Iowa Writers Read
…on the Lit Show, May 9th.
Featuring Katy Chrisler, Shabnam Nadiya, Margaret Ross, Montreux Rotholtz, Mason Scisco, Grant Souders, Zachary Tyler Vickers, and Elizabeth Weiss.
Nicholson Baker on The Lit Show
From Lit Show co-host benmauk:
I’ll be sitting down with Nicholson Baker on The Lit Show this Friday to discuss his new novel House of Holes and the rest of his large, irreverent body of work. You can tune in live here (or, if you’re in Iowa City, by pointing your dial to KRUI at 89.7), or download later via The Lit Show podcast using iTunes.
Baker is one of my favorite writers—can’t wait to have him on the show.
Iowa Writers Read
Iowa Writers’ Workshop students read from current work. Featuring Henry Finch, Jake Fournier, Jessica Laser, Adam Soto, and Alex Walton.
Listen live today, March 7th, at 2 PM CST.
Nathan Englander: I love this idea—the way any story is an amalgam between the written...
I love this idea—the way any story is an amalgam between the written version and your own experience. We could have a contest where people draw the kitchen table in my story, or in Carver’s, and everyone would depict it differently. The round table you had growing up, or plates on the wall in…
Chinelo Okparanta and Ellah Allfrey
This Lit Show features recent Writers’ Workshop graduate Chinelo Okparanta, whose short story “America” is a centerpiece of Granta‘s new“Exit Strategies” issue. Granta‘s Deputy Editor Ellah Allfrey joins her in the studio by phone.
Okparanta discussed her childhood memories of Port Harcourt, Nigeria and her first impressions of the United States; the environmental crises faced by residents of the Niger Delta region; and the reasons why Nigeria continues to be the backdrop for her fiction—even after many years in the United States
Today on The Lit Show, the publishers of INK, a new student-run literary journal at the University of Iowa, discuss their vision for the magazine.
1/23/2012 at 2 PM, CST.
Sara Levine on The Lit Show, 1/23
Sara Levine will read from Treasure Island!!! on The Lit Show on Monday, January 23rd, at 2 PM CST. Listen live on KRUI Radio in Iowa City, or at litshow.com.
Michael Martone on The Lit Show
In case you missed it, from benmauk:
On The Lit Show, Ben interviews Michael Martone about teaching, writing, and Martone’s new book of short fiction, Four for a Quarter.
Friday, 11/11 at 1:00 p.m. CST. Listen here.
Susan Orlean on Rin Tin Tin
This week, New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean visited Iowa City to read from her new book, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend. Before her multimedia presentation at the Englert Theatre, she appeared on The Lit Show to discuss the book. The talk took place from 3-4 PM on September 21st.
In addition to discussing Rin Tin Tin’s unlikely path to superstardom, Orlean discussed the origins of the German shepherd breed, the reasons why we love watching animals on screen, and the strange twists and turns in her own life as a public figure.
“Orlean’s book is not only a canine coming-of-age story—it explores the complexities of modern mythmaking,” said Lit Show host Joe Fassler, in his introduction. “At first, we follow the successes and setbacks of a dog-in-real-life, Rin Tin Tin, but gradually Rin’s physical presence dissolves into his media presence, diffusing like a drop of food coloring in water. ”
Listen to the complete interview at litshow.com.
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Jonathan Hong
—Oral History
Oral histories from the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio 2011, now available on litshow.com.
Have a sample listen to Jonathan Hong, from Seattle, as he learns to embrace a family dictum he once rejected.
Listen to the first run of the program, in 2010, here.
Seeking Radio Drama Submissions
The Lit Show is excited to announce a new segment: Radio Drama Hour, a venue for radio plays and short dramatic works. And we’re turning to our listeners for submissions. Do you have a short play you’d like to have read on the air? Or a pre-recorded radio play, complete with music and sound effects? Maybe some archival recordings of obscure broadcast dramas from radio’s golden age? If so, we’d like to hear from you. Please contact queries@litshow.com with submissions. We’re also looking for voice actors to perform the scripts—enthusiasm and ability is more important than past experience. Here are a few things to consider:
- We’re primarily looking for play scripts, though we’ll consider outstanding prerecorded or vintage radio plays
- All submissions should run less than 50 minutes, and should have more than one character
- Though we love traditional drama, we also encourage edgy work with political or challenging subject matter, or formal experimentalism
Hope to hear from you!
