For several years, University of Iowa literature professor Anna Barker has produced a steady blizzard of commentary on classic French literature: Hugo, Stendahl, Dumas, Balzac. In her debut book, 13 Notes from Napoleon, Iowa: Musings of the Edge of the French Empire (Ice Cube Press), Barker follows the trail of arguably the most important individual […]
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Move over, Oppenheimer: Barbie meets Gilgamesh in this University of Iowa business class
These days, the summer of 2023 feels like it was 4,000 years ago, but actually, it was less than two. If you need hard evidence of this, go check your closet. There is a significant chance you will find the hot-pink pantsuit or suit jacket you wore to the Barbie screening that July (followed perhaps by Oppenheimer).
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A community read of ‘Les Miserables’ drives a thread of ICBF programming
Anna Barker hadn’t even made it into her chair in the patio seating area of the downtown Java House for our interview before she posed a question. “Thirteen hundred pages in 92 days? Who does that?” The answer, of course, is that she does — and so do her hundreds of reading companions. The 1,300 […]
