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This episode Matt invites six guests for a series of one on one segments. Each has brought along something old and something new to discuss that they're passionate about.

Guests include:

Paul Dalla Rosa (buy his collection here)
River Page (Pirate Wires)
Max Easton (buy The Magpie Wing here)
Miss Unity (https://www.missunity.net/)
Sheila Ngoc Pham
Zach Langley Chi Chi (I'm So Popular podcast)

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Matt talks about some old polaroids that made him cry, Roland Barthes' book on photography, Camera Lucida, and Chris Marker's 1962 science fiction still image film, La Jetée.

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Matt is joined by Dallas songwriter, poet, multi-instrumentalist, Young Dean to talk Flannery O'Connor's short stories Everything That Rises Must Converge and The Partridge Festival, as well as Dean's songwriting process, influences, and his new album, Terror on Vacation (https://open.spotify.com/album/6Sv1LICDiPLZUqWbxtSEb8?si=e-fi-T-uRrCHbjZ1jLchOQ)

Dean's Twitter: https://twitter.com/yearningprison
Dean's insta: https://www.instagram.com/y0ung.dean/

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Matt is recording LIVE from the poolside, tanning and talking about the books he's read this summer. Summer romances, Roald Dahl vs sensitivity readers, American Psycho's censorship in Australia, Jack Vance's Dying Earth stories, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life, and J David Osborne's new cyberpunk novel, Dying World.

This is a preview. For full episodes and complete access to the back catalogue, and the bonus show, Back Matter, feel free to subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/GettingLit

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Writer, producer, and radiomaker, Sheila Ngoc Pham joins Reuben and Matt to discuss Kay Dick's dystopian "sequence of unease", They.

Nonconformity, enemies of art, Western Sydney, identity politics in writing, and much more. 

Follow Sheila on Twitter: https://twitter.com/birdpham

Read Sheila's essay on the Western Sydney writing scene: https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/western-sydney-is-dead-long-live-western-sydney/

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Nick from Tokyo (https://twitter.com/NickFromTokyo) joins us to discuss Sayaka Murata's 2018 novel, Convenience Store Woman, and Juzo Itami's 1996 film, Supermarket Woman.

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Poet and writer Andrew Ketcham joins us to talk about YA literature as well as the 2011 film starring Charlize Theron, Young Adult.

Read Andrew's latest poem here: https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/horse-girl

Matt has also started a substack. You can read the first essay here: https://impieties.substack.com/

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Weeaboo princess, drag icon, and enfant terrible podcaster Zach Langley Chi Chi returns to talk Bruce Wagner's novel of sex, death, and celebrity, Dead Stars, as well as David Cronenberg's 2014 film, Maps to the Stars.

Subscribe to Zach's podcast, I'm So Popular:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/im-so-popular/id1523827234

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Using the anonymous messaging app, NGL, we asked our listeners for questions. And boy did we get some! Everything from Reuben's PhD, plagiarism scandals, past guest hotness levels, and much more!

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Reuben and Rio speak with Rio's friend Liam about Australian writer Max Easton's The Magpie Wing.

Order here: https://giramondopublishing.com/books/the-magpie-wing/
 
...or anywhere you order your books.

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