Get Lit Podcast
Steph Svarz
"Welcome back to Get Lit, the literary podcast where we discuss famous works of literature and the authors who wrote them..."
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Apr 22, 2020 • 39min
Episode 55: Hildegard of Bingen
Send us Fan MailEver dreamed of being a mystic, author, botanist, musician, playwright/composer, preacher, healer, historian, and music therapist? If you said, yes, then take a few tips from this week's featured author: Hildegard of Bingen. If you said no, then enjoy this episode!
Apr 15, 2020 • 39min
Get Lit Episode 54: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Send us Fan MailShe's the OG Poetry Superstar! This week, meet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poetess extraordinaire, translator, language learner, eloper, and social justice warrior! Celebrate National Poetry Month with this remarkable woman poet!
Apr 8, 2020 • 1h 6min
Get Lit Episode 53: William Shakespeare
Send us Fan MailWe did it! THE William Shakespeare - for our one year anniversary episode! Join us and the Bard for a celebration complete with our very own author themed Tinder game!
Apr 1, 2020 • 47min
Get Lit Episode 52: Ayn Rand
Send us Fan MailLove her, hate her, don't know her, like cults? This week's episode has it all as Jon leads us through the life of author Ayn Rand!
Mar 25, 2020 • 38min
Get Lit Episode 51: T.S. Eliot
Send us Fan MailSometimes the truth is stranger than fiction... particularly for this week's author and the inspiration for the musical Cats, T.S. Eliot! Join us to untangle the strange life of this American-British poet.
Mar 18, 2020 • 31min
Get Lit Episode 50: Beatrix Potter
Send us Fan MailJoin us (along with Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, and Jemima Puddle-Duck) to discuss the empowering, whimsical life of Beatrix Potter - illustrator, author, mycologist, sheep breeder, environmentalist, and scientist! We hope to put a smile on your face with this one - stay healthy and hopeful!
Mar 11, 2020 • 33min
Get Lit Episode 49: John Steinbeck
Send us Fan MailHere's Johnny! John Steinbeck is our focus this week! Come meet the author who helped document the American experience through his Pulitzer/Nobel Prize winning writing career - writing novels including 'East of Eden', 'Of Mice and Men', and 'The Grapes of Wrath', among many others! Also featuring a pony named Jill.
Mar 4, 2020 • 36min
Get Lit Episode 48: P.L. Travers
Send us Fan MailThis is truly a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious episode; practically perfect, as it were! Join us for a delightful trip through the whimsical, mythical life of Pamela Lyndon Travers, author of the Mary Poppins books, among other texts!
Feb 26, 2020 • 29min
Get Lit Episode 47: Jun Fujita
Send us Fan MailWhat do the Indiana Dunes, Japanese Poetry, Al Capone, and The Dil Pickle Club all have in common? They're all components of the extraordinary life of poet, photographer, actor, activist, and bohemian, Jun Fujita!
Feb 19, 2020 • 30min
Get Lit Episode 46: Shel Silverstein
Send us Fan MailLovers of poems, whether or not you know 'em will love this week's feature about a most spectacular creature, the poet and drawer and singer and fighter (sort of) and lover and grammy award winning writer, Shel Silverstein!
