“This is the first time I’ve gotten to the Writers’ Workshop,” said Bill Bryson, to the audience gathered in the sun-filled Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Dey House. The Iowa-born writer and current resident of England is one of the most widely published authors of nonfiction. This week, the University of Iowa awarded Bryson […]
Tim Taranto
Tim Taranto is a writer and artist from New York. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He advocates taking ones bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
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Baseball, bacchanalia and beauty in Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’
Everybody Wants Some!! FilmScene — Through Thursday, May 19 Nostalgia is a powerful drug. So powerful in fact that many find themselves enthralled with nostalgic feelings even for the times they never knew. And anybody who has viewed the work of Texas filmmaker Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, 1993; Boyhood, 2014) has felt the effect […]
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Natural Grocers seeks Iowa City expansion
A natural food store hopes join the Iowa City community. Mark McPherson and David Meyer of the development firm Equity Ventures have submitted a letter to the City of Iowa City Planning and Zoning Commission for the redevelopment of a portion of Waterfront Drive. The redevelopment plan — to be voted upon at the June […]
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Interview: Elizabeth Willis reflects on the ‘unacknowledged legislators’
Poet and Iowa Writers’ Workshop instructor Elizabeth Willis is the author of the collections Turneresque (2003), Meteoric Flowers (2006) and Address (2011). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Willis talked with Little Village regarding her newest collection, Alive: New and Selected Poems (2015, NYRB), and its […]
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LV Recommends: Bashu’s twice-cooked pork
We sat down to lunch at the newly opened traditional Chinese restaurant Bashu. The waitress brought us a pot of oolong and my buddy, a native Iowan, said, “How do you know if somebody is from New York?” “I don’t know, how?” I said, pouring him some tea. “Oh, don’t worry,” he said. “They always […]
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Solon’s Big Grove Brewery requests funds for Iowa City expansion
Tomorrow the Iowa City Economic Development Committee will review a request from Big Grove Brewery to support facade upgrades for a planned Iowa City facility. The brewery’s original Solon location will continue to function as the flagship brewpub and restaurant, with the Iowa City locale serving as a production brewery and taproom. The brewery is […]
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Writers’ Workshop grad Tony Tulathimutte reads from debut novel
Reading: Tony Tulathimutte Prairie Lights — Thurs., May 7 at 2 p.m. Novelist and Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Tony Tulathimutte will read from his debut novel, Private Citizens (William Morrow Paperbacks), tonight at 7 p.m. at Prairie Lights Bookstore. Tulathimutte is looking forward to reading at the beloved local bookstore. “I spent more time in […]
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Center for Worker Justice files complaint against superintendent after family resource coordinator put on leave
Update: The ICCSD responded to the CWJ press release by stating, “The District does not comment on pending personnel matters because we are obligated to protect the privacy of all involved. There are procedures in place that are being followed and we hope the matters will be resolved in the coming weeks.” The Eastern Iowa […]
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Foraging tour will identify urban edibles
Edible Outdoors presentsUrban Greens Foraging Tour Longfellow Elementary — Sunday, May 22 Edible Outdoors Iowa City will be hosting an urban greens foraging event Sunday, May 22. The walking tour will meet at Longfellow Elementary School at 10 a.m. Kathy Dice of Red Fern Farm will lead the tour, and participants can expect to learn […]
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Week-long events with Afrofuturist artist Tiona McClodden
Tiona McClodden Public Space One, Iowa City, May 3-6 The Center for Afrofuturist Studies welcomes artist-in-residence Tiona McClodden to Iowa City. Several events have been scheduled with the artist this week. Events commence Tues., May 3, at 6 p.m. when Tiona will provide a talk and Q&A at Public Space One. On Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. […]
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Marilynne Robinson to retire from Workshop
F. Wendell Mills Professor of Creative Writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Marilynne Robinson will teach her last class Friday. Robinson’s work has been awarded with the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Orange Prize, two National Book Critics Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. For the past 25 years, Robinson has taught graduate fiction workshops as […]
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Poets Margaret Ross, Sarah Deniz Akant, and Callie Garnett at Prairie Lights
Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates Margaret Ross, Sara Deniz Akant, and Callie Garnett will be reading their poetry this evening, 7:00 p.m. at Prairie Lights. Margaret Ross was the winner of The Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize for her title A Timeshare. She has been the recipient of a Fullbright as well as a fellowship from the […]
