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Prairie Lights Virtual | Ash Davidson in conversation with Madhuri Vijay
Thursday, September 30, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Ash Davidson to celebrate the release of Damnation Spring. She will be joined in conversation by Madhuri Vijay.

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Publisher's Weekly says of Damnation Spring, "Davidson’s impressive debut chronicles life in a working-class community so thoroughly that the reader feels the characters’ anguish as they’re divided over environmental concerns that threaten their lives and livelihoods....The depiction of...

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Stanley Reads Book Club - Fall 2021
Monday, September 20, 2021 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Stanley Reads continues this fall with Luis Alberto Urrea’s National Best Seller The House of Broken Angels (2018).

The novel follows the De La Cruz family across two days and through life and death: the matriarch’s funeral and the patriarch’s birthday celebration. Urrea weaves a tale of family mythology, promises, and betrayals that took the De La Cruzes from La Paz, Mexico to San Diego, California. Derek Nnuro, associate curator of special projects, and Amanda Lensing, Senior Living...

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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Rachel Greenwald Smith and Lisa Wells
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual

Please join us for a reading from Lisa Wells and Rachel Greenwald Smith to celebrate the releases of their books Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World and On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal

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Lydia Millet of the Los Angeles Times says of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, “Believers . . . grapples with the question of how to go forward in the shadow of endings — not only our own, but the endings...

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Iowa City Queer Home CookOUT Tour
Saturday, August 21, 2021 4:00pm
High Ground Cafe

Join us at High Ground Cafe to celebrate the release of the Home is Where You Queer Your Heart anthology at the Iowa City Queer Home CookOUT Tour! 

Foglifter, the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier non-profit LGBTQ+ literary arts press, announces the Queer Home CookOUT Tour. Foglifter road trips across the country to collaborate with local bookstores and the contributing writers of the Home is Where You Queer Your Heart anthology in their own hometowns. These contributors have invited a roster of...