This week on GET LIT we speak with author Danny Jacobs about his novel The Ignis Psalter. 1230pm on 93.3 FM - please note there may be difficulties due to transmitter work Otherwise at cfmu.ca or anytime on pods and tinyurl.com/2uhu5x6v

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

This week on GET LIT, Jessica Popseki talks poetry and Noelle Allen talks Supercrawl! 1230 pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here; tinyurl.com/47wu5abv It's E460. 40 shows left! (Now if only I had 40 weeks left until *real* retirement) @supercrawl @noelleallen.bsky.social

Today on GET LIT it's author Russell Smith! We talk about his latest novel, Self Care. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/bd9uw694 @biblioasis.bsky.social

Today on GET LIT we talk to poets Steven Mayoff and my pal Laurier Tiernan! 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/ye2aadrt

Author Karen Smythe joins me on episode 457 (!) of GET LIT. We talk about her newest, A Town With No Noise! 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on podcasts and here tinyurl.com/3zrzhjd5 @karensmythe.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

GET LIT with author Heather Ramsay! We talk about her novel, A Room In The Forest. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca and anytime on podcast platforms and here: tinyurl.com/727hdcs2 @caitlinpress.bsky.social

Earlier this week, we had a 15-minute chat scheduled with Jamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social for episode 455 of his GET LIT podcast, which quickly turned into a 30-minute interview. We discussed where collaboration begins, how two very serious people manage to make playful work ...

Today on GET LIT: Jade Wallace and Mark Laliberte aka MA|DE. We discuss a bunch of things including their latest, ZZOO. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/yc5u7bzj @nycterosea.bsky.social @marklalib.bsky.social @madeprojects.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

Today's GET LIT features author Giles Blunt, who many know from his John Cardinal crime series. We discuss his latest book, Bad Juliet. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca and anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/mvdnz7mh @dundurnpress.bsky.social @gilesbluntbooks.bsky.social go

This week on GET LIT: I am hiding in Toronto trying to get some writing done, but there's a show anyway! We talk with Blaine Newton about his collection of short stories, Rag Pickers. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or any time on pods and here: tinyurl.com/fn6mvjv9

Hey everyone! Had a great conversation with author Noël Stark about her new romance novel, Love Camera Action. Listen into GET LIT to hear it. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/y93248wv

Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding Our Future Through the Wampum Covenant is a fascinating and important book. I chat with author Daniel Coleman and illustrator Rick Hill on GET LIT! 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/ewxu84wk @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

This week on GET LIT! Bruce Hunter talks about the reissue of his novel, In The Bear's House 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or anytime on podcasts or here: tinyurl.com/28u2nzkz

Today on GET LIT we talk with best-selling author Robert Rotenberg about his latest, One Minute More. Check it out. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/34979kh6

GET LIT with author Melodie Campbell! We discuss her latest mystery, The Silent Film Star Murders. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/38whuz37 @cormorantbooks.bsky.social

This week I GET LIT with MAX KERMAN, frontman for Hamilton's very own Arkells. Great to chat with him again! His book Try Hard: Creative Work in Progress is available now. 12:30 pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/35kx722z

Doubling up today on GET LIT! First we’ll chat with Dave Pomfret about his novel Lilly, and then we are joined by Keith Hazzard to talk about his newest, Brief Lives. 12:30 pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/35up46dz

Today on GET LIT we speak with Catherine Bush about her new collection, Skin. Listen in! 1230 pm 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or any time on pods and here: tinyurl.com/mry9jphz @catebush.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social

This week on GET LIT I get to talk to a fellow music journo. Jeff Apter joins me from down under to talk about his newest rock bio, Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or pods or here: tinyurl.com/42ksy6vb @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social

AI-generated summer reading list gets published in major newspapers www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n... (Note: I would love to be a real-in-the-flesh book reviewer) #books #booksky

This week on GET LIT! I have a chat with Hamilton-based author Maxie Dara about her novel, the first “S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery,” A Grim Reaper’s Guide To Catching A Killer. 1230pm on 93.3/ / cfmu dot ca or on podcasts or here tinyurl.com/jruyh57c

Hi from Berlin. Time to GET LIT once again! This week we talk with Greg Rhyno about his newest Dame Polara novel, Who By Water. Check out the show 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/2n4w6h42

Greetings from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam! I think it's like 4 am where most of you are. As good a time as any to GET LIT This week it's Sara Flemington, talking about her novel R.I.P. Scoot. Check it out. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or anytime on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/vb7m8t4t

Today on GET LIT we talk with author Tim Welsh about his newest, Ley Lines. Listen in 😃 1230 on 93.3/cfmu dot ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/2d4n5khn

15 years later I'm still always ready to hear Dancing On My Own.

