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SUMMARY:Ayana Mathis: The Unsettled
DESCRIPTION:Ayana Mathis with special guest moderator Lan Samantha Chang. \nFrom the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son\, Toussaint\, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985\, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter’s squalid conditions: the barely edible food\, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place\, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them there. Ava has been estranged from her own mother\, Dutchess\, since she left her Alabama home as a young woman barely out of her teens. Despite their estrangement and the thousand miles between them\, mother and daughter are deeply entwined\, but Ava can’t forgive her sharp-tounged\, larger than life mother whose intractability and bouts of debilitating despair brought young Ava to the outer reaches of neglect and hunger. Ava wants to love her son differently\, better. But when Toussaint’s father\, Cass\, reappears\, she is swept off course by his charisma\, and the intoxicating power of his radical vision to destroy systems of racial injustice and bring about a bold new way of communal living. \nMeanwhile\, in Alabama\, Dutchess struggles to keep Bonaparte\, once a beacon of Black freedom and self-determination\, in the hands of its last five Black residents—families whose lives have been rooted in this stretch of land for generations—and away from rapidly encroaching white developers. She fights against the erasure of Bonaparte’s venerable history and the loss of the land itself\, which she has so arduously preserved as Ava’s inheritance. \nAs Ava becomes more enmeshed with Cass\, Toussaint senses the danger simmering all around him—his well-intentioned but erratic mother; the intense\, volatile figure of his father who drives his fledgling Philadelphia community toward ever increasing violence and instability. He begins to dream of Dutchess and Bonaparte\, his home and birthright\, if only he can find his way there.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/ayana-mathis-the-unsettled/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Open House Party at PorchLight Literary Arts Center
DESCRIPTION:Join us for drinks and appetizers at PorchLight Literary Arts Center. Walk through our space and find out about all we do: residencies\, our new co-op model\, Misfit Master Classes\, the PromptPress Reading Room\, and our free programming.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/open-house-party-at-porchlight-literary-arts-center/
LOCATION:PorchLight Literary Arts Center\, 1019 E Washington St\, Iowa City\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231015T140000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T163820Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Lethem\, Brooklyn Crime Novel
DESCRIPTION:“The levels of mystery here astound. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts and then the parts decide to act alone and challenge the whole. Lethem is not only interrogating the form of the crime novel\, but the venture of storytelling itself. All of this while remaining a joy to read. Full of strange characters and expertly rendered place. This brilliant\, genre-defying work will certainly leave a mark.”\n—PERCIVAL EVERETT \nOn the streets of 1970s Brooklyn\, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged\, belongings surrendered\, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere\, a currency itself. For these children\, Black\, brown\, and white\, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other players: parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines\, the histories\, and the laws; those who award this neighborhood its name. \nThe rules appear obvious at first. But in memory’s prism\, criminals and victims may seem to trade places. The voices of the past may seem to rise and gather as if in harmony\, then make war with one another. A street may seem to crack open and reveal what lies behind its glimmering facade. None who lived through it are ever permitted to forget. \nWritten with kaleidoscopic verve and delirious wit\, Brooklyn Crime Novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a writer at the top of his powers. Jonathan Lethem\, “one of America’s greatest storytellers” (Washington Post)\, has crafted an epic interrogation of how we fashion stories to contain the uncontainable: our remorse at the world we’ve made.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jonathan-lethem-reading-brooklyn-crime-novel/
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:20231015T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231015T193000
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SUMMARY:Werner Herzog
DESCRIPTION:Legendary film director Werner Herzog will receive FilmScene’s Cinema Savant award and appear in conversation to discuss his life in film and read from his soon-to-be-released autobiography\, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir. \n \nPresented in collaboration with Prairie Lights Bookstore\, Iowa City Book Festival\, Infinite Dream Festival\, and The Englert Theatre.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/werner-herzog/
LOCATION:Englert Theatre\, 221 E. Washington St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:It Can’t Happen Here – A Staged Reading
DESCRIPTION:A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty\, It Can’t Happen Here follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States by promising to return the country to greatness. Witnessing the new president’s tyranny from the sidelines is a liberal\, middle-class newspaper editor from Vermont who trusts the system will fix itself—until he ends up in a prison camp. Sinclair Lewis’ eerily prescient 1935 novel gets a fresh update in this adaptation that examines what brings a citizenry to the point of sacrificing its own freedom and how a courageous few can prevail to overcome the fall.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/it-cant-happen-here-a-staged-reading/
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:Stuart Dybek
DESCRIPTION:Stuart Dybek is the author of five books of fiction--Ecstatic Cahoots\, Paper Lantern\, I Sailed with Magellan\, The Coast of Chicago\, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods–as well as two collections of poetry\, Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink. Dybek is the recipient of many prizes and awards\, including the PEN/Malamud Award\, an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, four O. Henry Awards\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is distinguished writer-in-residence at Northwestern University. \nPresented in partnership with the University of Iowa Center for Advancement
