Writers’ Workshop graduate Brandon Taylor will read from his highly anticipated debut novel, Real Life.  Danielle Evans describes Real Life as “a gorgeous work of art, and the introduction of a singular new voice. Through Wallace, the book explores the tension of a person trying to become himself while surrounded by people who can see him only as their own projection. Even as Brandon Taylor dives beneath the level of polite surface interaction and into the ache of what people conceal from one...

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Geoffrey Nutter will give a reading on Thursday, February 13 at 8 p.m. in the Frank Conroy Reading Room. Geoffrey Nutter is the author of five collections of poetry: A Summer Evening (winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize), Water's Leaves & Other Poems (winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize), Christopher Sunset (Wave Books, 2010), The Rose of January (Wave Books, 2013), and Cities at Dawn (Wave Books, 2016). He earned degrees from both San Francisco State University...

THE WORLD IS ENDING! Again. Doomsdayers and apocalyptic prophets have warned of coming calamity for millennia. Still, humanity persists. This book club explores world endings in literature. This week’s book is Severance by Ling Ma. This UI Stanley Museum of Art program is graciously hosted in partnership with Public Space One.

Writers’ Workshop graduate Sean Adams will read from his imaginative and darkly hilarious satire, The Heap. "As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut, The Heap is both a hilarious send-up of life under late capitalism and a moving exploration of the peculiar loneliness of the early 21st century. A masterful and humane gem of a novel."-- Shaun Hamill Sean Adams is a graduate of Bennington College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop...