In the preface to his new collection of essays, Charles D’Ambrosio writes of his initial attraction to the form: ‘Essays …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Books Nov. 16, 2014 8:00 am4046d ago
In the preface to his new collection of essays, Charles D’Ambrosio writes of his initial attraction to the form: ‘Essays …
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FICTION/NON-FICTION 1. ‘The Long Haul” Kinney 2. ‘Killing Patton” O’Reilly 3. ‘Gray Mountain” Grisham 4. ‘Make it Ahead” Garten 5. …
By Mary Sharp, correspondent Books Nov. 9, 2014 8:00 am4053d ago
You’ll find charm and humanity aplenty in ‘Yesterdays: Memoirs from the Gray Hawk Writers” (CreateSpace, 319 pages, $14.95). Many of …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Books Nov. 9, 2014 8:00 am4053d ago
The stories in Vivek Shraya’s collection ‘God Loves Hair” (Arsenal Pulp Press, 112 page, $18.95) are linked vignettes describing the …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent Books Nov. 9, 2014 8:00 am4053d ago
Most of us would not have considered writing a memoir when we were just 18. How much life had we …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books Nov. 9, 2014 5:00 am4053d ago
The title couldn’t be much clearer: ‘The is a Book for the Parents of Gay Kids” is, in fact, a …
By Mary Sharp, correspondent
Books Nov. 10, 2014 11:17 am4051d ago
IOWA CITY – The Gray Hawk Memoir Writers Group has capped 15 years of meetings and writings with the publication …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Books Nov. 2, 2014 9:00 am4060d ago
In her Pulitzer-prize winning novel ‘Gilead,” Marilynne Robinson explored the depths of the aged Rev. John Ames as he wrote …
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Books Nov. 2, 2014 9:00 am4060d ago
FICTION/NON-FICTION 1. ‘A Quilt for Christmas” Dallas 2. ‘Gray Mountain” Grisham 3. ‘Critter Sitter” Richards 4. ‘That Tree” Hirsch 5. …
By Jacqueline Briggs Martin, guest columnist
Books Nov. 2, 2014 9:00 am4060d ago
It is fitting that November is the month when we celebrate gratitude. Who has not looked up into a tapestry …
By Chris Clair, University of Iowa News Services
Books Nov. 2, 2014 9:00 am4060d ago
IOWA CITY – Bernice Chauly has long thought that University of Iowa is the place to go in North America …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books Nov. 2, 2014 8:59 am4060d ago
Joseph Dobrian’s new novel, ‘Ambitions,” is itself fairly ambitious. The novel, which is set in State City, Iowa (a re-imagining …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books Oct. 26, 2014 9:00 am4067d ago
Matt Freedman began a handwritten journal on Oct. 3, 2012. The visual artist, who is a graduate of the University …
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