Writers Read Their Early Sh*t
The podcast where authors and artists share the lopsided pleasures of their predeveloped, over-early, unripe work.
Episodes
57 episodes since 2021
S3/E15 - A One-way Ticket to Saturn with DJ Max in Tokyo
Jason welcomes back DJ Max in Tokyo for the spectacular Season Three finale: negative influences, funky but not too funky drumbeats, Gifu vs Tokyo, Max's lurid romantic past, and what might be the very hardest kind of early shit to wri...
August 06, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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51:49
S3/E14 - Jason & Tom are literary sex-beasts
The tables are comprehensively turned as Jason reads some of his early, Lawrence Durrell-infused early prose to Tom. Will Tom denounce it for the pretentious bunk it is, or will he tenderly offer up his own spine to be blessed? Tune in to find ...
June 30, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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58:46
S3/E13 - Meghan Lamb: drawings of dead girls
Jason welcomes writer & Kill Scenes front-woman Meghan Lamb for a gabfest about love smacks & hate smacks, posthumous dead girls, being stuck inside cows, suggestions of obsession, cheating meat monkeys, bloody mermaids, corpse rats scu...
May 23, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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1:09:35
S3/E12 - Talkin' Worldwide Bob Dylan Blues with Matthew Ingate
Something's burning, baby! Jason (who's been in trouble ever since he set his suitcase down) welcomes author Matthew Ingate (who's no pig without a wig) for a natter about Dylan's best 21st century albums, secretive gloating, stretching & m...
May 03, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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54:10
S3/E11 - Patrick Grace wants to know what you're afraid of
Jason welcomes writer Patrick Grace for a chinwag about his debut collection 'Deviant,' the pitfalls of confessional poetry, listening to your house, anxiety dreams, the local high school's drugged-up teens, how hard it is to talk about what sc...
April 12, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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50:32
S3/E10 - Hannah Calder: foreskins & bladders
Jason welcomes writer Hannah Calder for an interface about chickens giving you the finger, how great Charles Dickens is, exploding kneecaps, riding horses naked down the beach, crazy parades, swollen breasts, writing the perfect book, the power...
March 22, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:06:44
S3/E9 - Busting tropes with Wayne Ng
Jason welcomes novelist Wayne Ng for a rattle about being named Wayne or Jason, starting late, whether or not scribbling is writing, the realities of self-promotion, the ballsiness of writers, ass-kicking kung-fu Asian stereotypes, and the real...
March 01, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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58:17
S3/E8 - Tonya Lailey: the trick is fun
Jason welcomes beautifully laconic poet Tonya Lailey for an interface about wine agencies, comfort books, thin places, what's fab about Nova Scotia, Calgary's supportive writing scene, dot matrix printers, industrial agriculture, allowing the m...
February 09, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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46:29
S3/E7 - Rob Harvilla doesn't give a hoot
CALM DOWN. Jason welcomes podcaster and author of '60 Songs That Explain the '90s' Rob Harvilla for a confabulation about furious moping, tongue exercises, the glory of New Kids on the Block's 'Games,' wack slacks and lame stains, not leaving y...
January 19, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:16:31
S3/E6 - Blackening pages with Jason Heroux
Jason welcomes Jason for a jaw about Thousand Island pirates, comfort reading, defacing books, fireworks for Hitler, getting your ego out of the way of the writing, & a naked onion in the park with Pierre Berton. Music, as always, by DJ War...
December 28, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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56:50
S3/E5 - Fiona Lam's acid grammar
Jason welcomes Vancouver's Poet Laureate for a ramble about Emily of New Moon, writing into fear & anxiety, concrete corpses in the living room, goth trenchcoats, werewolves draped in mourning, having some feelings & a trombone...
December 08, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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59:41
S3/E4 - Extending the line with Steven Lattey
Jason welcomes author Steven Lattey for a yackety-yak about Dylan & Ginsberg, reading with patience & gratitude, hitchhiking, convenient access to suffering & struggle, glories never ceasing & glories never coming, & self-he...
