The podcast about shiterature! Join hosts Christina Kann and Lelia Hilton in an exploration of bad writing, cringey memories, and scandalous literary history. The cringe factor of literature is as ancient as writing itself, and Burn Before Reading is here to explore it all. Every week, Christina & Lelia delve into the story of a piece of writing, a writer, a movement, or a memory to unpack the people we used to be and appreciate how far we've come!

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Christina Kann
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​​Christina Kann is a lifelong reader and writer with a special interest in clever science fiction and fantasy. Her greatest strengths are that her confidence is too high and she can keep talking forever, against all odds. She’s obsessed with the color pink and flowers and cats and sociolinguistics and gardening. She founded the Deus Ex Media podcast network, co-founded Wildling Press, and works in textbook publishing. She lives in the beautiful city of Richmond, Virginia, with her elderly cat, Penny.

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Lelia Hilton
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Lelia Hilton is a singer-songwriter and girls’ girl panicking and disco-ing simultaneously in her hometown of Richmond, VA. Lelia has a BA in modern foreign languages from the University of Mary Washington and University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain. When she’s not regaling her friends with stories about That One Time She Studied Abroad, she can be found snuggling her cats, Gus and Audrey. Lelia is married to local film photographer and stellar human, Jason Hilton.