poses as a memoir of a teacher at an idyllic private school.
We have a wide-ranging chat ab...
This is a snippet from the Patreon-exclusive aftershow, Back Matter, where our guest this week, Emmalea Russo, reads Sini's astrological chart. Later, we discuss the 2024 film, The Uninvited, directed by Nadia Conners and starring Walton Goggins, Elizabeth Reaser, Pedro Pascal.
To listen to full episodes of Back Matter, get access to the full archive and other special episodes, subscribe on Patreon at https://www....
On this episode we talk to poet, author, and astrologer Emmalea Russo about her new novel, Vivienne. We talk about the "cancellation novel", women artists, astrology, hippie women, Catholicism, and porting poetic structural techniques onto the novelistic form. A great discussion!
And over on the paid aftershow at Patreon, Emmalea reads Sini's natal chart (so much Gemini!) and we discuss the 2024 film, T...
This is part two of a collaboration with Book Club From Hell, another great Australian book podcast. Head over to their feed for part one where we discuss the classic Australian psychological thriller novel, Wake In Fright by Kenneth Cook (1961).
And on this episode we will be discussing the almost lost forever film version from 1971, starring Donald Pleasance and Chips Rafferty.
This is a fun one folks, and painfully A...
On this special episode of Back Matter, Psi from Rare Candy podcast and Cody LaDuke join Sini and Fresta to discuss George Lucas' Revenge of the Sith, and nerd out on all things Star Wars.
This is a preview. To get the full episode, and more details about Sini's visit to the set of Attack of the Clones, subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit
Subscribe to Rare Candy here:
This week, Sini is joined by his friend Lucas out at a bar one Saturday night to discuss Camille Paglia's book on art history and visual culture, Glittering Images.
Follow Lucas on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifetothose.shadows/
And over on paid feed, we have a special episode of Back Matter featuring Cody LaDuke and Psi from Rare Candy podcast who join Sini and Fresta to discuss George Lucas' Reveng...
Returning guest Alex speaks with us about The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City: what makes it so narratively compelling and different to other shows in this franchise, as well as the character dynamics, novelistic elements, soap influences, and much more. We also talk about the unique charm of the strivers on this show.
Meanwhile, over on the Patreon, we talk about the state of sex in current popular culture. Subscrib...
Melbourne writer Tobe Ellen joins us to talk about his upcoming podcast, The Barrow, where he documents his process of co-writing a memoir with his mother. We talk about podcasting as a writer, memoir writing, the importance of implication in narrative, political correctness, sensitivity readers and much more.
Follow The Barrow on
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebarrowpod/
Substack: https://substack.com/@thebarro...
This week, we're talking to New York playwright and novelist Matthew Gasda about his new novel, The Sleepers, one of the best treatments of millennial generational malaise. We talk about the Dimes Square New York scene, the internet and culture, ideology vs art, masculinity and femininity, defiantly staging theatre during the lockdowns, and much more.
Buy The Sleepers here: https://www.amazon.com/Sleepers-Novel-Ma...
This week we're joined by the "Ern Malley of the 21st Century," Jasper Ceylon, who has pranked multiple poetry journals by posing as vogueish identities while submitting terrible poems.
Jasper successfully published poems that were intentionally bad to woke journals more interested in an author's pronouns, sexuality and racial characteristics than talent.
This satirical "performance art" pi...
This episode, we talk to Jared Klickstein about his amazing memoir of drug addiction and homelessness, Crooked Smile. We also chat about the underground classic Australian film, Pure Shit (Bert Deling, 1978).
Buy Crooked Smile here: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CWZ1GHLW?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_au
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