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SUMMARY:Jerald Walker – James Alan McPherson and His Making of a Dragon Slayer
DESCRIPTION:Jerald Walker\, author of the 2020 National Book Award finalist How to Make a Slave and Other Essays\, will discuss that work and more. \nFor the black community\, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave\, “anger is often a prelude to a joke\, as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion lay in finding its punchline.” It is on the knife’s edge between fury and farce that the essays in this exquisite collection balance. Whether confronting the medical profession’s racial biases\, considering the complicated legacy of Michael Jackson\, paying homage to his writing mentor James Alan McPherson\, or attempting to break free of personal and societal stereotypes\, Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural critique. The result is a bracing and often humorous examination by one of America’s most acclaimed essayists of what it is to grow\, parent\, write\, and exist as a black American male. Walker refuses to lull his readers; instead his missives urge them to do better as they consider\, through his eyes\, how to be a good citizen\, how to be a good father\, how to live\, and how to love. \n\nCo-presented by  The UI Lecture Committee\, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, UI African American Studies\, the UI English Department
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jerald-walker/
LOCATION:Shambaugh Auditorium\, University of Iowa Main Library\, 125 W Washington St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:How to read old paper: Searching for meaning in early modern English writing paper
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our annual invited Iowa Bibliophiles lecture as we study Shakespeare’s world through a unique lens. \n\n\n\nThis year we are joined by Heather Wolfe\, a consulting curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington\, DC. She will present her talk “How to read old paper: Searching for meaning in early modern English writing paper” at 6pm October 11th in Shambaugh Auditorium and on Zoom. \nIn the late 1580s and 1590s\, England experienced a writing paper renaissance. High status people began to have access to and develop a vocabulary for an expanding range of imported fine paper. At the same time\, a German refugee jeweler named John Spilman began one of the first viable paper mills in England. Despite his documented struggles in sourcing rags\, he supplied writing paper to Queen Elizabeth’s Privy Council and a handful of printers\, adorning it with intricate watermarks depicting the queen’s coat of arms\, royal badges\, and cypher. Join Wolfe as she digs into the archival evidence to tell a story about paper that begins with impoverished and unhoused London rag women and ends with Queen Elizabeth. \nIn addition to stewarding the manuscript collection\, Wolfe teaches people how to read English secretary hand and oversees transcription crowdsourcing projects at the Folger. She publishes widely on early modern English manuscripts and hybrid books. Her essay “The Material Culture of Record-Keeping in Early Modern England\,” co-written with Peter Stallybrass\, received the 2019 Archival History Article Award from the Society of American Archivists. She was also the Munby Fellow in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge in 2021/22. Wolfe received her BA from Amherst College\, her M.L.I.S. from UCLA\, and her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. \nThis is a hybrid event. You can join us in person at 6pm at Shambaugh Auditorium in the Main Library\,  or on Zoom by registering here \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/how-to-read-old-paper-searching-for-meaning-in-early-modern-english-writing-paper/
LOCATION:Shambaugh Auditorium\, University of Iowa Main Library\, 125 W Washington St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Iowa Bibliophiles – Guest Author Megan Rosenbloom
DESCRIPTION:Iowa Bibliophiles is a group for book lovers and enthusiasts of all kinds hosted by the University of Iowa Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives. All are welcome at this special event. \nHear a talk by special guest Megan Rosenbloom\, author of Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin. This award-winning book explores Rosenbloom’s work with anthropodermic books\, weaving together stories of doctors\, murderers\, and the modern-day curators and scientists trying to discover the truth behind these macabre and controversial items. \nRosenbloom is a writer and Collection Strategies Librarian at UCLA in Los Angeles. She served as a medical librarian for many years\, where she developed a keen interest in the history of medicine and rare books. This led her to founding the Southern California Society for the History of Medicine and leading a research team called The Anthropodermic Book Project\, which aims to find historic and scientific truths behind alleged books bound in human skin. \nLearn more about the talk by visiting the Special Collections and Archives website. \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/iowa-bibliophiles-guest-author-megan-rosenbloom/
LOCATION:Shambaugh Auditorium\, University of Iowa Main Library\, 125 W Washington St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:James Fitzmaurice – Hobgoblin Gennel
DESCRIPTION:Join author James Fitzmaurice for a conversation about his new young adult novel\, Hobgoblin Gennel. \nIn this off-beat tale of adventure\, teenagers Irie and Fred are fast friends. Irie\, of Afro-Caribbean heritage\, was born in Sheffield where they both live. Fred is an expat American transplanted from Yuma\, Arizona with a keen interest in Sheffield’s Anglo-Saxon era. While trapped in an underground passageway\, they come across the kitchen of a foodie hipster named Hobgoblin who is what his name suggests. Hobgoblin uses a modern induction hob\, of course\, and only the best ingredients. The irritable little chef sets them the task of finding the Fairy Queen’s red-garnet and golden cup\, but he is cagey about his reasons. \nFitzmaurice was born in Ventura\, California. Jim taught English at Northern Arizona University for many years before retiring to the UK\, where he has been associated with the University of Sheffield. He is a fiction writer and screenwriter. He also continues to devote time to scholarly research and publishes on the early modern woman writer Margaret Cavendish. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the University of Iowa Libraries
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/james-fitzmaurice-hobgoblin-gennel/
LOCATION:Shambaugh Auditorium\, University of Iowa Main Library\, 125 W Washington St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Iowa Bibliophiles Presents: Artists’ Books: Critical Writing in the Field with Johanna Drucker
DESCRIPTION:Artists’ books continue to be a hard-to-define and multifaceted field of works made at the intersections of conceptual art\, the craft of the book\, independent publishing\, alternative culture and other aesthetic motivations. No simple single lineage is shared by these works\, and even tracking them to an origin point (Illuminated manuscripts? The books of William Blake? The 20th century avant-garde?) can be problematic. Artists’ books have remained more marginalized in the mainstream art world than other forms like video or performance art\, in part because they are also difficult to exhibit in a way that lets them be read and experienced. The challenges for critical writing in the field are thus logistical as well as aesthetic. For a quarter of a century\, JAB: The Journal of Artists’ Books created a vital forum for critical writing. Literally hundreds of writers from dozens of countries contributed under the editorial vision of Brad Freeman. The University of Iowa Press recently issued The JAB Anthology\, a selection of works published from the journal. \nThis talk looks at the contributions of JAB\, relates these to other work in the field including my The Century of Artists’ Books (1994\, Granary Books)\, and includes a personal note on the dilemmas of producing one’s own artists’ books for decades. Brief interview clips with Brad Freeman will also be part of the talk. \nJohanna Drucker is an artist\, writer\, and scholar\, Emerita Breslauer and Distinguished Professor\, UCLA\, who has written and published widely on topics related to visual forms of knowledge production\, the historiography of the alphabet\, experimental visual poetry\, art history\, and other topics. Her recent titles include Affluvia: The Toxic Off-Gassing of Affluent Culture (Bridge Books\, 2025)\, Inventing the Alphabet (University of Chicago Press\, 2022)\, and Iliazd: Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Hopkins University Press (2020).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/artists-books/
LOCATION:Shambaugh Auditorium\, University of Iowa Main Library\, 125 W Washington St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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