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/stuart-dybek/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Resilient Voices: A Multimedia Exhibition Celebrating Youth Empowerment\, Global Perspectives\, and the Legacy of Anne Frank
DESCRIPTION:A comprehensive initiative composed of several integrated elements that features a Digital Diaries Exhibit that showcases the firsthand experiences of youth across the globe\, focusing on themes of war\, struggle\, and resilience across time. \nThe digital diaries exhibit\, inspired by Anne Frank’s iconic\, red-checked diary\, showcases narratives from young individuals around the world and across different historical periods. Created by undergraduate students at the University of Iowa and local community members\, this exhibit features personal stories from various families\, and cultures. The digital diary provides viewers with insights into the history\, experiences\, and legacies of previously untold stories\, and encourages thoughtful reflection with collaborative discussion questions. \nA collection of submissions from Iowa City youth spotlights the young voices within our community. Drawing inspiration from Yeva Skalietska’s diary living through the Ukrainian war and themes of resilience\, personal struggles\, and peace\, these submissions convey the inner thoughts and experiences of young people in Iowa right here and now.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/resilient-voices/
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:20241015T163000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T162714Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Barker: From Peter the Great to Napoleon the Lesser: Dostoevsky and the Great Men of History
DESCRIPTION:Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground (1864)\, his first consequential post-Siberian imprisonment publication\, explores the tragicomedy of humanity’s entrapment in the confines soul-sapping modernity and serves as the foundation of the existential and metaphysical concepts he addresses in the Great Five: Crime and Punishment\, The Idiot\, Demons\, The Adolescent\, and Brothers Karamazov. \nIn commemoration of the 160th anniversary of the novel’s publication\, The Iowa City Book Festival presents an evening with two parts: \n\nAt 4:30 p.m.\, University of Iowa Adjunct Assistant Professor Anna Barker will present the talk “From Peter the Great to Napoleon the Lesser: Dostoevsky and the Great Men of History.”\nAt 6 p.m.\, Taxi Driver\,  Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film that is the novel’s most famous US adaptation\, will be screened. Barker will lead a post-screening discussion immediately following\, where she will discuss the way the film explores the issues of underage woman trafficking\, prostitution\, gun violence\, war caused PTSD\, and urban decay of  the U.S. in the 1970s through the prism of Dostoevsky’s tale of moral decline and social alienation.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/anna-barker-from-peter-the-great-to-napoleon-the-lesser-dostoevsky-and-the-great-men-of-history/
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:20241015T180000
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SUMMARY:Bruna Dantas Lobato – Blue Light Hours
DESCRIPTION:BRUNA DANTAS LOBATO is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker\, Guernica\, A Public Space\, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translation for The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel. Dantas Lobato was born and raised in Natal\, Brazil\, and lives in St. Louis\, Missouri. Blue Light Hours is her debut novel.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/bruna-dantas-lobato-blue-light-hours/
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:20241015T180000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Taxi Driver with Notes from Underground
DESCRIPTION:This screening is part of a larger program that celebrates the 160th anniversary of the publication of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Notes from Underground.” Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film is the novel’s most famous US adaptation. University of Iowa Adjunct Assistant Professor Anna Barker will lead a post-screening discussion immediately following\, where she will discuss the way the film explores the issues of underage woman trafficking\, prostitution\, gun violence\, war caused PTSD\, and urban decay of  the U.S. in the 1970s through the prism of Dostoevsky’s tale of moral decline and social alienation.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/film-screening-taxi-driver-with-notes-from-underground/
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:20241015T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241015T193000
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SUMMARY:Literary Legends: Tracy Kidder in conversation with Stuart Dybek
DESCRIPTION:Sit in on a one-of-a-kind evening with writer and Iowa graduate Tracy Kidder\, “a master of the nonfiction narrative” (Baltimore Sun)\, as he reflects on his lengthy literary career and reads from some of his bestselling work. \nRegister here: https://foriowa.info/3yN03tD \nThe event will feature a conversation about the power of long-form investigative writing between Kidder and renowned author Stuart Dybek (73MFA)\, as well as a Q&A session and book signing. \n  \nThis event is possible due to support from the Jonathan C. Goldsmith Visiting Author Fund in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Literary Legends is a special collaboration among the University of Iowa Center for Advancement\, the UI Lecture Committee\, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine\, and the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/tracy-kidder-in-conversation-with-stuart-dybek/
LOCATION:Iowa Memorial Union\, 125 N Madison St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52245\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241016T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241016T150000
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SUMMARY:Austin Allen Hamblin and John Ira Thomas – Big Guns Stupid Rednecks
DESCRIPTION:Yeehaw! Join us at Daydreams Comics\, where Austin Allen Hamblin and John Ira Thomas\, 2/3 of the creative team behind indie comics sensation Big Guns Stupid Rednecks\, will be on hand! Take a break from fish’n and mud’n and come enjoy some old fashion comic book fun!
