Getting Lit with Wendy and Ilana

Getting Lit with Wendy and Ilana


Latest Episodes

Getting Lit S2EP8: Master of Ecstasy
October 07, 2018

by Nina Bangs. This month, Ilana and I make the excellent choice of making my sister, who has a masters in linguistics, read a time travel vampire highlander viking romance novel. Is it as bad as it sounds? To that I say, "och aye!"

Getting Lit S2EP05: Hot and Badgered
June 17, 2018

We're back, this time with shapeshifting honey badgers! In this episode, Ilana prepares for us some thought provoking literary questions, (Is what ways are the characters of this novel both hot AND badgered?) and Wendy bemoans the tragedy of a smooth-ches

Getting Lit S2EP04: A Lady in the Smoke: A Victorian Mystery
May 20, 2018

New episode! Ilana and I take a Train Wreck to Flavortown while discussing A Lady in the Smoke (whisper: A Victorian Mystery) by Karen Odden. We talk about: * How Mrs. Bennet has ruined mother characters in romances * This murderer, a FINE piece of man.

Getting Lit S2EP03: First Grave on the Right
April 29, 2018

In this episode, we have not one but TWO special guest stars: Ilana's sisters Suzie and Naomi! Naomi helped us trash the book, and Suzie brought the Shock Jock to Getting Lit by contributing sound effects. We discuss the trials of being a middle child, be

Getting Lit S2EP02: The Surrender of Miss Fairbourne
March 18, 2018

In this episode, Wendy presents The Scale of Asshole, and decides to never recommend anything to anyone ever again. Ilana comes up with a sly way to tell your friend to dump her boyfriend. For a pictorial view of the Scale of Asshole, go to gwenwendy.com/

Getting Lit S2EP01: His Precious Cargo
February 25, 2018

Welcome to Ilana and Wendy's first stop on the Getting Lit World Tour! Hooray! We are here together in the hotbed of all things podcast: Lafayette, Indiana. In this episode, we talk about our first! ever! public! appearance!, a smutty book, and all things

Getting Lit S1EP12: Pirate Prince
January 21, 2018

By Gaelen Foley. Highlights: "You, fictional character from the land of Fae, are responsible for Brexit." "Laying it all out there: sex with reindeer, whipped in the face." "Ilana, you can't give this two stars just because of a cat!" "They are kind of in

Getting Lit S1EP11: Grimspace
December 17, 2017

By Ann Aguire. Special guest host: Wendy's sister Katy! Highlights: "I'm eating it like a Go-gurt because I'm a damn adult and I can do what I want." "...like the meth?" "I can only imagine him wearing puka shells." "Amishland: the worst theme park ev