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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Nickolas Butler and Benjamin Percy promotional image
Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Nickolas Butler and Benjamin Percy
Monday, August 2, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual

Please join us for a reading from Nickolas Butler and Benjamin Percy to celebrate the releases of their books Godspeed and The Ninth Metal.

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Steph Cha, author of Your House Will Pay, calls Godspeed  “A glorious novel, as lyrical as it is suspenseful--breathless, tense, and shimmering with the sweat of desperate men. Butler delivers mystery and tragedy against a beautiful, inhospitable backdrop, anchored in the struggles of a thrummingly vivid cast of...

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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Soul & Blues Festival Black Author's Panel
Saturday, July 31, 2021 11:00am
Virtual

Please join us in celebrating the Soul & Blues Festival presented by Summer of the Arts with a Black Author's Panel featuring Jerald Walker, Dr. Mary E. Hicks and Venise Berry with moderator Arnold Daniels Jr. 

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Jerald Walker A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Jerald Walker has published in magazines such as Creative NonfictionThe Missouri ReviewThe Harvard ReviewMother JonesThe Iowa Review, and The Oxford American, and he has been...

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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Willa Richards in conversation with Fatima Farheen Mirza
Thursday, July 15, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Willa Richards to celebrate the release of The Comfort of Monsters. She will be joined in conversation by Fatima Farheen Mirza.

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Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of Valentine says of the book, "On its face, The Comfort of Monsters is a riveting page-turner that begs to be read quickly, compulsively. But page by page, this electrifying debut by Willa Richards weaves an increasingly...

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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Chris Offutt in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken
Monday, June 28, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual

Join Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni and former faculty Chris Offutt and Elizabeth McCracken for a conversation about Offutt's The Killing Hills. Of the new book, author James Sallis says, “Quite aside from being one of our finest storytellers, in his first crime novel Chris Offutt reminds us as always of how much we’ve pushed away from us—the natural world, kindness, community—and that the time will come when we reach again and it’s no longer there for the asking."

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