Lena Dunham, the creator and lead actress of the HBO series Girls, will be speaking at the Englert Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. as part of her…
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‘Little House on the Prairie’ actress to speak at the ICPL
Melissa Gilbert, the actress who played Laura Ingalls on the television series ‘Little House on the Prairie,’ will be in Iowa City on Tuesday, Sept. 16 to celebrate the release of her new cookbook, which launches in bookstores that same day. She will be speaking at the Iowa City Public Library at 7 p.m., an event co-sponsored by Prairie Lights. In her book, ‘My Prairie Cookbook: Memories and Frontier Food from My Little House to Yours,’ she shares her own favorite family recipes in addition to anecdotes and photos of memorabilia about the series.
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Prairie Lights to host reception for ‘Electric Beach,’ an eye-popping painting series by Thad Kellstadt
Prairie Lights will hold a reception for its current exhibit Electric Beach, featuring paintings by Thad Kellstadt, this Friday, Aug. 15 at 6:30 p.m…
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Art City: Matt Bollinger’s ‘Odd Jobs’ at Prairie Lights’ Cafe
A selection of new works by New York-based painter and collagist, Matt Bollinger, is on view at Prairie Lights’ cafe through Aug. 3. Entitled ‘Odd Jobs,’ Bollinger presents a series of collage-paintings in which each image contains a snippet of a larger storyline. As the title implies, many of the scenes portrayed fall under the description of ‘odd jobs,’ yet the show is not constrained by a single unified narrative concept.
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Lena Dunham is coming to Iowa City
Prairie Lights announced today that Lena Dunham of HBO’s Girls will visit the Englert Theatre on October 7 at 7 p.m. in support of her new memoir, Not That Kind of Girl. The actress, whose show has brought no shortage of controversy to Iowa City, will take part in a dialogue with novelist Curtis Sittenfeld. […]
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Book Review: Rebecca Rotert’s ‘Last Night at the Blue Angel’
Rebecca Rotert’s debut novel, ‘Last Night at the Blue Angel’, is a literary page-turner with lovely prose and heart-wrenching relationships. It presents a singer on the brink of something big — be it fame, self-destruction or both. The singer’s name is Naomi, dysfunctional mother to Sophia, whose own name comes from a story of love and loss.
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Interview: Paul Ingram sheds light on his new book and talks about his rhyming verbal tick
For those of you who haven’t met Paul Ingram, he is an Iowa City icon and fixture at Prairie Lights Books. Like countless others, I have, over the years…
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Interview: Scott Samuelson reads Thursday at Prairie Lights
Philosophy is a dense topic, and Kirkwood philosophy instructor (and longtime Little Village contributor) Scott Samuelson knows this better than most …
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Dr. Terry Wahls to visit the ICPL for reading, discussion
Iowa City’s Dr. Terry Wahls will discuss and read from her new book, The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive M.S. Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine, at the Iowa City Public Library this Saturday at 2 p.m. In 2000, Dr. Wahls was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. By 2003, she had transitioned to […]
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Prairie Lights makes Business Insider’s list of ‘bookstores every book lover must visit at least once’
Business Insider named Iowa City’s Prairie Lights as one of its top 18 bookstores “every book lover must visit at least once,” confirming once again that we…
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Poetry at Prairie Lights: Graham Foust to visit Saturday
Poet Graham Foust will be visiting Iowa City this Saturday for a reading at Prairie Lights. He’ll be reading pieces from his new book To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems, published by Chicago’s Flood Editions. To Anacreon in Heaven is Foust’s fifth full collection of poetry, and is a follow-up to the critically-acclaimed A […]
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Long live pie: Prairie Lights welcomes Kate Lebo this Friday
Have you ever considered what pie best represents you? Are you the tart, but sweet combination of strawberry and rhubarb? Are you the whipped whites or the zest of a Lemon Merengue? And if you can claim a pie as your own, what does that say about you as a person? Does strawberry rhubarb reflect your search for daily balance? Or do you embrace the simple delicacy of Apple Pie?