Today on GET LIT! Two poets in the studios. Chris Bailey and I discuss his latest, Forecast: Pretty Bleak, and Tolu Oloruntoba and I discuss his newest, Unravel. 1230pm 93.3/cfmu.ca or on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/5e8rdwk2 @toluini.bsky.social

This week GET LIT with GRIT LIT! Artistic Director Jessica Rose joins me on the show to talk about this year's festival. 1230pm 93.3/cfmu dot ca or on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/mvsnccay @gritlitfestival.bsky.social

It's another GET LIT post! (Hey, consider it a break from politics). This week it's Julie Salverson talking about her latest book A Necessary Distance. Check it out. 1230 pm 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/2f782vrr @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

On Get Lit today it's the wonderful Amanda Leduc! We talk about her new novel, Wild Life. 1230pm 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or pods or here: tinyurl.com/3mh5j3zc @amandaleduc.bsky.social

Today on GET LIT is a double hitter (or whatever the literary term might be). Check out interviews with Grant Linney and Kelly Watt! 12:30pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/mw7dh2ny

Today on GET LIT we speak with Ira Wells about his entry into the Field Guide series, On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods & here: tinyurl.com/y9986jhc @biblioasis.bsky.social

I'd love to make money off GET LIT after 433 episodes but that's not how it works. If you support indie media and Canadian authors (okay, Jason Pargin aside) a donation to CFMU is a donation in support of GET LIT. Check out cfmu.ca for info on what you can do.

THANK YOU for stepping up to support CFMU yesterday!!!! Today on GET LIT we talk to Peter Darbyshire, author of the Book of Cross series! We had a great chat, listen in! 1230pm 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or on pods and here: tinyurl.com/3e7r49mh @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

CFMU does great things with amazing student staff and community/campus volunteers. We are NOT owned by a hedge fund company that'll cut us for lack of profit. We have resources. We can do more. BUT NOT WITHOUT YOUR HELP. Also here's a silly meme from a few years ago. cfmu.ca/fundraising

Local media has been hit so badly that, technically, CFMU/The Silhouette is the largest newsroom in Hamilton. In a better world we'd have trained journalists and do more hard news (look for more of that, though, come September). WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT cfmu.ca/fundraising

OCTOPUS ARMY SUNDAY 11 PM EST 93.3 FM / CFMU.CA 1970's psyche and experimental from Japan Yes I still host this show! PLEASE if you like what @933CFMU does donate here cfmu.ca/fundraising What other radio station is still spinning Satori Pt. 2?

It was great to return to GET LIT to talk squid, horror, publishing in Canada and the Muskian flavour of evil. Thanks to Jamie for having me!

This week on GET LIT we move from black boxes of doom to giant squid. We chat with J.R. J.r. McConvey about his latest, False Bodies. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or anytime on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/2wwuz9yu @jrmcconvey.bsky.social @breakwaterbooks.bsky.social

River, Diverted is a wild & wonderfully dark & campy novel by @jtennant.bsky.social, published by @palimpsestpress.bsky.social in 2022. I had a blast talking to Jamie! Listen to our conversation on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Literature podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/jamie-tennan... #books

I've been attacked by falling brick-sized icicles. My glasses are broken and I'm going to have a Hollywood-level tough guy scar. But it's all OK because this program made my week. Check it out if you haven't already!

GET LIT with JASON PARGIN! We talk about the insightful & entertaining I’m Starting To Worry About This Black Box of Doom. One of my faves from 2024. If you use the internet, you should read this book. Now. Listen on pods and here: tinyurl.com/mw6e3rmf @jasonkpargin.bsky.social

Happy snow day! Today on GET LIT we have author Lisa Moore who, along with her co-author Jack Whalen, wrote Invisible Prisons: Jack Whalen’s Tireless Fight for Justice. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca, or on pods and here: tinyurl.com/2uryv4z9

Kind of funny the number of people who say "Kendrick sucked and I'm not saying that because I'm old." Yet the only common denominator is that...they're old. (Also, are we still having to express our dislike for modern black music? We heard you in 1990.)

Today on GET LIT we talk to author, poet, comedy writer (and more) Zoe Whittall. We chat about her latest, No Credit River. Listen in! tinyurl.com/mwxm9puk @bookhugpress.bsky.social @zoewhittall.bsky.social

Short piece in the excellent Hamilton City Mag: hamiltoncitymagazine.ca/sharp-words-...

Today on GET LIT! We talk with author Jules Delorme about his book I Heard A Crow Before I Was Born. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or on podcasts or here: tinyurl.com/yrbdse98 @gooselane.bsky.social

While I appreciate knowing what's up, it's a drag having a grant notification come and then and having to log in only to find out it's another "sorry, no." Oh well. Only eight more sorry nos to go!

Stay warm and GET LIT with our guest Andrew Boden. We'll talk about his novel, When We Were Ashes. 1230pm 93.3 / cfmu dot ca, on podcasts, and here: tinyurl.com/bddws8cs @gooselane.bsky.social

The Kids Are All Right Pt 2: did not expect 80% of the 20-year-olds at this open mic to get so excited about someone singing Billy Joel's "Vienna"