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Emily Austin, Is This a Cry for Help?
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Emily Austin, Is This a Cry for Help?

Gays Reading · Jason Blitman

January 13, 202640m 36s

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Show Notes

Host Jason Blitman chats with author Emily Austin about her latest novel, Is This a Cry for Help?


Conversation highlights include:

  • Emily’s habit of endlessly rewriting the pitch at the top of her manuscript
  • The ethics of librarianship and why access to information matters
  • Bug killing, sex dens, and everything in between


Emily Austin is the author of We Could Be RatsEveryone in This Room Will Someday Be DeadInteresting Facts About Space, and the poetry collection Gay Girl Prayers. She was born in Ontario, Canada, and received two writing grants from the Canadian Council for the Arts. She studied English literature and library science at Western University. She currently lives in Ottawa, in the territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.

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