Send us 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 discussing the almost lost forever film version from 1971, starring Donald Pleasance and Chips Rafferty. This is a fun one folks, and painfully Australian. Get it into ya! Follow Book Club From Hell on Subst...
Jun 29, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 112
Send us 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 Attack of the Clones, subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit Subscribe to Rare Candy here: Follow Psi on X: https://x.com/rarepsi Follow Cody on X: https://x.com/cladu33 Support ...
Jun 22, 2025•34 min
Send us 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 episode of Back Matter featuring Cody LaDuke and Psi from Rare Candy podcast who join Sini and Fresta to discuss George Lucas' Revenge of the Sith, and nerd out a bit on Star Wars in general. Support the s...
Jun 22, 2025•1 hr 38 min
Send us 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 unique charm of the strivers on this show. Meanwhile, over on the Patreon, we talk about the state of sex in current popular culture. Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit Support the show...
Jun 15, 2025•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 110
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, sensitivity readers and much more. Follow The Barrow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebarrowpod/ Substack: https://substack.com/@thebarrowpod Follow Tobe on X: https://x.com/thebarrowpod Support the...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 109
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 femininity, defiantly staging theatre during the lockdowns, and much more. Buy The Sleepers here: https://www.amazon.com/Sleepers-Novel-Matthew-Gasda/dp/1648211259 And check out Gasda's substack: https://ma...
May 25, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 108
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 in an author's pronouns, sexuality and racial characteristics than talent. This satirical "performance art" piece has been documented in his new book, Echolalia Review. We discussed the quality control ...
May 18, 2025•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 107
Send us a text This episode, we talk to Jared Klickstein about his amazing memoir of drug addiction and homelessness, Crooked Smile. We also chat about the underground classic Australian film, Pure Shit (Bert Deling, 1978). Buy Crooked Smile here: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CWZ1GHLW?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_au Support the show...
May 12, 2025•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 106
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 Fresta's essay on Rare Candy's substack with more detailed reading tips and strategies: https://rarecandy.substack.com/p/how-to-read-books Support the show...
May 05, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 105
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 challenges, and the importance of creativity and playfulness in literature and art. Buy Gods Fare No Better here: https://ronintrash.bigcartel.com/product/gods-fare-no-better or here: https://www.amazon.com/God...
Apr 28, 2025•2 hr 28 min•Ep. 104
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 you can read here: https://unherd.com/2025/04/the-literary-man-isnt-dead/ Support the show...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 103
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 free will, spiritualism, and the liminal space between analog and digital technology and much more. Subscribe to Agitator here: https://www.patreon.com/c/agitator/ Subscribe to Bistro Californium here: ...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 102
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 science fiction. Support the show...
Apr 03, 2025•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 101
Send us a text We're celebrating 100 episodes of the Getting Lit Podcast by talking about a few Jorge Luis Borges stories: The Library of Babel, Three Versions of Judas, The House of Asterion, and Borges And I. We talk about infinity, intellectualism, mythology. We also touched on the challenges of creating a public persona as a writer, a few movie opinions, and the podcast's 100 episode milestone. Support the show...
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 100
Send us a text This week, it's a bit of a buffet! We chat about two Aleister Crowley short stories: The Drug, and The Stratagem. Before he was a famous occultist, Crowley wrote some fiction, so we thought we'd try it out. To get a much more extensive dive into Crowley, check out Art of Darkness' episode on his life: https://artofdarkpod.com/aleister-crowley-the-sewer-of-creation/ We also chat about "brodernism", the latest literary world concept to cause a fuss in "online lit." The article featu...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 99
Send us a text On this episode, we chat with Masha about the Soviet science fiction novel Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Russian nihilism and existentialism, Soviet censorship, the unique flavour of Soviet-era science fiction, how to say slurs in Russian and more! Follow Masha on X: https://x.com/3l3ktr4k0mpl3ks And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/t3lk4/ Support the show...
Feb 22, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 98
Send us a text This episode we talk about Julio Cortazar's short story, The Southern Thruway, about a traffic jam that turns into a community. We chat about the concept of the "fantastic" in literature, our experiences driving in Italy and Vietnam, and gave our expert opinion on the complexities of Russian politics and the portrayal of Putin. Support the show...
Feb 16, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 97
Send us a text Fresta and Sini talk about what they've been reading, watching, playing lately. Also talk about how some internet "personalities" get on podcasts with voice disguisers because "The Feds" are after them. This episode is paywalled. Go to https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit to get the full version. Support the show...
