Latest Transgressive fiction Podcast Episodes
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The Big Bukowski feat. Leah Lane and Dean Adams from Rosegarden Funeral Party
The Getting Lit Podcast - July 03, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis episode, I go out in Deep Ellum, Texas with post-punk/goth icons Rosegarden Funeral Party and we talk about Bukowski with lead singer Leah Lane and drummer Dean Adams. Follow Leah and the band here: https://www.instagram.com/rosegardenfuneralparty/?hl=en If you're in Dallas on the weeken...
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God's Eye View
The Getting Lit Podcast - June 22, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsA short episode on the use (or lack thereof) of the third person omniscient point of view in modern novels after recently revisiting Dickens.
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Big Little, Big Series III: Old Law Farm feat. John
The Getting Lit Podcast - May 27, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsPart 3 in our series on John Crowley's Little, Big, covering book 3: Old Law Farm. Subscribe to Patreon for the bonus episode where we talk about Alice Munro and her relationship to Crowley's work: www.patreon.com/gettinglit
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Grunts in Space II: The Forever War feat. GldPny
The Getting Lit Podcast - April 25, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsGldpny aka Erik joins me for part two of the two-part series on classic military science fiction. This episode is on Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, which is a "novel in response" to Heinlein's Starship Troopers, but also very much its own thing. And over on Patreon, we talk about online friend...
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Big Little, Big Series II: Brother North-Wind's Secret feat. John and Yeerk.P
The Getting Lit Podcast - April 21, 2024 01:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 9 ratingsPart 2 of our read-along of John Crowley's Little, Big. John joins me once again, and we have special guest star Yeerk (from the recent Mr Palomar episode) on the episode as well. Don't be a bitch and read this book about fairies with us! For extra content, including access to Getting Lit Podc...
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*PREVIEW* Dhalgren (Rare Candy Gain of Fiction 30 feat. Matt Sini and E Rathke)
The Getting Lit Podcast - April 11, 2024 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis is a cross post from Rare Candy's Gain of Fiction series featuring yours truly as well as former guest Eddy Rathke, hosted by Glen and Psi from RC. We look at Samuel R. Delany's classic and very wild science fiction experimental novel, Dhalgren. To access the full episode as well as Gettin...
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Grunts in Space I: Starship Troopers feat. GldPny (aka Erik Harris)
The Getting Lit Podcast - April 08, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsGldpny aka Erik joins me once more for a two-part series on classic military science fiction. First up is Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers. The next episode, released in a couple of weeks, will be on Joe Haldeman's The Forever War. And over on Patreon, we talk about the film Starship Trooper...
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Don't Look Back in Kenneth Anger feat. Ryan Simón
The Getting Lit Podcast - March 25, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsRyan Simón, editor-in-chief of American Vulgaria magazine, joins me once more to talk about three films by the occultist homosexual filmmaker, Kenneth Anger. We talk Fireworks (1947), Scorpio Rising (1963), and Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969). You should be able to find all of these on Yo...
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Afterlife of the Death of the Author
The Getting Lit Podcast - March 18, 2024 12:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsTalking about a recent online discussion about the Starship Troopers film and how people who are into the death of the author concept tend to invoke the author when expedient, as well as how the death of the author concept is used and abused these days. Subscribe to the Patreon for extra conten...
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Big Little, Big Series I: Edgewood feat. John
The Getting Lit Podcast - March 03, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsFormer guest John joins me for the first of a six-part, monthly slow read of John Crowley's Little, Big. This quirky, beautiful novel is sizeable. So over the next six months, we will be meeting and discussing each section of the book. Read along with us. Join our cute little book club dedicate...
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Mr Palomar feat. Yeerk.P
The Getting Lit Podcast - February 25, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis episode, I'm joined by the wonderful Yeerk to chat about Italo Calvino's final novel, Mr Palomar. We talk about Yeerk's battles against people who believe in "misinformation" and "AI art", humanism, encountering the world as it is and describing it, Italo Calvino's work more generally, loo...
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Gold Coast Confidential feat. Iain Ryan (PREVIEW)
The Getting Lit Podcast - February 19, 2024 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsAustralian crime writer Iain Ryan joins me live from a bar in Brunswick East to talk about his new book of Gold Coast noir, The Strip, as well as his major inspiration, James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential. We talk about the crime novel genre, hardboiled style, the difficulties in reading Ellroy, A...
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Grandma Ursula Tells Great Stories feat. J David Osborne
The Getting Lit Podcast - February 12, 2024 12:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 9 ratingsOn this episode, writer and podcaster J David Osborne returns to talk about several short stories by the late science fiction grandmaster, Ursula K Le Guin. We talk about cultural relativism, anthropology, how Ursula's father's work with a lost Indian influenced her, influences in general, whet...
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Eating In, Talking Out feat. Paul Dalla Rosa
The Getting Lit Podcast - February 05, 2024 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsThree-time guest of the pod and "Australia's Ottessa Moshfegh" Paul Dalla Rosa joins me at my house for bento takeout while we discuss Natsuo Kirino's crime novel, Out. In this book, a woman murders her husband and her workmates at a bento factory become implicated in disposing of the body. Fro...
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Cigarettes and Jünger feat. Nicolas Hausdorf
The Getting Lit Podcast - January 29, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsRecording on location from the smoke-wreathed vista at Siglo in Melbourne, I am joined by writer and researcher Nicolas Hausdorf to discuss German writer Ernst Jünger's post-apocalyptic novel, Eumeswil. We talk about the novel as a metaphor for Europe in the 70s, parapolitics, Jünger's politic...
