About this episode

Matt Fresta and Matthew Sini discuss their podcast's history and various literary topics.

Matt Fresta and  Matthew Sini  of the  Getting Lit Podcast  join me to talk about the history of their show, niche literary podcasting, the Australian scene, Sini’s provocative statement that there is no such thing as an atheist fiction writer, and much, much more. Matt Sini’s substack pieces mentioned: No Atheists in Plotholes Current Thing Writing Killed the Literary Journal Neo-Passeism piece on Australian scene Matt Fresta’s stories at Apocalypse Confidential: “A Super Position” “Black and White and Blue” “Count Whack-ula”

People in this episode

Host: Method and Madness

Guests: Matt Fresta, Matthew Sini

Topics covered

• literary podcasting
• Australian literature
• atheism in fiction
• podcast history
• niche media

Keywords

• Getting Lit Podcast
• literary podcasting
• Australian scene
• atheist fiction
• Matt Fresta
• Matthew Sini

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Getting Lit Podcast

Books & works: No Atheists in Plotholes, Current Thing Writing Killed the Literary Journal, Neo-Passeism piece on Australian scene, A Super Position, Black and White and Blue, Count Whack-ula

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