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/austin-allen-hamblin-and-john-ira-thomas-big-guns-stupid-rednecks/
LOCATION:Daydreams Comics\, 229 E Washington St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241016T180000
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SUMMARY:Iowa Bibliophiles – Guest Author Megan Rosenbloom
DESCRIPTION:Iowa Bibliophiles is a group for book lovers and enthusiasts of all kinds hosted by the University of Iowa Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives. All are welcome at this special event. \nHear a talk by special guest Megan Rosenbloom\, author of Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin. This award-winning book explores Rosenbloom’s work with anthropodermic books\, weaving together stories of doctors\, murderers\, and the modern-day curators and scientists trying to discover the truth behind these macabre and controversial items. \nRosenbloom is a writer and Collection Strategies Librarian at UCLA in Los Angeles. She served as a medical librarian for many years\, where she developed a keen interest in the history of medicine and rare books. This led her to founding the Southern California Society for the History of Medicine and leading a research team called The Anthropodermic Book Project\, which aims to find historic and scientific truths behind alleged books bound in human skin. \nLearn more about the talk by visiting the Special Collections and Archives website. \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/iowa-bibliophiles-guest-author-megan-rosenbloom/
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:Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz – The Indian Card
DESCRIPTION:To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim Native identity has exploded—increasing 85 percent in just ten years—the number of people formally enrolled in Tribes has not. While the federal government recognizes Tribal sovereignty\, being a member of a Tribe requires navigating blood quantum laws and rolls that the federal government created with the intention of wiping out Native people altogether. Over two million Native people are tribally enrolled\, yet there are Native people who will never be. Native people who\, for a variety of reasons ranging from displacement to disconnection\, cannot be card-carrying members of their Tribe. \nIn The Indian Card\, Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz grapples with these contradictions. Through in-depth interviews\, she shares the stories of people caught in the mire of identity-formation\, trying to define themselves outside of bureaucratic processes. With archival research\, she pieces together the history of blood quantum and tribal rolls and federal government intrusion on Native identity-making. Reckoning with her own identity—the story of her enrollment and the enrollment of her children—she investigates the cultural\, racial\, and political dynamics of today’s Tribal identity policing. With this intimate perspective of the ongoing fight for Native sovereignty\, The Indian Card sheds light on what it looks like to find a deeper sense of belonging. \nFor this special Iowa City Book Festival event\, Schuettpelz will be joined in conversation by Harry Smith. Smith is a well-known broadcast journalist who had a long career with CBS and NBC News. After retiring earlier this year\, Smith returned to teach at his alma mater\, Central College in Pella.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/carrie-lowry-schuettpelz-the-indian-card/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Nancy Miller Gomez – Inconsolable Objects – Reading and Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Miller Gomez grew up in Kansas\, but currently lives in Santa Cruz\, California. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry\, Best New Poets\, Prairie Schooner\, TriQuarterly\, The Adroit Journal\, Shenandoah\, New Ohio Review\, Rattle\, Massachusetts Review\, River Styx\, American Life in Poetry\, Verse Daily\, The Hopkins Review\, and elsewhere. She received a special mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology and her chapbook\, Punishment\, was published as part of the Rattle chapbook series. She co-founded an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison\, the Santa Cruz County Jails and the Juvenile Hall. \nPresented in partnership with Porchlight Literary Arts Center
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/nancy-miller-gomez-reading-and-workshop/
LOCATION:PorchLight Literary Arts Center\, 1019 E Washington St\, Iowa City\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T120000
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SUMMARY:International Writing Program Panel: Balancing Life as an Artist
DESCRIPTION:  \nFeaturing IWP Residents: \nLisa ALLEN-AGOSTINI (fiction writer\, poet\, editor; Trinidad and Tobago) is the author of the historical noir novella Death in the Dry River (2024)\, the young adult novel Home Home (2020)\, and the domestic noir novel The Bread the Devil Knead (2021)\, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2022. She is currently working on a memoir in poetry and a novel set in the world of steelpan\, which is the national instrument of her homeland. \nPutra HIDAYATULLAH (nonfiction and fiction writer\, art curator\, educator; Indonesia) is the author of a short story collection entitled Kebun Jagal [The Butcher’s Garden] (2023). His nonfiction writing has appeared in Artlink\, Curatography\, The Jakarta Post\, and Check-In\, while his fiction has been published in InterSastra\, Porch Litmag\, and Koran Tempo\, among others. He served as a harvester for the international art exhibition documenta fifteen in Germany. He is currently writing a novel. \nMélanie WERDER-AVILÉS (playwright\, theatremaker\, scholar; Spain) is