Literature

Event date: Monday, April 22, 2024 - 7:00pm Join us on Earth Day for an engaging discussion featuring climate scientist Dr. Heidi Roop in conversation with UI Office of Sustainability Director Stratis Giannakouros! Dr. Roop’s new book, The Climate Action Handbook, is a visually stunning guide that goes beyond typical climate change literature—it’s approachable, digestible, and filled with...

Event date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 7:00pm Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Mario Duarte will read from his new book published by Ice Cube Press, My Father Called Us Monkeys. “Mario Duarte juxtaposes innocent voices against tragic and tender moments while giving us a moving snapshot of a young Mexican American boy growing up in the Midwest....

Event date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 7:00pm Ellen Birkett Morris will read from her debut novel, Beware the Tall Grass, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence. "Beware the Tall Grass explores the collision of past and present, courage and fear, and love and death like nothing I've read before--a splendid novel. Morris's first-person...

Event date: Friday, April 26, 2024 - 5:30pm Join us at 5:30 pm with the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program Alumni Reading Series!  NWP alum and former Prairie Lights employee Lucas Mann will read from his new book, Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, and be joined in conversation with author Melissa Febos.  "Attachments is an intelligent and searching...

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Sunday, April 28, 2024 -2:00pm to 3:00pm In-person event + Livestream Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jane Smiley returns to Iowa City in support of her latest novel, Lucky, the story of a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times. Full of atmosphere, shot through with longing and exuberance,...