Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature

Elizabeth McCracken
2022-10-08 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Ten months after her mother’s death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother’s, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother’s life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed.
The woman, a writer, recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary—her brilliant wit, her generosity, her unbelievable obstinacy, her sheer will in seizing life despite physical difficulties—and finds herself wondering how her mother had endured. Even though she wants to respect her mother’s nearly pathological sense of privacy, the woman must come to terms with whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal.
The Hero of This Book is a searing examination of grief and renewal, and of a deeply felt relationship between a child and her parents. What begins as a question of filial devotion ultimately becomes a lesson in what it means to write. At once comic and heartbreaking, with prose that delights at every turn, this is a novel of such piercing love and tenderness that we are reminded that art is what remains when all else falls away.

Don McLeese in conversation with Kyle Munson
2022-10-08 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Slippery Steps isn’t your typical, hell-and-back recovery memoir. I never intended to quit drinking, rarely gave it a thought. I’d spent decades as a successful and productive journalist. I was a loving husband and father. My life worked and worked well. Until it didn’t. Freedom from drinking has enriched my life in ways I’d never imagined. I’d been numbing myself to sleep, and sleepwalking my way through life. It’s never too late to wake up. This is a book about how the worst day of my life turned out to be one of the best. – Don McLeese
This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

Curator Guided Tour of A Hub, a Network, an Archive 55 Years of International Writers in Iowa City
2022-10-08 14:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Iowa Main Library Gallery, 125 W Washington St, Iowa City, IA, United States
This exhibit, which is open August 22 – December 16, 2022, celebrates the 55th anniversary of the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa. This program has brought close to 1,600 writers from more than 150 countries to the UI since 1967, and this exhibition tells the story of the IWP’s genesis, its role in cultural diplomacy, Iowa City as a site of literary praxis and global networking, and the images of Iowa that writers have carried home with them through their work. Curators Nataša Ďurovičová and Lisa Gardinier dove into Special Collections & Archives materials, including the Paul Engle Papers, the International Writing Program Records, the Toothpaste/Coffee House Press Records, and more while researching for the exhibition. Also included are items from the UI Libraries circulating collection, IWP’s Shambaugh House, and friends of the IWP in addition to large portraits of writers by photographer Thomas Langdon.

Jennifer L. Knox
2022-10-08 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
The poems in Jennifer Knox’s darkly imaginative collection, Crushing It, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subjects―from history to true crime to epidemiology―while exploring our tenuous connections and disconnections. From Merle Haggard lifting his head from a pile of cocaine to absurdist romps through an apocalypse where mushrooms learn to sing, this versatile collection is brimming with dark humor and bright surprise. Alongside Knox’s distinctive surrealism, Crushing It also reveals autobiography in poems about love, family, and adult ADHD, and Knox’s empathetic depictions of the ego’s need to assert its precious, singular “I” suggest that a self distinct from the hive, the herd, the flock, is an illusion. With clear-eyed spirit, Crushing It swallows all the world, and then some.

Elizabeth Crane
2022-10-08 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his unexpected admission—I’m not happy—changes everything. Suddenly she finds herself separated and in couples therapy, living in an apartment in the city with an old friend and his kid. It’s understood that the apartment and bonus family are temporary, but the situation brings unexpected comfort and much-needed healing for wounds even older than her marriage.
Crafting the story as the very events chronicled are unfolding, Crane writes from a place of guarded possibility, capturing through vignettes and collected moments a semblance of the real-time practice of healing. At turns funny and dark, with moments of poignancy, This Story Will Change is an unexpected and moving portrait of a woman in transformation, a chronicle of how even the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are bound to change.
This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

