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SUMMARY:A Hub\, a Network\, an Archive: 55 Years of International Writers in Iowa City
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit\, which is open August 22 – December 16\, 2022\, celebrates the 55th anniversary of the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa. This program has brought close to 1\,600 writers from more than 150 countries to the UI since 1967\, and this exhibition tells the story of the IWP’s genesis\, its role in cultural diplomacy\, Iowa City as a site of literary praxis and global networking\, and the images of Iowa that writers have carried home with them through their work. Curators Nataša Ďurovičová and Lisa Gardinier dove into Special Collections & Archives materials\, including the Paul Engle Papers\, the International Writing Program Records\, the Toothpaste/Coffee House Press Records\, and more while researching for the exhibition. Also included are items from the UI Libraries circulating collection\, IWP’s Shambaugh House\, and friends of the IWP in addition to large portraits of writers by photographer Thomas Langdon.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/a-hub-a-network-an-archive-55-years-of-international-writers-in-iowa-city/
LOCATION:University of Iowa Main Library Gallery\, 125 W Washington St\, Iowa City\, IA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:The Iowa City Book Festival and Prairie Lights Books Presents: An Evening with Anthony Doerr
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Doerr will present a lecture with some fun slides and take audience questions about his new book\, Cloud Cuckoo Land. \nEach ticketholder will receive a paperback copy of Cloud Cuckoo Land at the event. \nMasks are required. Purchase Tickets. \nPulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr follows All the Light We Cannot See with Cloud Cuckoo Land—a triumph of imagination and compassion called a “wildly inventive\, humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences.” \nThirteen-year-old Anna\, an orphan\, lives inside the walls of Constantinople. Insatiably curious\, she learns to read\, and finds the book of Aethon\, who longs to turn into a bird and fly to paradise. As she reads\, the walls are bombarded. Outside the walls is Omeir\, a village boy\, conscripted into the invading army. Five hundred years later\, in a library in Idaho\, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play of Aethon’s story\, remarkably preserved. On the shelves is a bomb\, planted by troubled\, idealistic Seymour. In a not-so-distant future\, alone on the interstellar ship Argos\, Konstance copies the story of Aethon\, told to her by her father. Five dreamers and outsiders\, intertwined as they seek\, and find\, resourcefulness and hope. \nAnthony Doerr is the author of Cloud Cuckoo Land\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and All the Light We Cannot See\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Carnegie Medal. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector\, the novel About Grace\, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes\, the Rome Prize\, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award\, the National Magazine Award for fiction\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and the Story Prize.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/the-iowa-city-book-festival-and-prairie-lights-books-presents-an-evening-with-anthony-doerr/
LOCATION:Englert Theatre\, 221 E. Washington St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:The Paul Engle Award Ceremony Featuring Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with Lyz Lenz
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Solnit has been named the eleventh recipient of the Paul Engle Prize\, presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization. \nSolnit is a writer\, historian\, and activist who has written more than twenty books on feminism\, environmental and urban history\, popular power\, social change and insurrection\, wandering and walking\, hope and disaster\, including Whose Story Is This?\, Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction)\, Men Explain Things to Me\, The Mother of All Questions\, and the recent memoir\, Recollections of My Nonexistence. \nShe has received a Guggenheim\, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism\, and the Lannan Literary Award. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a columnist at the Guardian and a former “Easy Chair” columnist at Harper’s.Speaking about the award\, Solnit said she was honored to be recognized. \n“Finding out\, while still on the first cup of tea\, that you’ve won a prize\, and it’s named after a poet\, editor\, and teacher passionately devoted to internationalism and the literary community\, is a very good way to start the day\,” she said. “To receive a prize that has gone to writers I admire so much—Alexander Chee\, Roxane Gay among them—deepens my sense of the honor of being invited into the community of writers\, past and present\, and it encourages me to keep trying to do the kind of engaged work this prize recognizes.” \nThe prize includes a $20\,000 award and a one-of-a-kind work of art. \nSolnit will receive the award and appear in conversation with Lyz Lenz\, Thursday\, September 29 at 7 p.m. at the Coralville Public Library. \n \n \nThe annual Paul Engle Prize from the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature honors an individual who\, like Paul Engle\, represents a pioneering spirit in the world of literature through writing\, editing\, publishing\, or teaching\, and whose active participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world through the literary arts. The Paul Engle Prize is made possible through the generous support of the City of Coralville\, which is home to 11 permanent