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Every other Friday, join Alexander Lynch, Juliann Garisto, Marta Anielska, Aïsha Philippe, Meixi Zhang, and the Hart House Literary and Library Committee (HHLLC) as they talk about the big ideas in literature with University of Toronto professors and Canadian authors, showcase emerging authors from around the Hart House community, and chat about the books they love. We also feature recordings from HHLLC panels and workshops. Whether you’re a casual reader or a devoted bibliophile, this is the podcast for you!

Transcribing Feelings 07/01/2023

Transcribing Feelings Juliann speaks with two emerging musicians about the place of emotion in musical composition. First, Matt Jonn Lewis discusses collaborative song writing and Spirit Josh’s album On God (2021). Then, Eliza Niemi speaks about crafting an album and her recent Staying Mellow Blows (2022). For more from the Hart House Student Literary and Library Committee, visit hhlitandlib.ca. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/27344772

Open Water 05/26/2023

Open Water Marta, Aïsha, and Meixi discuss Open Water, a 2021 novel by Caleb Azumah Nelson. They focus on the novel’s descriptions of beauty, its humanizing attention to the grain of everyday life, and its cultivation of joy. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/26961093

Mixed Media Writing w/ Alice Graham and Maynard McKinnon 05/05/2023

Mixed Media Writing w/ Alice Graham and Maynard McKinnon Juliann speaks with two emerging authors about mixed media writing. First, Alice Graham speaks on the importance of love in one's writing and how to find a writing voice. Then, Maynard McKinnon discusses microfiction and zines. For more from the Hart House Student Literary and Library Committee, visit hhlitandlib.ca. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/26759025

Love w/ Alexandra Gustafson 04/21/2023

Love w/ Alexandra Gustafson This year, our Dialogues series focuses on "miracles." In this conversation with UofT philosophy PhD candidate Alexandra Gustafson, Alex discusses the benefits and drawbacks of understanding romantic love as a miracle. Topics of discussion include the relation between love and specificity and the role of literature in the crystallization of love as an affect and event. For more from the Hart House Student Literary and Library Committee, visit hhlitandlib.ca. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/26608242

Before the Coffee Gets Cold 01/08/2023

Before the Coffee Gets Cold Marta, Aïsha, and Meixi discuss Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a 2015 novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. They focus on the story’s treatment of time travel and its relation to the slice-of-life genre. For more from the Hart House Student Literary and Library Committee, visit hhlitandlib.ca. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/25536264

Kaitlyn Matthews and Elaine Lee 11/26/2022

Kaitlyn Matthews and Elaine Lee Juliann speaks with Kaitlyn Matthews and Elaine Lee, winners of the Hart House Literary Contest in the prose and poetry categories, respectively, about their prize-winning pieces and contest-writing more broadly. For more from the Hart House Student Literary and Library Committee, visit hhlitandlib.ca. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/25133904

Recitatif 11/04/2022

Recitatif Marta, Aïsha, and Meixi discuss Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif," the story’s deconstruction of racial codes in life and literature, and the challenges of the short story form. For more from the Hart House Student Literary and Library Committee, visit hhlitandlib.ca. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/24893403

André Babyn and Ali Pinkney 10/07/2022

André Babyn and Ali Pinkney Juliann speaks with André Babyn (UofT English), author of Evie of the Deepthorn (2020, Dundurn), and Ali Pinkney (UofT English), author of a forthcoming novella, about the relationship between writing and memory. For more from the Hart House Student Literary and Library Committee, visit hhlitandlib.ca. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/24614652

Event: An Introduction 09/23/2022

Event: An Introduction Alex and Madison introduce our new Dialogues theme, “Event.” They focus on the provisional thesis for the series: namely, that literature, as an artistic form for which the demarcation between the possible and the impossible is constitutively uncertain, intervenes decisively in the social processes that establish certain artistic, ethical, and political events as miracles (that is, as occurrences that exceed their causes). For more from the Hart House Student Literary and Library Committee, visit hhlitandlib.ca. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/24464949

