An Evening with Pulitzer Prize Winner Yiyun Li

Levitt Center for University Advancement 1 East Park Road, Iowa City, IA

Internationally acclaimed author Yiyun Li won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for her resonant memoir, Things in Nature Merely Grow, a deeply moving account of losing her younger son to suicide a

Lori Erickson: Travels with the Muse

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA

Travels with the Muse is a journey into the creative life, told through Lori Erickson’s travels to places where art and spirit meet. From the luminous interior of Barcelona’s Sagrada

Book Fair

MERGE 136 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA

A diverse collection of titles, journals, magazines, and book arts from local and regional publishers and literary organizations. A unique opportunity for book lovers to discover new authors and genres.

James Geary: The World in a Phrase

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA

Aphorisms are literature’s hand luggage. Light and compact, they contain everything you need to get through a rough day at the office or a dark night of the soul. Aphorisms,

Patricia Foster: A Marriage in Startled Air

Prairie Lights Books 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA

In A Marriage in Startled Air, Patricia Foster shares the dramatic story of how the diagnosis of her husband’s rare cancer changed the dynamics of their marriage and opened the door

Tiffany Hanssen: My Name was Gerry Sass

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA

Gerry Sass is not who he appears to be. On the surface, he is the proud owner of a local country music station outside of Mystic, Iowa. Beneath it, he’s

Ron Rindo: Life, and Death, and Giants

Prairie Lights Books 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA

Gabriel Fisher was born an orphan, weighing eighteen pounds and measuring twenty-seven inches long. No one in Lakota, Wisconsin, knows what to make of him. He walks at eight months,

Scott Heim: Mysterious Skin

Iowa City Masonic Building 312 E College St, Iowa City, IA

At the age of eight, Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he has blacked out an entire five-hour

Tisa Bryant: Residual

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA

In the aftermath of her mother’s death, Tisa Bryant’s Residual retrieves and catalogs what remains of her home, her psyche, and her creative practice. She filters through the remnants of her

Sarah Minor: Carousel

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA

Carousel opens as a professor begins delivering a lecture to a hot room. Her students have the internet in their pockets, screens on their wrists, seeing in more directions than students

Harriet Clark: The Hill

Prairie Lights Books 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA

Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, every Saturday, Suzanna lines up at