It’s reasonably easy to describe the structure of ‘CoDex 1962,” which is the overarching title given to a collection of …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Books Sep. 29, 2018 4:57 pm2672d ago
It’s reasonably easy to describe the structure of ‘CoDex 1962,” which is the overarching title given to a collection of …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent Books Sep. 22, 2018 4:09 pm2679d ago
As author and journalist Sarah Smarsh explains in her powerful nonfiction debut ‘Heartland,” she grew up a ‘poor child in …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Books Sep. 22, 2018 4:07 pm2679d ago
D. Wystan Owen’s debut story collection, ‘Other People’s Love Affairs,” is a beautiful book. The loosely linked stories take us …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Books Sep. 22, 2018 4:06 pm2679d ago
D. Wystan Owen didn’t know he was composing a collection of linked short stories when he first wrote many of …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Books Sep. 15, 2018 4:52 pm2686d ago
The idea of the vice president becoming a detective occurred to author Andrew Shaffer during the Obama administration. ‘I thought …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books Sep. 15, 2018 4:51 pm2686d ago
After eight years as president and vice president of the United States, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are available for …
By Terri LeBlanc, correspondent
Books Sep. 15, 2018 3:57 pm2686d ago
Readers may think they are in for a roller-coaster thriller of a book full of twists and turns reading the …
By Stacie Gorkow, correspondent
Books Sep. 8, 2018 6:56 pm2693d ago
I bet if you were asked, you could either tell me your favorite apple, a story about having an apple …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Books Sep. 8, 2018 6:30 pm2693d ago
Author Jamel Brinkley has earned some of the most prestigious appointments a young writer can grasp: after graduating from the …
Stacie Gorkow, correspondent
Books Sep. 8, 2018 6:20 pm2693d ago
Do you have a favorite apple? Have you ever thought of the work and care that goes into the planting, …
Meredith Hines-Dochterman, Iowa City Public Library
Books Sep. 8, 2018 6:17 pm2693d ago
Food. Clothing. Shelter. We’ve been taught that these are our three basic needs, but what many people don’t realize – …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books Sep. 1, 2018 7:58 pm2700d ago
Mike Lankford, author of ‘Becoming da Vinci,” doesn’t always follow the well-worn path. For example, he first applied to the …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Books Sep. 1, 2018 1:29 pm2700d ago
‘After the Winter,” a mesmerizing new novel from Guadalupe Nettel follows the lives of two solitary people as they slowly …
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