John Koethe
2022-10-08 11:30 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
A rich, meditative new collection of poetry from John Koethe, the “necessary and great poet” (Hyperallergic).
“It’s presumptuous, but if you’re reading this you
Probably know my usual obsessions and preoccupations:
The “world”—both the word and what it stands for—and time,
Which is or isn’t real, depending on my mood. I’ve always
Hated poems about philosophy, and I hope I still do,
But since I don’t know what that means anymore, here I am,
Musing on my ends and my beginnings one more time . . .”
In Beyond Belief, John Koethe poses eternal and essential questions about the rhythms of time, language and literature, and “the space between attention and belief.” The eleventh book of poetry from America’s philosopher-poet is an intimate, searching collection that gives life to the mundane and lends words to our most interior and abstract musings. What makes a life real? Words on a page, the accumulation of moments and memories, or nothing at all? And what is it worth? Locked inside, have we lost our future and its promises or are we merely pressed to inhabit our present and ourselves?
The award-winning poet invites us into his consideration of our world, as “an ordinary person sitting on his balcony on a summer afternoon, / Waiting patiently for someone to explain it to and meanwhile / Living quietly in his imagination, imagining the afterlife.”

Sarah Kendzior
2022-10-08 11:30 (America/Chicago) | Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
In They Knew, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior explores the United States’ “culture of conspiracy,” putting forth a timely and unflinching argument: uncritical faith in broken institutions is as dangerous as false narratives peddled by propagandists. Conspiracy theories are on the rise because officials refuse to enforce accountability for real conspiracies.
They Knew discusses conspiracy culture in a rapidly declining United States struggling with corruption, climate change, and other crises. As the actions of the powerful remain shrouded in mystery—like the Jeffrey Epstein operation—it is unsurprising that people turn to conspiracy theories to fill the informational void. They Knew exposes the tactics these powerful actors use to placate an inquisitive public.
In Kendzior’s signature whip smart prose and eviscerating arguments, They Knew unearths decades of buried American history, providing an essential and critical look at how to rebuild our democracy by confronting the political lies and crimes that have shaped us.
This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

Victor Ray
2022-10-08 10:00 (America/Chicago) | Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how the often mischaracterized intellectual movement became a political necessity.
Ray draws upon the radical thinking of giants such as Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to clearly trace the foundations of critical race theory in the Black intellectual traditions of emancipation and the civil rights movement. From these foundations, Ray explores the many facets of our society that critical race theory interrogates, from deeply embedded structural racism to the historical connection between whiteness and property, ownership, and more.
In succinct, thoughtful essays, Ray presents, analyzes, and breaks down the scholarship and concepts that constitute this often misconstrued term. He explores how the conversation on critical race theory has expanded into the contemporary popular conscience, showing why critical race theory matters and why we should all care.
This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

Alex Kotlowitz
2022-10-07 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Pappajohn Business Building, 21 East Market Street, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States
One Community, One Book Author Keynote with Alex Kotlowski
The UI Center for Human Rights 2022 One Community, One Book selection is An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by best-selling author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Alex Kotlowitz.
This is a captivating collection of stories that will transform the way readers think about gun violence in America. Over the past 20 years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another 60,000 wounded by gunfire. The latest book by Kotlowitz examines the psychological toll gun violence takes on the spirit of individuals and communities.
Location, Pappajohn Business Building, room W10 PBB at the University of Iowa

Curtis Bauer and María Sánchez
2022-10-07 18:30 (America/Chicago) | Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Curtis Bauer and María Sánchez will discuss Sánchez’s new memoir, Land of Women. Sánchez, who will appear via Zoom, is a third-generation Spanish veterinarian whose memoir looks at how we view women and rural life. Iowa native Bauer translated the book into English. He appears in partnership with the UI MFA in Literary Translation program.
This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

Anna Barker: Teaching classics on Facebook, Les Misérables at 160
2022-10-07 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Project Guttenberg, Audible, Facebook, and Zoom in the Afterlife of The Decameron, Paradise Lost, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, and Les Misérables. A session with Professor Anna Barker.
This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

