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Just Friendship: An Interview with Lee Lai about Cannon
May 15, 2026
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Puzzling Jigsaw Pieces: An Interview with Brittany Penner about her memoir, Children Like Us
May 1, 2026
39m 32s
2026 - Season 7 Teaser
Mar 8, 2026
0m 57s
The Miracles of Change & Second Chances: Madeleine Thien's "Alchemy"
Jan 1, 2026
11m 18s
A Story of Unfitting: Susan Swan's Memoir, Big Girls Don't Cry
Dec 15, 2025
48m 23s
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| 5/15/26 | ![]() Just Friendship: An Interview with Lee Lai about Cannon | In this episode, Linda interviews Lee Lai about Cannon, the graphic novel for which Lai was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize (the only author on the shortlist with a Canadian connection).The friendship between the protagonist of the same name (Cannon) and Trish puts the very definition of their relationship to the test, complicated in part because Cannon is trying to be responsible to everyone around her—too much so, and the net result is that Cannon fails to advocate for herself. In this interview, Lai refers to Love in a F** Up World by the activist and educator Dean Spade, which Linda picked up after the interview. She was fascinated by Spade's question: How do we build lasting and effective resistance movements, if we are not even examining the ethics of foundational relationships like friendship? That’s the question that Lee Lai takes up. Lai isn’t dismissive or casual about friendship—it isn’t “just friendship” in that sense, but rather friendship that is fair, ethical, democratic.Other points of discussion- loving conflict (as Lee Lai says, “as the only thing that genuinely changes unsustainably bad dynamics”)- types of conflict: inner, between people, between art production and the way we see the world- Sarah Schulman, Conflict is Not Abuse (see also Ties that Bind and Let the Record Show)- chosen families and queer friendships- betrayal in friendship and unchecked expectations- Tuck Woodstock (podcaster) and the Gender Reveal podcast- Randa Abdel-Fattah's interview for the podcast, Between the Covers (David Naimon; see also Mariam Kaba's interview for this podcast)- Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook- R.F. Kuang, Yellowface- James McEvoy, Love and Friendship in the Western Tradition : From Plato to Postmodernity (2023)Producer: Linda Morra; Associate Producer; Maia Harris; Music by Raphael Krux Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Puzzling Jigsaw Pieces: An Interview with Brittany Penner about her memoir, Children Like Us✨ | memoiradoption+4 | Brittany Penner | Random House CanadaCanada Council+1 | — | memoirBrittany Penner+5 | — | 39m 32s | |
| 3/8/26 | ![]() 2026 - Season 7 Teaser✨ | Canadian literatureJane Rule+3 | Marilyn SchusterCate Sandilands+1 | Canada Council for the ArtsJane Rule | — | Getting Lit with Lindapodcast+5 | — | 0m 57s | |
| 1/1/26 | ![]() The Miracles of Change & Second Chances: Madeleine Thien's "Alchemy"✨ | changesecond chances+4 | — | AlchemySimple Recipes+2 | — | Madeleine ThienAlchemy+5 | — | 11m 18s | |
| 12/15/25 | ![]() A Story of Unfitting: Susan Swan's Memoir, Big Girls Don't Cry✨ | memoirself-worth+4 | Susan Swan | HarperCollinsBig Girls Don't Cry: A Memoir About Taking Up Space | — | Susan Swanmemoir+5 | — | 48m 23s | |
| 12/1/25 | ![]() Ring-Side Seats in a High-Stakes Environment: Brian Stewart’s On the Ground✨ | journalismmemoir+4 | Brian Stewart | CBCNBC+1 | HudsonQuebec+1 | Brian Stewartjournalism+5 | — | 58m 42s | |
| 11/19/25 | ![]() Taking Out the Imperial Trash - Jovanni Sy's A Taste of Empire✨ | playwritingglobalization+4 | Jovanni Sy | Bishop's UniversityTalonbooks+1 | Montreal | Jovanni SyA Taste of Empire+6 | — | 36m 55s | |
| 11/1/25 | ![]() The Other Problem that Has No Name - The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana✨ | toxic masculinityfeminist critique+3 | — | The Feminine MystiqueThe Passenger Seat+1 | Port AlberniNorthern BC+1 | toxic masculinityVijay Khurana+7 | — | 43m 50s | |
| 10/16/25 | ![]() Digital Trespassing: Human Rights in the Digital Age-- An Interview with Dr. Wendy Wong✨ | digital rightsdatafication+4 | Dr. Wendy Wong | AIChat GPT+5 | — | digital trespassinghuman rights+4 | — | 47m 07s | |
