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Man, people are kind of the worst.

If you're going to be a tourist, be respectful.

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insert "laughing in the face of despair because the other option is to give in to the void" emoji.

Cover of K.R. Wilson's novel Stan on Guard: A Two-Part Invention featuring an image of a man walking away from the viewer into a kaleidoscope of historical images

Today on GET LIT! K.R. Wilson talks about his latest, Stan On Guard. Check it out. Also: only 10 episodes left...

12:30pm 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/mw799uew

@krwbooks.bsky.social @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

Today on GET LIT! Loch Baillie talks about his collection River Running and Jessica Rose talks GritLit '26.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/2amap8xn

@gritlitfestival.bsky.social

Today on GET LIT! Talking to Ailsa Ross about her debut, Hovel. Tune in/download/whatever it is ya do to listen!

1230pm on 93.3 FM / cfmu.ca on pods and here:
tinyurl.com/mtkx7rjj

@ailsaross.bsky.social

Today on GET LIT we talk with Matthew J Trafford about his collection, Runs in the Blood!

12:30pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/8avwmbmr

@arsenalpulp.bsky.social

Today on GET LIT we talk with Hamilton-area author Michelle Stark about her book, Broken. Listen in!

1230pm on 93.3 FM / cfmu.ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/47xveas9

@thestarktruth.bsky.social

Come and see some writers read stuff no one else wanted to publish! They feared it! They were disturbed by it! Or maybe they just thought it was trash, I don't know. I have never read what I'm going to read this weekend so that's exciting 😃

Cover of the book Billy Crawford's Double Play by Brad Smith. Image of a baseball player finishing a swing with a city skyline in the background

Today on GET LIT! We talk to Brad Smith, author of Billy Crawford's Double Play. Check it out.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here:
tinyurl.com/426zaabt

cover of Lucy E.M. Black's novel A Quliting of Scars - sepia-toned photo of two men in a field wrangling or otherwise attending to a horse

This week on GET LIT we talk to author Lucy Black about her latest, A Quilting of Scars. Tune in!

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/2dsdm2nx

I like the way he tells stories too, makes it more real

Today on GET LIT! We talk with Marcello Di Cintio about his book, Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/3kj4xk2t

@marcellodicintio.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social

Google Alerts really changed for me when Birmingham, UK elected a dude named Jamie Tennant. Let's just say he's much more of a newsmaker than I.

It's time for another GET LIT! Today we talk to the one and only Jason Allen about his book, 52 Things To Do In Hamilton

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/2s3758vj

@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

Barbara Sibbald was on GET LIT was over four hundred episodes ago. Wild. She’s back again to talk about her novel Almost English.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/jspx6ktk

Today on GET LIT we talk to PP Wong about her latest, Slice the Water.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/4bmmvcce

Today on GET LIT! Poet Anna Lee-Popham joins me to talk about Empires of the Everyday, and Noelle Allen drops by to discuss the Sharp Words Book Fair.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca and anytime on pods or: tinyurl.com/3zjedn3z

@annaleepopham.bsky.social @noelleallen.bsky.social

Today on GET LIT we speak with Su Chang about her novel The Immortal Woman! (exclamation point mine).

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca, on podcasts and here; tinyurl.com/2spbmj38

@houseofanansi.bsky.social

GET LIT on a snow day

Today's guest is Janet Turpin Myers (shout out my pals from the Pelee Island Writing week in 2017). She's here to talk about her latest, Love Watching Madness.

1230pm (ish, with the snow) on 93.3 / cfmu.ca and on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/35mbh7ap

My pleasure. Great to talk about the book and catch up a little.

Today on GET LIT it's Scott Neigh! The author and broadcaster joins us to talk about his newest book Listen! Knowing The World and Fighting to Change It.

1230 pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on podcasts and here: tinyurl.com/588wx4z3

@scottneigh.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social

Pleasure's all mine, Rob. Always a good conversation!

Happy New Year folks! Is Rob McLennan the last guest of 2025 or the first guest of 2026? Unclear. Either way, he came to GET LIT to talk about his collection The Book of Sentences.

NO CFMU this week but on all the podcasting platforms and here: tinyurl.com/4mj2p4dx

@robmclennan.bsky.social

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from GET LIT (a.k.a., me). We talk to David Bergen about his latest, Days of Feasting and Rejoicing. An apt holiday title...

No CFMU this week due to holidays but on all the usual podcasting platforms and here:
tinyurl.com/3esupkk5

@gooselane.bsky.social

My pleasure!

Today on GET LIT it's Sadiqa de Meijer talking about her collection of essays, In The Field.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/462kdnzb

@sadiqademeijer.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

Thanks Sean, it was my pleasure!

GET LIT with Sean Minogue talking about his novel, Terminal Solstice.

1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on podcasts or here: tinyurl.com/f936x5yj

(Also, hello from Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island!)

@seanminogue.bsky.social

This week on GET LIT! Muttertongue: What Is A Word In Utter Space. Great conversation with Lillian Allen, Gregory Betts and Gary Barwin.

1230 pm 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/3vjc8m4j
@garybarwin.bsky.social

Today we GET LIT with Sky Gilbert! He's here to talk about his latest novel, The Blue House.

12:30pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or anytime on pods and here: tinyurl.com/4hjnrshr