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SUMMARY:Mindy Mejia: To Catch a Storm
DESCRIPTION:Mindy Mejia is a CPA and a graduate of the Hamline University MFA program. Her debut novel\, The Dragon Keeper\, was published by Ashland Creek Press in 2012. She lives in the Twin Cities with her family\, and is the author of Strike Me Down\, Everything You Want Me to Be\, and Leave No Trace. Her latest mystery novel is To Catch a Storm.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/mindy-mejia-to-catch-a-storm/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Ayana Mathis: The Unsettled
DESCRIPTION:Ayana Mathis with special guest moderator Lan Samantha Chang. \nFrom the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son\, Toussaint\, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985\, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter’s squalid conditions: the barely edible food\, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place\, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them there. Ava has been estranged from her own mother\, Dutchess\, since she left her Alabama home as a young woman barely out of her teens. Despite their estrangement and the thousand miles between them\, mother and daughter are deeply entwined\, but Ava can’t forgive her sharp-tounged\, larger than life mother whose intractability and bouts of debilitating despair brought young Ava to the outer reaches of neglect and hunger. Ava wants to love her son differently\, better. But when Toussaint’s father\, Cass\, reappears\, she is swept off course by his charisma\, and the intoxicating power of his radical vision to destroy systems of racial injustice and bring about a bold new way of communal living. \nMeanwhile\, in Alabama\, Dutchess struggles to keep Bonaparte\, once a beacon of Black freedom and self-determination\, in the hands of its last five Black residents—families whose lives have been rooted in this stretch of land for generations—and away from rapidly encroaching white developers. She fights against the erasure of Bonaparte’s venerable history and the loss of the land itself\, which she has so arduously preserved as Ava’s inheritance. \nAs Ava becomes more enmeshed with Cass\, Toussaint senses the danger simmering all around him—his well-intentioned but erratic mother; the intense\, volatile figure of his father who drives his fledgling Philadelphia community toward ever increasing violence and instability. He begins to dream of Dutchess and Bonaparte\, his home and birthright\, if only he can find his way there.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/ayana-mathis-the-unsettled/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Lethem\, Brooklyn Crime Novel
DESCRIPTION:“The levels of mystery here astound. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts and then the parts decide to act alone and challenge the whole. Lethem is not only interrogating the form of the crime novel\, but the venture of storytelling itself. All of this while remaining a joy to read. Full of strange characters and expertly rendered place. This brilliant\, genre-defying work will certainly leave a mark.”\n—PERCIVAL EVERETT \nOn the streets of 1970s Brooklyn\, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged\, belongings surrendered\, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere\, a currency itself. For these children\, Black\, brown\, and white\, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other players: parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines\, the histories\, and the laws; those who award this neighborhood its name. \nThe rules appear obvious at first. But in memory’s prism\, criminals and victims may seem to trade places. The voices of the past may seem to rise and gather as if in harmony\, then make war with one another. A street may seem to crack open and reveal what lies behind its glimmering facade. None who lived through it are ever permitted to forget. \nWritten with kaleidoscopic verve and delirious wit\, Brooklyn Crime Novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a writer at the top of his powers. Jonathan Lethem\, “one of America’s greatest storytellers” (Washington Post)\, has crafted an epic interrogation of how we fashion stories to contain the uncontainable: our remorse at the world we’ve made.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jonathan-lethem-reading-brooklyn-crime-novel/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Stuart Dybek
DESCRIPTION:Stuart Dybek is the author of five books of fiction--Ecstatic Cahoots\, Paper Lantern\, I Sailed with Magellan\, The Coast of Chicago\, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods–as well as two collections of poetry\, Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink. Dybek is the recipient of many prizes and awards\, including the PEN/Malamud Award\, an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, four O. Henry Awards\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is distinguished writer-in-residence at Northwestern University. \nPresented in partnership with the University of Iowa Center for Advancement
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/stuart-dybek/
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:20241015T180000
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SUMMARY:Bruna Dantas Lobato – Blue Light Hours
DESCRIPTION:BRUNA DANTAS LOBATO is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker\, Guernica\, A Public Space\, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translation for The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel. Dantas Lobato was born and raised in Natal\, Brazil\, and lives in St. Louis\, Missouri. Blue Light Hours is her debut novel.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/bruna-dantas-lobato-blue-light-hours/
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:20241016T190000
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SUMMARY:Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz – The Indian Card
