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Tom Drury, Claire Lombardo & Lan Samantha Chang
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 7:30pm
Virtual

The Writers' Workshop presents an in-person and virtual reading with Tom Drury, Claire Lombardo & Lan Samantha Chang

Virtual attendees may join us via Zoom

Tom Drury is the author of Pacific, The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His novels have been translated into Spanish, German and French. His essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Harper’s, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, the Mississippi Review, and Tricycle...

Live from Prairie Lights | Robin Hemley in conversation with Patricia Foster and David Hamilton
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Robin Hemley to celebrate the release of his book Oblivion. He will be joined in conversation by Patricia Foster and David Hamilton.

Connie May Fowler, author of How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly, says of the book, "A tour de force. Oblivion is a marvel of the imagination and intellect. Hemley has ... created a book that is a relentless page turner: funny and wise, exuberant and sad, insightful and magical, and-most wonderful of all-deeply...

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Summer Faculty Reading | Mark Levine, Amy Parker & Lan Samantha Chang
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 8:00pm
Virtual

The Writers' Workshop presents an in-person and virtual reading with this summer's Writers' Workshop faculty: Mark Levine, Amy Parker & Lan Samantha Chang

Virtual attendees may join us via Zoom

Poetry Professor Mark Levine is the author of four books of poems, Debt, Enola Gay, The Wilds, and Travels of Marco, and a book of nonfiction reportage, F5. Recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton, Levine has published poems in dozens of literary journals...

Chat From the Old Cap: Transforming Television
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:00pm
Virtual

Join two Iowa graduates and an award-winning TV power couple as they discuss how they have transformed modern-day television through their work as writers and producers for HBO’s mega-hit series The Sopranos.

Mitchell Burgess (78BA) and Robin Green (77MFA) have written and produced some of the most highly acclaimed television shows over the past two decades including The Sopranos, Blue Bloods, and Northern Exposure. Their work rejects standard tropes in favor of exceptional storytelling. Their...