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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!

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Transcribing Feelings

July 01, 2023 20:19 - 1 hour - 108 MB

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.

Open Water

May 26, 2023 15:22 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MB

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.

Mixed Media Writing w/ Alice Graham and Maynard McKinnon

May 05, 2023 20:13 - 1 hour - 114 MB

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.

Love w/ Alexandra Gustafson

April 21, 2023 04:00 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MB

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.  

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

January 08, 2023 17:07 - 55 minutes - 76 MB

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.

Kaitlyn Matthews and Elaine Lee

November 26, 2022 01:59 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MB

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.

Recitatif

November 04, 2022 04:30 - 43 minutes - 59.8 MB

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.

André Babyn and Ali Pinkney

October 07, 2022 04:30 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MB

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.

Event: An Introduction

September 23, 2022 04:30 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MB

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...

Robert McGill

September 09, 2022 04:30 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MB

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.

Chemistry

August 26, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MB

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.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

August 12, 2022 04:30 - 50 minutes - 68.8 MB

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.

Endnote Season 3 Trailer

August 05, 2022 04:10 - 1 minute - 3.64 MB

The third season of Endnote begins on Friday, August 12th! Here's a preview of what's in store.

Fashion Writing w/ Lauren Gillingham

April 08, 2022 17:08 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MB

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...

Next Generation 5 w/ Anvesh Jain

March 25, 2022 04:30 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MB

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.

Investigative Journalism: An Introduction

March 12, 2022 01:46 - 19 minutes - 28.8 MB

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. ...

Book Club 5 w/ Subhi Jha and Jacky Yu

February 25, 2022 05:33 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MB

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.

Next Generation 4 w/ Mina Ivosev

February 11, 2022 06:39 - 46 minutes - 64.4 MB

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.

Hollywood Film w/ Garry Leonard

January 28, 2022 05:30 - 36 minutes - 52.4 MB

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 Hollyw...

Book Club 4 w/ Aayu Pandey

January 04, 2022 06:00 - 50 minutes - 70.9 MB

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.” For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Detective Fiction w/ Simon Stern and Adam Hammond

December 03, 2021 05:30 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MB

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. You can find the book list and transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/...

Popular Romance w/ Daniel Wright

November 19, 2021 05:30 - 40 minutes - 55.8 MB

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 of discussion 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. You can find the book li...

Next Generation 3 w/ Farah Ghafoor

November 05, 2021 04:27 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MB

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. You can find the book list and transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Book Club 3 w/ Vikram Nijhawan and Alexander Lynch

October 22, 2021 04:48 - 53 minutes - 72.9 MB

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.” For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Next Generation 2 w/ Ryanne Kap

October 08, 2021 04:30 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MB

Ryanne Kap, a UofT alumna, speaks with Sabryna on the art of personal poetry. You can find the book list and transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Popular Writing: An Introduction

September 24, 2021 04:30 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MB

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. For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Next Generation 1 w/ Antonia Facciponte

September 10, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MB

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. You can find the book list and transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Book Club 2 w/ Matthew Lee and Hannah Koschanow

August 27, 2021 04:30 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MB

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 our literary contest coordinators, speaks on grief and community in Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter. You can find the transcript for this episode at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Book Club 1 w/ Emily Hurmizi and Helia Karami

August 13, 2021 04:30 - 49 minutes - 69.9 MB

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. You can find the transcript for this episode at www.hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Endnote Season 2 Trailer

August 06, 2021 04:00 - 1 minute - 3.4 MB

Endnote Season Two is premiering on Friday, August 13th! Here's a quick overview of what's in store.

Season 1 Finale

March 26, 2021 04:30 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MB

For our season finale, Alex draws together our Currents and Next Generation episodes from this season, highlighting both through-lines and tensions, to consider some of what we’ve learned from our exploration of the present and future of literature and literary affairs over the past year. For the transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Next Generation 5 w/ Tahmeed Shafiq

March 12, 2021 05:30 - 52 minutes - 72.1 MB

Tahmeed Shafiq, a student writer and journalist, joins Marta to discuss a story and poem of his, his creative influences, and fantasy literature. For the full text of Tahmeed's short story, "Love and Marriage in the Hexasun Lands," visit lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-and-marriage-in-the-hexasun-lands. The book list and transcript for this episode can be found at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Next Generation 4 w/ Liam Bryant

February 26, 2021 05:30 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MB

Liam Bryant, a student poet, joins Marta, our new staff member, to discuss poems on love, religion, and the natural world.  For the full text of his poems, as well as the book list and transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Afrofuturism w/ Stephanie Chrismon

February 12, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 95.2 MB

Stephanie Chrismon, an Afrofuturist writer and scholar-educator, joins Alex to offer an introduction to Afrofuturism and some of its key writers, works, and thematic concerns. For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote. To register for or learn more about Exploring Black & Indigenous Futurisms 2021, an exciting upcoming panel from the Black Futures program at Hart House, visit harthouse.ca/events/exploring-black-indigenous-futurisms-2021.

