Get Lit Podcast

Get Lit Episode 316: Thank you, as always, for keeping it lit!

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textFor our final episode, we're celebrating seven years of Get Lit with an exploration of our statistics, a few games and great trivia, a...

Get Lit Episode 315: The Complete Famous Works of Literature and the Authors Who Wrote them [Abridged] {LIVE!}

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textOur live episode is now live! Jon and Steph attempt to capture roughly 3,000 years of literary history in under an hour! We answer our list...

Get Lit Episode 314: Christine de Pisan

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textNeed to be inspired this week? Look no further than our author this week, Christine de Pisan! de Pisan was a poet, novelist, and biographer...

Get Lit Episode 313: David Foster Wallace

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textThis week, Jon takes over and presents a biography of David Foster Wallace. This thinker, writer, and teacher, had a fraught legacy in spit...

Get Lit Episode 312: Mina Loy

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textThis week, we're pleased to likely introduce you to poet, writer, actress, lampshade maker, and general adventurer, Mina Loy! We'...

Get Lit Episode 311: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

05 Mar 2025

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Send a textUp this week, it's Ella Wheeler Wilcox everybody! This very famous American poet and novelist has been largely forgotten despite her p...

Get Lit Episode 310: P.G. Wodehouse

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textGot a question? Just ask Jeeves! Or P.G. Wodehouse, the creator of this iconic character. This week, we explore Wodehouse's storied pa...

Get Lit Episode 309: George Bernard Shaw

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textThis week, we take a dive into Irish playwright, outspoken thinker, and vegetarian George Bernard Shaw! Shaw's works revolutionized mo...

Get Lit Episode 308: Viola Spolin

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textIf you haven't made space for a little play in your life, maybe take a little inspiration from this week's author, educator, and ...

Get Lit Episode 307: Belle da Costa Greene

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textWe expanded our postcard from a few weeks ago and are bringing you a full episode on the extraordinary Belle da Costa Greene! This incredib...

Get Lit Episode 306: Amy Lowell

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textEver wanted to smoke a cigar in your bed with precisely 16 pillows, accompanied by your seven dogs on your 10-acre estate? Our author this ...

Get Lit Episode 305: Margaret Sanger

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textWe're taking a trip to the non-fiction realm of literature with Margaret Sanger. Sanger is known for her tireless work advocating for ...

Get Lit Episode 304: Barbara Park

15 Jan 2025

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Send a textThis week, we discuss the life and work of the wonderful, whimsical Barbara Park! Park is most known as the author of the Junie B. Jones se...

Get Lit Episode 303: Nikki Giovanni

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textThis week, we celebrate the legacy of poet, children's book author, speaker, teacher and activist Nikki Giovanni who died on December ...

Get Lit Episode 302: Ida Raue

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textHappy New Year, Get Lit Listeners! We're delighted to help you ring in the new year with Ida Raue, an activist, actor, artist, poet, a...

Get Lit Episode 301: A Very Lit-erary Hanukkah

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Send a textThis week, we conclude our special history episodes with an exploration of the literature of Hanukkah, the Festival of Rededication and Fes...