International Writing Program: Panel Discussion
2022-10-07 12:00 - 13:30, 2022-09-30 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
The International Writing Program (IWP) is a unique conduit for the world’s literatures, connecting well-established writers from around the globe, bringing international literature into classrooms, introducing American writers to other cultures through reading tours, and serving as a clearinghouse for literary news and a wealth of archival and pedagogical materials. Since 1967, over fifteen hundred writers from more than 150 countries have been in residence at the University of Iowa.
This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

ANGIE CRUZ
2022-10-06 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor. Her fourth novel, How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water is forthcoming Fall 2022. Her novel, Dominicana was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and chosen as the 2019/2020 Wordup Uptown Reads. It was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, The Aspen Words Literary Prize, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. It was named most anticipated/ best book in 2019 by Time, Newsweek, People, Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Esquire. Cruz is the author of two other novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee and the recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies including the Lighthouse Fellowship, Siena Art Institute, and the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Fellowship. She’s published shorter works in The Paris Review, VQR, Callaloo, Gulf Coast and other journals. She’s the founder and Editor-in-chief of the award winning literary journal, Aster(ix) and is currently an Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh. She divides her time between Pittsburgh, New York and Turin.
Angie Cruz is presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing.

BETH A. LIVINGSTON
2022-10-03 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Despite efforts that have been made in the last few decades, gender and racioethnic equity still hasn’t been achieved. What’s worse, Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Latina women are being held back more than their White counterparts. According to authors Beth A. Livingston and Tina Opie, we need to change how we strive for equity. We must move beyond individual solutions toward collective action, where people from historically power-dominant and marginalized groups work together, so that all women experience the benefits of professional growth and equity. Professor Tina Opie first started Shared Sisterhood as a movement to drive gender and racial equity in organizations. Since then, she and professor Beth A. Livingston have worked together to spread the word to leaders across organizations, with thousands of followers joining the cause. In this book, they explain how to use vulnerability, trust, empathy, and risk-taking to build Shared Sisterhood and break down three key parts of the process: (1) Dig into your own assumptions around racioethnicity, gender, and power, (2) Bridge the divide between women of all backgrounds through authentic relationships, and (3) Advance all women across the organization and beyond. Balancing a mix of history, research, and real-life examples–including the authors’ own experiences–this book encourages everyone to join Shared Sisterhood and advance equity for all.
Publisher’s Weekly writes, “The authors’ message will leave readers hopeful: ‘Don’t agonize, organize,’ they write, quoting ‘the rallying cry of the feminist movement.’ Readers aiming to create equality at work will find great takeaways here.”
This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

Les Misérables film (France, 1958) with talkback with Anna Barker and Ben Delgado
2022-10-03 18:30 (America/Chicago) | FilmScene Theatre 1, 404 E College St, Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Peasant Jean Valjean (Jean Gabin) suffered through decades in French prison for stealing a loaf of bread, but once released, life doesn’t automatically become easier. Not only does the community shun him as an ex-convict, but a policeman named Javert (Bernard Blier) refuses to believe he’s a good man. Wherever Valjean goes, Javert follows, intent on proving Valjean is still a criminal. Yet Valjean is determined to create a new, crime-free life for himself, no matter what.
Presented with a 10 minute intermission.

Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
2022-10-02 16:00, 2022-09-18 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.

Co-Crafting the Just City: A panel with Jim Throgmorton
2022-10-02 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
In this session a moderated panel of readers will discuss former Iowa City mayor Jim Throgmorton’s new book, Co-crafting the Just City. In it, Throgmorton narrates a story about how, using democratic processes of governance, the residents and elected leaders of the city tried from 2012 through 2019 to co-craft their city’s future while being immersed in a complex and often contentious flow of action. It also documents what happened when he and allies on the council tried during his terms as mayor of Iowa City from 2016 through 2019 to lead their city toward becoming a more inclusive, just, and sustainable place; that is, a more “just city.” The book is not fiction. Nor is it a case study driven by social scientific theories and hypotheses. Rather it is a truthful story narrated by a key participant in the unfolding of events. Throgmorton invites readers to imagine that they are witnessing the unfolding from a ringside seat, being party to what he was doing, thinking, and feeling as he participated in the action, and he invites readers to imagine they are engaged in dialogue with him as the action proceeds.
Featuring James A. Throgmorton, Mary Mascher, Zachary Oren-Smith, Ruthina Malone, and David McMahon.
This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

