Literature

Event date: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 7:00pm Kevin Koch will read from  and share images from his new regional nature book, Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartland. "Kevin Koch's Midwest Bedrock eloquently redefines and reimagines that fuzzy obscure geographic region that outsiders often describe as drive-through or fly-over country.  "What exactly is the...

Event date: Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 7:00pm In a special event co-sponsored by the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and generously co-sponsored by the UI Office of the Vice President for Research, designer and educator Lesley-Ann Noel will talk about her new book, Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo. Noel...

Event date: Friday, April 12, 2024 - 7:00pm National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” award-winner Sarah Braunstein will read from her new novel, Bad Animals. She will be joined in conversation by author Rachel Yoder.  "Bad Animals opens with a delightful shock, and then the fun begins. With deft, sly, loving insight into the human animal and its...

Event date: Monday, April 15, 2024 - 7:00pm Amy Lin will read from her debut, Here After: A Memoir.  Author Carmen Maria Machado has praised the book, saying "How gorgeously Here After tackles the twin specters of grief and survival; a steely, symphonic memoir of unexpected loss--and what (necessarily, unbearably) comes next, and Lauren Groff says "It has been...

Event date: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 7:00pm Please join us with author Kaori Fujino & translator Kendall Heitzman for a bilingual reading of the Japanese literary horror novella Nails & Eyes. Awarded the 2023-24 Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, Nails & Eyes is "Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans...