Iowa: Literary Legends is an exclusive virtual event featuring the University of Iowa’s Marilynne Robinson (17LHD), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal. She will read from her eagerly anticipated new novel, Jack, the final book in her canon of contemporary American fiction set in the mythical Gilead, Iowa:

“The fourth in Robinson’s luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet, [Jack is] a sad story about love, race, and Midwestern mores.”—The Observer

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On October 8th at 4:30pm, Fred Moten will receive the 2020 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Honor of Newton Arvin for the book, Black and Blur. The Truman Capote Award is a $30,000 prize and is the largest award for literary criticism in English.

Moten is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Stephen E. Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry by the African American Literature and Culture Society. A noted scholar, he is author of In the Break: The...

Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016)

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...

Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016)

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 meeting...