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An Interview with Ink Magazine
Season 05 Episode 02 Air date: 1/25/2012 at 2 PM This Lit Show spotlights Ink Lit Mag, a new student-run literary journal at the University of Iowa. Ink‘s publishers discuss the origins and future of...
View ArticleAn Interview with Sara Levine
On this Lit Show, Sara Levine discusses Treasure Island!!! The post An Interview with Sara Levine appeared first on The Lit Show.
View ArticleAn Interview with Ink Magazine
Episode 0502: On this Lit Show, the publishers of Ink Lit Mag discuss their new student-run literary journal. The post An Interview with Ink Magazine appeared first on The Lit Show.
View ArticleEpisode 0503: Chinelo Okparanta and Ellah Allfrey
On this Lit Show, Chinelo Okparanta discusses her short story “America,” included in Granta‘s “Exit Strategies” issue. With Granta Deputy Editor Ellah Allfrey. The post Episode 0503: Chinelo Okparanta...
View ArticleEpisode 0504: An Interview with Ben Marcus
On this Lit Show, Ben Marcus discusses his new novel, The Flame Alphabet with co-host Ben Mauk. The post Episode 0504: An Interview with Ben Marcus appeared first on The Lit Show.
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Alphabet Soup: Iowa Writers Read
Season 05 Episode 06 Air date: Wednesday, March 7th at 2 PM CST Featuring Henry Finch, Jake Fournier, Jessica Laser, Adam Soto, and Alex Walton. Henry Finch: “Waking in Debt (after Kenneth Koch)”...
View ArticleEpisode 0506: Heidi Julavits
On this Lit Show, The Believer founding editor Heidi Julavits discusses her new novel, The Vanishers. The post Episode 0506: Heidi Julavits appeared first on The Lit Show.
View ArticleEpisode 0508: Nicholson Baker
On this Lit Show, co-host Ben Mauk speaks with Nicholson Baker, author of House of Holes: A Book of Raunch. The post Episode 0508: Nicholson Baker appeared first on The Lit Show.
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Iowa Writers Read
Season 05 Episode 10 Air date: 5/9/12, at 2 PM CST Students and alumni of Iowa’s graduate writing programs share new work. Featuring Katy Chrisler, Shabnam Nadiya, Margaret Ross, Montreux Rotholtz,...
View ArticleEpisode 0510: Iowa Writers Read
Featuring Katy Chrisler, Shabnam Nadiya, Margaret Ross, Montreux Rotholtz, Mason Scisco, Grant Souders, Zachary Tyler Vickers, and Elizabeth Weiss. The post Episode 0510: Iowa Writers Read appeared...
View ArticleEpisode 0601: Pauls Toutonghi (8-27-2012)
On this Lit Show, Pauls Toutonghi discusses his new novel, Evel Knievel Days, with R. Clifton Spargo. Toutonghi, born in Seattle to immigrant parents, a mother who emigrated from Latvia and a father...
View ArticleEpisode 0602: Iowa Writers Read (09-05-2012)
Featuring Jerimee Bloemeke, Brian Booker, Gemma de Choisy, Carmen Machado, Rachel Milligan, Deborah Taffa, and Candice Wuehle. This episode hosted by Elizabeth Weiss. The post Episode 0602: Iowa...
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An Interview with Hisham Matar
Season 06 Episode 04 Air date: Tuesday September 18th at 3 PM CST On this episode of The Lit Show Hisham Matar discusses his new novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance. Born in New York City and raised in...
View ArticleEpisode 0603: Karen Thompson Walker (9-12-2012)
On This Lit Show, Karen Thompson Walker discusses her debut novel, The Age of Miracles. Interview by Elizabeth Weiss. The post Episode 0603: Karen Thompson Walker (9-12-2012) appeared first on The Lit...
View ArticleEpisode 0604: Hisham Matar (9-23-2012)
On this episode of The Lit Show Hisham Matar discusses his new novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance. Born in New York City and raised in Libya, Egypt, and London, Matar is the author of In the Country of...
View ArticleEpisode 0605: Zachary Schomburg and Jenny Zhang (9-18-2012)
On This Lit Show, Zachary Schomburg and Jenny Zhang discuss their poetry. Interview by Daniel Poppick. The post Episode 0605: Zachary Schomburg and Jenny Zhang (9-18-2012) appeared first on The Lit Show.
View ArticleEpisode 0607: Geoff Dyer (10-3-2012)
On this episode of The Lit Show, Geoff Dyer discusses his latest book, Zona — a critical and personal exploration of Andrei Tarkovsky’s classic 1979 film Stalker – and places it in the context of his...
View ArticleEpisode 0608: Antoine Wilson (10-09-2012)
On this Lit Show, Antoine Wilson discusses his second novel, Panorama City (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which Publisher’s Weekly called “fresh and flawlessly crafted as well as charmingly genuine” in a...
