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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
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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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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:20260403T182642
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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
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SUMMARY:James Fitzmaurice – Hobgoblin Gennel
DESCRIPTION:Join author James Fitzmaurice for a conversation about his new young adult novel\, Hobgoblin Gennel. \nIn this off-beat tale of adventure\, teenagers Irie and Fred are fast friends. Irie\, of Afro-Caribbean heritage\, was born in Sheffield where they both live. Fred is an expat American transplanted from Yuma\, Arizona with a keen interest in Sheffield’s Anglo-Saxon era. While trapped in an underground passageway\, they come across the kitchen of a foodie hipster named Hobgoblin who is what his name suggests. Hobgoblin uses a modern induction hob\, of course\, and only the best ingredients. The irritable little chef sets them the task of finding the Fairy Queen’s red-garnet and golden cup\, but he is cagey about his reasons. \nFitzmaurice was born in Ventura\, California. Jim taught English at Northern Arizona University for many years before retiring to the UK\, where he has been associated with the University of Sheffield. He is a fiction writer and screenwriter. He also continues to devote time to scholarly research and publishes on the early modern woman writer Margaret Cavendish. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the University of Iowa Libraries
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/james-fitzmaurice-hobgoblin-gennel/
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:20241019T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
CREATED:20240910T174619Z
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SUMMARY:Ari Berman – Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It
DESCRIPTION:Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He will read from Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It\,. He is also the author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (finalist\, National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction) and Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics. He is a native of Fairfield\, Iowa. \nThe event will be moderated by Ty Rushing\, an assistant professor of practice at the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is the former chief political correspondent for Iowa Starting Line\, and co-founder of the Iowa Association of Black Journalists. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the League of Women Voters of Johnson County \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/ari-berman-minority-rule-the-right-wing-attack-on-the-will-of-the-people-and-the-fight-to-resist-it/
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:20241019T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
CREATED:20240911T145536Z
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SUMMARY:Chris Offutt – Code of the Hills
DESCRIPTION:With his signature crackling prose\, literary master Chris Offutt has staked out his own territory in crime fiction\, a place of familial allegiances\, old wounds\, and revenge—the code of the hills. His new book\, a sharp\, twisty southern noir with echoes of James Sallis and Daniel Woodrell\, will force Mick to face up to the way of life he thought he’d escaped. \nChris Offutt is the author of two collections of short stories\, three memoirs\, and six novels. His books have been translated into twelve languages and won four international awards. His most recent work is the acclaimed Mick Hardin series from Grove-Atlantic. He also wrote screenplays for True Blood\, Weeds\, and Treme. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an NEA grant\, and a Lannan Fellowship. He received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for “prose that takes risks.” His work is included in many anthologies including Best American Short Stories\, Best American Essays\, Best American Food Writing\, and Modern American Memoirs. He has taught in a number of MFA programs including the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is professor emeritus at the University of Mississippi. He grew up in the hills of eastern Kentucky and lives in Iowa City\, Iowa. \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/chris-offutt-code-of-the-hills/
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:20241019T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
CREATED:20240913T184828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240926T164322Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Perry Janes\, Anna Morrison and Hannah Bonner
DESCRIPTION:Poets Perry Janes\, Anna Morrison and Hannah Bonner will read from and discuss their work\, in partnership with Refocus Film Festival.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/poetry-reading-perry-janes-anna-morrison-and-hannah-bonner/
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:20241019T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
CREATED:20240919T155419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240926T172351Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Who Do You Read?
DESCRIPTION:In this panel\, writers will discuss some of their favorite writing by others\, sharing the things they like to read and important books they would like to recommend. \nFeaturing: Nicolás Medina Mora\, Chris Tse (International Writing Program)\, Sharon Wahl\, Nicolas Wong (International Writing Program)\, Peter Závada (International Writing Program)
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/panel-discussion-who-do-you-read/
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:20241019T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
CREATED:20240911T145849Z
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SUMMARY:Natalie Goldberg – Writing on Empty
DESCRIPTION:Natalie Goldberg has influenced generations of aspiring creative writers with books like Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind. Her books offer  down-to-earth guidance for developing a meaningful writing practice in the real world\, however different that is for each of us. In her new book\, Writing on Empty\, she opens up about a new experience; that of losing her will to write\, and finding her way back to it. \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/natalie-goldberg-writing-on-empty/
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:20241019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
CREATED:20240730T161648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240926T164621Z
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SUMMARY:Marc Ribot – Unstrung: Rants & Stories of a Noise Guitarist
DESCRIPTION:After performing his score for Yakov Protazanov’s pioneering sci-fi film Aelita: Queen of Mars as part of FilmScene’s Refocus Film Festival\, Ribot joins the Iowa City Book Festival where he will read from his book Unstrung: Rants & Stories of a Noise Guitarist.  “Guitarist Marc Ribot helped Tom Waits refine a new\, weird Americana on 1985’s Rain Dogs\, and since then he’s become the go-to guitar guy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss\, Elvis Costello\, John Mellencamp.” —Rolling Stone \nThis event is presented in partnership with the Refocus Film Festival and Hancher Auditorium
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/marc-ribot-unstrung-rants-stories-of-a-noise-guitarist/
