Iowa City Book Festival

Teaching classics on Facebook, Les Misérables at 160 with Anna Barker | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

Project Guttenberg, Audible, Facebook, and Zoom in the Afterlife of The Decameron, Paradise Lost, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, and Les Misérables. A session with Professor Anna Barker.

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Author of "Shared Sisterhood" Beth A. Livingston | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

Dr. Beth A. Livingston is a professor, consultant, author, and speaker focused on human resources, gender & diversity, and the management of work & family–all in the service of the...

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Fall 2022 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel: Writing the Not-Self

A conversation between four IWP 2022 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Writing the Not-Self."

About the authors:

Safinah Danish Elahi (fiction writer, poet; Pakistan...

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2021 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel: Reality Hunger | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

Join International Writing Program (IWP) writers-in-residence and members of the public in person or online (livestreamed at bit.ly/fallresicpl) for an Iowa City Book Festival (Oct. 18-25:...

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Chuy Renteria | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

Chuy Renteria will discuss his debut book, We Heard It When We Were Young. In this book from University of Iowa Press, Renteria tells the story of a young boy, first-generation Mexican American,...

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Kristy Nabhan-Warren | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

Kristy Nabhan-Warren will discuss her latest book, Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland.

Kristy Nabhan-Warren, the V. O. and Elizabeth Kahl...

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Gregory Galloway | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

Award-winning Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Gregory Galloway will read from and discuss his third novel, Just Thieves, a classic noir that follows recovering addicts and accomplished house...

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Habib Tengour & Pierre Joris | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

The Book Festival partners with the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program for an event with poets and translators Habib Tengour and Pierre Joris.

Fall 2021 IWP participant...

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Marc Rahe & Julie Hanson | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

A joint poetry reading by these Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates. Hanson is the author of Unbeknownst, an Iowa Poetry Prize winner, and the new The Audible and the Evident. Rahe’s latest...

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