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Linda and several of this season's contributors--Chantel Lavoie, Marco Timpano, Amanda Barker, and Michael Nest--render their book recommendations for the holidays:


  1. Ivan Coyote's Care Of
  2. Margaret Atwood's The Door,
  3. David Chariandy's I've Been Meaning to Tell You
  4. Zoe Whittall's The Best Kind of People
  5. Anne-Marie MacDonald's Fall on your Knees),


Linda offers her listeners a gift for the holidays - from the archives, her previously-unpublished interview with Ali Hassan, the host of Canada Reads. The interview, from 2020 (and Canada Reads 2020-2021), alludes to the background of the pandemic, which (alas!) remains relevant. Drawing back the curtain to allow us see the inner workings of Canada Reads, Ali Hassan offers interesting insights about this national literary competition and about his role in it.


Happy holidays everyone - The third season of Getting Lit with Linda will return in early February 2022.

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