Join us for the 31st Annual Book Gala at Prairie Lights Books. Enjoy light refreshments while shopping this after-hours benefit for the Iowa City Public Library. Online sales until midnight will also be included, just be sure to type "ICPL Library Sale," in the comment box. Bring your wish list or your too long TBR!...
Join us with the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series featuring 2024 Fall Residency writers Nurit Kasztelan (poet, fiction writer, editor, bookseller; Argentina), Saad Z. Hossain (fiction writer; Bangladesh), and Camila Urioste (poet, playwright, fiction writer; Bolivia). Nurit Kasztelan (poet, fiction writer, editor, bookseller; Argentina) is the author of the novel Tanto (2023), which was the recipient of...
Historian and UIowa Professor of Law Samantha Barbas will read from and talk about her book, Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times V. Sullivan. "Actual Malice…unfurls the story of the case (New York Times V. Sullivan) and reminds readers that the triumph of press freedom was an outgrowth of...
Iowa City author Jeff Biggers will read from his new thriller (co-written with director/screenwriter Andrew Davis), Disturbing the Bones. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly describes Disturbing the Bones as "(A) thrillingly cinematic collaboration between The Fugitive director Davis and journalist Biggers... Intense, vivid action...By the time the breathless denouement rolls around, readers may find they've been up all night.”...
Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Sabyn Javeri (Pakistan, UK & UAE) and Okamoto Kei (Japan), and Writers’ Workshop MFA candidate Joshua Balicki (USA). Sabyn Javeri (fiction and nonfiction writer, translator; Pakistan, UK & UAE) is the author of the short story collection Hijabistan (2019) and the...
In a special event co-sponsored by the UIowa Department of History, author Paul Renfro will read from and talk about one of the most significant public figures of the 1980’s AIDS Epidemic, The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America. He will be joined in conversation by Associate Professor of History Mariola...
Iris Jamahl Dunkle will read from her new biography, Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb. She’ll be joined in conversation by UIowa Professor Harry Stecopoulos. Riding Like the Wind brings well-deserved attention to writer Sonora Babb, whose writing on the migrant farmers of the Dust Bowl was used by John Steinbeck in the creation...
Pappyland author and ESPN senior writer Wright Thompson will read from and talk about his shocking and revelatory account of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi. “The Barn is the most brutal, layered and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best...
Author You Yoyo and translator Jeremy Tiang will read from and talk bout Yu’s fiction debut, Invisible Kitties: A Feline Study of Fluid Mechanics or the Spurious Incidents of the Cats in the Night-Time. "Chinese poet Yu's fiction debut is utterly charming, particularly so for cat-lovers, who might argue that every bit of magic here is...
To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim Native identity has exploded—increasing 85 percent in just ten years—the number of people formally enrolled in Tribes has not. While the federal government recognizes Tribal sovereignty, being a member...
BRUNA DANTAS LOBATO is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translation for The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel. Dantas Lobato was born and raised in Natal, Brazil, and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Blue Light Hours is her debut novel.
Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Karoline Kamel, Péter Závada, and an MFA Candidate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (TBA) Karoline Kamel (nonfiction and fiction writer, journalist, filmmaker; Egypt) is a Cairo-based journalist and the author of the novel Victoria (2022). She has published stories with a focus...
