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SUMMARY:Local Author Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Local Author Book Fair! Join us as local authors present their latest works\, answer questions\, and sign books. Browse each author’s table where various books will be available for purchase.  \nFeaturing: \nLisa Avelleyra\n\nNina Barragan\n\nJudith F. Brenner\nLois A. Buntz\nErin Casey\nAprille Clarke\nRichard R. DiPirro\nJoseph Dobrian\nCorinne Stanley\nMary Helen Stefaniak\nM.L. Williams
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/local-author-book-fair/
LOCATION:MERGE\, 136 S Dubuque St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221009T130000
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SUMMARY:Johnnie Each and Debra Marquart
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Iowa Student Poet Ambassador\, Johnnie Each\, and Iowa Poet Laureate Debra Marquart. \nThis event is live and in-person\, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/johnnie-each-iowa-student-poet-ambassador/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221009T143000
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SUMMARY:“Iowa Intersections” interview screening
DESCRIPTION:“Iowa Intersections\,” a partnership between the City of Literature and the University of Iowa’s Center for Language and Culture Learning\, is a community-based multilingual digital storytelling initiative. Working with partners such as Kirkwood Community College\, Open Heartland\, and the Congolese Association\, this initiative works with recent immigrants to the area to help them tell their stories. A handful of the first stories from this project will be screened at this presentation. \nThis project aims to share and uplift stories that celebrate the cultural and linguistic diversity in our area. In addition\, it creates opportunities for undergraduates to develop their intercultural communicative competencies —their ability to use their language skills to ethically engage with our multilingual neighbors. \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/iowa-intersections-interview-screening/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221009T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221009T203000
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SUMMARY:Les Mis in Concert – SOLD OUT!
DESCRIPTION:Tickets are SOLD OUT! \nJoin us as we celebrate the 160th anniversary of the publication of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables with a concert of selections from the musical “Les Misérables” by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg. \nThe evening will feature Jessica Pray Patel\, soprano; and Thaddeus Ennen\, baritone; accompanied by\nDaniel Kleinknecht on piano. \nWith dramatic reading of passages from the novel by Tim Budd. \nMasks are required. Tickets are SOLD OUT! \nProgram Order\nLa Marseillaise (audience sing along)\nI Dreamed A Dream\nWho Am I?\nCastle on a Cloud\nStars\nIn My Life\nA Heart Full of Love\nBring Him Home\nOn My Own\nA Little Fall of Rain\nEmpty Chairs at Empty Tables\nDo You Hear the People Sing? (audience sing along) \nThaddeus Ennen\, baritone and Iowa native\, recently relocated to Cedar Rapids from Baton Rouge\, Louisiana\, to teach voice and music at Mount Mercy University and Coe College. He holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from University of Tennessee\, Knoxville\, and a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance from Simpson College. He is currently finalizing his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from Louisiana State University. \nPreviously\, Thaddeus could be found performing opera and concerts throughout the United States. Recent engagements include work with Des Moines Metro Opera\, Cedar Rapids Opera\, Central City Opera\, Opéra Louisiane\, Santa Fe Opera\, Pensacola Opera\, and Knoxville Opera. \nJessica Pray Patel\, soprano\, has been noted for her “exquisite control and warm vocal timbre”  (Jacksonville News) and her “indomitable spirit” and “sweet\, clear quality” (The Day). Jessica holds a Master of Music in Voice from the Yale School of Music\, and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Iowa. Jessica has performed with the Jacksonville Symphony\, Eastern Connecticut Symphony\, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre\, Yale Symphony Orchestra\, and at Carnegie Hall. \nIn the 2021-2022 season Jessica performed in concert as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem (Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale)\, Handel’s Messiah (Orchestra Iowa)\, Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis (Iowa City Chamber Singers). \nTim Budd is an actor who performs frequently in productions at Riverside Theatre. He is also a clerk at Prairie Lights Books. \nTickets are free but are required. A ticket does not guarantee a seat. \nMasks are required.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/les-miz-in-concert/
LOCATION:Riverside Theatre\, 119 E College St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221010T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221010T183000
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SUMMARY:Morbid Curiosities & Mabbott Poe
