From the editors of the Iowa City-based Brink Literary Journal, Malleable and True: A Hybrid Craft Anthology is the first publication of the newly launched literary imprint Brink Books. With curiosity as the driving force, select contributors from the Journal's first 10 issues re-engage with their previously published pieces by presenting new work, craft prompts, and reflections on hybrid writing. The result is a dynamic collection designed for readers, writers, and educators exploring the...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with visiting fiction faculty members Kevin Brockmeier and Carmen Maria Machado.

In addition to his latest book, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories, Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and The Truth About Celia; the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer; the children’s novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery; and a memoir of his...

Bestselling author Jess Walter will read from his newest novel, So Far Gone. Set in contemporary times and featuring a protagonist named Rhys Kinnick who has "gone off the grid" (harpercollins.com), So Far Gone follows Rhys as he emerges from his chosen path of solitude to rescue his missing daughter and "save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia." Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Tom Lake and The Dutch House, praises So Far Gone as "a warm, funny...

Jess Walter is the author of seven previous novels, including the bestsellers The Cold Millions and Beautiful Ruins, the National Book Award Finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction, collected in The Angel of Rome and We Live in Water, has won the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize and appeared three times in Best American Short Stories. He lives in his hometown of Spokane, Washington.

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