‘When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral.” So begins William Faulkner’s 1930 short story, ‘A …
By Jung Yun, Washington Post Books Mar. 14, 2020 2:58 pm2013d ago
‘When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral.” So begins William Faulkner’s 1930 short story, ‘A …
By Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post Books Mar. 14, 2020 2:58 pm2013d ago
The bulletin that crackled over the police radio deep in Iowa corn country began innocuously enough: A farmer had spotted …
Art Mar. 12, 2020 10:31 pm2014d ago
Organizers have canceled the Mission Creek Festival, changing course Thursday night just days after announcing Iowa City’s annual festival of …
Art Mar. 11, 2020 10:21 pm2015d ago
Sarah Lacina of Cedar Rapids looked skyward and mouthed ‘Thank you, Lord,” as she survived the Day 14 Tribal Council …
By Ed Condran, correspondent
Music Mar. 11, 2020 3:59 pm2015d ago
When The Revelers’ Chris Miller conjures images of Cedar Rapids, the laid-back saxophonist thinks of java breaks. ‘The last time …
Health Care and Medicine Mar. 11, 2020 2:40 pm2016d ago
The 45th annual SaPaDaPaSo parade, a Cedar Rapids St. Patrick’s Day tradition, has been canceled due to fears about the …
Alison Gowans Art Mar. 9, 2020 11:07 am2018d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – In the Smith gallery at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library last month, people pressed …
By Ron Charles, Washington Post Books Mar. 7, 2020 9:58 pm2019d ago
Please don’t do this. Don’t write a novel about trying to write a novel. It’s cliche and insular and lazy. …
By Jake Cline, Washington Post
Books Mar. 7, 2020 9:39 pm2019d ago
‘How will the last generation know it is the last generation?” someone asks in Jenny Offill’s anxious and funny new …
By Silvia Moreno-Garcia and and Lavie Tidhar, Washington Post
Books Mar. 8, 2020 6:54 pm2018d ago
The coronavirus outbreak feels like something out of a science fiction – or horror – novel. Indeed, novelists have been …
By Ellen Akins, Washington Post
Books Mar. 7, 2020 9:38 pm2019d ago
‘Milkman,” Anna Burns’ extraordinary third novel, won the Man Booker Prize in 2018, clearing the flight path for this first …
By Marion Wini, Washington Post
Books Mar. 7, 2020 9:37 pm2019d ago
In 1999, Helen Fremont published a best-selling, critically acclaimed memoir called ‘After Long Silence.” The book described how she and …
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