the author of the plays *Buena suerte\, chica; Sharenting; Nutella Days; and Tiradísimo de Precio [Dirt-cheap]; among others. Her play La Protagonista won the Lope de Vega award. She has been selected as a resident playwright at the Spanish National Drama Centre and has been a member of the International Summer Workshop at the Sala Beckett. She has been awarded the Carlota Soldevila Fellowship by the Teatre Lliure de Barcelona and is a member of the SGAE Playwriting Laboratory and the ETC of Contemporary Creation at the Sala Cuarta Pared in Madrid\, among others. She is currently researching documentary theatre practices as a predoctoral fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid. \nDaryl LI 李振宏 (nonfiction and fiction writer; Singapore) is the author of two collections of creative nonfiction—The Inventors (2023) and Tenderly\, Tenderly (2024)—as well as a forthcoming short story collection\, Minor Illusions. He was a finalist for the Georgia Review Prose Prize\, and his work has been longlisted for both the Australian Book Review’s Calibre Essay Prize and the same publication’s Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. In 2013\, he received a Golden Point Award for a short story in the English category. He is currently at work on a full-length nonfiction project as well as an essay collection. \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/international-writing-program-panel-balancing-life-as-an-artist/
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:Typedancing
DESCRIPTION:Typedancing is a collaborative interdisciplinary performance featuring musicians\, poets\, dancers and visual artists making music with and dancing to obsolete office equipment. With audience participation\, it also includes live-produced zines from the artifacts of the performance.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/typedancing/
LOCATION:Pedmall Weatherdance Fountain Stage\, College St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T163000
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SUMMARY:Ezra Claytan Daniels – Upgrade Soul and “We Are Not Alone”
DESCRIPTION:Join the Eisner-nominated comic and tv creator–and Sioux City native–as he reads a selection of short comics\, including We Are Not Alone (now a short film\, with its Iowa premiere at the Refocus Film Festival). Followed by a Q&A and signing. \nPresented in partnership with Daydreams Comics and Refocus Film Festival
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/ezra-claytan-daniels-upgrade-soul-and-we-are-not-alone/
LOCATION:Daydreams Comics\, 229 E Washington St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T154235
CREATED:20240828T152636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T150524Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Racialism and the Media
DESCRIPTION:A presentation by University of Iowa Professor Venise Berry and S. Toriano Berry\, a professor emeritus at Howard University. Includes a screening of the hour-long film and a post-screening Q&A with the Berrys. \nThe nature of racial ideology has changed in our society. Yes\, there are still ugly racists who push uglier racism\, but there are also popular constructions of race routinely woven into mediated images and messages. Racialism includes\, but moves beyond traditional racism. It involves images\, ideas\, and issues that are produced\, distributed\, and consumed repetitively and intertextually based on stereotypes\, biased framing\, historical myths\, as well as traditional racism. These representations are normalized through the media\, ultimately shaping and influencing societal ideology and behavior. Based on 25 years of research by Venise Berry\, this documentary explores the connection between media\, African Americans\, and popular culture. \nThis event is co-presented by Refocus Film Festival.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/film-screening-racialism-and-the-media/
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:20241019T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T154235
CREATED:20240910T174128Z
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SUMMARY:Amanda Jones – That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Jones has been an educator for 23 years\, at the same middle school she attended as a child. She has served as President of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians and won numerous awards for her work in school libraries\, including School Library Journal Librarian of the Year. A sought-after keynote speaker\, Amanda is a frequent volunteer for state and national library associations\, as well as a co-founder of the Livingston Parish Library Alliance and founding member of Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship. She lives in Livingston Parish\, Louisiana. \nIn That Librarian\, Jones maps the book banning crisis occurring across the nation\, drawing the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion\, calling book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of our readers. \nJones will be joined by by Sam Helmick\, the American Library Association Council 2024-2025 president-elect and the Iowa City Public Library Community & Access Services Coordinator. \nCosponsored by the Iowa City Public Library’s Carol Spaziani Intellectual Freedom Festival\, an annual event series promoting our right to seek information\, read\, and speak freely. \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/amanda-jones-that-librarian-the-fight-against-book-banning-in-america/
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:20241019T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T154235
CREATED:20240910T185024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T185024Z
