Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom Please join us to celebrate the paperback release of Adrienne Raphel's book, Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them. Adrienne Raphel will be joined by fellow Iowa Writers' Workshop alum, Micah Bateman. To join this virtual event, register here. The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice, says of the book, “This cultural and personal history of crosswords and their fans, written by an aficionado...

Please join us to celebrate the release of Kevin Brockmeier's new collection of stories, The Ghost Variations for a reading and conversation with Anjali Sachdeva. To join this virtual event, register here. Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble, calls the book: “A teeming throng of stories in miniature in my favorite mode by one of my favorite writers. Brockmeier’s ghosts range from the wistful to the terrifying—I could only wish that there were one hundred more.” Carmen Maria Machado, author of...

Please join us for a reading with Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Gregory Brown to celebrate the release of his debut novel, The Lowering Days and a conversation with Mark Mayer, author of Aerialists. To join this virtual event, register here. Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Chances Are... says of the novel, ​“In The Lowering Days, Gregory Brown gives us a lush, almost mythic portrait of a very specific place and time that feels all the more universal for its...

Stanley Reads puts the museum’s recent exhibitions in conversation with literature. This spring we will read At the End of the Century: Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and consider connections to the Waswo X. Waswo Collection of Indian Printmaking and other works from the Stanley’s collection. Stanley Reads is led by Kimberly Datchuk, curator of learning & engagement, and is presented in partnership with Prairie Lights Books. At the End of the Century: Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a...