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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...

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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...