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The Getting Lit Podcast
by Getting Lit
Casual yet stimulating talks about books and media.
Episodes
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Jesus’ Son & John the Rock feat. Bigmac McCarthy
This week, Fresta is solo hosting again, and is joined by M A C ⭐️ to talk about his short story “John the Rock”, published on Rare Candy. They also discuss Denis Johnson’s short story collection, Jesus’ Son, music, drugs and degeneracy and much more. Music: Heroin by Heavy Body Follow Mac on...
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Beach Reads feat. Isaac Beach
This week, Sini goes to the pub with writer and literary critic Isaac Beach to talk about a range of things. Everything from the state of literature, the Ausnaissance on Substack, Australian literary criticism, who he could beat in a fight, as well as his piece on the recent Miles Franklin Award...
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Louis C.K. Wrote a Novel feat. Ryan Simón
Fresta is joined by returning guest Ryan Simón (EIC of American Vulgaria and Ristuko) to discuss comedian Louis C.K.’s debut novel, Ingram, a picaresque of surprising literary quality. This episode, like the rambling narrative of Louis’ novel, covers many topics, from trans karaoke to Kmart and...
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Atrocities feat. Felix McNamara
Felix McNamara joins us to discuss his epic poem, Atrocities, which is assembled from the discursive rubble of the 21st century to build something new. We talk about a lot of different topics orbiting and intersecting the poem, including Fukuyama’s End of History, liberal aesthetics or lack...
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Crazy Like a Fox
This week, we’re talking about D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox, a brilliant, taut novella about two women in post-war England trying to make a go of it on a farm, who are menaced by a fox and a soldier returned from combat. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or...
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The Everlasting feat. Lewis Woolston
This week, we’re joined by Lewis Woolston, author of the short story collections The Last Free Man, Remembering the Dead, and the topic of our discussion in this episode—The Everlasting. We chat about short story writing, the process, forming a collection, place and literature, religion, and the...
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Remembering Babylon
This week, we discuss the recently departed Australian author, David Malouf. Specifically, his book Remembering Babylon, a strange novel that starts out with a castaway British boy being raised by Aboriginal Australians, and unfurls into something much more mysterious and enigmatic. We talk about...
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Getting LARPed feat. Russell Walter
This week, we’re joined by Substack essayist, thinker, and fellow Australian Russell Walter who is also host of The Chudstack Review podcast. We talk about his essay on why LARPing (live action role playing) is important and Good Actually, as well as the idea of “quixotic hero”, an archetype that...
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The Final Word on "Literary Men" feat. Glen Rockney, J David Osborne, & Kelby Losack
Last year, Sini uploaded an episode to the paid feed of his personal Substack podcast, New Mythologies, discussing the oft-mentioned "literary man." Joining him? Glen from Rare Candy, as well as writers J David Osborne and Kelby Losack. This week, we are resharing it for free with Getting Lit...
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**UNLOCKED** Laurus feat. Stevan
To celebrate Easter, we have unlocked our paid episode on Eugene Vodolazkin's Laurus. To access the full archive of episodes and special Back Matter aftershows, got to patreon.com/GettingLit. This week, we're joined by Brisbane musician and composer, Stevan, to talk about Eugene Vodolazkin's…
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The Earthen Dark feat. Brad Kelly
Brad Kelly joins us once again to talk about and around his new novel, The Earthen Dark. We discuss why men loves holes in the ground, writing about jobs, why humans are so obsessed with underground, MFA writing, "literary men" and much more. Buy The Earthen Dark here:...
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Like You Have a Choice feat. Ivan Niccolai
This episode, Ivan Niccolai joins us to talk about his short story collection, Like You Have a Choice. We chat about growing up in a cult, Melbourne, wogs, luxury beliefs, the unfiltered earnestness of open mic nights, loving where you lay your hat, writing craft and much more. Buy Ivan's book...
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(TEASER) The Moonstone feat. Alec Mouhibian
This is a preview. To get the full version of this episode and access to subscriber-only content, go to https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit This week, we're covering what T.S. Eliot called "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels." And who better to join us than...
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(TEASER) White Noise feat. Erik & Mac
This is a preview. To get the full version of this episode and access to subscriber-only content, go to https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit This episode, we are joined by former guests and friend of the pod, Erik and Mac, to talk about Don Delillo's 1985 novel, White Noise. Follow Erik on X:...
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Fake and/or Gay? feat. Amir Naaman & Pierre d'Alancaisez
This week, Sini is joined by Amir Naaman and Pierre d'Alancaisez, editors of the new anthology Inversion, a book of essays about the current state of the homosexual. We talk about the sexual revolution's aftermath, gay vs queer culture, the lack of "telos" in homosexual, as well as why gays, once...
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Current Thing Chats
We talk about the essay in the Independent about the mythical David Foster Wallace "lit bro", a famous Western Australian young adult writer getting charged with young non-adult material, Meanjin journal getting a new lease on life after being shut down, Australian literary culture's frequent…
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(PREVIEW) Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
To get all episodes, access to companion show Back Matter, and the full archive, go to https://www.patreon.com/GettingLit We chat about Sidney Lumet's last film, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), which stars Ethan Hawke, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Marisa Tomei. This is a public episode.…
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Berserker Club feat. J David Osborne
Send us a text This week, we're joined by J David Osborne to talk about his new book, Berserker Club. Set in an Oklahoma backwoods militia compound, the novel is one crazy mutant set piece after another. A lot of fun On this episode, we chat about having a fellow writer as spouse, story as a...
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Crowbar feat. Andrew Edwards
Send us a text This week, we're joined by Andrew Edwards, the author of the new psychedelic noir thriller, Crowbar. We had a great conversation ranging over the book's many interesting contours, from conspiracy culture, the influence of James Ellroy and Cormac McCarthy, and much much more. Buy...
