1. “Inferno” Brown 2. “The Heist” Evanovich 3. “Orphan Train” Kline 4. “Joyland” King 5. “World War Z: An Oral …
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1. “Inferno” Brown 2. “The Heist” Evanovich 3. “Orphan Train” Kline 4. “Joyland” King 5. “World War Z: An Oral …
Evan Roskos’s “Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets” (Houghton Mifflin, 2013) is one of the best books I’ve read in …
IOWA CITY – The Iowa City Book Festival will celebrate its fifth year in the City of Literature with an …
It’s the early 1970s and Pepper Porter, the main character (and lead guitar player) in Barry Wightman’s novel “Pepperland,” is …
There is a denseness to Ben Miller’s prose that, at times, impedes the reader’s progress through his memoir. One gets …
Anna, the main character in Alina Simone’s debut novel “Note to Self,” has recently been let go from her cubicle …
Gillian Flynn is a really lovely person. Normal in fact. Given the characters she writes – truly villainous, sociopathic females …
Dennis Lehane says he is never short on ideas. “Getting ideas is not the problem, ever,” he says. “When people …
1. “Animal, Mineral, Radical” Loren 2. “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” Marra 3. “The Illusion of Separateness” Van Booy 4. …
Barbara Delinsky’s “Sweet Salt Air” ($18.19, 416 pages, St. Martin’s Press) is the story of two friends who have drifted …
It’s 1954, and the comics industry is under attack for corrupting America’s youth. When the leading critic of comics is …
As one of the organizers of the Out Loud! The Metro Library Network Series, I was early to pick up …
Throughout the last couple of years, downtown Iowa City has undergone fair amount of change. Buildings have come down. New …
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