Getting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature Podcast

By Linda Morra

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Using her expertise as a seasoned literature professor, Linda M. Morra develops provocative, timely insights about books from Canada and elsewhere to show why stories are relevant for all of us. Hosted and written by Linda Morra, produced by Linda Morra and Marco Timpano.

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Episode Date
The Nine Days Of/Before Christmas - and the Final One of Season 5
Dec 16, 2024
"But I'm Holding a Pineapple" - An Open Letter to Ivan Coyote
Dec 01, 2024
A Ghost Story Without Ghosts: Jenny Haysom's Keep
Nov 17, 2024
Haunted by a Colonial Past - Michel Jean's Qimmik
Nov 02, 2024
What I Was Meant to Do - An Interview with Amanda Peters
Oct 17, 2024
An Unconventional Love Story in a Brat Summer: Corinna Chong’s Bad Land
Sep 16, 2024
Breathing Life into the Drowning Girls
Sep 01, 2024
Being Educated About Being Educated
Jun 20, 2024
Intergenerational Power: Reclaiming Indigenous parenting
Jun 02, 2024
Wishing Happy Anniversary / Birthday Wishes to The Geography of Pluto - An Interview with Christopher DiRaddo
May 16, 2024
"Learning Gently" about Reconciliation: Andrew Stobo Sniderman & Douglas Sanderson's Valley of the Birdtail
May 01, 2024
Bad Beauty: Marie Claire Blais' Mad Shadows
Apr 15, 2024
Plucking Women's Lives (and Messages) from the Shorelines of History
Apr 01, 2024
"Radical Self-Inclusion" - An Interview with Michael V. Smith
Mar 16, 2024
Radical Self-Love, with Eloise Marseille
Mar 02, 2024
Season 4 - Holiday Wishes ... and Some Hints for Season 5
Dec 23, 2023
These Short Cuts Go a Long Way - The SpokenWeb Podcast
Dec 15, 2023
Feminist Killjoys - An Interview with Erin Wunker
Nov 29, 2023
Milestones: A Sixtieth and Live Episode - An interview with Catherine Hernandez and Eva Crocker
Nov 17, 2023
An Entry Without an Exit: Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return
Oct 15, 2023
And this is how we get here - Keith Barker's This is How We Got Here
Oct 01, 2023
Taking Exception to Narratives of Exceptionality - Japanese-Canadian Internment Camps & Canadian Literature
Sep 18, 2023
Manatees and Magical Thinking - Amy Jones' Novel, Pebble & Dove
Sep 02, 2023
People (Do) Change; (C’mon) People, Change - Vivek Shraya's People Change
Aug 15, 2023
Morality & Well-Meaning - #BelievingWomen in Erum Shazia Hasan's We Meant Well
Jul 01, 2023
Wider Circles of Love and Faith - Lisa Moore's This is How We Love
Jun 15, 2023
Bleed - The Unmasking of the Medical System in Endo-Patient Care
Jun 04, 2023
It Really is All About Our Mothers
May 16, 2023
"And the Oscar Goes to ..." - Film Adaptation of Canadian and Indigenous Novels
May 02, 2023
She Shoots, She Soars - Changing the Face of Hockey & Its Representation in Literature
Apr 16, 2023
Not Fooling Around - Jason Camlot's Vlarf
Apr 01, 2023
Five Books Worth Leaving Behind the Sunscreen for During the Winter Break
Mar 15, 2023
It Begins with a Conversation - Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach
Mar 01, 2023
February 2023 - A Season is Around the Corner (Teaser)
Feb 19, 2023
Empathy, Sympathy, and the Literary Litmus Test
Dec 31, 2022
Season's Greetings - From GLWL Guests 2022
Dec 17, 2022
To Discover or to Divine
Nov 24, 2022
The Baggage of Atlas: Amy Spurway's Crow
Nov 10, 2022