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God is Wearing Black feat. Kelby Losack
The Getting Lit Podcast - January 21, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsHoodrat noir/cyberpunk writer, Agitator podcast host, and former guest on the show, Kelby Losack, joins me to talk about his collection God is Wearing Black. A lot of writing talk, Texas, writing places, class and the publishing industry, honesty and truth in writing and more in this wide rangi...
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The Kinks Live at Matthew Fresta's House
The Getting Lit Podcast - January 06, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsSurrounded by vinyl records and cassette tapes, I joined editor of the Rango Tango zine, and former GLP guest Matthew Fresta (in his lounge room!) to talk about the very literary songwriting of British band, The Kinks. With some selections from their discography playing in the background, we ta...
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Greco-Romoeroticism feat. Stephen Zerance
The Getting Lit Podcast - January 01, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsPoet Stephen Zerance joins me to talk about Greek poet C.P. Cavafy and four greco-roman films (Sebastiane, Caligula, Alexander, and 300). We talk about homoeroticism in these kinds of films as well as in Cavafy's verse. Follow Stephen on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/stephnz Substack: https://...
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Cloud Atlas feat. Jayson Young
The Getting Lit Podcast - December 17, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsJayson Young, writer and co-host of the Mangaroos podcast, joins me to talk about David Mitchell's novel about stories, life, death, perception, rebirth, and reincarnation: Cloud Atlas. We also talk about the 2012 film version by Tom Twyker and the Wachowskis. Jayson's substack: https://jayson...
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YA-face feat. Steff
The Getting Lit Podcast - December 11, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsOn this episode, Steff joins me to talk about R.F. Kuang's Yellowface, which we've decided is YA posing as literary fiction (probably the marketers fault). Follow Steff on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/moonandmouth Follow Steff on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonandmouth/
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Sally Rooney Trilogy III: Beautiful Worlds feat. Sheila Ngoc Pham
The Getting Lit Podcast - December 03, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsTo round out the Sally Rooney trilogy, I am joined by Sydney-based writer, editor, producer Sheila Ngoc Pham to discuss Sal pal's latest novel, Beautiful World Where Are You? The theme for this episode is "generations" where we will be talking about Rooney as a "millennial" novelist, how she ha...
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Sally Rooney Trilogy II: People of Normie Experience feat. E Rathke
The Getting Lit Podcast - November 26, 2023 14:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 9 ratingsWriter E Rathke joins me for the second part of the Sally Rooney series, where we look at Sal's second novel, Normal People. We chat about the internet and writing, commercial fiction, chick lit, Trojan-horsing fucked up shit into normal looking genres, writing craft, and much more. Follow Edd...
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Sally Rooney Trilogy I: Conversations with Chi Chi feat. Zach Langley Chi Chi
The Getting Lit Podcast - November 18, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsZach returns to kick off the Sally Rooney trilogy over the next few weeks. We will be looking at her books in chronological order with a different guest each week, starting with Conversations with Friends. The theme for this episode is "emotionality." We range over love, romance, sex, generati...
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The Woman in Memes feat. Jacques Peterson
The Getting Lit Podcast - November 12, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis episode, one of my faves and host of the Unpopular podcast, Jacques Peterson, returns to mansplain the Britney Spears memoir "The Woman in Me" (because I'm not going to read it). How did Spears go from a pop sensation to an online meme, dancing scarily in her house with knives and such? I r...
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Not the Full Quid feat. Ryan Simón
The Getting Lit Podcast - November 04, 2023 21:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 9 ratingsRyan Simón, editor-in-chief of American Vulgaria magazine returns to the show and I made him read some Aussie literature: Colleen McCullough's Tim, a sexy and heartwarming 1974 novel about a middle-aged spinster falling for her mentally challenged (yet incredibly physically beautiful) gardener. ...
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Halloween Special: The Turn of the Screw feat. Cody LaDuke
The Getting Lit Podcast - October 30, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsCody LaDuke from the Cents of Life podcast joins me for a Halloween special. We're talking ghost stories, specifically Henry James' classic, The Turn of the Screw, the 1961 film version The Innocents, and the 2001 film The Others starring Nicole Kidman. Subscribe to Cents of Life: https://podca...
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Valley of the Dolls feat. Jack Mason
The Getting Lit Podcast - October 28, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsJack Mason, host of The Perfume Nationalist podcast joins me to talk about Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel of showbiz, sex, and substance abuse, Valley of the Dolls, as well as the 1967 film adaptation directed by Mark Robson and starring Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, and Susan Hayward, and also the 1...
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There Are Two Gene Wolfes Inside You (Part 4) feat. J David Osborne & Kelby Losack
The Getting Lit Podcast - October 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsPart 4 of The Book of the New Sun series, looking at Volume IV: The Citadel of the Autarch. We have finally reached the end of our Gene Wolfe series, and we take a look back at the journey, a lot of writing talk, the psychological depth of Severian, Christian symbolism, whether it's a conservat...
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Twenty Days of Black Mould (Part 2) feat. Max Easton
The Getting Lit Podcast - October 16, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsPart 2 of my chat with Max Easton, this time talking about a book he introduced to me, The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio di Maria. A haunting, unsettling, uneasy book, full of weird implications, surreal and gruesome imagery and a whole lot of dread. Such fun! If you're American and want to b...
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Twenty Days of Black Mould (Part 1) feat. Max Easton
The Getting Lit Podcast - October 08, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratingsJoining me for a two part special is novelist and friend of the pod, Max Easton. In part 1, we discuss Max's new book, Paradise Estate, a sequel to his amazing debut The Magpie Wing. In part 2, we will discuss The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria. This episode has a lot of writing talk...
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