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 Nonfiction, The Missouri Review, The Harvard Review, Mother Jones, The Iowa Review, and The Oxford American, and he has been...

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Willa Richards to celebrate the release of The Comfort of Monsters. She will be joined in conversation by Fatima Farheen Mirza.

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Elizabeth Wetmore, New York Times bestselling author of Valentine says of the book, "On its face, The Comfort of Monsters is a riveting page-turner that begs to be read quickly, compulsively. But page by page, this electrifying debut by Willa Richards weaves an increasingly...

Join Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni and former faculty Chris Offutt and Elizabeth McCracken for a conversation about Offutt's The Killing Hills. Of the new book, author James Sallis says, “Quite aside from being one of our finest storytellers, in his first crime novel Chris Offutt reminds us as always of how much we’ve pushed away from us—the natural world, kindness, community—and that the time will come when we reach again and it’s no longer there for the asking."

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Please join us for a reading with Melissa Ginsburg to celebrate the release of The House Uptown. She will be joined in conversation by Alexander Chee.

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Jonathan Lethem says of The House Uptown, "Melissa Ginsburg's page-turner is a devastatingly simple trap: characters so beguiling you settle in for a charming coming-of-age fable before realizing the spring is snapping shut on an inexorable and satisfying calamity. The theme is the-past-isn't-dead-it...