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Tony Tulathimutte & Kai Ihns: Visiting Faculty Reading
Thursday, April 9, 2026 8:00pm to 9:00pm
Dey House

Join us for a reading with two members of the Workshop's visiting faculty:

Tony Tulathimutte’s novel Private Citizens was called “the first great millennial novel” by New York Magazine. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has written for The New York Times, VICE, WIRED, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, N+1, Playboy, The Paris Review, and many others. He has received a 2017 Whiting Award, an O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Fellowship, and appeared as...

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Live from Prairie Lights | Daniel Poppick - 'The Copywriter'
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Daniel Poppick will read from his new novel, The Copywriter. Described as "A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work," The Copywriter was named one of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026 and is praised by Katy Waldman of The New Yorker as a book that "Tune[s] in to the metaphysical dimension of everyday suffering, articulating it with a metrical precision...Poppick's point isn't that everything matters, it's that anything might...

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CLAS Postgraduate Visiting Writers Reading featuring Josh Balicki, Eli Campbell, Spencer Jones, & Brian Orozco
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 7:00pm to 8:30pm
English-Philosophy Building
CLAS Postgraduate Visiting Writers Josh Balicki (fiction), Eli Campbell (playwriting), Spencer Jones (nonfiction), & Brian Orozco (poetry) will present their writing.
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Book Club at the Museum
Monday, April 6, 2026 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Old Capitol Museum

Students, join the book club that meets monthly inside the iconic Old Capitol Museum, with books of all genres, chosen by you. Come read, wonder, and connect as we transform this timeless building into a cozy retreat for shared stories and spirited discussion in the Pentacrest Museums first ever student book club.

For the Spring 2026 semester, Book Club @ the Museum will meet on the following Mondays from 7 to 8 p.m. at Old Cap:

Feb. 2 (Please note: for February's book club meeting, we'll get to...