This week's episode of GET LIT features Rebecca Rosenblum, author of So Much Love. The book is fantastic, and critics seem to agree. Rosenblum even had some flattering things to say about me on her webpage, which makes me feel all warm and fuzzy-like. Turns out she was a fan of my Hamilton Spectator column from the 1990s. In fact, it's one of those ridiculously small-world stories: I met poet and author Mark Sampson at an event in Toronto. He later messaged me to say that he had seen my final Generation X column – at his in-laws' home, taped up in his wife's childhood bedroom. That alone would have surprised me, but then I discovered that said individual was Rebecca, whose novel I had just started to read.
24 Sept 2026
GET LIT E24 with LESLIE SHIMOTAKAHARA
The experiment continues. I have begun making time in the AM to do some writing, and for a whopping two days straight, I've actually begun tapping away at some new work. I'll keep you in the loop. In the meantime, this week's show features Leslie Shimotakahara. Her first novel, After the Bloom, is the story of "a daughter's search for her mother [that] reveals her family's past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War."
Though you wouldn't expect it, I have my own connection to the internment camps, on this side of the Canada/U.S. border (yes, we did it too). My former wife is half-Japanese, and while I was part of that family, my great aunt, Auntie Yori, was that connection. She and her late husband were both interned in British Columbia. It felt extremely weird, and not a little depressing, to know that our country was guilty of such an atrocity. Anyway, believe it or not, the book isn't that heavy, despite the subject matter. Enjoyed talking with Leslie about her work, and I hope you enjoy our conversation.
10 Sept 2026
GET LIT E23 with EMILY SCHULTZ
From April 2017. "Emily Schultz (http://www.emilyschultz.com/)! I truly enjoyed her novel Men Walking On Water, and the conversation we had about it. You might know Emily from her previous book The Blondes, or from Joyland Magazine…or perhaps from her novel of the same name, which was also the name of a novel by Stephen King. This led to some people purchasing Emily's novel when, in fact, they meant to purchase Stephen's. Not sure how one buys a novel by the wrong author, but anyway, it led to Emily's entertaining Spending The Stephen King Money tumblr."
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