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Belated 2025 Review
Send us a text Sini and Fresta go through their best reads, watches, and listens of 2025 (mostly things they didn't cover for the show). Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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(PREVIEW) Demons (3 episode series) feat. Cody LaDuke
Send us a text Here is a sneak peek of our series on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic novel of revolutionary violence, Demons. All three parts are available in full on Patreon. Go to https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit to listen. Support the show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss…
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Wicked: For Good feat Josh Feye
Send us a text Josh from the Dionysian Dream joins me once more to discuss Wicked! This time, we are looking at the sequel to the 2024 movie, Wicked: For Good. We chat about the film, the changes between the stage show and the movie version, the new songs, and why Wicked isn't just for the girls...
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said feat. Rare Candy
Send us a text This is part 2 of our Philip K. Dick collaboration with the Rare Candy podcast. Head over to their feed for part 1 (https://open.spotify.com/show/2cXVcvC3G13PGUuYMVLGZb), where we cover The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), before joining us here for the continuation of…
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Popular Hits of the Showa Era *TEASER*
Send us a text On this week's episode, we dive into Ryu Murakami's Popular Hits of the Showa Era, where a group of disaffected men find themselves in an absurdly violent war with a rival society of older women (Oba-sans) after a deadly encounter. We talk about the book's mix of ultra-violence,...
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Amputation feat. Bruce Wagner
Send us a text In this week's episode, the legendary Bruce Wagner joins us to discuss his new novel Amputation, inspired by the 2025 Los Angeles fires. The conversation moves from the book’s genesis in anger at bureaucratic incompetence to Wagner’s reflections on art, rage, and the sacred. We...
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(PREVIEW) Spare Us Yet feat. Lucas Smith (Cross Post w/ New Mythologies)
Send us a text Australian-American writer Lucas Smith joins us to discuss his collection of wonderful short fiction, Spare Us Yet. We discuss the elements of faith in his fiction, the pandemic, lockdowns, literary culture in Australia, as well as his experience running an independent publishing...
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Shakti Matts (PREVIEW)
Send us a text *this is a PREVIEW. To listen to the full episode, go to patreon.com/GettingLit This episode, Fresta and Sini riff on Fresta's Sydney trip, thrift shop book finds, Bret Easton Ellis, the fantastic Australian crime show Mr Inbetween, ABC Radio National's Top 100 books of the 21st...
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The Golem feat. Brad Kelly
Send us a text This week, we're looking at Gustav Meyrink's The Golem, a strange novel of occultism, Kabbalah and psychological terror in early 20th century Prague's Jewish ghetto. Joining us on this journey is none other than Brad Kelly, host of the wonderful Method and Madness podcast. Follow...
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Reflections in a Golden Eye feat. Kalob Petty, Banjer Jack, & Ryan Simón
Send us a text 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,...
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Jasper Ceylon Returns feat. Aaron Barry
Send us a text 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…
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Sleep Capricorn feat. Jack Norman
Send us a text 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...
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Performative Podcasting
Send a text 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....
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Better Than Food feat. Cliff Sargent
Send us a text 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…
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Bend Sinister feat. Will Samson
Send us a text 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,...
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle feat. Bigmac McCarthy
Send us a text 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...
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Tempestuous feat. Zach Langley Chi Chi
Send us a text 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:...
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Some Recollections of St. Ives feat. David Mamet
Send us a text 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...
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(PREVIEW) Back Matter 18: The Invited Chart Reading & The Uninvited film feat. Emmalea Russo
Send us a text 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...
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Wake In Fright feat. Jack from Book Club from Hell
Send a text 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...
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Back Matter 17: Sith Happens feat. Psi from Rare Candy & Cody LaDuke (PREVIEW)
Send a text 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...
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Revenge of the Glittering Images feat. Lucas
Send a text 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…
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Real Strivers of Salt Lake City feat. Alex
Send a text 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…
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The Barrow feat. Tobe Ellen
Send us a text 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,...
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Sleep, Scroll, Repeat feat. Matthew Gasda
Send us a text 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...
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Poetic License feat. Jasper Ceylon
Send us a text 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...
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How To Read
Send us a text Reading isn't dead - our attention spans have just been hijacked by phones and social media. Inspired by an essay Fresta wrote on how to read last year, we discuss practical strategies to reclaim your reading habit and rediscover the joy of getting lost in a good book. Check out...
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Gods Fare No Better feat. J David Osborne
Send us a text J David Osborne joins us once more, this time to talk about his new psychedelic cyberpunk epic novel, Gods Fare No Better. We talked about spirituality, cyberpunk, science fiction, and the impact of various media on JDO's work, as well as book marketing strategies, industry...
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Medea, The First Girl Boss
Send us a text This week, we chat about an ancient classic, Medea by the Athenian tragedian Euripides. We also discuss Lars Von Trier's 1988 TV movie adaptation of the play, written by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Sini also published a well-received essay on men reading books on podcasts at Unherd, which...
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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver feat. Agitator and Bistro Californium
Send us a text This week, a triple crosspost collaboration with Agitator and Bistro Californium, where we discuss the remasters of the Legacy of Kain videogame series. We talk about the game's mechanics, story progression, incredible voice acting and sound design, character development, themes of...
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PREVIEW: There Are Two Gene Wolfes Inside You (Omnibus Edition)
Send us a text For full episode, go to https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit This week, we have compiled all four episodes of our Book of the New Sun series we did in 2023 into one massive 8.5 hour journey. Join Sini, J David Osborne and Kelby Losack as they unpack Gene Wolfe's masterwork of…
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