Please join us for a reading from Yi Sang: Selected Works with one of its translators, poet Jack Jung, as well as a conversation with author Alexander Chee.

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Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang’s works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of world literature in the early twentieth century and the political upheaval of 1930s Japanese occupied Korea. While his life ended prematurely at the age of twenty-seven, Yi Sang’s work...

Please join Prairie Lights and the Iowa City Book Festival for an exciting reading with Marilynne Robinson, in conversation with Lan Samantha Chang.

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Marilynne Robinson's new novel, Jack, is a New York Times Bestseller. Casey Cep of The New Yorker, says of the book, "Jack is the fourth novel in Robinson’s Gilead series, an intergenerational saga of race, religion, family, and forgiveness centered on a small Iowa town. But it is not accurate to call it a...

Please join us on the lawn of the Dey House/ Glenn Schaeffer Library for a literary grove tree planting event on Friday, 10/23 at 4:15pm. 

The trees to be planted are:

a White Oak and an Osage Orange from William Faulkner's garden a Birch from Robert Frost's garden a Pecan from Alex Haley's garden a Hackberry from Edgar Allan Poe's garden a Red Maple from Henry David Thoreau's garden a Sycamore and a Burr Oak from Mark Twain's garden

Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016)

Kojo (pp. 110–131) Abena (pp. 132–152)

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

Register for Stanley Reads at https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VR83aPIweoUmHz. Once registered, you will receive invitations to all Stanley Reads events.

Registration will cut off at noon the Friday preceding each event. Anyone registered after that will be added to the following...