Lit City

The tenth and final episode of the first season of Lit City , Iowa Public Radio’s new book podcast, goes live next Thursday, April 13 th . Co-hosted by IPR's Charity Nebbe and UI English Ph.D. student Anna Williams, Lit City revisits author interviews from Talk of Iowa while also exploring the sights and sounds of the United States’ only UNESCO City of Literature – Iowa City. “It’s really an interesting mix of the story behind the literature that the world has come to love – a lot of it connected with the City of Literature as declared by UNESCO – and also sort of the geography, the cityscape that contributed to these writers’ lives,” says River to River host Ben Kieffer. In the first season of Lit City, find out more about the renowned independent bookstore Prairie Lights, the Catholic church where Flannery O’Connor took solace from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, infamous literary watering hole Dave’s Foxhead Pub, and the sometimes overlooked Literary Walk on Iowa Avenue. “Although I’ve