The Getting Lit Podcast
Episodes
Blood, Bone, & Mad Dogs feat. Matthew Fresta
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textMatthew Fresta, editor of the fabulous zine, Rango Tango, joins me to talk about Cormac McCarthy's novel of grim depravity in the A...
Hideo Kojima's Creative Genes feat. Sam from The Third Place
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSam from The Third Place, an excellent videogames podcast, joins me to discuss Hideo Kojima and his wonderful book of influences, inspir...
The Stars My Destination feat. Erik Harris
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textMusician Erik Harris joins me to talk about Alfred Bester's classic science fiction novel of revenge, redemption, and transcendence...
Behind the Red Curtain feat. Josh
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJosh, formerly of the Evil Thespian podcast, and currently of The Dionysian Dream, joins me for his third appearance on the pod! We&apos...
You Need to Be Dick-maxxing feat. Ryan Simón
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis episode, Ryan Simón, editor of the fabulous magazine, American Vulgaria, joins me to talk about Philip K Dick's mind-bending ...
Everything's Alright When You Believe
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis episode I talk about two of my favourite Biblical adaptations: Jesus Christ Superstar and The Prince of Egypt.Australian 1992 cast ...
Bent Backwards Over the Celebrity Poetry feat. Andrew Ketcham
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPoet Andrew Ketcham joins me for a deep dive into celebrity poetry books, specifically Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over th...
Alexander McQueen feat. Alex
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe lovely Alex (https://twitter.com/fraunichts) was in town and we went to the National Gallery of Victoria's Alexander McQueen ex...
Passions Old & New feat. Various Guests
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis episode Matt invites six guests for a series of one on one segments. Each has brought along something old and something new to disc...
Camera Lucida/La Jetée
11 Mar 2023
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Send us a textMatt talks about some old polaroids that made him cry, Roland Barthes' book on photography, Camera Lucida, and Chris Marker's ...
Everything That Rises Must Converge feat. Young Dean
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textMatt is joined by Dallas songwriter, poet, multi-instrumentalist, Young Dean to talk Flannery O'Connor's short stories Everyth...
Science Fiction Summer
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textMatt is recording LIVE from the poolside, tanning and talking about the books he's read this summer. Summer romances, Roald Dahl vs...
THEY Keep Coming feat. Sheila Ngoc Pham
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWriter, producer, and radiomaker, Sheila Ngoc Pham joins Reuben and Matt to discuss Kay Dick's dystopian "sequence of unease&q...
Women Be Shopkeeping feat. Nick from Tokyo
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textNick from Tokyo (https://twitter.com/NickFromTokyo) joins us to discuss Sayaka Murata's 2018 novel, Convenience Store Woman, and Ju...
WhyyyyA? feat. Andrew Ketcham
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPoet and writer Andrew Ketcham joins us to talk about YA literature as well as the 2011 film starring Charlize Theron, Young Adult.Read ...
Maps to the Dead Stars feat. Zach Langley Chi Chi
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWeeaboo princess, drag icon, and enfant terrible podcaster Zach Langley Chi Chi returns to talk Bruce Wagner's novel of sex, death,...
Q & Gay Vol. 2 (Anon Edition)
10 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textUsing the anonymous messaging app, NGL, we asked our listeners for questions. And boy did we get some! Everything from Reuben's PhD...
The Lore of Footy feat. Liam
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textReuben and Rio speak with Rio's friend Liam about Australian writer Max Easton's The Magpie Wing.Order here: https://giramondo...
An Exciting and Vivid Night Out feat. Paul Dalla Rosa
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textReturning guest Paul Dalla Rosa takes us on a tour around some of his favourite places to eat and drink while we talk about his new coll...
Girls Gone Wilde feat. Evil Thespian
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJosh and Maddie from the amazing Evil Thespian podcast join us to discuss Oscar Wilde's one act play, Salome, and Wilde, the 1997 b...
Modern Art Daddy feat. Angela Nagle
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe wonderful Angela Nagle joins us to talk about Robert Hughes' fantastic study of modern art, The Shock of the New.Subscribe to A...
