Summary: On this Lit Show, Pauls Toutonghi discusses his new novel, Evel Knievel Days, with R. Clifton Spargo. Toutonghi, born in Seattle to immigrant parents, a mother who emigrated from Latvia and a father who emigrated from Egypt, is the Puschart Prize-winning author of the novel Red Weather (2006). He is an assistant professor of English at Lewis & Clark College where he teaches fiction writing and American literature. His work has appeared in Granta, Virginia Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, Zoetrope, The Boston Review, and One Story.
