Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 232, dated October 29, 2019.
A company, for art and profit. The last time I kept tabs on Kaitlin Prest — the Canadian creator of The Heart, known for her work around the complicated contours of intimacy — it was on the occasion of The Shadows, her big fiction project for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which came out around this time last year. I thought the podcast was a solid effort, but my biggest takeaway from the experience was the notion that we were due for some kind of run. If this was the kind of newsletter that peddled in predictions, I would have placed a bet on the idea that 2019 could well be The Year of Kaitlin Prest…or at least a year where we’ll see a lot more projects emblazoned with her name.
That prediction would have been off the mark, though, as 2019 turned out to be a pretty quiet one for Prest. Like a handful of other podcast talents on the up-and-up, she’s moved out west to…
