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Apr 19, 2024

Apr 19, 2024

7:00 PM

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Writer Matthew Clark, a graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program, will read from his debut nonfiction book, Bjarki, Not Bjarki (University of Iowa Press), at Prairie Lights Books on Thursday, April 18 at 7 p.m. This event, which is open to the public, is part of the NWP Alumni Reading Series.

Apr 19, 2024

7:00 PM

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Nonfiction Writing Program alum Matthew Clark will read from Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences, which began as a magazine-style essay about Bjarki Thor Gunnarsson, a climate change denier and conspiracy theorizer who also happens to manufacture the widest, purest, most metaphorical pine boards around. Set mostly in rural Maine, Bjarki, Not Bjarki combines personal narrative, immersive journalism, and environmental rumination, all told in a distinctive e...

Apr 26, 2024

Apr 26, 2024

5:30 PM

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Join us at 5:30 pm with the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program Alumni Reading Series! NWP alum and former Prairie Lights employee Lucas Mann will read from his new book, Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, and be joined in conversation with author Melissa Febos. "Attachments is an intelligent and searching exploration of vulnerability in all its forms. Lucas Mann's essays attain a naturalness of form without ever losing their penetrating insight and gorgeous sensibility. S...

Apr 28, 2024

Apr 28, 2024

2:00 PM

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Please join us at the Iowa City Public Library for a special afternoon event with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley, who will read from her new novel, Lucky. She will be joined in conversation by Iowa Public Radio's Charity Nebbe. Lucky is a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times. "Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her Uncle Drew took her to th...

May 4, 2024

May 4, 2024

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Join us for the grand opening of the exhibition, To My Friends at Horn: Keith Haring and Iowa City. Opening on Keith Haring’s birthday, this exhibition celebrates the artist’s legacy and honors the many individuals who shaped his visits to Iowa City during the 1980s. The 1989 mural Haring painted for Ernest Horn Elementary School, which is on loan to the Stanley Museum of Art during the school’s renovation, anchors the exhibition and is accompanied by other works of art, photographs, and ar...