| 10/4/25 | ![]() Equity on a Bookshelf: An Interview with Stephanie Sinclair, Publisher of McClelland & Stewart✨ | Canadian literaturepublishing+3 | Stephanie Sinclair | McClelland & StewartYou Were Made for this World+8 | — | Kanata ClassicsMcClelland & Stewart+3 | — | 43m 35s | |
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| 9/18/25 | ![]() The Truth About Memoirs✨ | memoirsliterature+4 | — | Big Girls Don't CryA Million Little Pieces+5 | — | memoirautobiography+7 | — | 23m 08s | |
| 9/4/25 | ![]() The Lost City of Atlantis (our future, rather than our past): Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and James Cairns’ In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times✨ | dystopian literatureIndigenous community+4 | — | The Marrow ThievesIn Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times+4 | — | Atlantisdystopian novel+6 | — | 21m 15s | |
| 7/1/25 | ![]() Invitation to Reparative Reading - An Interview with Canisia Lubrin About Code Noir | In this episode, Linda interviews the phenomenal Canisia Lubrin - the acclaimed writer, critic, professor, poet, and editor. Her first book Voodoo Hypothesis (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) was named a CBC Best Book. Her second book, The Dyzgraphxst (M & S, 2020) won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the overall Literature prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Derek Walcott Prize. She is also a 2022 Civitella Ranieri Fellow and has held writer residences at Queen’s University and the appointed inaugural 2021 Shaftesbury Writer in Residence at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where she has taught creative writing.This episode of Getting Lit With Linda focuses on her award-winning book, Code Noir (Knopf 2023), for which Lubrin won the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, among other accolades. In consideration of this book and how the reader is invited to engage with it, Linda mulls over Eve Sedgewick's essay, "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, Or You're so Paranoid, You probably Think This Essay is About You." Applying Sedgewick's sense of the "reparative reader," Linda sees Lubrin's Code Noir (based on the real-life set of historical decrees that were passed centuries ago, in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France) as enjoining readers to participate in this way - not with a sense of paranoia (defensive!) but rather with an open and unassuming posture. Because Lubrin's Code Noir reminds us of the possibilities of art, form, and language, and our engagement with them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/15/25 | ![]() That Kind of Meta: The Double Life of Benson Yu - An Interview with Kevin Chong | In this episode, Linda chats with Kevin Chong about his novel The Double Life of Benson Yu (Simon & Schuster) shortlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize. It's a "meta" novel, in some ways - a concept that Linda explains in this episode - but it also had Linda thinking about the social media platform, Meta (formerly, Facebook). Whatever insights you might glean from this association and from this interview, what is clear is the real and urgent need to re-examine various forms of masculinity. The timing of this episode’s release - Father’s Day - underscores this importance.In this novel, the main character, Benson Yu, is writing a graphic novel based on his own life, and he tells us as readers what he can't or won't talk about because of his traumatic past and injured masculinity. It's a compelling read that makes us consider character and genre in ways that are quite provocative.Linda Morra (writer/producer), Maia Harris (associate producer), Rafael Krux (music), Aki Barabadi (marketing) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/1/25 | ![]() We, the Subplot (or Flying Monkeys) - An Interview with Michael Crummey about The Adversary | What are flying monkeys?, Linda wonders - until her friend illuminates their place in relation to narcissists. Narcissism is key to understanding the Widow and Abe Strapp, two deliciously terrible main characters in Michael Crummey's novel, The Adversary (Knopf) -- which just won the Dublin Literary Award for 2025; this psychology is also key to understanding why certain subplot characters choose to orbit around them. Since the novel may be read as a kind of running commentary on the present political moment, we must remember that we - not just readers, but rather