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Anchee Min (4-26-2010)
Anchee Min will discuss her latest novel, Pearl of China, a fictional account of missionary and Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck’s persecutions during Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Min,...
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Raj Patel (5-4-2010)
On this Lit Show, Raj Patel discusses his book The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. Patel is a journalist, activist, and academic who takes on big-picture...
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Lisa M. Hamilton (5/11/10)
Lisa Hamilton will read from Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness. Hamilton’s work tells the real-life stories of three modern farmers: a dairyman in Texas who wages a...
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An Interview with Lydia Davis
On this Lit Show, Lydia Davis discusses her new book, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. The volume, which is over seven hundred pages and contains more than 200 stories, presents the four fiction...
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Nick Reding: 6-8-2010
On this Lit Show, Nick Reding discusses Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town, a study of methamphetamine’s road from legal stimulant to pervasive illicit drug. With Oelwein, Iowa, as...
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Justin Cronin (6-15-2010)
When I spoke with Justin Cronin about his book, he mentioned a fascination of his: the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator, largest ever built, with the power to simulate the conditions of...
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Don LePan (6-22-10)
Don LePan’s novel Animals, presents a horrific vision of the future. Factory farming has wrought unthinkable destruction on planet earth, and prevalent disease, combined with overuse and consequent...
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Yuly Restrepo & Chinelo Okparanta
Two fiction students from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Yuly Restrepo and Chinelo Okparanta, read recent work. Complete Show [Download Podcast] The post Yuly Restrepo & Chinelo Okparanta appeared...
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Iowa Young Writers’ Studio: Oral Histories
This summer, students from the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio crowded into the KRUI studio to tell stories from memory. Without notes or written preparation, these high-schoolers gave oral...
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Bonnie J. Rough (9-16-2010)
During every pregnancy, parents hope for a healthy baby. New mothers and fathers wait with baited breath to see whether their child has “all his or her fingers and toes.” But for parents who carry...
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Slow Death By Rubber Duck (9-21-2010)
Think your favorite bath toy’s safe? Think again. In Slow Death By Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things, Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith argue that consumer safety laws have not caught up with...
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Lan Samantha Chang (9-28-2010)
All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost is Lan Samantha Chang’s third book. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s the recipient of many literary honors including the the Banta Award for...
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Yiyun Li (10-4-2010)
On this Lit Show, Yiyun Li, one of The New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40,” reads from and discusses her second collection of short stories, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. Li’s new stories concern lovers and loners....
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Mona Simpson (10-20-2010)
Mona Simpson’s new novel, My Hollywood, is told through two very different voices. The book’s first speaker, Claire, is a celebrated composer who’s left New York for LA so her husband can pursue his...
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Alphabet Soup: Iowa Writers Read (10-12-2010)
Featuring Catherine Blauvelt, Nate Brown, Scott Butterfield, Katy Chrisler, Michael Fauver, Henry Finch, Angela Flournoy, Kokoy Guevara. Complete Show: Excerpts: Catherine Blauvelt: five poems Nate...
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ARMS (10-26-2010)
Brooklyn’s ARMS will share thoughts on their upcoming album, recent tour dates with The Walkmen, and the apocalypse. They’ll also perform a few tunes. ARMS is playing at The Blue Moose on Monday,...
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Benjamin Percy (2-15-2011)
Benjamin Percy reads from and discusses his novel, The Wilding (Graywolf, 2010). In addition to his novel, Percy is author of two collections of short stories: Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf, 2007) and The...
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Alphabet Soup: Iowa Writers Read (1-25-2011)
Featuring Jerimee Bloemeke, Evan James, Ted Kehoe, Jessica Laser, Jessica Marsh, Shabnam Nadiya, Scott Smith, and Rae Ann Winkelstein-Duveneck. Shabnam Nadiya: “Eating Bone” Evan James: “Stars of the...
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Benjamin Hale (2-22-2011)
On this Lit Show, Benjamin Hale discusses his debut novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore. Complete Interview: Hale’s novel tells the story of a precocious chimpanzee. After displaying early...
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Peter Orner (3-29-2011)
Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives is the latest installment in the McSweeney’s Voice of Witness Series, edited by Dave Eggers and Lola Vollen. The series illuminates human rights crises...
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Elizabeth Stuckey-French (4-12-2011)
On this Lit Show, Elizabeth Stuckey-French discusses her latest novel, The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady. The book concerns Marylou Ahearn, a 77-year-old woman—who’d like to become a murderer. Years...
