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Getting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature Podcast

Linda Morra

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Frequency: 1 episode/21d. Total Eps: 104

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.

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🇨🇦 Canada - books
14/06/2026
#67
🇨🇦 Canada - books
13/06/2026
#76
🇨🇦 Canada - books
05/06/2026
#56
🇨🇦 Canada - books
04/06/2026
#62
🇨🇦 Canada - books
03/06/2026
#65
🇨🇦 Canada - books
02/06/2026
#38
🇨🇦 Canada - books
14/02/2026
#73
🇨🇦 Canada - books
13/02/2026
#87
🇨🇦 Canada - books
12/02/2026
#53
🇨🇦 Canada - books
27/07/2025
#78

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Haunted by a Colonial Past - Michel Jean's Qimmik

Season 5 · Episode 75

Saturday, November 2, 2024 • Duration 24:05

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!

What 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.

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What I Was Meant to Do - An Interview with Amanda Peters

Season 5 · Episode 74

Thursday, October 17, 2024 • Duration 34:19

Linda opens with a word of thanks to her listeners who voted--because she is now a Finalist for the Women in Podcasting Awards.

This episode features an interview, which was live at Word on the Street in Toronto, with the writer of Mi'kmaq and settler descent, who published a novel, The Berry Pickers and, most recently, her short story collection, Waiting for the Long Night Moon (both published by published by Random House). It is a joyful and animated conversation, with an audience that was warm and supportive.

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"Radical Self-Inclusion" - An Interview with Michael V. Smith

Season 5 · Episode 65

Saturday, March 16, 2024 • Duration 48:19

Michael V. Smith is a deeply loving, insightful poet and performer – who uses intimacy and humour as tools to explore pain. In this interview, Linda chats with him about power dynamics and bullying, as they address his poetry collection, Queers Like Me (published by Book*hug in 2023)

Here are some of the subjects we covered:

on the nature of creative writing and genre (6.15)
poetic technique, poetic devices, and poetic voice (verbatim poems: 6.45, 8.00, 42.43)
Facebook poem and writing about his father (9.35, 10.48, 27.50, 32.20)
depictions of masculinity (21.40 mistake with bike/book; 12.05, 21.25)
The Floating Man (13.03, 27.10)
Agnes Varda (12.12)
Eloise Marseille (4.18)
working across genres (16.25)
Michael reads from “Grandma Cooper’s Corpse” (20.25)
humour and contrast (22.42, 24.25)
poetry and knowledge - the function of poetry (37.00)
his chapbook (23.45)
dynamics of power and bullying (32, 32.40, 33.40)
the importance of nuance (34.50)
gay marriage (36.08)
Bronwen Wallace (38.30)
Lorna Crozier (39.20)
His memoir, My Body is Yours (40.38, published by Arsenal Pulp Press)
radical inclusion (46.54)

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Radical Self-Love, with Eloise Marseille

Season 5 · Episode 64

Saturday, March 2, 2024 • Duration 01:03:41

Eloise Marseille is the first guest for Season 5 - yes, season 5! - and, this time, it's English AND French (starting at the 31.55 mark for the French interview). Marseille is a wonderful Quebecoise graphic novelist, whose candid and humorous book, Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman / Confessions d'une Femme Normale examines sexuality and self-love--especially as it bears on women, cis- and trans-. Linda begins with a reference to the feminist theory courses she teaches and some of the theorists, like Kimberlé Crenshaw, and how sometimes students say "do we need feminist theory any more?" Linda wants to unplug students from the Matrix (a reference to the film starring Keanu Reeves) and show them the gritty reality in which we live - yes, we STILL need feminism and Marseille is leading the way/the charge!

With thanks to James Healey, the recording engineer who set up the studio; Raphael Krux for music; and Marco Timpano, Sarah Henzi, and Benoit Cantin for giving this episode an advance listen!

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Eloise Marseille est la première invitée de la saison 5 - oui, la saison 5 ! - et, cette fois, c'est en anglais ET en français (à partir de 31.55 pour l'entretien en français). Marseille est une merveilleuse écrivaine, dont le livre candide et humoristique, Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman / Confessions d'une Femme Normale, examine la sexualité et l'amour de soi, en particulier en ce qui concerne les femmes, cis et trans. Linda commence par évoquer les cours de théorie féministe qu'elle donne et certaines théoriciennes, comme Kimberlé Crenshaw, et comment les étudiants disent parfois "avons-nous encore besoin de la théorie féministe?" Linda veut débrancher les étudiants de la Matrice (référence au film avec Keanu Reeves) et leur montrer la réalité crue dans laquelle nous vivons - oui, nous avons ENCORE besoin du féminisme et Marseille montre la charge!

Season 4 - Holiday Wishes ... and Some Hints for Season 5

Season 4 · Episode 63

Saturday, December 23, 2023 • Duration 02:20

Linda wishes her listeners a very happy holiday - and offers a hint about what to expect for at least the first episode of Season 5! Have a restful, joyful period. Getting Lit With Linda returns on March 1, 2024.