the people who might see our reflections in the "subplot" characters - are important to the kinds of decisions made. The conditions of the subplot are affected by those of the plot - but that may also work in reverse. The interview with Crummey also connects his earlier novel, The Innocents (2019, Random House Canada), and The Adversary to William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, explaining how these two novels might be read in relation to each other.Linda Morra (executive producer); Maia Harris (associate producer); Raphael Krux (music) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/12/25 | ![]() Adding People to a Family Isn't a Minus - Recalculating the Math Around Stepmothers (With Rachel McCrum and Amélie Prévost) | It's Mother's Day - and, while Linda considers how the mother is represented in several books (specifically Rachel Deustch (6:30), Boum (5:50; 6:55), and Mary Thaler (5:47), in their respective works, The Mother, Jellyfish, and Ulfhildr), she turns her attention to the figure of the stepmother, inspired in part by her conversation with the authors of La Belle-Mère/The Stepmother (L'Hexagone) by Rachel McCrum and Amélie Prévost (8:10) while she was at the Imagination Literary Festival (held at the Morrin Centre in Quebec City, 5:33).C'est la fête des mères - et, tandis que Linda examine la façon dont la mère est représentée dans plusieurs livres (en particulier Rachel Deustch (6:30), Boum (5:50 ; 6:55), et Mary Thaler (5 : 47), dans leurs ouvrages respectifs,The Mother, Jellyfish, and Ulfhildr), elle s'intéresse à la figure de la belle-mère, inspirée en partie par sa conversation avec les auteurs de La Belle-Mère/The Stepmother (L'Hexagone) de Rachel McCrum et Amélie Prévost (8:10) lors de sa participation au festival littéraire Imagination (qui s'est tenu au Morrin Centre à Québec, 5:33).Host & Writer: Linda Morra; Associate Producer: Maia Harris; Music: Raphael Krux. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/6/25 | ![]() Why Vigilance Matters - Carol Off's At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage | In this episode, Linda speaks with the award-winning CBC journalist of As it Happens, Carol Off, about her new (and fifth!) book, At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage (Listeners, keep your eye out: A new edition of Off's book will be available in the fall!). Published in 2024, Off wrote the book as a "cautionary tale," as she observes in this interview - and, since then, some important political moments have evolved across the American and Canadian border. The book examines how key words, including freedom, democracy and truth, are being hijacked and weaponized in order to diminish liberal democracy. Linda and Carol speak about Roe v. Wade, the Bathhouse Raids, the outbreak of AIDS, women's rights, Judith Butler, the 2024 American election, Christopher Ruso and the "Strong and Free" organization, Hannah Arendt (25:20), Stephen Colbert's "Truthiness," the results of the 2025 Canadian election, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (29.09).Carol Off reminds us - we are not entitled to our own facts (34:24), and we need to question everything (31:20). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 4/15/25 | ![]() Revisioning the Three Rs - Michaela Di Cesare's Successions | In this episode, Linda revisits and revisions the three “Rs” – reading, writing, and arithmetic – to reformulate a new triad. Why? Because, in her interview with Michaela Di Cesare about her play Successions, Linda learns more about Anthony, one of the main characters, and his disorder, known as prosopagnosia. Di Cesare explains that she thought of this disorder as a means of representing how patriarchal culture is often blind to women and to their needs. Anthony is literally unable to recognize women’s faces, unable to read their particularities and individual and very human traits. From this point, Linda develops a broader metaphor, beginning with considerations of literacy (see CBC’s recent assessment) to the need to recalibrate our critical reading apparatus – and then Maia Harris suggests Elaine Castillo’s How To Read Now. And that sets the stage for the interview. If you’d like to see one of Di Cesare’s current plays, Mickey & Joe (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty) is set to open at the Mirella & Lino Saputo Theatre from May 17-25 2025. Executive Producer: Linda Morra; Associate Producer: Maia Harris; Sound Producer: James Healey; Music by Raphael Krux ("The Madness of Linda") and Kevin MacLeod ("Natural Vibes"). