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Provost's Visiting Writer Reading Series: Matthew B. Kelley and Micky Hill
Monday, March 22, 2021 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Virtual

The University of Iowa's English Department is pleased to present a reading with Provost's Postgraduate Visiting Writers Micky Hill and Matthew B. Kelley.

Poet Micky Hill, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is the Provost’s Visiting Writer in poetry at the University of Iowa.

Matthew B. Kelley is a writer from Atlanta, GA. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow in fiction. He is currently the Provost’s Visiting...

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Stanley Reads Book Club - Spring 2021
Saturday, March 20, 2021 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual

Stanley Reads puts the museum’s recent exhibitions in conversation with literature. This spring we will read At the End of the Century: Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and consider connections to the Waswo X. Waswo Collection of Indian Printmaking and other works from the Stanley’s collection.

Stanley Reads is led by Kimberly Datchuk, curator of learning & engagement, and is presented in partnership with Prairie Lights Books.

At the End of the Century: Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a...

Adrienne Raphel in conversation with Micah Bateman promotional image
Adrienne Raphel in conversation with Micah Bateman
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual

Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom

Please join us to celebrate the paperback release of Adrienne Raphel's book, Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them. Adrienne Raphel will be joined by fellow Iowa Writers' Workshop alum, Micah Bateman.

To join this virtual event, register here.

The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice, says of the book, “This cultural and personal history of crosswords and their fans, written by an aficionado...

Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Kevin Brockmeier in conversation with Anjali Sachdeva promotional image
Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Kevin Brockmeier in conversation with Anjali Sachdeva
Monday, March 15, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual

Please join us to celebrate the release of Kevin Brockmeier's new collection of stories, The Ghost Variations for a reading and conversation with Anjali Sachdeva.

To join this virtual event, register here.

Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble, calls the book: “A teeming throng of stories in miniature in my favorite mode by one of my favorite writers. Brockmeier’s ghosts range from the wistful to the terrifying—I could only wish that there were one hundred more.” Carmen Maria Machado, author of...