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These Short Cuts Go a Long Way - The SpokenWeb Podcast

Season 4 · Episode 62

Friday, December 15, 2023 • Duration 25:01

In this episode, Linda chats with Dr. Katherine McLeod about her role in the SpokenWeb Podcast, particularly Short Cuts. The conversation covers so much ground in such a short period! We discuss the following:

The Short Cuts podcast (6.20, 9:21, 14.05, 18:47)
Women poets, such as Gwendolyn MacEwan, Phyllis Webb (15:27), Muriel Rukeyser, Maxine Gadd, Margaret Atwood (8.22; 8.54; 10:03), Daphne Marlatt (18:55), Dionne Brand (11:23), and Brand with Lee Maracle (a member of the Stó:lō Nation; 12.05; 15:25)
Feminist practices of listening (9:20)
Holding the sound (11:00)
CBC Radio, the history of; women writers and (15:49) and the radio program “Anthology” (16:28)
The federal funding body, called SSHRC (4.32; 6.05)
Smaro Kamboureli and the TransCanada Institute (16:07)
The Director of SpokenWeb, Jason Camlot (2:45, 17:33; 22.03) (see Linda's previous episode with Camlot, who is also a poet, here)
CanLit Across Media (17:40)
The Women and Words Conference (20:54)

Feminist Killjoys - An Interview with Erin Wunker

Season 4 · Episode 61

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 • Duration 42:15

Linda is thrilled to have been able to conduct this interview with one of the foremost feminist scholars in Canada right now—Erin Wunker. They speak about her book Notes from a Feminist Killjoy, published by book*hug, and the important work it undertakes in relation to the labour of being a “feminist killjoy.”

Don’t know what a feminist killjoy is? Give this interview a listen to find out more.

Here are only some of the key points of the discussion:

· About Erin Wunker (2.46)

· About the book itself: Notes from a Feminist Killjoy (book*hug press) (1.41)

· The meaning of the title (4.39)

· What is a killjoy? (1.47)

· Sarah Ahmed, as a thinker and community-engaged intellectual (1.58, 5.40, 8.10, 30.08)

· About the feminist killjoy (6.20, 7.09, 9.46, 19.40, 24.56) and intersectional feminism (15.57)

· Betty Friedan (25.00)

· The style of writing (25.30)

· Collection action, allyship, friendship (18.55)

· The podcast We Can Do Hard Things (Glennon Doyle, 13.08)

· Catherine MacKinnon (30.14, 38.04)

Milestones: A Sixtieth and Live Episode - An interview with Catherine Hernandez and Eva Crocker

Season 4 · Episode 60

Friday, November 17, 2023 • Duration 01:14:59

In this episode -- recorded live in Tiohtià:ke in the DeSeve Cinema at Concordia University -- Linda interviews award-winning authors, Catherine Hernandez and Eva Crocker. Linda begins by thanking celebrated Montreal-based author, Christopher DiRaddo, who is the director of the Violet Hour and who opens the event with a territorial acknowledgement and with an introduction to the authors. The Violet Hour and the Association of English-Language Publishers of Quebec (AELAQ) co-sponsored the event, so Linda also recognizes the superb professionalism of the team at AELAQ, including Rebecca West, Alex Sweny, and Elise Moser. She also thanks Stephen Burgess, the audio-visual technician who helped to record the event that day.

The interview begins with Hernandez and considerations of her three novels, Scarborough (Arsenal Pulp Press), Crosshairs (Simon & Schuster), and The Story of Us (HarperCollins). They also speak about her amazing Wild Strawberry Homestead. Then, Eva Crocker joins them on the stage and so they also discuss her two novels, Back in the Land of the Living (House of Anansi) and (House of Anansi).

An Entry Without an Exit: Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return

Season 4 · Episode 59

Sunday, October 15, 2023 • Duration 18:24

In this episode, Linda reflects on Dionne Brand's magnificent A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, reprinted by Vintage (a division of Random House) in 2023 - but initially published over twenty years ago. That's the staying power of this particular volume - the "Door of No Return" is a particularly harrowing metaphor and, as Linda notes, there are many expressions that use "doors" in contemporary usage. Just not like this book does! A prolific and accomplished writer and professor, Brand is referring to the Black diaspora vis-a-vis the Black Atlantic slave trade.

To set up this discussion, Linda considers her personal fascination with "doors" (consider the gorgeous doors of the Atwater Library in Montreal) and then how they have been used in other works -- like that of Complaint! by Sara Ahmed or The Diamond Grill by Fred Wah or The Door by Margaret Atwood -- and then compares them to how the image is used in Brand's literary text.

In the Takeaway, Linda gives a shout-out to the annual Read Quebec Book Fair, that this year is taking place from November 3 to November 4th in the McConnell Building Atrium of Concordia University. Please join her there, where she will be interviewing Catherine Hernandez and Eva Crocker live!

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And this is how we get here - Keith Barker's This is How We Got Here

Season 4 · Episode 58

Sunday, October 1, 2023 • Duration 41:52

Linda speaks with Métis playwright, actor, and director, Keith Barker about his play, This is How We Got Here (Playwrights Canada Press) It is a moving interview, as Barker explains the origins and shape of this play.

Their discussions touch on the following subjects (among others!):

current and past productions of the play (3.00; 28.15; 34.10, 36.00)
loss and trauma (1.14, 1.50, 4.30, 6.10, 12.56, 19.20, 33.58)
structure of This is How We Got Here (1.20, 22.28, 23.25)
representations of grief (3.50, 25.08)
structure and shape of the play (5.48, 9.05)
fox figure (10.04, 17.01, 18.58, 20.45, 25.10, 33.00, 36.00)
play’s epigraph (from Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 10.30, 13.16, 15.40)
discussion of suicide (11.51, 21.40)
figures from nature (17.58)
Catholicism (20.45)
meaning of the title of the play (37.50)

Linda also invites Barker to read from his play, which he does, selecting the first scene related to the fox figure (25.25).

With a special thanks to James Healey, the podcasting studio manager - and Barker's cats, who also made an appearance in this interview!

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