View ArticleEpisode 0609: Jeremy Jackson (10-10-12)
On this episode of The Lit Show, Jeremy Jackson discusses his memoir I Will Not Leave You Comfortless, a story of the eleventh year of his life, which brought Jackson his first love, the loss of his...
View ArticleEpisode 0610: International Writing Program Reading (10-17-2012)
On this Lit Show, writers from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program read fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Since 1967, over a thousand writers from more than 120 countries have...
View ArticleEpisode 0611: Kenneth Goldsmith (10-21-2012)
Kenneth Goldsmith is an American artist, conceptual poet, editor, and radio personality. He is the 2012 keynote speaker for the Works-in-Progress Festival in Iowa City. Currently at work on the...
View ArticleEpisode 0612: Editors of the Paris Review (10-24-2012)
On this Lit Show, Joe Fassler speaks with Lorin Stein and Sadie Stein–the Editor and Deputy Editor of the Paris Review–about their new fiction anthology. In order to create Object Lessons: The Paris...
View ArticleEpisode 0613: Bret Anthony Johnston
On this Lit Show, Bret Anthony Johnston discusses short fiction, his recent anthology of creative writing exercises, and teaching craft to undergraduates at Harvard University. Johnston is the author...
View ArticleEpisode 0614: Dylan Nice (11-28-2012)
On this Lit Show, Dylan Nice discusses his first collection, Other Kinds. Set in the spaces between a melancholic Pennsylvania mining town and Midwestern college, the stories in Other Kinds follow a...
View ArticleEpisode 0615: Charles Baxter (12-06-2012)
On this Lit Show, Deborah Kennedy speaks with distinguished novelist, essayist, and short story writer Charles Baxter. Baxter is the author of 5 novels, including First Light, The Feast of Love, and...
View ArticleEpisode 0616: Arda Collins (12-06-2012)
On this Lit Show, Iowa Writers’ Workshop visiting professor Arda Collins discusses her book of poems, It Is Daylight. Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and championed by Louise Glück, It...
View ArticleEpisode 0701: Benjamin Nugent (1-30-2013)
On this episode of The Lit Show, Benjamin Nugent discusses his debut novel, Good Kids. Nugent’s first book, a cultural memoir, is American Nerd: The Story of My People; Good Kids continues the project...
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Local Lit Scene Roundup: Iowa City
Season 07 Episode 02 Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 This episode of The Lit Show welcomes the editors of two new Iowa City-based literary journals. Draft: The Journal of Progress publishes working drafts of...
View ArticleEpisode 0702: Lit Scene Roundup, Iowa City (2-5-2013)
This episode of The Lit Show welcomes the editors of two new Iowa City-based literary journals. Draft: The Journal of Progress publishes working drafts of stories and poems, plus interviews that...
View ArticleEpisode 0703: Michael Palmer (2-15-2013)
On this Lit Show, award-winning poet Michael Palmer speaks with hosts Dan Poppick and Jessica Laser about his work. Born in 1943, Michael Palmer has written twenty books of poetry, most recently Thread...
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An Interview with Dan Beachy-Quick and Sally Keith
Season 07Episode 05Air date: Friday, February 22, 2013 On this Lit Show, Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni Dan Beachy-Quick and Sally Keith discuss their recent collections, their relationship as fellow...
View Article#74: Ayana Mathis
On this episode of the Lit Show, Deborah Kennedy talks with University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum and visiting fiction professor Ayana Mathis about her debut novel The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,...
View Article#75: Dan Beachy-Quick and Sally Keith
On this Lit Show, Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni Dan Beachy-Quick and Sally Keith discuss their recent collections, their relationship as fellow poets and readers of one another’s work, and their...
View Article#76: Understanding the Essay
After centuries of suffering the cold shoulder from scholars and critics (Michel de Montaigne’s blockbuster collections were, after all, released in 1580) the essay’s stylistic strategies are finally...
View Article#77: Dina Nayeri
On this episode of The Lit Show, current Iowa Writers’ Workshop student Dina Nayeri discusses her debut novel, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea. Nayeri was born in Iran and moved to Oklahoma at the age of...
View Article#78: Lawrence Weschler
On this Lit Show, Ben Mauk speaks with acclaimed writer Lawrence Weschler, who was for more than twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker. Weschler is the author of eleven books, including Mr....
View Article#79: Terry Tempest Williams (3-12-2013)
On this Lit Show, co-host Gemma de Choisy speaks with Terry Tempest Williams about her memoir When Women Were Birds. Williams is the author of fourteen books, including Leap, Refuge, Finding Beauty in...
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The Lit Show Live: Daily Rituals
On April 26th The Lit Show will host Daily Rituals, an evening of reading and discussion, at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn. Guests Ben Greenman, Heidi Julavits, and Sam Lipsyte read from their work and...
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View ArticleLit Show Programming: Week of 4/9/2013
This week, we'll speak with a Pulitzer Prize-winning story writer and novelist, Elizabeth Strout, and an acclaimed writer of essays and journalism, Vivian Gornick. Listen in: Vivian Gornick | Monday,...
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