DESCRIPTION:Special Collections & Archives is home to the Thomas Ollive Mabbott Papers\, an intriguing collection of materials compiled by Mabbott\, who was editor of the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe. The papers include sources and inspirations for Poe’s work\, first printings\, and more. See select items up close before meeting the master of Gothic horror himself\, portrayed by Darrin Crow\, in Morbid Curiosities – An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe. The 80-minute performance begins at 7:00 p.m. and features some of Poe’s most beloved stories and poetry\, including “The Masque of the Red Death\,” “The Raven\,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” \nFree and open to the public. Please click to register so that we may estimate attendance. 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/morbid-curiosities-mabbott-poe/
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:Lori Erickson and Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez: The Art\, Craft and Call to be a Spiritual Writer
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, two of Iowa’s leading spiritual writers discuss their work. Spiritual writing is a growing subgenre in fiction as well as in memoir\, poetry\, meditations\, and self-help. It may or may not be aligned with an organized religion\, faith\, belief system\, or philosophy\, yet all spiritual writing seeks to discover human truths and also typically struggles with how we live and develop in the midst of something larger than ourselves. This field of writing is as ancient as the earliest sacred texts and as ongoing as the poetry of Mary Carr\, the theology of Howard Thurman\, the novels of Marilynne Robinson\, and the wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh. Jennifer Ohman-Rodgriguez and Lori Erickson discuss their own spiritual explorations as a basis for their writing and the value of this type of writing for all seekers.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/lori-erickson-and-jennifer-ohman-rodriguez-the-art-craft-and-call-to-be-a-spiritual-writer/
LOCATION:Coralville Public Library\, 1401 5th St.\, Coralville\, IA\, 52241\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221011T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220921T135802Z
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SUMMARY:Jerald Walker – James Alan McPherson and His Making of a Dragon Slayer
DESCRIPTION:Jerald Walker\, author of the 2020 National Book Award finalist How to Make a Slave and Other Essays\, will discuss that work and more. \nFor the black community\, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave\, “anger is often a prelude to a joke\, as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion lay in finding its punchline.” It is on the knife’s edge between fury and farce that the essays in this exquisite collection balance. Whether confronting the medical profession’s racial biases\, considering the complicated legacy of Michael Jackson\, paying homage to his writing mentor James Alan McPherson\, or attempting to break free of personal and societal stereotypes\, Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural critique. The result is a bracing and often humorous examination by one of America’s most acclaimed essayists of what it is to grow\, parent\, write\, and exist as a black American male. Walker refuses to lull his readers; instead his missives urge them to do better as they consider\, through his eyes\, how to be a good citizen\, how to be a good father\, how to live\, and how to love. \n\nCo-presented by  The UI Lecture Committee\, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, UI African American Studies\, the UI English Department
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jerald-walker/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221012T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221012T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T165710
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SUMMARY:Lan Samantha Chang
DESCRIPTION:Sit in on a one-of-a-kind conversation with Iowa Writers’ Workshop director and renowned novelist Lan Samantha Chang (93MFA)\, who will chat with host Charity Nebbe\, of Iowa Public Radio’s Talk of Iowa\, and read from her most recent book\, The Family Chao. Oprah Daily Insider recognized Chang as one of eight women writers changing the world—and The Family Chao appeared on Barack Obama’s 2022 Summer Reading List. \nPrairie Lights Bookstore will sell copies of The Family Chao beforehand\, and you will have an opportunity to ask questions after the reading. You also are invited to a book signing\, on the second-floor gallery\, at the end of the event. \nRegister today at: foriowa.info/legend-chang \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/lan-samantha-chang/
LOCATION:Englert Theatre\, 221 E. Washington St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221013T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221013T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T165710
CREATED:20220822T175515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220908T162459Z
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SUMMARY:Simon & Schuster Author Fest featuring John Irving and Jason Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp will moderate a conversation about Identity: In Fiction and in Life\, with New York Times bestselling authors John Irving and Jason Reynolds. \nThe event will include an open chat\, but no live Q&A.  We are accepting a limited number of pre-submitted questions from the registrants. \nThis is a free\, online event. Register below. We will send a link to the presentation closer to the date. \nLoading… \nBy registering\, you also agree to receive email updates from Simon & Schuster and agree to the privacy policy and terms of use.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/author-fest/
LOCATION:A Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231008T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231008T133000
