Anna Noyes and Brian Booker Prairie Lights Bookstore — Saturday, June 14 at 7 p.m. Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates and rookie authors Anna Noyes and Brian Booker will be sharing the stage tonight at 7 p.m. at Prairie Lights Bookstore. Noyes will read from her collection Goodnight, Beautiful Women (Grove 2016) and Booker will share […]
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IC’s Garth Greenwell speaks out against transphobia, sets out on North Carolina tour
When the state of North Carolina passed House Bill 2 in March designating that restrooms in schools and public agencies reflect biological sex as opposed to gender identity, many businesses and artists vowed to boycott the Tar Heel State.
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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 […]
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Best-selling author Hope Edelman returns to Iowa City to present new anthology, lead writing workshop
There’s a change in the air, and I don’t mean the weather. When Hope Edelman returns to Iowa City — the place she calls her second home — a new kind of thoughtfulness pervades the writing scene. Edelman, a UI Nonfiction Writing Program alum and author of the best-selling Motherless Daughters series (not to mention […]
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Looking back: Marybeth Slonneger’s new book about Iowa City history is half time capsule, half love song
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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Interview: ‘Give Us the Ballot’ author Ari Berman reads Saturday at Prairie Lights
Photo by Yoichi Okamoto (from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum) Voting, that most basic of democratic rights, is often taken for granted by Americans. And few are more aware of this dilemma than than Ari Berman, whose new book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, examines the […]
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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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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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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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Drew Barrymore to visit Iowa City, read from forthcoming memoir
Drew Barrymore reads from ‘Wildflower’ First United Methodist Church — Thursday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. Drew Barrymore, E.T. actress and author of the drug-drenched teeny-bopper autobiography Little Girl Lost, will read from her new memoir, Wildflower, in Iowa City. Hosted by Prairie Lights Bookstore and moderated by Iowa Public Radio’s Charity Neebbe, the event […]