Beowulf with John Heimbuch
2022-09-30 19:30 (America/Chicago) | The James Theater, 213 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA, 52245, United States
The Iowa City Book Festival & Crooked Path Productions present…
Valor! Strength! Monsters! Hear the tale of Beowulf!
Adapted by Charlie Bethel
Performed by John Heimbuch
Directed by Amy Rummenie
John Heimbuch performs Charlie Bethel’s popular one-man adaptation of Beowulf!
This faithful and accessible adaptation of this classic Old English poem about a warrior king and
three famous monsters, emphasizes the wit, vigor, and meaty language of the original Anglo-Saxon
epic.
Writer Charlie Bethel was a renowned storyteller. He adapted Beowulf into a solo theatrical text in
2001, and performed it and at venues across the United States until his death in 2017.
John Heimbuch first performed Beowulf at the 2019 Minnesota Fringe Festival, and has performed it
at backyards, bars, schools, theatres, firesides, parks, conventions, and online ever since. He is proud
to continue the legacy of Charlie Bethel’s work.
Tickets here.

Randall Munroe
2022-09-30 19:00 (America/Chicago) | First United Methodist Church, 214 E Jefferson St, Iowa City, IA, 52245, United States
THE IOWA CITY BOOK FESTIVAL AND PRAIRIE LIGHTS BOOKS PRESENTS RANDALL MUNROE
This is a bundled ticketed event, price includes General Admission for one, and a hardcover copy of What If? 2, to be picked up at the venue during check-in. Link to purchase tickets is HERE.
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you never thought to ask.
The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone’s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it’s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.
Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers’ questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.
Randall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the popular webcomic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full-time. He lives in Massachusetts.
The author will talk about What If?2, take audience questions, meet fans, and sign copies of the book. Masks are required at this event.

The Paul Engle Award Ceremony Featuring Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with Lyz Lenz
2022-09-29 19:00 UTC | Coralville Public Library, 1401 5th St., Coralville, IA, 52241, United States
Rebecca Solnit has been named the eleventh recipient of the Paul Engle Prize, presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization.
Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist who has written more than twenty books on feminism, environmental and urban history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Whose Story Is This?, Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and the recent memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence.
She has received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian and a former “Easy Chair” columnist at Harper’s.Speaking about the award, Solnit said she was honored to be recognized.
“Finding out, while still on the first cup of tea, that you’ve won a prize, and it’s named after a poet, editor, and teacher passionately devoted to internationalism and the literary community, is a very good way to start the day,” she said. “To receive a prize that has gone to writers I admire so much—Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay among them—deepens my sense of the honor of being invited into the community of writers, past and present, and it encourages me to keep trying to do the kind of engaged work this prize recognizes.”
The prize includes a $20,000 award and a one-of-a-kind work of art.
Solnit will receive the award and appear in conversation with Lyz Lenz, Thursday, September 29 at 7 p.m. at the Coralville Public Library.