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SUMMARY:One Community One Book: The Farm by Joanne Ramos
DESCRIPTION:The 2023 One Community\, One Book is The Farm by Joanne Ramos. Told from the perspective of four women\, The Farm explores gender\, race\, and class\, and of who has access to power\, freedom\, and choice. \nThis event is free and open to the public. This event will have ASL interpretation. Doors open at 1 p.m. Author Keynote begins at 1:30 p.m. Author book signing immediately following the lecture. \n\nAuthor and City of Literature esteemed City of Literature board member\, Lyz Lenz\, has launched a virtual book club to discuss “The Farm” by Joanne Ramos.  Join the discussion at: Men Yell at Me Book Club.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/one-community-one-book-the-farm-by-joanne-ramos/
LOCATION:C20 Pomerantz Center\, 213 N Clinton St\, Iowa City\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231008T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231008T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T153646Z
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SUMMARY:Little Village Presents: Roast of Iowa City
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nYear after year\, some of the area’s most treasured comics and writers gather together to relentlessly burn and mock everything sacred and dear about our town. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/little-village-presents-roast-of-iowa-city/
LOCATION:ReUnion Brewery\, 113 E College St\, Iowa City\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231009T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T165710
CREATED:20230824T151716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T151906Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Karenina starring Greta Garbo\, Basil Rathbone\, and Fredric March
DESCRIPTION:This 19th-century period piece is an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel. On a trip to St. Petersburg\, Anna Karenina (Greta Garbo)\, neglected wife of the famed Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin (Basil Rathbone)\, meets a handsome military officer\, Count Vronsky (Fredric March). Vronsky becomes enamored of Anna and follows her back to Moscow to confess his feelings. Will she follow her heart to be with him\, even if it destroys her family and results in public disgrace?
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/anna-karenina/
LOCATION:FilmScene at The Chauncey\, 404 E College St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231010T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231010T160000
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CREATED:20230814T163755Z
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SUMMARY:Curator Guided Tour: Hey Buddy\, I’m Bill
DESCRIPTION:Hey Buddy\, I’m Bill tells the story of Bill Sackter\, the namesake of Wild Bill’s (formerly Wild Bill’s Coffee Shop) in the University of Iowa School of Social Work. From his early life in Minneapolis to his 44-year institutionalization for an intellectual disability to his years of friends and fame in Iowa City\, the exhibit shares a glimpse into Bill’s life and legacy. The exhibit also acknowledges some of Iowa’s own history with institutionalization and progress with disability rights\, and places Bill’s story in the context of the historic treatment of people with disabilities. The exhibit not only tells how Bill’s life embodied the disability practices and perspectives of his time\, but also how the national prominence of his life story helped America make progress toward better understanding and treatment of people with disabilities. \nThe exhibition features artifacts\, documents\, and ephemera from Bill’s life as well as ways for visitors to contribute stories about their own experiences with disability.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/curator-guided-tour-hey-buddy-im-bill/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231010T190000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Cypher: The Skin and Its Girl
DESCRIPTION:A young\, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping debut\, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity\, exile\, and lineage. \nIn a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family’s ancestral home in Palestine\, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant\, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day\, the Rummanis’ centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed in an air strike. The family matriarch and keeper of all Rummani lore\, Aunt Nuha\, believes that the blue girl embodies their sacred history\, harkening to a time when the Rummanis were among the wealthiest soap-makers and their blue soap was a symbol of a legendary love. \nDecades later\, Betty returns to her Aunt Nuha’s gravestone\, faced with a difficult decision: Should she stay in the only country she’s every known or should she follow her heart for the woman she loves\, perpetuating her family’s cycle of exile? Betty finds her answer in partially translated notebooks that reveal her aunt’s complex life and struggle with her own sexuality\, which Nuha hid to help the family emigrate to the U.S. But as Betty soon discovers\, her aunt hid much more than that. \nThe Skin and Its Girl is a searing\, poetic tale about desire and identity and a provocative exploration of how we let stories divide\, unite\, and define us–and even wield the power to restore a broken family. Sarah Cypher is that rare debut novelist who writes with the mastery and flair of a seasoned storyteller.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/sarah-cypher-the-skin-and-its-girl/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231010T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T165710
