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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Chris Offutt in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken

Monday, June 28, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual
Join Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni and former faculty Chris Offutt and Elizabeth McCracken for a conversation about Offutt's The Killing Hills. Of the new book, author James Sallis says, “Quite aside from being one of our finest storytellers, in his first crime novel Chris Offutt reminds us as always of how much we’ve pushed away from us—the natural world, kindness, community—and that the time will come when we reach again and it’s no longer there for the asking." To register for this virtual...

Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Melissa Ginsburg in conversation with Alexander Chee

Friday, June 11, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual
Please join us for a reading with Melissa Ginsburg to celebrate the release of The House Uptown. She will be joined in conversation by Alexander Chee. To join this virtual event, register here. Jonathan Lethem says of The House Uptown, "Melissa Ginsburg's page-turner is a devastatingly simple trap: characters so beguiling you settle in for a charming coming-of-age fable before realizing the spring is snapping shut on an inexorable and satisfying calamity. The theme is the-past-isn't-dead-it...
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Afrofuturism as Expression

Thursday, June 3, 2021 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Virtual
Afrofuturism is an invitation into the portals of Black possibilities within familiar and unfamiliar realms. Join us for a conversation moderated by Stanley Associate Writer & Collections/Exhibitions Associate Derek (DK) Nnuro on the expressions of those possibilities in literature and dance, and a work of Black abstract art from the collection. Q&A to follow. Join us on Zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/95714165943 Nana Nkweti is a Cameroonian-American writer, Caine Prize finalist, and graduate...

Virtual Reading: Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal Poetry Rx: How 50 Inspiring Poems Can Heal and Bring Joy To Your Life

Tuesday, May 25, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual
The David Lynch Foundation and Prairie Lights Bookstore cordially invite you to POETRY RX: How Poetry Can Heal and Bring Joy to Your Life, featuring world-renowned psychiatrist, Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., Prairie Lights Bookstore owner and published poet Jan Weissmiller, along with moderator Bob Roth, CEO of The David Lynch Foundation. To attend this virtual event, register here. Imagine your therapist writing a prescription for “Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson or a...