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’s work centers (or de-centers) around language, mythology, and a perverse rationality that leaves the reader equal parts befuddled and captivated. The Age of Wire and String matches the prose style of technical writing and travel books to surreal, dreamy anecdotes and definitions. Notable American Women is no less experimental, turning familiar postmodern tropes (such as the inclusion of the author as character) inside-out.
Marcus will chat with co-host Ben Mauk about The Flame Alphabet, a novel in which a mysterious epidemic has caused language to become toxic.
On Thursday, February 9th, Ben Marcus will read at Prairie Lights in Iowa City, 7 PM.