Top Five Picks for a Haunting Hallowe-'en
Oct 27, 2022
The Stories Behind the Strike: Kevin Lambert's Querelle of Roberval
Oct 07, 2022
Ali Hassan Brings Home the Bacon -- and the Joy
Sep 15, 2022
Who's on First? Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague, with Dr. Kate Ready
Sep 02, 2022
Bad Boundaries & Good Relationships: Thomas King & Natasha Donovan
Aug 19, 2022
Night Vigils & Varieties of Looking
Aug 05, 2022
Leos, Lovers, Loss - and Lunar Tides
Jul 21, 2022
Indigenous Voices Awards - "Where Your Heart is Leading You"
Jun 19, 2022
The Robot Keepers - Part 2 of an Interview with Terri Favro
Jun 09, 2022
There's Motive For You, Part 2 - An Interview with Marissa Stapley
May 27, 2022
There's Motive For You - An Interview with Roland Gulliver
May 27, 2022
Robots & Radioactivity: An Interview with Terri Favro
May 05, 2022
Biographer's Regret - Alice Munro and the Autobiographer's Right
Apr 21, 2022
Just Sayin'/Not Saying, Part 2: An Interview with Stephen Collis
Apr 07, 2022
"Just Sayin' / Not Saying": An Interview with Stephen Collis (Part 1)
Mar 24, 2022
"Of What Use is Poetry at a Time Like This?" An Interview with Shani Mootoo
Mar 09, 2022
Ever Receding Fruit: Wayde Compton, the Black Archive, and the Call for a Black Cultural Centre
Feb 28, 2022
You Have to Decide: Rita Wong's Forage and Clayton Thomas-Muller's Life in the City of Dirty Water
Feb 11, 2022
Holiday Wishes & A Gift from the Archives - An Interview with Ali Hassan (from 2020)
Dec 25, 2021
"Show Me Yours"
Dec 17, 2021
The Quebec Writers' Federation Finalists & the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Nov 18, 2021
"Sharing the Light" - Interview with Mitali Ruths
Nov 04, 2021
The Body / Book in the Doghouse
Oct 28, 2021
"A Certain Kind of Activism": Witnessing and Jordan Abel's "Nishga"
Oct 14, 2021
Paper Postcards - Eden Robinson's "Traplines"
Oct 01, 2021
Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony - Connecting Across Generations & Genders
Sep 17, 2021
When the Body Complains - Jane Rule's Taking My Life and Sara Ahmed's Complaint!
Sep 06, 2021
"What Blossoms Long For" - Chantel Lavoie
Aug 19, 2021
Thomas King's One Good Story, That One: Relationships & Stories
Aug 05, 2021
Our Daily Heroes: Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints
Jul 24, 2021
Literature Heals and Connects Us: Heather O'Neill's "Messages in Bottles"
Jul 08, 2021
Bonus Episode: Interview with Lori Schubert, Executive Director of the Quebec Writers' Federation
Jun 25, 2021
How Remembering Defines You - Lorena Gale's Je Me Souviens
Jun 25, 2021
Bonus Episode: Interview with Marco Timpano, Author of 25 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Podcast
Jun 10, 2021
The Languages & Sounds That Are Home: Kaie Kellough's Magnetic Equator
Jun 10, 2021
Bonus Episode: Interview with Michael Nest, author of Cold Case North
May 27, 2021
Bonus Episode: Interview with Dr. Deanna Reder (Cree Métis), collaborator behind Cold Case North
May 27, 2021
Cold Case North is Smoking Hot
May 27, 2021
Apocalypse Now (and Then) - Saleema Nawaz's Songs for the End of the World
May 27, 2021
Hiatus / Teaser Episode
May 25, 2021
Episode 3: My Body is a Record - Madeleine Thien's Do Not Say We Have Nothing
May 23, 2021
Episode 2: This is the Present Me - Rawi Hage's DeNiro's Game
Aug 20, 2020
Episode 1: Not All About Atwood
Aug 19, 2020
Introduction to Getting Lit with Linda
Jul 09, 2020