The annual Paul Engle Prize from the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature honors an individual who, like Paul Engle, represents a pioneering spirit in the world of literature through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose active participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world through the literary arts. The Paul Engle Prize is made possible through the generous support of the City of Coralville, which is home to 11 permanent sculptures with artistic and literary ties to Iowa. The sculptures all have ties to work found in The Iowa Writers’ Library, housed in the Hyatt Regency Coralville Hotel & Conference Center, which features about 800 books written by former students, graduates and faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Paul Engle (October 12, 1908 – March 22, 1991), though best remembered as the long-time director of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and founder of the UI’s International Writing Program, also was a well-regarded poet, playwright, essayist, editor and critic.
This prize does not recognize one work, nor is it solely limited to reflecting literary achievement. Rather, the award seeks to recognize a writer, like Engle, who makes an impact on his or her community and the world at large through efforts beyond the page. It also seeks to raise awareness about Engle and his works.
Past recipients: James Alan McPherson, longtime instructor at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Elbow Room; Kwame Dawes, Chancellor Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, and Editor of Prairie Schooner; Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway and Queen of America, Sara Paretsky the author behind the bestselling Chicago-based V.I. Warshawski mystery series, Roxane Gay, professor, editor, commentator and author of the short story collection Ayiti, the novel An Untamed State, and the essay collection Bad Feminist, and novelist, activist, essayist, and professor Alexander Chee; novelist and essayist Dina Nayeri; poets and co-founders of Cave Canem Toi Derriocotte and Cornelius Eady; and poet and essayist Dr. Eve L. Ewing.

The Iowa City Book Festival and Prairie Lights Books Presents: An Evening with Anthony Doerr
2022-09-28 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Englert Theatre, 221 E. Washington St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Anthony Doerr will present a lecture with some fun slides and take audience questions about his new book, Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Each ticketholder will receive a paperback copy of Cloud Cuckoo Land at the event.
Masks are required. Purchase Tickets.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr follows All the Light We Cannot See with Cloud Cuckoo Land—a triumph of imagination and compassion called a “wildly inventive, humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences.”
Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the walls of Constantinople. Insatiably curious, she learns to read, and finds the book of Aethon, who longs to turn into a bird and fly to paradise. As she reads, the walls are bombarded. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted into the invading army. Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play of Aethon’s story, remarkably preserved. On the shelves is a bomb, planted by troubled, idealistic Seymour. In a not-so-distant future, alone on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance copies the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. Five dreamers and outsiders, intertwined as they seek, and find, resourcefulness and hope.
Anthony Doerr is the author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Carnegie Medal. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize.

Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
2022-09-25 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Hear some of this years’ IWP residents read from their work. Readers TBA.

Prairie Lights: Black Author’s Panel with Arnold Daniels Jr., Donika Kelly, Stephen Willis, Gabrielle Williams, and Eliza David
2022-09-24 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
Black Author’s Panel in conjunction with the Iowa City Soul & Blues Festival. This year’s event will be moderated by Arnold Daniels Jr., and feature readings and conversation with Donika Kelly, Stephen Willis, Gabrielle Williams, and Eliza David.

Prairie Lights: Yiyun Li in conversation with Lan Samantha Chang
2022-09-22 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
A reading and conversation with Yiyun Li in celebration of the release of her book The Book of Goose (FSG, 2022). She will be joined in conversation by Lan Samantha Chang.

Prairie Lights: Ama Codjoe in conversation with Donika Kelly and Evie Shockley
2022-09-21 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
A reading and conversation with Ama Codjoe in celebration of the release of her book Bluest Nude (Milkweed Press, 2022). Ama will be joined in conversation by Donika Kelly and Evie Shockley.
You can register for the event on Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FckYI_QkQuqZ6g5uT0t_2w

Prairie Lights: Tom Montgomery Fate
2022-09-20 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
A reading and conversation with Tom Montgomery Fate in celebration of the release of his book The Long Way Home: Detours and Discoveries (Ice Cube Press, 2022).

Prairie Lights: Joe Meno
2022-09-16 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
A reading and conversation with Joe Meno in celebration of the release of his book Book of Extraordinary Tragedies.

Prairie Lights: William Kent Krueger
2022-09-15 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA, 52240, United States
A reading and conversation with William Kent Krueger in celebration of the release of his book Fox Creek (Atria Books, 2022).
