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Diptych Fall 2021 Reading

Thursday, October 21, 2021 7:00pm
Public Space One
DIPTYCH A collaborative reading event between the Iowa Writers' Workshop and University of Iowa Center for the Book at Public Space One Featuring: Dani Charles Kami Nzeribe Keren Alfred Kimberly Obee Sarah Minor
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Iowa City Book Festival: Julie Hanson and Mark Rahe

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 7:00pm
Iowa City Public Library
Poets Julie Hanson and Mark Rahe will read from their latest books The Audible and the Evident and GRAVITY WELL at the Iowa City Public Library.  Marc Rahe received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have appeared in GutcultiO: A Journal of New American PoetryjubilatnotnostrumsPainted Bride QuarterlyPetri PressSixth Finch, and other literary journals. Marc lives in Iowa City and works for a human service agency. Julie Hanson is the author of Unbeknownst, an Iowa...
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Stanley Reads Book Club - Fall 2021

Monday, October 18, 2021 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Stanley Reads continues this fall with Luis Alberto Urrea’s National Best Seller The House of Broken Angels (2018). The novel follows the De La Cruz family across two days and through life and death: the matriarch’s funeral and the patriarch’s birthday celebration. Urrea weaves a tale of family mythology, promises, and betrayals that took the De La Cruzes from La Paz, Mexico to San Diego, California. Derek Nnuro, associate curator of special projects, and Amanda Lensing, Senior Living...
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Prairie Lights Virtual | Geoffrey Hilsabeck in conversation with Suzanne Buffam

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual
Please join us for a reading and conversation with Geoffrey Hilsabeck to celebrate the release of American Vaudeville. He will be joined in conversation by Suzanne Buffam. To join this virtual event, register here. M. Alison Kibler, the author of Censoring Racial Ridicule, says of the book, “Hilsabeck recounts the often bizarre details of vaudeville, the most popular live entertainment in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and, more importantly, he evokes the feeling of...