GET LIT E28 with CLAIRE CAMERON
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Retro show addition! Great show with , the best-selling author who took the time to join me and discuss her latest novel, The Last Neanderthal. Enjoy!
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GET LIT E27 with SIMON DONATO
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Retro show addition! Excellent edition of the show featuring television personality, athlete and (now) author, I hope you dig it!
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GET LIT E25 with REBECCA ROSENBLUM
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This week’s episode of GET LIT features , author of . The book is fantastic, and critics seem to agree. Rosenblum even had some flattering things to say about me on her , which makes me feel all warm and fuzzy-like. Turns out she was a fan of my Hamilton Spectator column from the 1990s. In fact, it’s one of those ridiculously small-world stories: I met poet and author at an event in Toronto. He later messaged me to say that he had seen my final Generation X column – at his in-laws’ home, taped up in his wife’s childhood bedroom. That alone would have surprised...
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GET LIT E24 with LESLIE SHIMOTAKAHARA
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The experiment continues. I have begun making time in the AM to do some writing, and for a whopping two days straight, I’ve actually begun tapping away at some new work. I’ll keep you in the loop. In the meantime, this week’s show features . Her first novel, After the Bloom, is the story of “a daughter’s search for her mother [that] reveals her family’s past in a during the Second World War.” Though you wouldn’t expect it, I have my own connection to the internment camps, on this side of the Canada/U.S. border (yes, ). My former wife is half-Japanese,...
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GET LIT E23 with EMILY SCHULTZ
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From April 2017. "! I truly enjoyed her novel , and the conversation we had about it. You might know Emily from her previous book , or from …or perhaps from her novel of the , which was also the name of a novel by . This led to some people purchasing Emily’s novel when, in fact, they meant to purchase Stephen’s. Not sure how one buys a novel by the wrong author, but anyway, it led to Emily’s entertaining Spending The Stephen King Money ."
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GET LIT E22 with JANIE CHANG
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From April 2017. A great interview with . She’s great, very enjoyable chat. Check out her book Dragon Springs Road.
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GET LIT E21 with TREVOR COLE
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Folks, I have not uploaded E20 - it was event-based (GritLit 2017) and while a good conversation probalby not relavant. E21, however! An interview with , one-time Hamilton resident, author and the man behind The Whisky King: The remarkable true story of Canada’s most infamous bootlegger and the undercover Mountie on his trail. Now that’s a serious title. Rocco Perri was one of Hamilton’s – and, indeed, Canada’s – most notorious gangsters. He was also notoriously good-natured and gregarious, and most of the city loved him. A great read!
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GET LIT E17 with MARK OSBALDESTON
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Today’s episode features an interview with Mark Osbaldeston, author of the book Unbuilt Hamilton. It’s part of a series – the first parts being Unbuilt Toronto 1 and Unbuilt Toronto 2. Yes, they seem fairly specific to geography, but I believe anyone, in any city, can appreciate the follies and foibles of generations before; anyone can ponder the what ifs of their own hometowns.
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GET LIT E19 with BARBARA BERSON, JENNIFER LAMBERT and ALANA WILCOX PT 2
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See E18 for details!
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GET LIT E18 with BARBARA BERSON, JENNIFER LAMBERT and ALANA WILCOX PT 1
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My dear friend and fellow author (look her up, read her books!) has many friends in the Canadian publishing business. Through her contacts, Get Lit was able to set up a round-table discussion between myself and three fantastic individuals – Alana Wilcox from , Jennifer Lambert from , and Barbara Berson from the . photo by Sherri Vanderveen Though dated - this took place in 2017 - the conversation is enlightening. These are people in different positions in the business – an indie publisher, an international publisher, and a literary agent/freelance editor. They...
info_outlineHello everyone! Today's show is admittedly one of the most local show I've done on Get Lit. It features my friend Jason Allen, talking all things to do in Hamilton. Quite literally, actually; we talk about his book, 52 Things To Do In Hamilton: The Insider's Guide to Fun in the Hammer. Before you tell me you don't live here or never plan to visit here, there's still stuff to be learned. Every city has its treasures. Pointing out ours might help you find the treasures in your own town!