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The Getting Lit Podcast

Booking Overview

The Getting Lit Podcast offers casual, thought-stimulating conversations about literature and media, with special attention to contemporary writing, culture, and how ideas show up in books. It’s a strong booking fit for authors and literary thinkers who want to reach an engaged audience interested in craft and cultural context.

Metrics

Episodes: 130

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Instagram: 719 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

matthew.sini@gmail.com

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Published or widely recognized writers/essayists (especially authors of fiction/short stories), literary critics, and cultural commentators; sometimes media/publishing-adjacent creators with an established written platform (e.g., Substack).
Required Achievements:  
Published books/short story collections, Published essays on Substack or similar platforms, Known for cultural/literary commentary (including running a related podcast/publication)

Recent Guest Discussions

Lewis Woolston - Short Story Writing; Forming A Collection; Place And Literature; Religion; Marginal Vs Mainstream Literary Culture

Russell Walter - Larping And Why It Matters; 'good Actually'; Quixotic Hero Archetype

Recent Topics

Literature, Books, Writing, Fiction, Religion

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Getting Lit Podcast
:

Crazy Like a Fox

July 31, 2026

This week, we’re talking about D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox, a brilliant, taut novella about two women in post-war England trying to make a go of it on a farm, who are menaced by a fox and a soldier returned from combat. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit newmythologies.substack.com/subscribe

The Everlasting feat. Lewis Woolston

July 01, 2026

This week, we’re joined by Lewis Woolston, author of the short story collections The Last Free Man, Remembering the Dead, and the topic of our discussion in this episode—The Everlasting. We chat about short story writing, the process, forming a collection, place and literature, religion, and the marginal versus the mainstream in current literary culture. A great discussion with one of Australia’s best.Purchase The Everlasting here: https://tinyurl.com/3h2b4uus This is a public episode. If you...

Remembering Babylon

June 25, 2026

This week, we discuss the recently departed Australian author, David Malouf. Specifically, his book Remembering Babylon, a strange novel that starts out with a castaway British boy being raised by Aboriginal Australians, and unfurls into something much more mysterious and enigmatic. We talk about historical fiction, how Australian racial history has been Americanised, as well as how colonial history in Australia is often framed (spoiler alert: too often, it is boring!).As mentioned in this ep...

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