Lit Up

By Angela Ledgerwood

Join host Angela Ledgerwood as she chats to the authors she loves most about books, life, and what lights them up.

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May 27, 2025 Glynnis MacNicol on the pleasures of Paris.
This week, Angela welcomes Glynnis MacNicol, author of I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris. Angie and Glynnis chat about how travel can bring out our most seductive selves

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May 19, 2025 Annabelle Hickson on living in regional Australia, Galah magazine, and why the kids are gonna be all right.
This week Angela talks to her old friend Annabell Hickson about her life in the country. They discuss how they came to be friends, life outside the city, creating and publishing Galah magazine, and why maybe we all need to let our kids be on their own a bit more.

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May 13, 2025 Cora Frazier (The New Yorker) on the beautiful strangeness of new motherhood.
Cora Frazier’s New Yorker piece for Shouts & Murmurs, Writing Prompts for New Parents, struck a chord with Angie as soon as she read it. Having just had a baby, she identified with the bizarre hallucinatory thoughts of the writer/mother in Frazier’s piece.
Cora Frazier has contributed to The New Yorker since 2012. She is a creator and writer of the podcast “I Think You’re Projecting.”

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May 06, 2025 Anna Funder on The Invisible Life of Mrs. Orwell
This week, Angela is delighted to welcome Anna Funder, author of Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life, to Lit Up. Angie and Anna discuss the untold story of Eileen Blair, the wife of Eric Arthur Blair, better known to the world as George Orwell. Angie and Anna talk about the challenges of being a writer and a mother, Eileen's role in Orwell's success, and how much we're still under the grip of gender roles today.

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April 29, 2025 Katie Kitamura returns to talk about her new book Audition.
This week, Lit Up returns to your ears, and so does one of our favorite guests: Katie Kitamura. Katie and Angie dig into Katie's new book Audition through the lens of relationships, acting, and parenting.

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July 09, 2024 Lucy Jones on Matrescence and transformation of motherhood,
This week Angie welcomes Lucy Jones, author of Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood, among other books.

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June 25, 2024 Bianca Bosker on Get The Picture
This week, Bianca Bosker returns to discuss her new book, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See.

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June 18, 2024 Cameron Russell on How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone
This week Angie welcomes model, activist, and author Cameron Russell on the podcast to talk about her memoir, How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone.

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34min
January 23, 2024 Re-Release: Trent Dalton on Boy Swallows Universe and what makes a good man.
This week we're re-releasing an episode featuring Trent Dalton. The adaptation of his book, Boy Swallows Universe, is currently a hit on Netflix. Angie and Trent talked about the book in 2019 when it came out.
Finding meaning in sadness, defining the different types of love and looking at the complexities of masculinity, are the overarching themes in Trent Dalton's novel, Boy Swallows Universe. Trent shares with host Angela Ledgerwood how he used this book to put a positive spin on some of the sadness of his past and how he used his character, Eli, to explore what a do-over on his life would have looked like.

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December 13, 2023 Bianca Bosker on her unexpected wine obsession and how it upended (and enriched) her life.
Angie speaks with award-winning journalist Bianca Bosker about how hearing of the existence of ‘The Best Sommelier in the World Competition’ sparked an obsession to become a sommelier herself, a decision that upended her life and led to her best-selling book Cork Dork: A Wine-FUELED Adventure Among The Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste. We also touch upon her latest obsession—the art world—which will be captured in her forthcoming book, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See, out February 6, 2024. Bianca will be back on the pod in February, to talk about her next riveting read!

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