Robert McGill 09/09/2022

Robert McGill In our first Next Generation episode of our third season, Juliann speaks with Robert McGill (UofT English) about his new book, A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life (Coach House, 2022), and the joys and challenges of working as an author and critic. For more from the Hart House Student Literary and Library Committee, visit hhlitandlib.ca. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/24316554

Chemistry 08/26/2022

Chemistry Marta, Aïsha, and Meixi discuss Weike Wang’s Chemistry (Text, 2018), focusing on the novel's treatment of the experience of second-generation immigrants, relationships between parents and children, and the search for a vocation. For more from the Hart House Student Literary and Library Committee, visit hhlitandlib.ca. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/24170874

My Year of Rest and Relaxation 08/12/2022

My Year of Rest and Relaxation In the first episode of our third season, Marta, Aïsha, and Meixi discuss mental illness, social satire, and plotting and temporality in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018). For more from the Hart House Student Literary and Library Committee, visit hhlitandlib.ca. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/24032535

Endnote Season 3 Trailer 08/05/2022

Endnote Season 3 Trailer The third season of Endnote begins on Friday, August 12th! Here's a preview of what's in store. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/23965707

Fashion Writing w/ Lauren Gillingham 04/08/2022

Fashion Writing w/ Lauren Gillingham Alex speaks with Professor Lauren Gillingham (uOttawa English) about nineteenth-century novelists' engagements with fashion as they relate to her forthcoming book, Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Cambridge UP). Key topics of conversation include nineteenth-century conceptions of time and history, fashion and class mobility, and two key novels—Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret and Dickens's Bleak House. You can find the transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/22730948

Next Generation 5 w/ Anvesh Jain 03/25/2022

Next Generation 5 w/ Anvesh Jain Sabryna speaks with Anvesh Jain about his debut poetry collection, Pilgrim to No Country (Frontenac Press, 2022), focusing on his explorations of immigrant experience, diaspora, and home-making. You can find the book list and transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/22565822

Investigative Journalism: An Introduction 03/12/2022

Investigative Journalism: An Introduction Alex offers a short introduction to investigative journalism—in particular, its beginnings in the 19th century. After a sketch of English journalistic history through the 1850s, he examines Dickens’s “On Duty with Inspector Field” (1851) and Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor (1861–62), two early examples of investigative journalism, focusing on these journalists' intermingling of fictional and non-fictional reportage and their negotiation of disparate professional discourses. You can find the book list for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/22423604

Book Club 5 w/ Subhi Jha and Jacky Yu 02/25/2022

Book Club 5 w/ Subhi Jha and Jacky Yu Subhi Jha, one of L&L’s equity and diversity officers, considers temporality and the absurd in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot; then, Jacky Yu, L&L’s first-year representative, discusses the critique of “superhero morality” articulated in Alan Moore’s Watchmen. You can find the transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/22251191

Next Generation 4 w/ Mina Ivosev 02/11/2022

Next Generation 4 w/ Mina Ivosev Sabryna speaks with Mina Ivosev, winner of the Hart House Literary Contest in the prose category, about her prize-winning short story, “Birth by Landscape.” You can find the book list and transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/22099469

Hollywood Film w/ Garry Leonard 01/28/2022

Hollywood Film w/ Garry Leonard Alex speaks with Professor Garry Leonard (UofT English) about several Hollywood films, including It’s a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, and Pretty Woman, as they relate to his current book project, Six Ways of Looking at Modernity: Cinematic Genre and the Structure of Modern Subjectivity. Key topics of discussion include the relationship between cinema and modernism, the structure of cinematic genre, and the representation of the capitalist market and professionalisation in the Hollywood romance. You can find the book list and transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/21929561

