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 Rats, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting 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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