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

Keiran Goddard: I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

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

Told from the alternating perspectives of five friends who grew up together on the same council estate, I See Buildings Fall like Lightning asks what happens when all the expectations

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

Matt Singer: Funny Business

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

If you were a moviegoer in the early aughts, you had a front-row seat to a golden age of comedy. Ben Stiller, Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Steve Carell,

Nonfiction Writing Program 50th Anniversary Panel

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

As graduates of the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program gather to celebrate the program’s 50th anniversary, we will hear from three about their most recent work and their time

Jane Schoenbrun: Public Access Afterworld

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

Trailblazing filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun will join Refocus Film Festival for a reading and conversation to discuss their latest creative project, Public Access Afterworld, their first novel. Schoenbrun will visit Iowa

Writers Row – Local Author Book Fair

MERGE 136 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA

Local Author Book Fair! Join us as local authors present their latest works, answer questions, and sign books. Browse each author's table where various books will be available for purchase.