Book Club 4 w/ Aayu Pandey 01/04/2022

Book Club 4 w/ Aayu Pandey On our special, holiday edition of Book Club, Aayu Pandey, one of L&L’s equity and diversity officers, considers dystopia and the interrelation of life and death in Kurt Vonnegut’s “2 B R 0 2 B”; then, Meixi and Marta discuss labour, poverty, and capitalism in George Saunders’s “Sea Oak.” /episode/index/show/endnote/id/21668597

Detective Fiction w/ Simon Stern and Adam Hammond 12/03/2021

Detective Fiction w/ Simon Stern and Adam Hammond Alex speaks with Professors Simon Stern (UofT Law/English) and Adam Hammond (UofT English) about the detective fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle as it relates to their ongoing project, “The Birth of the Modern Detective Story, 1890–1920.” Key topics of discussion include the rise of the modern “inferential attitude,” the role of probability in detectives' reasoning about the crowd, and the “magic” of Sherlock Holmes. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/21366152

Popular Romance w/ Daniel Wright 11/19/2021

Popular Romance w/ Daniel Wright Alex speaks with Professor Daniel Wright of UofT English about two key popular romances, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Anthony Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her?, in the context of his book, Bad Logic: Reasoning About Desire in the Victorian Novel (2018). Key topics include the relationship between the realist and romance modes, the tenuous power of language to articulate desire, and popular romance novels’ myriad imagings of the crowd and the public. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/21216494

Next Generation 3 w/ Farah Ghafoor 11/05/2021

Next Generation 3 w/ Farah Ghafoor Farah Ghafoor, winner of the Hart House Literary Contest in the poetry category, speaks about her prize-winning poem, “Self Portrait with Polar Bears,” and her poetry on climate change. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/21059315

Book Club 3 w/ Vikram Nijhawan and Alexander Lynch 10/22/2021

Book Club 3 w/ Vikram Nijhawan and Alexander Lynch Vikram Nijhawan, L&L’s writer’s co-op coordinator, discusses metafictionality and the inextricable relation between fact and fantasy in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman: Dream Country; then, Alexander Lynch, L&L’s podcast coordinator, examines representations of gender and of empire in James Joyce’s “The Dead.” /episode/index/show/endnote/id/20901587

Next Generation 2 w/ Ryanne Kap 10/08/2021

Next Generation 2 w/ Ryanne Kap Ryanne Kap, a UofT alumna, speaks with Sabryna on the art of personal poetry. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/20749040

Popular Writing: An Introduction 09/24/2021

Popular Writing: An Introduction Alex introduces our new Dialogues theme, “Pop”—that is, popular literary and para-literary writing—c. 1850–1950. He discusses the main issues and questions we’ll consider; our genre selection; the social, economic, and political contexts of popular writing in this period; and some of our tentative theses. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/20584691

Next Generation 1 w/ Antonia Facciponte 09/10/2021

Next Generation 1 w/ Antonia Facciponte On our first Next Generation episode of Season 2, Antonia Facciponte, a creative writing master's student at UofT and the author of To Make a Bridge (Black Moss Press, 2021), speaks on her recent collection and the process of literary creation. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/20428415

Book Club 2 w/ Matthew Lee and Hannah Koschanow 08/27/2021

Book Club 2 w/ Matthew Lee and Hannah Koschanow Matthew Lee, one of L&L’s co-chairs, discusses family and agency in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude; then, Hannah Koschanow, one of L&L’s literary contest coordinators, speaks on grief and community in Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/20276762

Book Club 1 w/ Emily Hurmizi and Helia Karami 08/13/2021

Book Club 1 w/ Emily Hurmizi and Helia Karami In the first episode of our new season, Emily Hurmizi, one of L&L’s co-chairs, considers embodiment and trauma in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What The Body Remembers; then, Helia Karami, L&L’s community outreach coordinator, speaks on memory and mortality in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/20128304

Endnote Season 2 Trailer 08/06/2021

Endnote Season 2 Trailer Endnote Season Two is premiering on Friday, August 13th! Here's a quick overview of what's in store. /episode/index/show/endnote/id/20052719

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