While sitting over supper with Karen Molson, the Executive Director of the Greenwood Centre and with the award-winning author, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Linda debates whether she should order fries or salad. What she wants is a few fries and a whole salad, to feel, as Anderson-Dargatz wryly observes, more righteous. It is these sinful sides that also really make characters interesting—not just our meals—a dash of naughtiness and a whole lot of regret—and that becomes one of several sources of discussion with Anderson-Dargatz about her engaging and delightful new novel, The Atlas Keeper (HarperCollins) in this live episode of Getting Lit with Linda, hosted at StoryFest in Hudson, which is hosted by the Greenwood Centre.

If you haven’t made it to this festival, by the way, you are missing out – it’s a charming venue in a lovely, semi-rural community to the north and west of Montreal—and StoryFest has already boasted some very good Canadian writers, including Anita Rau Badami, Michael Crummey, Michelle Good, with others to come.

Producer: Linda Morra; Associate Producer: Maia Harris; Music: Raphael Krux; Sound Production: Seiji Gutierrez (on-site) and Jason C. And a HUGE shout-out to Julie Gedeon who organized this whole event! You are a rock-star!

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Kasia Van Schaik speaks about the monstrous women for whom she would like to see monuments built, even building them herself in the very book she has written, Women Among Monuments (Dundurn). Women have been characterised as monstrous when they deviate from scripted roles based on gender; when they decide to defy convention; whey they eschew serving as muses to artists. In view of Women’s History Month (1:12), this episode is so relevant, so timely: Van Schaik and Linda discuss Virgina Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Georgia O’Keefe—and Anne Carson, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature just a few days after the episode was recorded.

Special guest appearance by Fifi, Van Schaik’s cat.

Some other subjects/figures of discussion:

• Women writers and critics like Virginia Woolf (1.18; 4:02), Gertrude Stein (1:19; 4:04; 13:15), Georgia O’Keefe (1:21; 20:49); Laura Mulvey (6:47); Simone de Beauvoir (7:39); Kate Chopin (8:29); Josephine Nivison Hopper (10:34); Helen Martin (21:22); Sara Ahmed (23:34); Lauren Berlant (23:36); Lee Lai (25:42), Madeleine Thien and Rawi Hage (12:13)
• Ann Carson (1.27); and The Gender of Sound (13:38)
• Trad wives (23:01)
• Internalized male (artist's) gaze (5:13)
• Muses or monsters (8:55)

Producer: Linda Morra; Associate Producer: Maia Harris; Music: Raphael Krux; Sound Production: Jason C.

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If you carry around the cultural baggage Linda does, when you hear the name Mister Rogers, you’ll immediately conjure up the image of that nice, congenial television personality, who developed a children’s program that lasted for over thirty years. If you’re thinking of that Mr. Rogers as part of this episode, you’re somewhat off the mark: This episode features playwright, Michael Healey, and his play about the Telecom titan Ted Rogers, and his son, Edward who struggled to claim control over the family business (insert: shades of the hit television series, Succession). Rogers vs. Rogers (Playwrights Canada Press) is his new political comedy adapted from the bestselling exposé Rogers v. Rogers: The Battle for Control of Canada's Telecom Empire by Alexandra Posadzki. The play is currently being staged at Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa.

Producer: Linda Morra; Associate Producer: Maia Harris; Music: Raphael Krux; Sound Production: Jason C.

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