November 17, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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55:09
S3/E3 - Licorice variations and mac & cheese masks with Corinna Chong
Jason welcomes Corinna Chong for a confab about when we stop regretting the people—& the writers—we used to be, plugging gaps with memories, plagiarizing ABBA, the power of end stops, the superpowers writers need, heart worms, licorice hold...
October 27, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:00:03
S3/E2 - Love & despair & barbaric beauty with Daniel Powter
Jason welcomes songwriter & musician Daniel Powter for a chinwag about the mysteries of remote Vernon, British Columbia, skipping class to play piano, how Jason didn't launch Daniel's musical career, smashed violins, Prince's Lovesexy tour,...
October 06, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:11:42
S3/E1 - After That: Lorna Crozier
Jason welcomes Lorna Crozier for a gab & a yak about stone angels, that shivery sense good writing gives you, being corny & earnest, unwrapping your brain, just what it is about cats anyway, Kerouac in Vernon, riding the poem wherever i...
September 15, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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56:49
S2/E16 - Clash of the Tender Cringe Titans
We're not sinking—we're crashing! Jason welcomes the titans of Season One back for a clash of cringe that runs the gamut from brambles & hassles to madness levels to walls dripping tears to using the microwave after 10 pm to the wind blowin...
July 13, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:14:53
S2/E15 - Kaho Shibuya: Obliteration
Jason welcomes Japanese media personality Kaho Shibuya for a prismatic chat about reading novels to understand Japan, teachers turning into deer, an unusual use for Minute Maid Morning Banana jelly, being jealous of temples, & how cooking a...
June 23, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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58:15
S2/E14 - Nathan Whitlock likes SOME free jazz
Jason welcomes novelist Nathan Whitock for a waffle about Pulsar & the Six Million Dollar Man, the problem with free jazz, not being attracted to the perverse & underground, candied bile, David Foster Wallace, & Nathan's infamous ta...
June 02, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:01:04
S2/E13 - Michael Whone & little bit die
Jason welcomes writer, musician, and publisher Michael Whone for an interface about the joys of the mundane, still hating Dostoevsky, last books, shoplifting Kerouac, and Jason's upcoming poetry collection, little bit die, published by Michael'...
May 12, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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41:41
S2/E12 - Kelly S. Thompson: basic training of the mind
Jason welcomes memoirist Kelly S. Thompson for a free-ranging ramble about mentoring & being mentored, shitty first drafts, lingering in the ugly, basic training of the mind, misanthropic penguins, cavemen fighting spacemen, bull terriers n...
April 21, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:00:04
S2/E11 - US National Beat Poet Laureate Ron Whitehead is not bowing down
Jason welcomes US National Beat Poet Laureate Ron Whitehead for a freewheeling ramble about being blessed with mentors, hearing everybody's story, post office death messages, visiting Hunter S. Thompson, shotgunned Xmas trees, & unconventio...
March 31, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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53:20
S2/E10 - John Lent & Jude Clarke: necessary angels of reality
Writers Read Their Early Shit enjoys its first threesome as Jason welcomes national treasures John Lent and Jude Clarke for a wide-ranging confabulation about pirate adventures, clammy Edmonton bookmobiles, garage stations, gothic 14 point horr...
March 10, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:20:55
S2/E9 - Dale Lee Kwong: Ai yah! Take that, cool kids!
Jason welcomes Chinese-Canadian poet, playwright, & essayist Dale Lee Kwong for a gas about lesbian tours of China, insulting punctuation, Tom Wayman, tech-nostalgia, being glad to have a dad, the goddess of reality, & how all of the be...
February 17, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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48:44
S2/E8 - Roger Watts is wondering how you put this thing on
Holy doodle! Jason welcomes one of his oldest & longest-suffering pals for a nostalgia-soaked ramble about high school airbands, role-playing games, pretty good nosebleeds, trying to be Leonard Cohen, & being robbed blind by John Cobra....
January 27, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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57:20
S2/E7 - Susan Musgrave doesn't look like her poetry (Part 2)
"Our mistakes make the best stories, and that's why we should not think of them as failures." In the second of their already legendary chats, Jason & Susan discuss Egyptian typewriters & Italian ranch hands, evolutionary obsequies, read...
January 06, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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49:52