Stop by Prairie Lights Bookstore on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 3 p.m. for a special Finials reading featuring several of the retrospective’s contributors. By Gemma de Choisy and Kent Williams Iowa City is home to some 71,591 of us (give or take a census). To Marybeth Slonneger, it’s more—a 176-year-old ongoing public art project. Slonneger […]
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Hot Tin Roof: Three Heart Harmonies
Three Heart Harmonies By Diane LaDuke Bullets of sleet clatter hard against the windows. Stel, my infant son, trembles. I hold him tight against my heart to sooth him. My wife and daughter sing carols from the kitchen. Their duet offers a warm respite from the winter blitz. Tonight, my heart is full and peaceful. […]
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Distinguished Israeli author Etgar Keret to give free lecture this Thursday
The Creative Matters Series returns with a lecture featuring Israeli writer Etgar Keret this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Iowa’s Art Building West (Room 240). Considered a leading voice of young Israel, Keret is a prolific writer…
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Mary Louise Parker to perform debut book with IC actor Tim Budd
Mary Louise Parker The Englert Theatre — Sunday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. Prairie Lights Bookstore will bring actress Mary Louise Parker (Weeds, Fried Green Tomatoes) to the Englert Theatre to read from her first book, Dear Mr. You on Nov. 15. Dear Mr. You is a semi-fictional collection of letters to men — real […]
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10 must-see events at the 2015 Iowa City Book Festival
The Iowa City Book Festival runs from October 1-4, and with so many events happening in and around town, how do you decide which events not to miss? With any great festival, FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) is real. But fear not! Let the curators at Little Village be your guide. All of the […]
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Freaky, Raw and Open: Rebecca Wolff to read at Prairie Lights with Emily Hunt and Christian Schlegel
Live From Prairie Lights: Rebecca Wolff, Emily Hunt & Christian Schlegel Prairie Lights Bookstore — Wednesday, Sep. 30 at 7 p.m. New York City is considered — or at least considers itself — the epicenter of culture. As a native Manhattanite, however, poet and novelist Rebecca Wolff felt an early onset of asphyxiation in the […]
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Iowa City to celebrate Don Quixote for two months
El Caballero don Quijote, in Spanish with English Subtitles Adler Journalism and Mass Communications Building room E105 — Friday, Sep. 18 at 3:30 p.m. For Iowa City — a UNESCO City of Literature, home of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, can’t throw a rock without hitting a writer, etc. — this month’s 400th anniversary of Don […]
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The Task of the Translator: Aviya Kushner to read from ‘The Grammar of God’ at Prairie Lights
It’s hard to care about a single vowel. If I changed an “ah” to an “eh,” it’s a typo, a slip of the tongue that only two people would care to notice: a copy editor, who must care, and Aviya Kushner, who’s always been deeply attuned to the power of sound.
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Hot Tin Roof: Home
Home By Anonymous If I asked to hold finger and crush bone, you’d let me. Let me carry your baggage so you can walk again: Your mayonnaise-worshipping Grandmother, your Preachers passionate in their peony garden paradise Sofas, your sweet tea sticky like tar between your back Arm where the bottle fell out of your […]
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Interview: Naomi Jackson on family, influence and her formative years in Barbados and Brooklyn
Mention Naomi Jackson’s name to anyone who’s been on the local literary scene for a few years and you’ll elicit an excited, “Oh!” Readings she did while…
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Hip-Hop Poetics: Kevin Coval reads from “The BreakBeat Poets” tonight at Prairie Lights
First, two points of fact: 1. Very little poetry is Hip-Hop, but all Hip-Hop is poetry. 2. “Hip-Hop is the Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of…
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New York Times best-selling author Amber Dermont talks about form, her love of IC and how she keeps readers under her spell
Amber Dermont is the author of Damage Control, a short story collection…