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Alphabet Soup: Iowa Writers Read (4-19-2011)
Featuring Jeff Griffin, James Longley, Alexander Maksik, Lori Martin, Chinelo Okparanta, Colby Somerville, and Lesley Wheeler. Jeff Griffin: from There’s Never Been a Day That Didn’t Require Knives...
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Alphabet Soup: Iowa Writers Read (4-26-2011)
Featuring Rawaan Alkhatib, Andrew Bates, Henry Finch, Jordan Glubka, Jeff Griffin, Carmen Machado, Sam McPhee, Amy Parker, and Margaret Ross. Andrew Bates: from “Be Still Now, Brother” Amy Parker:...
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Wells Tower (2/16/2010)
February 16′s Lit Show featured Wells Tower, who read from his short story collection Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Picador, 2009). The book, Tower’s debut collection of short fiction, is a...
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Alphabet Soup (1/26/2010)
Alphabet Soup: A Roundtable from the Writers’ Workshop Featuring BJ Love, Margot Lurie, Ayana Mathis, Dan Poppick, and Kayla Soyer-Stein. Excerpts BJ Love: Margot Lurie: Ayana Mathis: “I’m going to...
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Benefit for Dean Young
On April 15, 2011, acclaimed poet Dean Young received a heart transplant that saved his life. Still, for Young, the ordeal isn’t over. One ongoing challenge is the massive amount of medical bills not...
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Alexander Maksik
On this Lit Show, Alexander Maksik discusses his first book, You Deserve Nothing: A Novel. Air date: Wednesday, September 7th at 2 PM CST Alexander Maksik graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop,...
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An Interview with Justin Torres
In this Lit Show interview, Justin Torres discusses his debut novel, We the Animals. Torres is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and he’s currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. His...
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Iowa Young Writers’ Studio: Oral Histories
This summer, students from the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio crowded into the KRUI studio to tell stories from memory. Without notes or written preparation, these high-schoolers gave oral...
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An Interview with Susan Orlean
On this Lit Show, Susan Orlean discusses Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend. Susan Orlean’s new biography is an extraordinary book about an extraordinary animal. The German shepherd who became Rin...
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An Interview with Josh Rolnick
Episode 08 Season 04 Air date: 10/26/2011 On this Lit Show, Josh Rolnick discusses his short story collection Pulp and Paper, winner of the 2011 John Simmons Award (University of Iowa Press). Pulp and...
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An Interview with Colson Whitehead
Episode 09 Season 04 Air date: 11/2/2011, 2 PM CST On this Lit Show, co-host Ben Mauk speaks with Colson Whitehead about his new novel, Zone One, a darkly satiric portrait of the coming zombie...
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An Interview with Chuck Klosterman
Season 04 Episode 11 Air date: 11/9/2011, 2 PM CST On this Lit Show, Chuck Klosterman discusses his second novel, The Visible Man. Victoria Vick is a therapist practicing in Austin, TX when she...
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IWP’s International Writers Read
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...
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An Interview with Michael Martone
Season 04 Episode 12 Air date: 11/11/2011, 1 PM CST On this episode of the Lit Show, co-host Ben Mauk talks with Michael Martone about teaching, writing, and the Midwest. Martone’s large body of work...
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An Interview with Peter Orner
Season 04 Episode 13 Air date: 11/16/2011, 2 PM CST This week, Peter Orner returns to The Lit Show to discuss Love and Shame and Love, his second novel. We talked about the midwest, the book’s many...
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Alphabet Soup: Iowa Writers Read (12-07-2011)
Season 04 Episode 15 Air date: 12/7/2011, 2 PM CST Students and alumni of Iowa’s graduate writing programs share new work. Featuring Charlene Choi, Michael Fauver, Deborah Kennedy, B.J. Love, Anna...
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An Interview with Ben Marcus
Season 05 Episode 04 Air date: Thursday, February 9th, at 3 PM CST On this Lit Show, Ben Marcus discusses his new novel, The Flame Alphabet. Marcus is the author of two previous books, The Age of Wire...
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An Interview with Chinelo Okparanta and Ellah Allfrey
Season 05 Episode 03 Air date: February 8th at 2 PM CST This Lit Show features recent Writers’ Workshop graduate Chinelo Okparanta, whose short story “America” is a centerpiece of Granta‘s new “Exit...
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An Interview with Nicholson Baker
Season 05 Episode 08 Air date: Friday April 6th at 10 AM CST On this Lit Show, Nicholson Baker sits down with co-host Ben Mauk to discuss his new novel, House of Holes. Baker is the author of nine...
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