The Lit Show

R. Clifton Spargo, author of Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:02:12 -0400

R. Clifton Spargo, author of Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, explains how Hollywood’s conservatism flummoxed a great writer.

Full interview: http://www.litshow.com/086/r-clifton-spargo

Only Skin artist Sean Ford made us up a poster for Daily...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:55:53 -0400

Only Skin artist Sean Ford made us up a poster for Daily Rituals.

More info about the event here.

iamkyna: Roxane Gay tells us what it means to be a “bad...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:52:28 -0400

iamkyna:

Roxane Gay tells us what it means to be a “bad feminist.”

“I fall short as a feminist. I feel like I am not as committed as I need to be, that I am not living up to feminist ideals because of who and how I choose to be. I feel this tension constantly.”

Listen to the full interview here: http://www.litshow.com/archive/season-07/roxane-gay

Mary Jo Bang reads the classic first lines of Dante’s...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:48:34 -0400

Mary Jo Bang reads the classic first lines of Dante’s Inferno in her translation.

Full interview here: http://www.litshow.com/archive/season-07/mary-jo-bang

Poet and Strange Cage founder Russell Jaffe on teaching poetry,...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:37:00 -0400

Poet and Strange Cage founder Russell Jaffe on teaching poetry, and the serious badness of some high school literature courses.

Full interview here: http://www.litshow.com/archive/season-07/russell-jaffe-interview

Our the first event in our reading series, The Lit Show Live, is...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:56:10 -0400

Our the first event in our reading series, The Lit Show Live, is finally on its way. Featuring some great folks. If you’re in NYC, you should definitely make it out.

More info here, but in brief:

The Lit Show + powerHouse Arena present Daily Rituals
Friday, April 26th at 6 PM
Readings by Ben Greenman, Heidi Julavits, Sam Lipsyte, and Mason Currey
Conversation moderated by Joe Fassler and Mason Currey
37 Main Street, Brooklyn NY

19841979: chart (1600px) re The Contemporary Short Story, a...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:58:32 -0400

19841979:

chart (1600px) re The Contemporary Short Story, a craft class by Tao Lin in Sarah Lawrence’s MFA program

Our interview with longtime New Yorker staff writer, Lawrence...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:32:00 -0400

Our interview with longtime New Yorker staff writer, Lawrence Weschler, is now up. Go ahead, have a listen.

Michael Palmer thinks back to the dark days of the second Bush...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:38:00 -0500

Michael Palmer thinks back to the dark days of the second Bush administration, and discusses how poetic artifice differs from politically-motivated semantic manipulation.

Benjamin Nugent reveals how he almost ditched his...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:13:53 -0500

Benjamin Nugent reveals how he almost ditched his memoir—but saved it by turning it into a novel instead.

Full interview here.

melvillehouse: booksbyheart: When I talked to Jim Shepard for...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:01:08 -0500

melvillehouse:

booksbyheart:

When I talked to Jim Shepard for The Atlantic’s “By Heart,” he offered to scan a page from his teaching copy of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Here it is—and wow. It’s visually stunning, but if you squint at the notes there’s some great pearls of wisdom about the story.

For a closer look, see Jim Shepard’s copy of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” on Flickr.

We’re pretty thrilled about the Atlantic’s new “By Heart” series.

In our interview, Charles Baxter discusses plot, narrative...

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:47:00 -0500

In our interview, Charles Baxter discusses plot, narrative urgency, and “Captain Happen”: why action matters in fiction.

From our interview on December 6, 2012.

Full interview here: http://www.litshow.com/archive/season-06/charles-baxter-interview/

Ben Mauk asks Bret Anthony Johnston about his dictum...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:41:29 -0500

Ben Mauk asks Bret Anthony Johnston about his dictum “write what scares you,” a principle he advocated in an article in The Atlantic, and in his new book of writing excercises, NAMING THE WORLD.

Full interview: http://www.litshow.com/archive/season-06/bret-anthony-johnston-interview/

Charles Baxter

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:05:00 -0500

Our guest this week: the great Charles Baxter. Listen in on Wednesday at 3 PM CST.

http://litshow.com/archive/season-06/charles-baxter-interview

Dylan Nice on Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountains: the...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:04:00 -0500

Dylan Nice on Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountains: the surreal and remote beauty of the place, the region’s influence on his work, and what it’s like when Google Maps kills your hometown.

Full interview: http://www.litshow.com/archive/season-06/dylan-nice-interview

We’ve now posted our interview with Loren Stein and Sadie...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:33:00 -0500

We’ve now posted our interview with Loren Stein and Sadie Stein, editors of The Paris Review.

In this audio excerpt, the editors discuss OBJECT LESSONS, their new and highly-varied anthology of great stories from the magazine. Loren Stein recalls the way he would have wanted this book as a young writer; Sadie Stein addresses curation in the digital age.

Kenneth Goldsmith discusses the beginnings of UbuWeb, his robust...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:10:38 -0500

Kenneth Goldsmith discusses the beginnings of UbuWeb, his robust archive of the digital avant-garde.

Listen to the full interview here: http://www.litshow.com/archive/season-06/kenneth-goldsmith-interview

Jeffrey Paproa Holman was one of six International Writing...

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:38:08 -0400

Jeffrey Paproa Holman was one of six International Writing Program fellows to read on our program in October. Listen to the whole show here.

Today on the program, Loren Stein and Sadie Stein of The Paris...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:55:00 -0400

Today on the program, Loren Stein and Sadie Stein of The Paris Review discuss Object Lessons, their excellent new fiction anthology.

Our interview airs Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 3 PM CST. More info here.

Jeremy Jackson reads a selection from his memoir, I Will Not...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:42:01 -0400

Jeremy Jackson reads a selection from his memoir, I Will Not Leave You Comfortless.

Recorded on The Lit Show, 10/10/2012.

Full interview: http://www.litshow.com/archive/season-06/jeremy-jackson-interview