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SUMMARY:The Machine Stops: A New Opera by John Lake and Cecile Goding
DESCRIPTION:The Machine Stops: A New Opera by John Lake and Cecile Goding\nSelected Videoclips and Talkback \nOpera fan and UI Professor Emerita Miriam Gilbert leads a talkback session on The Machine Stops: A New Opera by John Lake and Cecile Goding\, joined by the opera’s lead soprano Élise DesChamps (UI School of Music) and sci-fi scholar Brooks Landon (UI Dept. of English). \nThe Machine Stops\, featuring a libretto written by Iowa author and UI workshop graduate Cecile Goding and original score composed by Iowa City musician John Lake\, debuted at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts in July 2022. Based on a 1909 science fiction story by E. M. Forster\, the opera imagines a world where all reality is filtered through The Machine. Everyone lives alone\, communicating solely through their hand-held devices. Sound familiar? \nSelected videoclips of the CCPA production of The Machine Stops will be shown. Audiences responded to the debut performance with high praise: “Surprisingly contemporary;” “a powerful experience;” “a stunning success;” “beautiful and complex;” “gorgeous music and strong libretto.” \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/the-machine-stops-a-new-opera-by-john-lake-and-cecile-goding/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T165710
CREATED:20230823T154616Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T165710
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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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SUMMARY:Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Translation! Ever New\, Ever Elusive
DESCRIPTION:Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University.  Her first job was at Iowa (1965-77)\, where she went through the ranks\, and profited greatly by the absolute support of colleagues among whom she would mention President Sandy Boyd\, Vice President May Brodbeck\, Chairs John Gerber and David Hayman\, and many many others. She met Ngugi Wa Thiong’o\, Okot p’Bitek\, and Sankha Ghosh at the International Writing Program; worked with John Cheever and Anthony Burgess at the Writer’s Workshop\, and was involved in the hiring of Maureen Robertson\, Danny Weissbort\, Steven Unger\, Ruedi Kuenzli\, Sheldon Pollock and others. Her special friends were Alexander Aspel\, Cassia Tomasini\, Dale Godwin. She has written a few books\, received a few prizes and holds a few honorary degrees. For many years\, she has been grappling with finishing a book on W.E.B. Du Bois and writing an Afterword on the first English translations of Gramsci’s conversation with Julia and Tatiana Schucht while imprisoned.  Humanities for social justice is her obsession. Translation is the medium of this work.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/gayatri-chakravorty-spivak-translation-ever-new-ever-elusive/
LOCATION:Old Capitol Senate Chamber\, 21 N. Clinton St.\, Iowa City\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:The Swine Republic: Struggles with the Truth about Agriculture and Water Quality
DESCRIPTION:Author Dr. Chris Jones (The Swine Republic) is joined by journalists Keith Schneider and Erin Jordan to examine Iowa and the Midwest’s efforts at water quality\, public information\, and the modern myth of the “farmer.” \n  \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/the-swine-republic-struggles-with-the-truth-about-agriculture-and-water-quality/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231012T193000
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SUMMARY:Dreamwell Theatre Presents: Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Terry Pratchett takes Shakespeare’s Macbeth and then turns it up ’till the knob comes off. It’s all there – a wicked duke and duchess\, the ghost of the murdered king\, dim soldiers\, strolling players\, a land in peril. And who stands between the Kingdom and destruction? Three witches. \nWritten by Sir Terry Pratchett\, and adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs\nDirected by Josh Sazon \nTicket info:\nhttps://www.thejamesic.com/\n319-600-2936\n213 N. Gilbert Street\, Iowa City \n  \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/dreamwell-theatre-presents-terry-pratchetts-wyrd-sisters/2023-10-12/
LOCATION:The James Theater\, 213 N Gilbert St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52245\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231013T120000
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SUMMARY:International Writing Program Panel Discussion: On the Body
DESCRIPTION:A person’s body affects the way they navigate the world\, and their experiences in it. How much power does a body (with regard to\, for instance\, race\, gender\, sexuality\, physical ability) have over\, or in\, an artist’s work? And\, with what devices can a writer affect issues their body can present– for instance via symbolism\, or by changing media\, or in the physical circumstances of reading and writing? \n  \nBusi Mahlangu (South Africa)\, Wesley Macheso (Malawi)\, Kevin Chen (Taiwan) \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/international-writing-program-panel-discussion-3/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231013T193000
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SUMMARY:John Irving in Conversation with Lan Samantha Chang