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SUMMARY:Christopher Merrill – After the Fact
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Merrill has published eight collections of poetry\, including Watch Fire\, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets\, and On the Road to Lviv; many edited volumes and translations; and six books of nonfiction\, among them\, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars\, Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain\, and Self-Portrait with Dogwood. As director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa since 2000\, Merrill has conducted cultural diplomacy missions to more than fifty countries. \nAfter the Fact is a lively and imaginative conversation between two legendary poets. Marvin Bell\, writing from Iowa City and Port Townsend\, and Christopher Merrill\, writing from around the world\, give us an intimate look into collaboration at its best.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/christopher-merrill-after-the-fact/
LOCATION:Iowa City Masonic Building\, 312 E College St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T103000
DTSTAMP:20260403T154235
CREATED:20240905T152418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240926T162954Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Croft – The Extinction of Irena Rey
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Croft won the Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is the author of Homesick\, a Saroyan Prize winner\, and numerous pieces in the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, the Paris Review Daily\, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Her debut novel is The Extinction of Irena Rey\, which tells of eight translators who arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey\, and they are there to translate her magnum opus\, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival\, Irena disappears without a trace. The result is a hilarious\, thought-provoking tale that is a brilliant examination of art\, celebrity\, the natural world\, and the power of language. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the International Writing Program
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jennifer-croft-the-extinction-of-irena-rey/
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:20241019T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T113000
DTSTAMP:20260403T154235
CREATED:20240910T174325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T145846Z
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SUMMARY:Josh Cowen – The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
DESCRIPTION:Josh Cowen is Professor of Education Policy at Michigan State University\, and an author on topics related to education politics\, school choice\, and culture wars in the United States. In addition to each of the major academic outlets in his research field\, his popular writing has appeared in outlets such as The Conversation\, the Dallas Morning News\, the Detroit Free Press\, The Hechinger Report\, the Houston Chronicle\, The New Republic\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, Slate\, The Tennessean\, the Washington Spectator and more. He lives in mid-Michigan with his family. \nIn The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers\, Cowen lays bare the surprising history of tax-funded school choice programs in the United States and warns of the dangers of education privatization. A former evaluator of state and local school voucher programs\, Cowen demonstrates how\, as such programs have expanded in the United States\, so too has the evidence-informed case against them.  \nCosponsored by the Iowa City Public Library’s Carol Spaziani Intellectual Freedom Festival\, an annual event series promoting our right to seek information\, read\, and speak freely. \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/josh-cowen-the-privateers-how-billionaires-created-a-culture-war-and-sold-school-vouchers/
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:20241019T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T113000
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SUMMARY:Marguerite Sheffer – The Man in the Banana Trees and Sharon Wahl – Everything Flirts
DESCRIPTION:Marguerite (Maggie) Sheffer is a writer who lives in New Orleans. She is a Professor of Practice at Tulane University\, where she teaches courses in design thinking and speculative fiction as tools for social change. Formerly\, she taught English at the East Oakland School of the Arts\, Castlemont High School\, Life Academy\, and GW Carver High School. \nHer debut short story collection\, The Man in the Banana Trees\, was selected by judge Jamil Jan Kochai for the Iowa Short Fiction Award\, and will be published in Fall 2024. \n  \n  \n  \nSharon Wahl is a writer and documentary film producer.  Her collection of love stories inspired by classic philosophy texts\, Everything Flirts\, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and will be published by the University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2024.  Her stories\, essays\, and poems have appeared in the Iowa Review\, the Chicago Tribune\, Harvard Review\, Pleiades\, and other periodicals.  She is currently writing Bitter Tales\, a collection of flash fiction and essays. \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/marguerite-sheffer-the-man-in-the-banana-trees-and-sharon-wahl-everything-flirts/
LOCATION:Iowa City Masonic Building\, 312 E College St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T113000
DTSTAMP:20260403T154235
CREATED:20240919T154101Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Writing on Film
