Did you know that rhubarb is also known as pie plant? I hadn't heard, (or at least I didn't remember hearing), rhubarb called pie plant, (or pieplant), until I lived in Dubuque. However, a little online digging shows that term pie plant has...
Author Archive for Maeve
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2015
Last week as I was walking by the New Fiction books a colleague handed me, HORRORSTÖR by Grady Hendrix. How fortuitous. I was heading off to Chicago-land that weekend and would be making my inaugural visit to IKEA, and this title was the...
Tuesday, Mar 17, 2015
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! In searching out where the Irish and their descendents live in the United States I came across a good number of maps. The first I found was from an article in Forbes listing the cities in the United States with highest...
Tuesday, Jan 20, 2015
Are there truths behind the folklore, proverbs and phrases that many of us hear growing up? You know what I mean, like the woolly or fuzzy bear caterpillar, and if its black stripes predict it will be a colder winter than most. As for the...
Monday, Jan 5, 2015
Well, it finally happened - win ter has arrived and with it snow and bone-chilling cold. We are asked about where to find out about road conditions and the best source for state and interstate highways is the Iowa Department of Transportation, (
Monday, Dec 29, 2014
Best Food Writing 2014, edited by Holly Hughes, is a delightful collection from food writers of all stripes; from chef-writers and food bloggers to food magazine and cookbook writers. Now in its 15th year, Best Food Writing continues to provide a...
Tuesday, Dec 2, 2014
One of my favorite novelists, Kent Haruf , died on Sunday at the age of 71. I first discovered Haruf's lyrical writing when his wonderful 1999 work Plainsong was under consideration as the inaugural All Iowa Reads selection n 2003, Peace Like a...
Friday, Nov 7, 2014
I admit it, I can't get enough of Jane Smiley. And thanks to a sales rep from Random House and the recent Iowa City Book Festival I was not only able to get a advance reading copy of Some Luck , Smiley's latest novel, but I, with several hundred...
Wednesday, Oct 15, 2014
The National Book Foundation announced the National Book Award Finalists this morning. Our own Iowa City author, Marilynne Robinson, is on the shortlist for Lila, her third novel about the fictional Iowa town of Gilead. The winners will be...
Tuesday, Oct 14, 2014
We recently helped a patron find information from a Kansas City City Directory. And guess where we found it? Give up? It was Ancestry.com. (Before I go any farther let me remind you the library's subscription to this very useful resource...
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About Maeve
Maeve previously worked at the Iowa City Public Library as the Adult Services Coordinator.