Prairie Lights: Joe Meno

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

A reading and conversation with Joe Meno in celebration of the release of his book Book of Extraordinary Tragedies.

Prairie Lights: William Kent Krueger

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

A reading and conversation with William Kent Krueger in celebration of the release of his book Fox Creek (Atria Books, 2022).

Prairie Lights: Sarah Derbew in conversation with Nell Irvin Painter

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

Professor Sarah Derbew will talk about her new book, Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, with Professor Nell Irvin Painter, in a special event sponsored by the University of Iowa Department of History. You can register for this online event HERE

Prairie Lights: Anthony Marra

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

A reading and conversation with Anthony Marra in celebration of the release of his book Mercury Pictures Presents (Random House, 2022).

Prairie Lights: Edward Carey

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

A reading and conversation with former Iowa Citian, International Writing Program Resident, and Iowa Writers' Workshop Instructor,  Edward Carey, in celebration of the release of his book Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches (University of Texas Press, 2022).

Prairie Lights: Belinda Huijuan Tang in conversation with Sanjena Sathian

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

A reading and conversation with Belinda Huijuan Tang in celebration of the release of her book A Map for the Missing. She will be joined in conversation by Sanjena Sathian. You can register for this virtual event HERE

Prairie Lights: Darius Stewart

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

A reading and conversation with Darius Stewart in celebration of the release of his book Intimacies in Borrowed Light (EastOver Press, 2022).

Prairie Lights: Sarah Thankam Mathews in conversation with Sanjena Sathian

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

Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom REGISTER HERE to attend this virtual event! Writers’ Workshop Graduates Sarah Thankam Mathews and Sanjena Sathian, will talk about Mathews’ new novel, All This Could Be Different. Mathews will do also do a reading from the book. Described by Lithub as a “bildungsroman, an immigrant story, a hero’s journey not to be