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 4/1/25 | ![]() "Now is the Time that Artists Must Get to Work" - Zilla Jones' The World So Wide | As a result of Zilla Jones’ The World So Wide, slated for publication with Cormorant Books on April 26, 2025, Linda reflects on opera (specifically Verdi’s La Forza Del Destino) – historically an elitist art form, but one that Felicity Alexander, the protagonist of Jones’ novel, in part challenges and overcomes through the very successes of her career. The trajectory of that career takes a darker turn when she finds herself in Grenada during the 1983 American invasion of that country – not an untimely revisioning of history in view of the current American political situation (27:40; 28:50).Linda also speaks about Verdi’s La forza del destino with Renata Tibaldi as Leonore and her father's love for opera (2:15), before she turns to the interview with Zilla Jones to speak about the following:Opera’s potential as an artform vs. its polarizing, and its elitism as art form (3:20; 12:30); Kathleen Battle (18:46; 19:00)Arts vs. politics (13:30), and the uses of art in a time like this (6:00; 31:45)Other authors: Shani Mootoo (Season 3, Episode 26, 6:00); Dionne Brand, Salvaging the Wreck (16:03); Sara Ahmed’s What’s the Use? (5:00; 6:15); Toni Morrison (31:50); Robinson Crusoe (16:15)Decolonization and racial politics (12:15) and the novel as a colonial construct (16:15)Felicity as mixed-race heroine (17:30; 33:20; naming of, 39:30)Grenada (history of, 20:45, and its “Revo,” 23:10; Red Sky Revolution, 23.20); the history of the Panama Canal (27:40)Jones' research for the novel (24:35)Gender and racialized motherhood (34:10)Executive & Sound Producer: Linda Morra; Associate Producer: Maia Harris; Music by Raphael Krux ("The Madness of Linda") and Kevin MacLeod ("Natural Vibes"). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 3/15/25 | ![]() What We Oughta Know ... About Powerful, Internationally-Recognized & Accomplished Women | In this first episode of Season 6 of Getting Lit With Linda, the host – Linda Morra – begins with a few important announcements: GLWL is now being supported by the Canada Council for the Arts! With that support, we have a "special" season that we're calling GETTING LIT GOES GLOBAL. It means we are emphasizing books or topics that take on international proportions or have international repercussions.Getting Lit With Linda will now also feature an annual prize – more of that in future episodes. And we have a new team on board, featuring Maia Harris (Associate Producer), James Healey (Sound Producer), Aki Barabadi (Marketing Consultant), and Raphael Krux (Music).Linda begins her discussion with a consideration of Martha Nussbaum’s Anger and Forgiveness, to mull over what to do with our anger (and specifically feminist anger, 21:00). Her guest, Andrea Warner points the way in her fresh and accessible book, We Oughta Know. Warner tells us what we should know, but don’t – that is, she tells us about how much the women she is examining – Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Alanis Morissette, and Sarah McLachlan -- did to work past gendered biases in the music industry to achieve international fame. Warner reminds us that we need to understand and confront not just misogyny (18:00), and the male gaze (19:00), but also internalized misogyny (16:20), and that we ought to know is how to develop solidarity and love for all of us. And, even when we mess up, we need to remember we are all works in progress (16:40).Andrea Warner has her own podcast, Pop This!, and has published other books, including The Time of My Life, and Rise Up and Sing: Power, Protest, and Activism in Music. We also speak about the following:Sabrina Carpenter's Christmas special, A Nonsense Christmas Lisa Whittington Hill's Girls Interrupted: How Pop Culture is Failing Women (Vehicule Press) and gender inequality in music representation (15:00)Miss Piggy's anger (22.50)Celine Dion's VERY AWESOME CANARY YELLOW POWER SUIT Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 3/8/25 | ![]() Season 6: Happy International Women's Day Wishes + Teaser | Happy International Women's Day - this is our Teaser for Season 6, in which a special guest joins Linda Morra to share our International Women's Day wishes with you, the listeners of Getting Lit With Linda! