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SUMMARY:Marta McDowell: Gardening Can Be Murder
DESCRIPTION:With their deadly plants\, razor-sharp shears\, shady corners\, and ready-made burial sites\, gardens make an ideal scene for the perfect murder. But the outsize influence that gardens and gardening have had on the mystery genre has been underappreciated. Now\, Marta McDowell\, a writer and gardener with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the genre\, illuminates the many ways in which our greatest mystery writers\, from Edgar Allen Poe to authors on today’s bestseller lists\, have found inspiration in the sinister side of gardens. \nFrom the cozy to the hardboiled\, the literary to the pulp\, and the classic to the contemporary\, Gardening Can Be Murder is the first book to explore the mystery genre’s many surprising horticultural connections. Meet plant-obsessed detectives and spooky groundskeeper suspects\, witness toxic teas served in foul play\, and tour the gardens—both real and imagined—that have been the settings for fiction’s ghastliest misdeeds. A New York Times bestselling author herself\, McDowell also introduces us to some of today’s top writers who consider gardening integral to their craft\, assuring that horticultural themes will remain a staple of the genre for countless twisting plots to come. \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/marta-mcdowell-gardening-can-be-murder/
LOCATION:Coralville Public Library\, 1401 5th St.\, Coralville\, IA\, 52241\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:How to read old paper: Searching for meaning in early modern English writing paper
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our annual invited Iowa Bibliophiles lecture as we study Shakespeare’s world through a unique lens. \n\n\n\nThis year we are joined by Heather Wolfe\, a consulting curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington\, DC. She will present her talk “How to read old paper: Searching for meaning in early modern English writing paper” at 6pm October 11th in Shambaugh Auditorium and on Zoom. \nIn the late 1580s and 1590s\, England experienced a writing paper renaissance. High status people began to have access to and develop a vocabulary for an expanding range of imported fine paper. At the same time\, a German refugee jeweler named John Spilman began one of the first viable paper mills in England. Despite his documented struggles in sourcing rags\, he supplied writing paper to Queen Elizabeth’s Privy Council and a handful of printers\, adorning it with intricate watermarks depicting the queen’s coat of arms\, royal badges\, and cypher. Join Wolfe as she digs into the archival evidence to tell a story about paper that begins with impoverished and unhoused London rag women and ends with Queen Elizabeth. \nIn addition to stewarding the manuscript collection\, Wolfe teaches people how to read English secretary hand and oversees transcription crowdsourcing projects at the Folger. She publishes widely on early modern English manuscripts and hybrid books. Her essay “The Material Culture of Record-Keeping in Early Modern England\,” co-written with Peter Stallybrass\, received the 2019 Archival History Article Award from the Society of American Archivists. She was also the Munby Fellow in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge in 2021/22. Wolfe received her BA from Amherst College\, her M.L.I.S. from UCLA\, and her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. \nThis is a hybrid event. You can join us in person at 6pm at Shambaugh Auditorium in the Main Library\,  or on Zoom by registering here \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/how-to-read-old-paper-searching-for-meaning-in-early-modern-english-writing-paper/
LOCATION:Shambaugh Auditorium\, University of Iowa Main Library\, 125 W Washington St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Tracie Morris: human/nature poems
DESCRIPTION:Weaving intimate portraits of home with what could be the travel journals of a 21st-century troubadour\, Tracie Morris’s human/nature poems is a hymn to the human and more-than-human world. These poems bear the record of a state of heightened perception\, springing from the displacements of travel and returning\, of memory and its triggers\, of global pandemics\, ecological catastrophe\, political unrest\, and mourning. With great precision and abundant insight\, Morris articulates the seam of our “human/nature”: “Sol has hands in Cairo\, in Luxor / today He Rises. I wonder where / the outstretch lands. It matters knot / what circles your head. What your / kin says is power. Aspects of ever / lasting light\, life is always made from parting.”
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/tracie-morris-human-nature-poems/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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