sculptures with artistic and literary ties to Iowa. The sculptures all have ties to work found in The Iowa Writers’ Library\, housed in the Hyatt Regency Coralville Hotel & Conference Center\, which features about 800 books written by former students\, graduates and faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. \nPaul Engle (October 12\, 1908 – March 22\, 1991)\, though best remembered as the long-time director of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and founder of the UI’s International Writing Program\, also was a well-regarded poet\, playwright\, essayist\, editor and critic. \nThis prize does not recognize one work\, nor is it solely limited to reflecting literary achievement. Rather\, the award seeks to recognize a writer\, like Engle\, who makes an impact on his or her community and the world at large through efforts beyond the page. It also seeks to raise awareness about Engle and his works. \nPast recipients: James Alan McPherson\, longtime instructor at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Elbow Room; Kwame Dawes\, Chancellor Professor of English at the University of Nebraska\, and Editor of Prairie Schooner; Luis Alberto Urrea\, author of The Devil’s Highway and Queen of America\,  Sara Paretsky the author behind the bestselling Chicago-based V.I. Warshawski mystery series\, Roxane Gay\, professor\, editor\, commentator and author of the short story collection Ayiti\, the novel An Untamed State\, and the essay collection Bad Feminist\, and novelist\, activist\, essayist\, and professor Alexander Chee; novelist and essayist Dina Nayeri; poets and co-founders of Cave Canem Toi Derriocotte and Cornelius Eady; and poet and essayist Dr. Eve L. Ewing.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/paul-engle-rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:Coralville Public Library\, 1401 5th St.\, Coralville\, IA\, 52241\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:International Writing Program: Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The International Writing Program (IWP) is a unique conduit for the world’s literatures\, connecting well-established writers from around the globe\, bringing international literature into classrooms\, introducing American writers to other cultures through reading tours\, and serving as a clearinghouse for literary news and a wealth of archival and pedagogical materials. Since 1967\, over fifteen hundred writers from more than 150 countries have been in residence at the University of Iowa. \nThis event is live and in-person\, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/international-writing-program-panel-discussion-2/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General,Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Randall Munroe
DESCRIPTION:THE IOWA CITY BOOK FESTIVAL AND PRAIRIE LIGHTS BOOKS PRESENTS RANDALL MUNROE \nThis is a bundled ticketed event\, price includes General Admission for one\, and a hardcover copy of What If? 2\, to be picked up at the venue during check-in. Link to purchase tickets is HERE. \nThe #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you never thought to ask. \nThe millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions\, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone’s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it’s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade\, built a billion-story building\, made a lava lamp out of lava\, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay\, if you insist. \nBefore you go on a cosmic road trip\, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex\, or fill every church with bananas\, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity\, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers’ questions. As he consistently demonstrates\, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances. \nRandall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer\, the science question-and-answer blog What If\, and the popular webcomic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist\, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full-time. He lives in Massachusetts. \nThe author will talk about What If?2\, take audience questions\, meet fans\, and sign copies of the book.  Masks are required at this event. \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/randall-munroe/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church\, 214 E Jefferson St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52245\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Beowulf with John Heimbuch
DESCRIPTION:The Iowa City Book Festival & Crooked Path Productions present… \nValor! Strength! Monsters! Hear the tale of Beowulf! \nAdapted by Charlie Bethel\nPerformed by John Heimbuch\nDirected by Amy Rummenie \nJohn Heimbuch performs Charlie Bethel’s popular one-man adaptation of Beowulf! \nThis faithful and accessible adaptation of this classic Old English poem about a warrior king and\nthree famous monsters\, emphasizes the wit\, vigor\, and meaty language of the original Anglo-Saxon\nepic. \nWriter Charlie Bethel was a renowned storyteller. He adapted Beowulf into a solo theatrical text in\n2001\, and performed it and at venues across the United States until his death in 2017. \nJohn Heimbuch first performed Beowulf at the 2019 Minnesota Fringe Festival\, and has performed it\nat backyards\, bars\, schools\, theatres\, firesides\, parks\, conventions\, and online ever since. He is proud\nto continue the legacy of Charlie Bethel’s work. \nTickets here.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/beowulf-with-john-heimbuch/2022-09-30/
LOCATION:The James Theater\, 213 N Gilbert St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52245\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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