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Lit City Episode Five: Music and Mapping with John Darnielle

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Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

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John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats

In Episode Five of Lit City, we talk to Jan Weissmiller, co-owner of famed Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City, about the connection between music and literature that was recently brought to light by Bob Dylan's receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature. Then we hear from another musical writer -- John Darnielle of the indie folk band The Mountain Goats -- about his latest novel Universal Harvester.

Charity Nebbe is the host of IPR's Talk of Iowa