DESCRIPTION:To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim Native identity has exploded—increasing 85 percent in just ten years—the number of people formally enrolled in Tribes has not. While the federal government recognizes Tribal sovereignty\, being a member of a Tribe requires navigating blood quantum laws and rolls that the federal government created with the intention of wiping out Native people altogether. Over two million Native people are tribally enrolled\, yet there are Native people who will never be. Native people who\, for a variety of reasons ranging from displacement to disconnection\, cannot be card-carrying members of their Tribe. \nIn The Indian Card\, Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz grapples with these contradictions. Through in-depth interviews\, she shares the stories of people caught in the mire of identity-formation\, trying to define themselves outside of bureaucratic processes. With archival research\, she pieces together the history of blood quantum and tribal rolls and federal government intrusion on Native identity-making. Reckoning with her own identity—the story of her enrollment and the enrollment of her children—she investigates the cultural\, racial\, and political dynamics of today’s Tribal identity policing. With this intimate perspective of the ongoing fight for Native sovereignty\, The Indian Card sheds light on what it looks like to find a deeper sense of belonging. \nFor this special Iowa City Book Festival event\, Schuettpelz will be joined in conversation by Harry Smith. Smith is a well-known broadcast journalist who had a long career with CBS and NBC News. After retiring earlier this year\, Smith returned to teach at his alma mater\, Central College in Pella.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/carrie-lowry-schuettpelz-the-indian-card/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Croft – The Extinction of Irena Rey
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Croft won the Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is the author of Homesick\, a Saroyan Prize winner\, and numerous pieces in the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, the Paris Review Daily\, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Her debut novel is The Extinction of Irena Rey\, which tells of eight translators who arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey\, and they are there to translate her magnum opus\, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival\, Irena disappears without a trace. The result is a hilarious\, thought-provoking tale that is a brilliant examination of art\, celebrity\, the natural world\, and the power of language. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the International Writing Program
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jennifer-croft-the-extinction-of-irena-rey/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Willis – Liontaming in America
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Willis is the author of Liontaming in America (New Directions\, 2024)\, a hybrid work engaged with American belief and relationship structures\, theatre\, activism\, and film. The collection is on the 2024 Longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry. \nHer other books of poetry include Alive (New York Review Books\, 2015)\, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, as well as Address; Meteoric Flowers; Turneresque; The Human Abstract; and the artist’s book Spectral Evidence . She also writes about the intersection of art and labor and edited the volume Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/elizabeth-willis-liontaming-in-america/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander – Mojave Ghost
DESCRIPTION:A novel-poem taking us to the Pulitzer-prize winning poet Forrest Gander’s birthplace in the Mojave Desert and his current northern California home\, where tumultuous memories coalesce with the present. \nMojave Ghost initiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relationship with arresting honesty and vividness. Moving through grief and loss towards a renewal that never sidesteps the wholeness of experience\, Gander’s new collection discovers an articulate language for the merging of exterior and interior landscapes. Gander\, trained as a geologist\, walked along much of the 800-mile San Andreas Fault toward the desolate town of his birth and found himself crossing permeable dimensions of time and space\, correlating his emotions and the stricken landscape with other divisions: the fractures and folds underlying not only our country\, but any self in its relationship with others. The result is this moving new collection that unforgettably describes a spiritual and physical journey. With its confiding tones and candid self-examination\, Mojave Ghost is Gander’s most inviting and poignant book yet.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/forrest-gander-mojave-ghost/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Natalie Goldberg – Writing on Empty
DESCRIPTION:Natalie Goldberg has influenced generations of aspiring creative writers with books like Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind. Her books offer  down-to-earth guidance for developing a meaningful writing practice in the real world\, however different that is for each of us. In her new book\, Writing on Empty\, she opens up about a new experience; that of losing her will to write\, and finding her way back to it. \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/natalie-goldberg-writing-on-empty/
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:20241019T163000
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SUMMARY:Nicolás Medina Mora – América del Norte
DESCRIPTION:Moving between New York City\, Mexico City\, and Iowa City\, a young member of the Mexican elite sees his life splinter in a centuries-spanning debut that blends the Latin American traditions of Roberto Bolaño and Fernanda Melchor with the autofiction of US writers like Ben Lerner and Teju Cole. \nSplit between the US and Mexico\, this stunning debut explores whiteness\, power\, immigration\, and the history of Mexican literature\, to wrestle with the contradictory relationship between two countries bound by geography and torn apart by politics. \nNicolás Medina Mora was born and raised in Mexico City. He has degrees from Yale University and the writing program of the University of Iowa\, and has worked in New York City as a journalist at Reuters and BuzzFeed. His writing has appeared in The Nation\, The New York Times\, and n+1\, where he won the 2023 n+1 Writers’ Fellowship for outstanding contributions. He currently lives in Mexico City\, where he is a writer and editor for Revista Nexos.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/nicolas-medina-mora-america-del-norte/
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:20251009T190000
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SUMMARY:Waters of the United States: A Conversation with Royal C. Gardner and Silvia Secchi
DESCRIPTION:Join author Royal C. Gardner\, Professor of Law\, Hugh F. Culverhouse Chair\, and Director of the Stetson Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy at Stetson Law\, at Prairie Lights for a reading from Waters of the United States\, his groundbreaking exploration of the legal and political battles that have shaped water protection in America. In conversation with University of Iowa Professor and Mississippi River Basin water research expert Silvia Secchi\, Royal will discuss the history and high-stakes future of the Clean Water Act\, the Supreme Court’s narrowing of WOTUS\, and what these decisions mean for our communities and environment. \nPresented in partnership with the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/royal-c-gardner/
