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Ryan Berg’s nonfiction work No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions is a breakthrough, a fierce, heartrending, and lyrical take on a wholly unreported topic. The preface jars and then situates the reader in the story wi
Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You begins with a blunt statement of fact: “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” From there, pasts focus and encroach upon the present, and the cracks that split the Chinese-American Lee
Is that slim, ubiquitous little volume by Strunk and White obsolete? Have those elements that they so strictly defined as essential to good prose style changed and mutated with the advent of email, textspeak, emoji, and LOLcats?Cognitive scien
The essays in The Empathy Exams, the lauded debut collection from Leslie Jamison, range widely in topic – from illness to incarceration, reality television to extreme foot races, artificial sweeteners to street violence – but their subject is
Pity Iowa City, dear Lit Show listeners; we’re having a rough time of it.First N+1 brews a familiar tempest in a well-used teacup with the publication of MFA vs. NYC, a book debating the pros and cons of writers either testing their water wing
This episode features Brandi Larsen, Director of Book Country, a website run by the publisher Penguin Random House.Book Country is an online community where writers connect, workshop, and publish original work. Imagine a LinkedIn for publishin
Andre Dubus III’s new book, Dirty Love, published by W. W. Norton, collects four long stories about love and betrayal. All the main characters are held in thrall somehow by sex or passion: the project manager who stalks his unfaithful wife and
On this episode of the Lit Show R. Clifton Spargo speaks to Don Waters, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow, about his debut novel Sunland.Waters is also the author of the story collection Desert Gothic, whic
Has the essay become ubiquitous?Nonfiction prose has enjoyed a series of booms since the memoir craze of the late 1980s. But now essays, and essayists – those sallying minds on the margins of the genre – have begun to find themselves in a new
In her debut novel, The Lovebird, author Natalie Brown introduces us to Margie Fitzgerald, a spirited heroine with a bleeding heart, a twinge in her left ovary, and a Titanic capacity for sympathy. The novel takes us from Southern California’s
Alex Walton interviewed Geoffrey G. O Brien at 4 PM CST on Monday, September 9th, 2013. Complete PodcastThe post #88: Geoffrey G. O’Brien appeared first on The Lit Show.
On this Lit Show, Bennett Sims discusses his debut novel, A Questionable Shape.Set in the aftermath of a zombie outbreak in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, A Questionable Shape rejects the splatter and kitsch of typical genre fare in favor of meditati
On this episode of the Lit Show Deborah Kennedy speaks to R. Clifton Spargo, an Arts Fellow and MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, about his debut novel Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.Spargo
Stepping up to the plate on this episode of The Lit Show is Lucas Mann with his acclaimed debut, Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere.Mann’s book chronicles a year in the life of a minor league baseball team in Clinton, Iowa. Beyond t
Elizabeth Strout is the author of the novels Amy and Isabelle and Abide with Me, the short-story collection Olive Kitteridge, and the forthcoming novel The Burgess Boys. Her education includes degrees in English and law as well as a class in st
Unparalleled in her unflinching candidness, Vivian Gornick renders the political as personal and shows the self to be a mirror of the culture that made it. “Gornick is fearless,” Elizabeth Frank writes in The New York Times Book Review. “Readi
On this Lit Show, Mary Jo Bang discusses her new book, an irreverent translation of Dante’s Inferno, aptly titled Inferno.Mary Jo Bang is the author of several books of poetry, including Elegy, for which she won the National Book Critics Circ
On this Lit Show, Roxane Gay discusses her prolific body of work, the perils of frequent publication, and her two upcoming books: a novel, An Untamed State, and essay collection, Bad Feminist.It would be hard to keep up with the online liter
On this Lit Show, Russell Jaffe discusses his new book, participatory poetry, small presses, the 2013 Mission Creek Festival, and building a community around art.Jaffe is an artist, poet, teacher, event organizer, and all-around participator.
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 a Broken World, and the essay collection,
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. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders, which was short-l
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 ten. Her work is scheduled for publication i
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 given their due in Understanding the Essay,
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 relationship to Iowa City.Dan Beachy-Quick is th
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, which has not only received starred reviews fro
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