The Center for the Book is holding an Open House on Friday the Ninth! Join us for a Faculty Show, Displays of Student Work, Demonstrations, and Refreshments. All of the Center's concentrations in Book Arts will be featured, including Bookbinding, Papermaking, Letterpress Printing, Lettering Arts, and Artists' Books. We hope to see you there!

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The Writers' Workshop presents an in-person reading and Q&A with Sheila Heti.

Sheila Heti is the author of 10 books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? She recently published her second children’s book, A Garden of Creatures, illustrated by Esme Shapiro. In early 2024, Alphabetical Diaries will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Knopf Canada. The book, which was excerpted over 10 weeks in The New York Times, has...

Please join us with writer Fritz McDonald and artist Thomas C. Jackson, who will show images from and talk about their incredible new graphic novel, 2184 ½.

In 2184 ½ the Deconstructed States of America look like a cross between The Road Warrior and Catch-22. They are ruled over by The Ones, the passive-aggressive descendants of today’s one percent. Inspired by the radical nationalists of the 21st century, they have institutionalized autocracy. In a seemingly powerless country broken into...

Thursday, Dec. 1, 7 p.m. - Lan Samantha Chang, director of the UI Iowa Writers Workshop, and Derek Nnuro will discuss how objects in the Homecoming exhibition connect to the themes presented in Chang’s novel The Family Chao.

Participants are encouraged to have completed the novel before the first meeting.

The Family Chao is a highly entertaining literary mystery that portrays a Chinese American family dealing with the death of their patriarch and the ensuing trial in the families small...