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Hosted by Elizabeth Hahn and Peter Whetzel · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 37 episodes
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“Welcome to Lit on Fire — the podcast where literature meets controversy, where banned books, silenced voices, and dangerous ideas refuse to stay quiet. From classrooms to courtrooms, novels to news cycles, we explore how stories challenge power, expose injustice, and ignite social change. Our logo — a woman bound atop a burning stack of books — isn’t just an image. It’s a warning and a promise. A warning about what happens when voices are erased… and a promise that stories, once lit, are impossible to put out. So if you’re ready to question, to argue, to feel uncomfortable, and to think deeper — you’re in the right place. This is - Lit on Fire.
Elizabeth Hahn and Peter Whetzel hosts Lit on Fire, a arts show with 37 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail The first page of *Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery* wants you to point at the forest and say, “There’s the evil.” We try that, and the book immediately pulls the rug out. As we talk through Brom’s colonia
Send us Fan Mail What happens to “good kids” when the only thing enforcing morality is gone? We pick up William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and follow the story past the classroom summary into the uncomfortable stuff: st
Send us Fan Mail A six-year-old labeled the Antichrist shouldn’t be the character who makes you rethink your own snap judgments, but that’s exactly where TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea hits hardest. We’re talki
Send us Fan Mail A golem-battling litRPG should not make you think this hard about grief, addiction, and identity, but Golem Master does, and we had a lot to unpack. Pepper Walker is a broke high school kid with a dead-e
Send us Fan Mail Animal Farm still hits like a punch because it doesn’t ask, “Which side was right?” It asks, “How did everyone get played?” We pick up Orwell’s short, deceptively simple fable and read it as a living war
Send us Fan Mail A student films a simple reading challenge at a prep school, classmates stumble over words many of us would call everyday, and the school’s response turns the whole thing into a national spotlight. That
Send us Fan Mail NPCs are supposed to be background noise, right? Quest givers, loot piñatas, collateral damage you forget the moment you leave town. But Founders Edition: Lighting the Forge by Jay Krauss doesn’t let us
Send us Fan Mail If Fahrenheit 451 is “just” a book about censorship, why does it feel more accurate every time you open your phone? We read Ray Bradbury’s most overquoted dystopian novel as a warning about something har
Send us Fan Mail The myths taught us to treat Circe like a warning label: temptress, witch, monster. We’re not buying it. Tonight we step into Madeline Miller’s Circe and look at what happens when the so-called villain i
Send us Fan Mail Erasure doesn’t ask for your polite opinions. It dares you to notice what you reward, what you excuse, and what you call “authentic” when a book is marketed as the real thing. We talk through Percival Ev
Send us Fan Mail A cage, forty women, and guards who never explain themselves. Then one mistake changes everything, and the real terror begins: freedom with no map, no society, and no reason built into the sky. We’re div
Send us Fan Mail A LitRPG doesn’t have to be a power fantasy to hit hard. Live from the chaos and magic of JordanCon, we sit down with author Reckwell, the voice behind Stumbling Up: The Loser’s Guide to Progression, a L
Send us Fan Mail Cozy fantasy looks gentle from the outside, but the best of it cuts straight to the hard stuff: grief, identity, belonging, and the quiet fear of being remembered for the wrong thing. We’re live at Jorda
Send us Fan Mail We’re recording from the middle of JordanCon, where the background noise is real and the best conversations are the ones you can’t script. Author Ben Wolf joins us alongside Sound Booth Theater narrators
Send us Fan Mail We’re recording live from JordanCon, surrounded by the hum of readers, creators, and pure convention chaos, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Our guest is Jessica Threet, a voice actor, singer, and
Send us Fan Mail Nobody here is destined. Nobody is crowned. And that’s exactly why Stumbling Up by Reck Well hits so hard. We’re talking about a LitRPG story that swaps the power fantasy for something messier: three lif
Send us Fan Mail Can you keep a beloved book on your shelf while refusing to excuse the person behind it? We step into the most uncomfortable corner of modern reading culture: the collision between great stories and flaw
Send us Fan Mail Cozy fantasy sounds gentle until you realize what it’s really risking: your sense of self. We step into S.L. Rowland’s Tales of Aedrea with Halfling Harvest and There Be Dragons Here, two warm-hearted fa
Send us Fan Mail “Stop making everything political” sounds reasonable until you ask what politics actually is. We define it as the everyday negotiation of power, identity, values, and belonging, then we test the claim th
Send us Fan Mail Peace can look like a warm barstool, a well-made cocktail, and a quiet town by the sea. But if you’ve ever hit burnout, carried guilt for too long, or wondered who you are after the job that defined you
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Lit on Fire is hosted by Elizabeth Hahn and Peter Whetzel. The show is categorised under arts (books) and has published 37 episodes.
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