DESCRIPTION:Presented in collaboration with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, University Lecture Committee\, Iowa City Book Festival\, and Refocus Film Festival \nPart of Hancher’s Infinite Dream festival \nJohn Irving is one of the foremost writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is the author of several books\, including the novels The Cider House Rules\, The World According to Garp\, and most recently The Last Chairlift. He was also inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1992. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, Irving returns to our campus and community to discuss his life and creative process alongside Iowa Writers’ Workshop director Lan Samantha Chang.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/john-irving-in-conversation-with-lan-samantha-chang/
LOCATION:Hancher Auditorium\, 141 Park Rd.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231013T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231013T230000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Talks Live Iowa – Japan: A bilingual reading held simultaneously in Iowa City and Tokyo
DESCRIPTION:Involving the Japanese poet YOTSUMOTO Yasuhiro (IWP 2023)\, the Akutagawa Prize-winning writer LI Kotomi (IWP 2023)\, the Japanese poet SUGA Keijiro\, UI students from JPNS 3201 Workshop in Japanese Literary Translation; International Writing Program writers from Japan\, Taiwan\, Jamaica\, Nigeria\, and Kazakhstan; 10 young Japanese poets and several dozen Japanese undergraduates who will connect to us via Zoom; and other guests.  Our students are translating poems by these young Japanese poets\, and the Japanese students will be translating poems by the IWP writers from English into Japanese. \nPresented by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and International Programs at the University of Iowa.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/poetry-talks-live-iowa-japan-a-bilingual-reading-held-simultaneously-in-iowa-city-and-tokyo/
LOCATION:120 Phillips Hall\, 16 N Clinton St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52245\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Josh Larsen: Fear Not!
DESCRIPTION:Josh Larsen is the co-host of the radio show and podcast Filmspotting and author of Movies Are Prayers. He will discuss his new book\, Fear Not! A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies. Presented in partnership with the ReFocus Film Festival.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/josh-larsen-fear-not/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T113000
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SUMMARY:Justin Torres: Blackouts
DESCRIPTION:Justin Torres is the author of We the Animals\, which won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award\, was translated into fifteen languages\, and was adapted into a feature film. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he will read from and discuss his new book\, Blackouts. Fellow Workshop graduate Jamel Brinkley will moderate.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/justin-torres-blackouts/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Daniel Kraus: Whalefall
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling author. His collaboration with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero\, The Living Dead\, was acclaimed by The New York Times and The Washington Post. The Iowa native will discuss his new novel\, Whalefall. 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/daniel-kraus-whalefall/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T130000
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SUMMARY:Storytelling Across the Arts: A Conversation with Lonnie Holley & Lee Baines
DESCRIPTION:Note: Kurt Vile will no longer be a part of this event. \nWe are excited to present instead a conversation between Lonnie Holley\, a renowned visual artist and musician\, and musician and writer Lee Baines. \nHolley’s most recent album Oh Me Oh My reflects on his difficult personal experiences growing up in the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children in the 1950s. Lee Baines\, who first met Lonnie Holley when Baines was a child\, is a musician and writer. He is the frontman of the remarkable punk band Lee Baines & The Glory Fires. His poems “Work Lunch” were recently published in The New Yorker. \nPart of Hancher’s Infinite Dream festival
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/storytelling-across-the-arts/
LOCATION:Old Capitol Senate Chamber\, 21 N. Clinton St.\, Iowa City\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Kristen Roupenian: Cat Person
DESCRIPTION:Kristen Roupenian holds a PhD in English from Harvard\, an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan\, and a BA from Barnard College. She is the author of the short story\, “Cat Person\,” which was published in The New Yorker. She will read from her short story collection\, Cat Person. Presented in partnership with the ReFocus Film Festival.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/kristen-roupenian-cat-person/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Eskor David Johnson: Pay As You Go
DESCRIPTION:Eskor David Johnson is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. His writing has appeared in BOMB Magazine\, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he currently lives in New York City. Pay As You Go is his debut novel.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/eskor-david-johnson-pay-as-you-go/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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