Comic Books w/ Rick Remender

January 29, 2021 06:00 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MB

Rick Remender, a comic book writer, artist, and animator who has worked at Marvel, Image Comics, and Electronic Arts, among others, joins Vikram, our writers’ co-op coordinator, to talk about his creative journey and inspirations. For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Next Generation 3 w/ Marta Anielska

January 15, 2021 05:30 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MB

Marta Anielska, a student writer, editor, and reporter, joins Alex to talk about their short story, “Figments of My Imagination,” as well as their literary influences and creative involvements. For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Book Club w/ Allyson Aritcheta

January 01, 2021 05:30 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MB

Allyson, one of Lit and Lib’s literary contest coordinators, joins Alex to offer her holiday book recommendations. For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Plague Literature w/ Professors Emily Nacol and Kevin Chong

November 27, 2020 05:30 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MB

Emily Nacol, professor of political science at UofT, and Kevin Chong, author and professor of creative writing at UBC, join Alex to discuss classic and contemporary works of plague literature. For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote. To learn more about Lit and Lib's upcoming events, visit hhlitandlib.ca/events.

Canadian Multicultural Literatures w/ Professor Smaro Kamboureli

November 13, 2020 05:00 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MB

For the first episode in our Currents series, Professor Smaro Kamboureli of UofT English joins Alex to discuss some of the key authors and issues in Canadian multicultural literatures. For our Canlits recommendations and the transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Book Club w/ Dania Kassim

October 30, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MB

Dania, Lit and Lib’s Equity and Diversity Officer, joins Alex to discuss her fall reading week book recommendations. For the notes, book list, and transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Next Generation 2 w/ Grace Ma

October 16, 2020 04:00 - 59 minutes - 82.5 MB

Grace Ma, a student poet and environmental activist, joins Alex to discuss a selection of her poems, environmentalism, and her literary influences. For the full text of Grace's poems and the episode's book list and transcript, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Literary Affairs w/ Dania Kassim and Emily Hurmizi

October 02, 2020 04:00 - 55 minutes - 77 MB

Dania Kassim and Emily Hurmizi, Lit and Lib’s equity and diversity officer and co-chair, respectively, join Alex to discuss equity, diversity, and inclusion in literary affairs and what Lit and Lib is doing to support these principles in our programming this year.  For the book list, transcript, and links for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Next Generation 1 w/ Veronica Spada

September 18, 2020 04:00 - 38 minutes - 53.9 MB

In this episode, Veronica Spada, winner of the Hart House Review’s literary contest in the prose category, joins Alex to discuss her prize-winning short story, her inspirations, and her writing process. For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit hhlitandlib.ca/endnote. If you’re a UofT student, be sure to attend Lit and Lib’s student journalism workshop on September 22nd and check out the writing workshops we’re hosting in October and later in the year—visit hhlitandlib.ca ...

Book Club w/ Lily Bechtold and Vikram Nijhawan

September 04, 2020 04:22 - 57 minutes - 79.8 MB

In this episode, Lily and Vikram, Lit and Lib’s communications coordinator and writers’ co-op lead, respectively, join Alex to discuss their favourite books and top summer reads! For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit our website at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote. If you’re a UofT student, be sure to attend Lit and Lib’s literary fair on September 18th and student journalism workshop on September 22nd—visit hhlitandlib.ca/events to learn more!

Book Club w/ Aline Nayir and Allison Zhao

August 21, 2020 04:00 - 38 minutes - 53.9 MB

In this episode, Aline and Allison, HHLLC’s secretary and treasurer, respectively, join Alex to offer their summer reading recommendations. For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit our website at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote. If you’re a UofT student, be sure to attend Lit and Lib’s literary fair on September 18th—visit hhlitandlib.ca/events to learn more!

Book Club w/ Emily Hurmizi and Matthew Lee

August 07, 2020 04:05 - 51 minutes - 72.4 MB

In our first episode of the new year, HHLLC co-chairs Emily Hurmizi and Matthew Lee join Alexander to offer their summer reading recommendations! For the book list and transcript for this episode, visit our website at hhlitandlib.ca/endnote.

Coming Soon: Endnote

July 24, 2020 17:43 - 1 minute - 2.12 MB

Explore the world of literature from the comfort of your seat with the Endnote Podcast! Starting August 7th, join Alex Lynch and the Hart House Literary and Library Committee as they talk about the big ideas in literature with UofT professors and Canadian authors, showcase emerging authors from around the Hart House community, and chat about the books they love.