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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Sarah Thankam Mathews in conversation with Sanjena Sathian
DESCRIPTION:Prairie Lights Virtual – Zoom \nREGISTER HERE to attend this virtual event! \nWriters’ 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 missed\,”  All This Could Be Different is also a warm\, dazzling\, and profound saga of queer love\, friendship\, work\, and precarity in twenty-first century America.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-sarah-thankam-mathews-in-conversation-with-sanjena-sathian/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220828T160000
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DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T174756Z
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UID:1610-1661702400-1661706000@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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UID:1612-1661972400-1661972400@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Darius Stewart
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Darius Stewart in celebration of the release of his book Intimacies in Borrowed Light (EastOver Press\, 2022).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-darius-stewart/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220904T160000
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CREATED:20220817T175035Z
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UID:1614-1662307200-1662307200@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220906T190000
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UID:1616-1662490800-1662490800@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Adria Bernardi in conversation with Katie Runde and Louisa Hall
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Adria Bernardi in celebration of the release of her book Benefit Street. She will be joined in conversation by Katie Runde and Louisa Hall. \nRegister for this Zoom event HERE
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-adria-bernardi-in-conversation-with-katie-runde-and-louisa-hall/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220908T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T183222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T183222Z
UID:1618-1662663600-1662663600@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Belinda Huijuan Tang in conversation with Sanjena Sathian
DESCRIPTION: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. \nYou can register for this virtual event HERE
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-belinda-huijuan-tang-in-conversation-with-sanjena-sathian/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220909T190000
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CREATED:20220817T183339Z
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Edward Carey
DESCRIPTION: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).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-edward-carey/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220911T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220911T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T183453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T183604Z
UID:1622-1662912000-1662912000@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220912T190000
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CREATED:20220817T183658Z
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UID:1624-1663009200-1663009200@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Anthony Marra
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Anthony Marra in celebration of the release of his book Mercury Pictures Presents (Random House\, 2022).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-anthony-marra/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220914T190000
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UID:1626-1663182000-1663182000@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Sarah Derbew in conversation with Nell Irvin Painter
DESCRIPTION: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. \nYou can register for this online event HERE
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-sarah-derbew-in-conversation-with-nell-irvin-painter/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220915T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220915T190000
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CREATED:20220817T183918Z
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: William Kent Krueger
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with William Kent Krueger in celebration of the release of his book Fox Creek (Atria Books\, 2022).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-william-kent-krueger/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220916T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220916T190000
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CREATED:20220817T184014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T184014Z
UID:1630-1663354800-1663354800@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Joe Meno
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Joe Meno in celebration of the release of his book Book of Extraordinary Tragedies.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-joe-meno/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220918T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220918T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T184157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T184157Z
UID:1632-1663516800-1663516800@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-4/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220920T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220920T190000
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CREATED:20220817T184255Z
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UID:1634-1663700400-1663700400@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Tom Montgomery Fate
DESCRIPTION: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).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-tom-montgomery-fate/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220921T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220921T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T184345Z
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UID:1636-1663786800-1663786800@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Ama Codjoe in conversation with Donika Kelly and Evie Shockley
DESCRIPTION: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. \nYou can register for the event on Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FckYI_QkQuqZ6g5uT0t_2w
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-ama-codjoe-in-conversation-with-donika-kelly-and-evie-shockley/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220922T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220922T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T184436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T184436Z
UID:1638-1663873200-1663873200@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Yiyun Li in conversation with Lan Samantha Chang
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-yiyun-li-in-conversation-with-lan-samantha-chang/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220924T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220924T110000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T184556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T184556Z
UID:1640-1664017200-1664017200@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Black Author’s Panel with Arnold Daniels Jr.\, Donika Kelly\, Stephen Willis\, Gabrielle Williams\, and Eliza David
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-black-authors-panel-with-arnold-daniels-jr-donika-kelly-stephen-willis-gabrielle-williams-and-eliza-david/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220925T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T184647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T184647Z
UID:1642-1664132400-1664132400@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ IWP residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-5/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221002T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T184804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T184804Z
UID:1644-1664726400-1664726400@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-6/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221006T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221006T173000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T150055Z
UID:1532-1665077400-1665077400@www.iowacityofliterature.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T113000
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CREATED:20220909T164956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T163102Z
UID:1983-1665228600-1665228600@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:John Koethe
DESCRIPTION:A rich\, meditative new collection of poetry from John Koethe\, the “necessary and great poet” (Hyperallergic). \n“It’s presumptuous\, but if you’re reading this you\nProbably know my usual obsessions and preoccupations:\nThe “world”—both the word and what it stands for—and time\,\nWhich is or isn’t real\, depending on my mood. I’ve always\nHated poems about philosophy\, and I hope I still do\,\nBut since I don’t know what that means anymore\, here I am\,\nMusing on my ends and my beginnings one more time . . .” \nIn 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? \nThe 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.”
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/john-koethe/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220915T165349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T163257Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer L. Knox
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jennifer-l-knox/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T143000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220909T142900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T163422Z
UID:1979-1665239400-1665239400@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Elizabeth McCracken
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nThe 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.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/elizabeth-mccracken/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220909T165121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T163831Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Weiss
DESCRIPTION:All Harriet Szász has ever known is life onstage with her sister\, Josie. As “The Sisters Sweet\,” they pose as conjoined twins in a vaudeville act conceived of by their ambitious parents\, who were once themselves theatrical stars. But after Josie exposes the family’s fraud and runs away to Hollywood\, Harriet must learn to live out of the spotlight—and her sister’s shadow. As Josie’s star rises in California\, the Szászes fall on hard times. Striving to keep her struggling family afloat\, Harriet molds herself into the perfect daughter. She also tentatively forms her first relationships outside her family and begins to imagine a life for herself beyond the role of dutiful daughter that she has played for so long. Finally\, Harriet must decide whether to honor her mother\, her father\, or the self she’s only beginning to get to know. \nFull of long-simmering tensions\, buried secrets\, questionable saviors\, and broken promises\, this is a story about how much we are beholden to others and what we owe ourselves. Layered and intimate\, The Sisters Sweet heralds the arrival of an accomplished new voice in fiction.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/elizabeth-weiss/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221009T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T184905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T184905Z
UID:1646-1665331200-1665331200@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-7/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221014T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T184956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T184956Z
UID:1648-1665774000-1665774000@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: All Iowa Reads: Rachel Mans McKenny
DESCRIPTION:Established in 2003\, the purpose of All Iowa Reads is to foster a sense of unity through reading. Iowans are encouraged to come together in their communities to read and talk about a single book title in the same calendar year. The 2022 All Reads selection is Rachel Mans McKenny‘s The Butterfly Effect.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-all-iowa-reads-rachel-mans-mckenny/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221016T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221016T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T185049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T185049Z
UID:1650-1665936000-1665936000@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-8/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221017T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T185133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T191136Z
UID:1652-1666033200-1666033200@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Rebecca Rukeyser in conversation with Rachel Yoder
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Rebecca Rukeyser in celebration of the release of her book The Seaplane on Final Approach. She will be joined in conversation by Rachel Yoder.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-rebecca-rukeyser-in-conversation-with-rachel-yoder/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221022T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221022T140000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T185225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T185225Z
UID:1654-1666447200-1666447200@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Margo Price
DESCRIPTION:Country singer Margo Price will read from and talk about her new memoir\, Maybe We’ll Make It.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-margo-price/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221023T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T003252
CREATED:20220817T185325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T185325Z
UID:1656-1666540800-1666540800@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-9/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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