DESCRIPTION:A discussion on film criticism and writing\, featuring accomplished film writers Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader) and Marya E. Gates (RogerEbert.com) moderated by Ariana Martinez of Little Village. \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/panel-discussion-writing-on-film/
LOCATION:Iowa City Senior Center\, 28 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T154235
CREATED:20240910T185409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240912T160646Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Willis – Liontaming in America
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Willis is the author of Liontaming in America (New Directions\, 2024)\, a hybrid work engaged with American belief and relationship structures\, theatre\, activism\, and film. The collection is on the 2024 Longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry. \nHer other books of poetry include Alive (New York Review Books\, 2015)\, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, as well as Address; Meteoric Flowers; Turneresque; The Human Abstract; and the artist’s book Spectral Evidence . She also writes about the intersection of art and labor and edited the volume Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/elizabeth-willis-liontaming-in-america/
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:20241019T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T130000
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SUMMARY:Jarod K. Anderson – Something in the Woods Loves You
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes in life\, you find yourself lost in an utterly dark place. When poet and author Jarod K. Anderson found himself trapped by a deep and lonely depression\, he turned to the woods\, literally. In his new book\, Something in the Woods Loves You\, Anderson explores the inherent ways nature can help fight mental illness\, saying\, in nature\, “We are being offered a lesson\, if we are wise enough to accept it.”
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jarod-k-anderson-something-in-the-woods-loves-you/
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:20241019T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T130000
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CREATED:20240911T144848Z
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SUMMARY:Willy Vlautin – The Horse
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Reno\, Nevada\, Willy Vlautin is the author of six novels and is the founder of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. Vlautin started writing stories and songs at the age of eleven after receiving his first guitar. Inspired by songwriters and novelists Paul Kelly\, Willie Nelson\, Tom Waits\, William Kennedy\, Raymond Carver\, and John Steinbeck\, Vlautin works diligently to tell working class stories in his novels and songs. \nIn his latest book\, The Horse\, Al Ward lives on an isolated mining claim in the high desert of central Nevada fifty miles from the nearest town. A grizzled man in his sixties\, he survives on canned soup\, instant coffee\, and memories of his ex-wife\, friends and family he’s lost\, and his life as a touring musician. Hampered by insomnia\, bouts of anxiety\, and a chronic lethargy that keeps him from moving back to town\, Al finds himself teetering on the edge of madness and running out of reasons to go on—until a horse arrives on his doorstep: nameless\, blind\, and utterly helpless. \nA poignant meditation on addiction\, heartbreak\, and the reality of life on the road in smalltime bands\, The Horse is a beautiful\, haunting tale from an author working at the height of his powers.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/willy-vlautin-the-horse/
LOCATION:Iowa City Masonic Building\, 312 E College St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T154235
CREATED:20240919T154814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240923T174314Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Politics
DESCRIPTION:In this panel\, writers will discuss how the current political landscape affects their work and the role politics plays in their writing. \nFeaturing: Hatice Açıkgöz (International Writing Program)\, Ari Berman\, Natalie Goldberg\, Amanda Jones\, and Nina Lohman
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/panel-discussion-politics/
LOCATION:Iowa City Senior Center\, 28 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T154235
CREATED:20240911T145142Z
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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander – Mojave Ghost
DESCRIPTION:A novel-poem taking us to the Pulitzer-prize winning poet Forrest Gander’s birthplace in the Mojave Desert and his current northern California home\, where tumultuous memories coalesce with the present. \nMojave Ghost initiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relationship with arresting honesty and vividness. Moving through grief and loss towards a renewal that never sidesteps the wholeness of experience\, Gander’s new collection discovers an articulate language for the merging of exterior and interior landscapes. Gander\, trained as a geologist\, walked along much of the 800-mile San Andreas Fault toward the desolate town of his birth and found himself crossing permeable dimensions of time and space\, correlating his emotions and the stricken landscape with other divisions: the fractures and folds underlying not only our country\, but any self in its relationship with others. The result is this moving new collection that unforgettably describes a spiritual and physical journey. With its confiding tones and candid self-examination\, Mojave Ghost is Gander’s most inviting and poignant book yet.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/forrest-gander-mojave-ghost/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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