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:20251011T113000
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SUMMARY:Gregory Galloway: All We Trust and Scott Phillips: The Devil Raises His Own
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nIn All We Trust\, what starts out as a family squabble turns into an international battle between competing crime organizations\, moving from small town New England to San Francisco to Mexico. Along the way the brothers encounter betrayal\, double-dealing\, kidnapping\, and ultimately\, revenge. \nThe Devil Raises His Own\, meanwhile\, picks up the story of Bill Ogden\, protagonist in Phillips’s earlier novels Cottonwood and Hop Alley\, as he navigates the early days of the film industry in this bawdy tale. \nBoth authors are steeped in the history of noir fiction\, and will discuss their own work against that backdrop.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/gregory-galloway-all-we-trust/
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:20251011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251011T130000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Fawcett: Keep This For Me
DESCRIPTION:One hot August night in 1993\, a young couple go to a party. When their car breaks down\, they are picked up by a truck driver who attacks the man and abducts the woman. She is never seen again. \nThat woman was Fiona Green’s mother. \nWhen the trucker\, Eddie Ward\, is caught\, a mass grave of bodies is discovered in his backyard but Fiona’s mother isn’t there. Thirty years later\, on his prison deathbed\, Ward insists that he didn’t kill her\, so Fiona finds herself back in the small town where her mother disappeared. Fighting demons of her own\, she’s shocked when history repeats itself: another woman\, another roadside breakdown\, and another disappearance. Only this time the primary suspect is Jason Ward\, Eddie’s son. Desperate\, Fiona hunts down answers\, unaware that she is being drawn into a dangerous trap. \nFawcett will be joined in conversation by Tim Budd.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jennifer-fawcett-keep-this-for-me/
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:20251011T143000
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CREATED:20250908T172307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T150930Z
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SUMMARY:Tatiana Schlote-Bonne: The Mean Ones
DESCRIPTION:So what if Sadie hears talking dead animals and a strange\, comforting male voice in her head? The therapist insists these are just symptoms of PTSD. It makes sense considering that she hid under the bed and watched as her best friends were slaughtered. \nBut the murders were seventeen years ago\, back when her name was Sabrina. Now\, she’s Sadie: a perfectly normal 29-year-old. She works as a physical therapist assistant and lifts weights with her boyfriend\, Lucas\, who’s the sweetest\, most considerate man—as long as he’s not angry. But when Lucas spontaneously agrees to join a couples trip to a cabin in the woods\, the visions get worse\, a strange figure stalks her during the night\, and that male voice in Sadie’s head keeps calling\, asking her to do things she’s never fathomed. \nSadie’s not sure if it’s her paranoia or something else entirely . . . But she is sure of one thing—this time\, she’s not going to sit idly by as everything starts to unravel. \nTatiana will be joined in conversation with Carey Dunne.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/tatiana-schlote-bonne-the-mean-ones/
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:20251011T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251011T160000
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SUMMARY:Patricia Lockwood: Will There Ever Be Another You
DESCRIPTION:Amid a global pandemic\, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together – of her family\, stunned by a devastating loss\, and of her mind\, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She’s afraid of her own floorboards\, and “WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME” plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends\, or more accurately\, she doesn’t know who they are. \nHas the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she’ll get to start over from scratch\, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. “I’m sorry not to respond to your email\,” she writes\, “but I live completely in the present\nnow.” \nWill There Ever Be Another You is the brain-shredding\, phosphorescent story of one woman’s dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking\, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss\, from one of our most original writers.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/patricia-lockwood-will-there-ever-be-another-you/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Kazim Ali with Rajaa Alsanea and Yu Yuen Lan
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, novelist\, and essayist Kazim Ali will read as a special guest of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. He is joined by IWP participants Rajaa Alsanea (Saudi Arabia) and Yu Yuen Lan (Hong Kong)\, who will also read from their work.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/kazim-ali-with-rajaa-alsanea-and-yu-yuen-lan/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights Reading: Karen Parkman – The Jills
DESCRIPTION:Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Karen Parkman will read from her new novel\, The Jills. Listed by both PEOPLE Magazine and CrimeReads as a “best book of February\,” The Jills is praised by Chloe Benjamin\, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists\, as “a nuanced\, incisive exploration of the world of NFL cheerleading—and the complex power of sisterhood\, both familial and chosen\,” while Andrea Bartz\, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Ferry Out and We Were Never Here\, says: “Parkman’s character-driven mystery comes roaring out of the gate with all the poise and power of an NFL athlete. With its nuanced character work\, propulsive prose\, and intricate web of secrets and lies\, The Jills is an unforgettable debut. I couldn’t put it down.” \nKaren Parkman holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has been supported by MacDowell\, Yaddo\, the Sozopol Fiction Seminars\, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Karen’s stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review\, Joyland\, and elsewhere. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa\, the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio\, and Kirkwood Community College. The Jills is her debut novel.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/karen-parkman-the-jills/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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