On this Lit Show, Peter Orner discusses Love and Shame and Love, his second novel.

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On this Lit Show, co-host Ben Mauk speaks with Michael Martone about teaching, writing, and the Midwest.

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On this Lit Show, Chuck Klosterman discusses his novel The Visible Man.

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On this Lit Show, co-host Ben Mauk speaks with Colson Whitehead about his new novel, Zone One.

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On this Lit Show, writers from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program read fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

This episode, part one of a two-part series, featured, in alphabetical order: Park Chansoon (South Korea), Naseer Hassan (Iraq), Usha K. R. (India), Fabienne Kanor, (France), Alexandra Petrova (Russia), Ogochukwu Promise (Nigeria), and Milena Oda (Germany).

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Josh Rolnick discusses his short story collection Pulp and Paper, this year’s recipient of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award (University of Iowa Press). Pulp and Paper was selected for the honor by Yiyun Li.

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On this Lit Show, Susan Orlean discusses Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend.

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Justin Torres discusses We the Animals, his first novel.

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Alexander Maksik, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a University of Iowa Provost’s Fellow in fiction, discusses his first book, You Deserve Nothing: A Novel.

Air date: Wednesday, September 7th at 2 PM CST.