On the Saturday February 7, 2026 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we’ll spend some time withJUNO-winning Canadian jazz vocalist, pianist, singer-songwriter, and CBC Music host (Saturday Night Jazz). She is Grammy nominated in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her holiday album “Wintersongs” and joins me today top talk about the album and how the nomination changed her life.

Then we’ll meetcritically acclaimed Canadian author Lindsay Wong. Her bestselling, award-winning memoir “The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family,” a Canada Reads finalist and Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize winner, established her literary reputation for sharp wit, dark humor, and unflinching exploration of Chinese Canadian identity.

Today we’ll talk about her highly anticipated debut adult novel, “Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies,” a wickedly funny, genre-bending blend of horror, dark comedy, and folk magic. Drawing on ancient Chinese traditions like corpse marriage and villain hitting, we’ll explain both of those in the interview, it follows a broke, ambitious young woman haunted by her powerful witch grandmother and an undead sister, delivering a subversive takedown of class struggle, the model minority myth, patriarchy, and the murderous cost of simply trying to survive. Praised as "extraordinarily imaginative and darkly hilarious" and a "chilling masterclass in fiction," this book cements Lindsay as one of the most provocative voices in contemporary literary horror.

On the Saturday February 7, 2026 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we&rsquo;ll spend some time with JUNO-winning Canadian jazz vocalist, pianist, singer-songwriter, and CBC Music host (Saturday Night Jazz). She is Grammy nominated in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her holiday album &ldquo;Wintersongs&rdquo; and joins me today top talk about the album and how the nomination changed her life.
Then we&rsquo;ll meet critically acclaimed Canadian author Lindsay Wong. Her bestselling, award-winning memoir &ldquo;The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family,&rdquo; a Canada Reads finalist and Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize winner, established her literary reputation for sharp wit, dark humor, and unflinching exploration of Chinese Canadian identity.
Today we&rsquo;ll talk about her highly anticipated debut adult novel, &ldquo;Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies,&rdquo; a wickedly funny, genre-bending blend of horror, dark comedy, and folk magic. Drawing on ancient Chinese traditions like corpse marriage and villain hitting, we&rsquo;ll explain both of those in the interview, it follows a broke, ambitious young woman haunted by her powerful witch grandmother and an undead sister, delivering a subversive takedown of class struggle, the model minority myth, patriarchy, and the murderous cost of simply trying to survive. Praised as "extraordinarily imaginative and darkly hilarious" and a "chilling masterclass in fiction," this book cements Lindsay as one of the most provocative voices in contemporary literary horror.

Every week THE RICHARD CROUSE SHOW features in depth conversations with the actors, writers and movers-and-shakers who are not only part of pop culture but helping create the pop culture we enjoy. Recent guests include Fresh Off the Boat star Randall Park, comedian Greg Proops, Toy Story 4 star Tony Hale, Muppet master Brian Henson, Emily Mortimer, Woman Enough: How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport author Kristen Worley, superstar English novelist Ian McEwan, best-selling Black Leopard, Red Wolf author Marlon James and many others.

The Richard Crouse Show Podcast

Every week THE RICHARD CROUSE SHOW features in depth conversations with the actors, writers and movers-and-shakers who create the pop culture we enjoy. Recently Fresh Off the Boat's Randall Park talked about working as a barista while starring on a TV show. Best-selling Black Leopard, Red Wolf author Marlon James described why Miles Davis is an integral part of his writing process and  Woman Enough: How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport author Kristen Worley detailed how she blazed a trail for gender diversity in sport. Join Richard and his guests for relaxed,  revealing and in-depth conversations.