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:20241019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
CREATED:20240911T150432Z
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SUMMARY:Nina Lohman – The Body Alone
DESCRIPTION:The Body Alone is an inquiry into the experience\, meaning\, and articulation of pain. It is a personal hybrid account incorporating research\, scholarship\, and memoir to examine chronic pain through the multi-lens of medicine\, theology\, and philosophy. Broken bodies tell broken stories. Nina Lohman’s pain experience is portrayed through a cyclical narrative of primers\, vocabulary lessons\, prescription records\, and hypothesized internal monologues—fractured not for the sake of experimentation but because the story itself demands it. In both form and content\, The Body Alone represents boundary-pressing work that subverts the traditional narrative by putting pressure on the medical\, cultural\, and political systems that impact women’s access to fair and equal healthcare. This is more than an illness narrative\, it is a battle cry demanding change.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/nina-lohman-the-body-alone/
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:20241019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
CREATED:20240919T155856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T155856Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: A Sense of Place II
DESCRIPTION:In this panel\, writers will discuss place and setting as key in many kinds of writing. They will explore the following questions: How do you convey a sense of place or paint a unique landscape? In what ways does location contribute to your writing? Can a literary work truly be ‘universal\,’ or will place always determine how a piece is understood? \nFeaturing: Yassin Adnan (International Writing Program)\, Jarod K. Anderson\, Priya N Hein (International Writing Program)\, Felipe Franco Munhoz (International Writing Program)\, and Marguerite Sheffer
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/panel-discussion-a-sense-of-place-ii/
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:20241019T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
CREATED:20240911T150206Z
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SUMMARY:Nicolás Medina Mora – América del Norte
DESCRIPTION:Moving between New York City\, Mexico City\, and Iowa City\, a young member of the Mexican elite sees his life splinter in a centuries-spanning debut that blends the Latin American traditions of Roberto Bolaño and Fernanda Melchor with the autofiction of US writers like Ben Lerner and Teju Cole. \nSplit between the US and Mexico\, this stunning debut explores whiteness\, power\, immigration\, and the history of Mexican literature\, to wrestle with the contradictory relationship between two countries bound by geography and torn apart by politics. \nNicolás Medina Mora was born and raised in Mexico City. He has degrees from Yale University and the writing program of the University of Iowa\, and has worked in New York City as a journalist at Reuters and BuzzFeed. His writing has appeared in The Nation\, The New York Times\, and n+1\, where he won the 2023 n+1 Writers’ Fellowship for outstanding contributions. He currently lives in Mexico City\, where he is a writer and editor for Revista Nexos.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/nicolas-medina-mora-america-del-norte/
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:20241020T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241020T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
CREATED:20240814T181626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T185915Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Publishing for Beginners
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an insightful panel discussion on ‘Publishing for Beginners\,’ where seasoned professionals share essential tips and strategies for navigating the publishing world. Whether you’re aspiring to publish your first book or curious about the process\, this session will provide you with practical advice and valuable insider knowledge. \nPanelists: Sarah Elgatian\, Midwest Writing Center; Mackie Garrett\, 508 Press; Jennifer MacBain-Stephens\, author; and Steve Semken\, Ice Cube Press. \nModerated by Chuy Renteria\, artist\, dancer\, teacher\, and storyteller.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/panel-discussion-publishing-for-beginners/
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:20241020T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241020T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182642
CREATED:20240723T165918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T191208Z
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SUMMARY:A Lunch and Conversation with Natalie Goldberg
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: This event is sold out. \nNatalie Goldberg has influenced generations of aspiring creative writers with books like Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind. Her books offer  down-to-earth guidance for developing a meaningful writing practice in the real world\, however different that is for each of us. In her new book\, Writing on Empty\, she opens up about a new experience; that of losing her will to write\, and finding her way back to it. Join Natalie at this limited seating\, intimate event. PorchLight director Jennifer Colville will talk with Natalie about how to use her new book. There will be a group conversation and a light lunch. The price of the event includes a copy of “Writing on Empty.” \nNatalie Goldberg is the author of fifteen books\, including Writing Down the Bones (Shambhala\, 1986)\, which has sold over one million copies\, has been translated into fourteen languages\, and started a revolution in the way we practice writing in this country. \nShe recently co-edited a collection of talks by revered zen teacher Katherine Thanas\, The Truth of This Life (Shambhala\, 2018). In her latest memoir Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home(Shambhala\, 2018)\, she shares her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of zen and writing. Her other books include The Great Spring: Writing\, Zen\, and This Zigzag Life (Shambhala\, 2016)\, the novel Banana Rose (Bantam\, 1995)\, and the beloved Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America\, a memoir about her zen teacher Katagiri Roshi. \nNatalie is also a prolific painter. Her book Living Color: Painting\, Writing\, and the Bones of Seeing (Abrams\, 2014)\, describes painting as her second art form. Top of My Lungs (Overlook Press\, 2004) contains forty poems\, twenty of her paintings in color\, and an essay\, “How Poetry Saved My Life.” Natalie’s paintings are available to view on this website. \nFor more than forty years Natalie has practiced zen and taught seminars in writing as a practice. People from around the world attend her life-changing workshops\, and she has earned a reputation as a great teacher. The Oprah Winfrey Show sent a film crew to spend the day with Natalie for a segment on Spirituality that covered her writing\, teaching\, painting\, and walking meditation. She lives in Northern New Mexico. \nTicket link: https://www.porchlightliterary.org/event-details/a-lunch-and-conversation-with-natalie-goldberg
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/a-lunch-and-conversation-with-natalie-goldberg/
LOCATION:PorchLight Literary Arts Center\, 1019 E Washington St\, Iowa City\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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