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Live from Prairie Lights | A.M. Homes

Friday, September 22, 2023 5:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Join us for a special 5 p.m. event with Writers' Workshop alum A.M. Homes, who will read from her latest novel, The Unfolding. "A dazzling portrait of a family—and a country—in flux. A story about what happens when truths that once seemed self-evident turn out to be neither self-evident nor even true. A.M. Homes has perfectly captured an America as it lurches toward freak-out, and a family as it shreds the lies it's been living by. The Unfolding is hilarious and shocking and heartbreaking and...
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Prairie Lights Online | Josh Barkan in conversation with Andre Dubus III

Monday, September 18, 2023 7:00pm
Virtual
Please join us on Zoom!  Register HERE. Josh Barkan will read from his new memoir, Wonder Travels. "In this compulsively readable memoir, Josh Barkan does something remarkable: he combines the edifying power of the travelogue with the emotional truth-seeking promise of the memoir, taking us through the streets of New York to the wilds of Mexico, through Madrid and Marrakesh and the mountains of Morocco, through the piazzas of Rome then back to Mexico, all from the point of view of a man trying...
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Humanities in Medicine: Dr. Liana Meffert

Monday, September 18, 2023 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility
Reception will follow. Event is free and open to the public, but please register here
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Live from Prairie Lights | Toby Altman & S. Yarberry

Friday, September 15, 2023 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Writers' Workshop graduate Toby Altman and Tyger Quarterly founder and editor S. Yarberry will read from their poetry. Toby Altman will read from Discipline Park (Wendy's Subway). "Discipline Park embraces the pillars and steel of the institutional structures meant not only to house us at our most vulnerable moments but also to serve as facilities to research and study us. It is a fascinating subject when handled so skillfully and with such profound understanding of how we are shaped by the...