Different Places! feat. Gian from Twink Revolution
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textGian from Twinkrev (RIP) joins Rio and Matt to talk about two Vegas movies: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam 1998) and Show...
Oedipa Complex
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis week: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of lot 49. Meaning, postmodernism, why Pynchon is like David Lynch (and Tolkien!) and more.S...
Changing Spots feat. Alice Gribbin
27 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAlice Gribbin, poet and author of the wonderful Notes of an Aesthete, joins the lads to talk about Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's l...
Lonely Hunters feat. River Page
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textRiver returns for a very long, freewheeling and suitably drunken chat about Carson McCullers' novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter an...
Big Discourse Energy
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe discuss three articles that did the rounds recently.Mitch Therieau's "Vibe, Mood, Energy or, Bust-time Reenchantment":...
The Oomfs Album
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe return for 2022 with a new intro (composed by the excellent GOLDpny, artist page here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1BIfoNbVBu02...
Word Wars
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textBookish brawls, literary violence, bitter fights and unbecoming scraps between egotistical writers . For our season finale, we each choo...
Q & Gay
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt's a Q & A episode!Join us as our lovely, twisted, perverted, overly serious, and sincere subscribers ask us all sorts of que...
Confessions of a Masc4Masc feat. Paul Dalla Rosa
13 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis week, Rio and Matt are joined by writer, Paul Dalla Rosa (https://twitter.com/pauldallarosa) to talk about Yukio Mishima's com...
Riddle of Steel
07 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis episode, Reuben gets an aneurysm reading Robert E Howard's first Conan story, "The Phoenix on the Sword," and asks C...
Brave Blue World feat. Telepathy Party
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis episode, we're joined by John (aka Telepathy Party on Twitter), to wax lyrical about our favourite literary fantasist, John Cr...
Anonyme, Anonymyou, Anonymous
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis week, we're much more tiddly than usual, so what better time to talk about anonymous authorship and literary theory? First we ...
Author Interview Series: Michael Winkler
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe're changing it up this episode, with Reuben conducting the first of our author interview series. Each season of the podcast we&a...
Looking for F@ggots in All the Right Places feat. Josh from Evil Thespian & Zach Langley Chi Chi from I'm So Popular
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAcross three timezones, a quartet of homosexuals gather for a symposium on faggotry. Rio and Matt are joined by Zach Langley Chi Chi fro...
My oh Myra! feat. Aaron Manhattan
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis episode we're joined by an impromptu guest: Sydney drag queen, Aaron Manhattan, who found out we were doing Gore Vidal's ...
Poet Lives Matter
12 Sep 2021
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Send us a textIt's a literary hot topics episode, baby! We engage in some capital D Discourse, talking about how saying facts about poetry will g...
Getting Lockdowned
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt's been a while! That may or may not be because all three of your hosts are in Australia, which has been returning to its colonia...
Dead Sexy! feat. Alison Taylor
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis week, Matt, Rio, and Reuben are joined by connoisseur of f**ked-up films, Alison Taylor, to discuss Georges Bataille's seminal...
Loaded with Ouzo
03 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textRio and Matt talk Christos Tsiolkas' explosively gay novel, Loaded, and its film adaptation, Head On. They explain "wogs"...
Bearded Juice Drinker Bureaucracy feat. River Page
19 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis episode, we're joined by River Page (@gayliaronline on Twitter), contributing editor at Twink Revolution and Twitter enfant te...
Michel...Halalebecq? feat. Sina
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textReuben and Matt are joined by Sina (@KhanKuchek on Twitter) from the Trepidation podcast to talk about Michel Houellebecq's Submiss...
Vegging Out
06 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhile smashing down a few bottles of soju, the lads discuss South Korean writer Han Kang's disturbing novel, The Vegetarian. Not on...
Sharing is Caring (part 2)
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn the second part of our first episode, Reuben makes us read noted English wanker Will Self, Rio elevates things a little with the Gran...
Sharing is Caring (part 1)
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn the first part of the inaugural episode, we introduce ourselves and then throw some shade at Sally Rooney, before talking a bit about...