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SUMMARY:ANGIE CRUZ
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAngie Cruz is presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/angie-cruz/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:BETH A. LIVINGSTON
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPublisher’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.” \nThis event is live and in-person\, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/beth-a-livingston/
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:Co-Crafting the Just City: A panel with Jim Throgmorton
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFeaturing James A. Throgmorton\, Mary Mascher\, Zachary Oren-Smith\, Ruthina Malone\, and David McMahon. \nThis event is live and in-person\, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/co-crafting-the-just-city/
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:Beowulf with John Heimbuch
DESCRIPTION:The Iowa City Book Festival & Crooked Path Productions present… \nValor! Strength! Monsters! Hear the tale of Beowulf! \nAdapted by Charlie Bethel\nPerformed by John Heimbuch\nDirected by Amy Rummenie \nJohn Heimbuch performs Charlie Bethel’s popular one-man adaptation of Beowulf! \nThis faithful and accessible adaptation of this classic Old English poem about a warrior king and\nthree famous monsters\, emphasizes the wit\, vigor\, and meaty language of the original Anglo-Saxon\nepic. \nWriter Charlie Bethel was a renowned storyteller. He adapted Beowulf into a solo theatrical text in\n2001\, and performed it and at venues across the United States until his death in 2017. \nJohn Heimbuch first performed Beowulf at the 2019 Minnesota Fringe Festival\, and has performed it\nat backyards\, bars\, schools\, theatres\, firesides\, parks\, conventions\, and online ever since. He is proud\nto continue the legacy of Charlie Bethel’s work. \nTickets here.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/beowulf-with-john-heimbuch/2022-09-30/
LOCATION:The James Theater\, 213 N Gilbert St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52245\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:The Iowa City Book Festival and Prairie Lights Books Presents: An Evening with Anthony Doerr
DESCRIPTION:Anthony Doerr will present a lecture with some fun slides and take audience questions about his new book\, Cloud Cuckoo Land. \nEach ticketholder will receive a paperback copy of Cloud Cuckoo Land at the event. \nMasks are required. Purchase Tickets. \nPulitzer 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.” \nThirteen-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. \nAnthony 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.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/the-iowa-city-book-festival-and-prairie-lights-books-presents-an-evening-with-anthony-doerr/
LOCATION:Englert Theatre\, 221 E. Washington St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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