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Live from Prairie Lights: Robin Hemley in conversation with Inara Verzemnieks
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Former Director of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, Robin Hemley will read from his new book, Borderline Citizen. In Borderline Citizen Hemley wrestles with what it means to be a citizen of the world, taking readers on a singular journey through the hinterlands of national identity.  "Robin Hemley has traveled to more countries than just about anyone I know, and along the way he's collected vital observations on the tragic absurdity of nationalism and the implicit violence of a world...

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Art at the End of the World No-Read Book Club
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Public Space One

THE WORLD IS ENDING! Again. Doomsdayers and apocalyptic prophets have warned of coming calamity for millennia. Still, humanity persists. This book club explores world endings in literature.

This week’s book is The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.

This UI Stanley Museum of Art program is graciously hosted in partnership with Public Space One.

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Mark Levine and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Thursday, March 5, 2020 8:00pm
Glenn Schaeffer Library

Writers’ Workshop faculty member, Mark Levine, and visiting faculty member, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, will read from their work on Thursday, March 5 in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 8 p.m.

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning novel House of Stone, on which she has given public lectures at Oxford University, Vassar College and the Nordic Africa Institute. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has joined the Writing...

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Art at the End of the World No-Read Book Club
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Public Space One

THE WORLD IS ENDING! Again. Doomsdayers and apocalyptic prophets have warned of coming calamity for millennia. Still, humanity persists. This book club explores world endings in literature.

This week’s book is Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.

This UI Stanley Museum of Art program is graciously hosted in partnership with Public Space One.