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Virtual Book Club: The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Virtual

The Chicago and New York Metro Iowa Clubs are hosting an interactive discussion of The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories, a recent release by Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Danielle Evans (06MFA).

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Evans, an Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and X-ray insights into complex human relationships. With her most recent release, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’ lives in...

UI Libraries Reading Roundtable focused on bestselling author, Cathy Park Hong’s book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning(2020)
Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Virtual

Join us for the second reading roundtable with the UI Libraries focused on bestselling author, Cathy Park Hong’s book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. Those who have and have not read the book are welcome as a variety of engagements will be available. Book giveaways will be available at this event as well! UI faculty, staff, and students can go to the following site to attend: https://tinyurl.com/LibraryMinorFeelings.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all...

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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Kirsten Ihns & Benjamin Krusling
Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual

Please join us for a reading and conversation between poets Kirsten Ihns and Benjamin Krusling to celebrate their latest books, sundaey and Glaring.

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Anthony Madrid, author of RHINO says of Kirsten Ihns' sundaey, “What are the poems like? Inventive, capricious, witty, aphoristic. There are bebop parts where what she’s doing is throwing words into a pan slicked with boiling oil and watching ’em explode all over the kitchen…If you set about making your...

Pan Asian Council Reading Roundtable focused on bestselling author, Cathy Park Hong’s book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning(2020).
Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Pan Asian Council Reading Roundtable focused on bestselling author, Cathy Park Hong’s book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning(2020). The Pan Asian Council will be leading this first discussion and readings for the text leading up to Cathy Park Hong’s Virtual Keynote on April, 21. Those who have and have not read the book are welcome as a variety of engagements will be available. Book giveaways will be available! UI faculty, staff, and students can go to the following site to attend: htt...