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 12/16/24 | ![]() The Nine Days Of/Before Christmas - and the Final One of Season 5 | n this 78th episode and the final one of season 5, Linda offers the “Nine Days of Christmas” with nine different book recommendations for the holidays. Who makes the cut? Well, we could say you need to listen to find out, but we want you to find the books easily, so here they are with their links:Alice Zorn’s Colours in her Hands (Freehand Books), Téa Mutonji’s Shut Up You’re Pretty (VS Books, Arsenal), Katherena Vermette’s Real Ones (Hamish Hamilton), Ian Williams', What I Mean to Say (Anansi), Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory (Penguin), Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car Porter (Coach House Press), Derek Webster’s National Animal (Véhicule Press), Sue Goyette's A Different Species of Breathing (WLUP),and Bart Vautour’s The Truth About Facts (Invisible Publishing)Other References:Tanis MacDonaldErin Wunker, Season 61Judith ScottThe entire team at Geting Lit With Linda wishes you a wonderful, restful holiday - we will be back in the New Year with some important developments! Stay tuned! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 12/1/24 | ![]() "But I'm Holding a Pineapple" - An Open Letter to Ivan Coyote | Linda writes an open letter to Ivan Coyote, in response to their book, Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures (published by McClelland & Stewart during the pandemic). This important volume of letters is extraordinary and, while we're no longer in the throes of a pandemic, it remains as relevant as ever. With references to WB Yeat's poem "The Second Coming" and an article by Anna Russell that appeared in The New Yorker, this episode highlights the vital contribution this book makes - and it's more than just a pineapple. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/17/24 | ![]() A Ghost Story Without Ghosts: Jenny Haysom's Keep | In this episode, Linda converses with Jenny Haysom (2.48) about her novel Keep (published by Anansi). Featuring three main characters, the narrative is driven by the conflict that emerges when Harriet, an elderly poet, is diagnosed with the onset of dementia and must face selling her house -- and the two home stagers, Eleanor and Jacob, tasked with emptying it of its contents. Both Eleanor and Jacob are drawn into Harriet's world and the questions around what we keep, what we throw away, and what we value and why. It becomes clear why Haysom refers to this Victorian-esque novel as "a ghost story without ghosts."The discussion also turns toward Haysom's literary debut as a poet and her collection Dividing the Wayside (4.15, published by Palimpsest Press) and the difference between writing poetry and writing novels (4.32). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/2/24 | ![]() Haunted by a Colonial Past - Michel Jean's Qimmik | A bilingual episode/un épisode bilingue. Linda opens with her delight about having won the Women in Podcasting Awards in Education - she effusively thanks her listeners!eWhat kinds of books haunt us and why? In this episode, Linda considers Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach and Jessica Johns' Bad Cree, but ultimately picks a book that thoroughly haunted her - Michel Jean's Qimmik (published by Libre Expression, not yet translated into English). Author of Kukum (House of Anansi) and editor of Amun:A Gathering of Indigenous Voices, Jean addresses one of the legacies of a colonial past not frequently addressed. Set in Nunavik, the novel traverses two time periods--that are connected in ways that are completely unexpected and deeply moving.Quels types de livres nous hantent et pourquoi ? Dans cet épisode, Linda choisit un livre qui l'a profondément hantée : Qimmik de Michel Jean (publié par Libre Expression, pas encore traduit en anglais). Auteur de Kukum (House of Anansi) et rédacteur en chef d'Amun:A Gathering of Indigenous Voices, Michel Jean aborde l'un des héritages d'un passé colonial qui n'est pas souvent traité. Situé au Nunavik, le roman traverse deux périodes qui sont reliées de façon tout à fait inattendue et profondément émouvante. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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