Feb 02, 2025•7 min•Ep. 96
Send us a text Our discussion with the Rare Candy boys about Michael Hanson's Mind Webs continues. We talk radio, podcasting, audio dramas vs audiobooks vs what Mind Webs is doing. Listen to Mind Webs here: https://archive.org/details/MindWebs_201410 Normally, the Back Matter episode is paywalled, but we all feel so passionate about this stuff, we thought we should have it out in the world for free. Enjoy! To get access to the full archive, plus the special aftershow Back Matter, subscribe at ht...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Send us a text Glen and Psi from Rare Candy podcast join us to talk about three stories from the science fiction writer, Thomas M Disch. The stories discussed include Descending, The Number You Have Reached, and The Squirrel Cage. Subscribe to Rare Candy's premium feed (we both do, it's great!): https://rarecandy.substack.com/ Follow Glen on X here: https://x.com/Rarecandypod1 Psi here: https://x.com/rarepsi To get access to the full archive of The Getting Lit Podcast, plus the special aftershow...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 95
Send us a text Josh from The Dionysian Dream substack talks all things Wicked. The original novel, Wicked (1995) by Gregory Maguire, the stage musical (2003) by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, and the 2024 film version directed by Jon M Chu and starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. Read Josh's great theatre criticism here: https://substack.com/@thedionysiandream/ Support the show...
Jan 12, 2025•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 94
Send us a text This week, we read Sigmund Freud's 1930 essay Civilization And Its Discontents and paired it with Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 film, Frenzy. Support the show
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 93
Send us a text For the full two hour episode, subscribe to the Getting Lit Podcast's Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit This week, we're celebrating Christmas with a discussion about the overtly Christian horror movie, Terrifier 3, released this year. We're joined by former guests Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist podcast, and Ryan Simón, Editor in Chief of American Vulgaria magazine. Subscribe to The Perfume Nationalist here: https://www.patreon.com/c/perfumenationalist Buy ...
Dec 21, 2024•21 min•Ep. 92
Send us a text Yeerk joins the show once again to talk about the first book in Michael Moorcock's Corum series, The Knight of the Swords . We range across topics such as sword and sorcery, formula, the British New Wave science fiction, and much more. And for more talk about Moorcock, politics in fiction and social media, head on over to https://www.patreon.com/c/GettingLit Follow Yeerk on X: https://x.com/PYeerk Subscribe to Bistro Californium: https://www.patreon.com/c/BistroCalifornium/ Suppor...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 91
Send us a text We talk about J.M. Coetzee's brilliantly brutal novel of post-Apartheid South Africa, Disgrace . Support the show
Nov 24, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 90
Send us a text This episode we chat about Ryunosuke Akutagawa's 'In A Grove' (1922) and Akira Kurosawa's adaptation, Rashomon (1950). What even is truth, man? Also, catch Fresta on Rare Candy's 'Psi Ops' series talking about Rudolf Steiner: https://rarecandy.substack.com/p/psi-ops-vol-2-how-to-know-higher Support the show...
Oct 26, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 88
Send us a text The New Era begins with new co-host Matt Fresta. Fresta is the editor of Rango Tango Magazine and is now the "second mic." For this first episode, we chat about William S Burroughs, 'The Place of Dead Roads', a psychedelic, gunslinging Western with science fiction elements and Burroughs' trademark deconstructionist schtick. On the Patreon-exclusive show, Back Matter, we chat about Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy, which pairs well with Burroughs (he makes a cameo as a junkie priest...
Oct 14, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 87
Send us a text A return after a long hiatus! There was a family tragedy so I took some time off. But we are back to regular programming. I'm talking about how apparently it is bad to expect college students to read 100 pages per day, why straight men don't read novels, also doing a few recommends at the end! Recommends: Scavenger's Reign Crooked Smile by Jared Klickstein: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CWZ1GHLW?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_au Agonist by Udith Dematagoda: https://www.amazon.com.au/Agon...
Aug 10, 2024•49 min•Ep. 86
Send us a text This 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 weekend of the 6th of July, 2024, come to Obituary Fest, which Leah has organized. Details here: https://www.prekindle.com/event/59171-obituary-goth-fest-dallas Support the show...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 85
Send us a text A short episode on the use (or lack thereof) of the third person omniscient point of view in modern novels after recently revisiting Dickens. Support the show
Jun 22, 2024•38 min•Ep. 84
