Marilynne Robinson’s new collection of essays, ‘What are We Doing Here?” invites us to consider some of the most pressing …
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Marilynne Robinson’s new collection of essays, ‘What are We Doing Here?” invites us to consider some of the most pressing …
Jacqueline Woodson is becoming quite the living literary legend. She will visit Cedar Rapids Friday evening as the second speaker …
Nothing sounds better than ‘Paris in the spring” when gloomy skies loom over the Midwest in the early weeks of …
Denis Johnson, who died on May 24, 2017, was not the most famous graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, but …
During a sleepless night in her early twenties, writer and illustrator Hallie Bateman had a sobering realization: one day her …
By Katie Mills Giorgio, correspondent Even after more than two decades as a writer, Lisa Gardner still loves to interact …
Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern …
By Stacie Gorkow, correspondent ‘Let Me Lie” is the third novel by Clare Mackintosh, a former UK detective who uses …
As technology continues to infiltrate our lives and rumors of Amazon’s Alexa listening in on our conversations surface, readers may …
The 10 stories in Curtis Sittenfeld’s new collection, ‘You Think It, I’ll Say It,” find men and women who are …
Curtis Sittenfeld didn’t think a short story collection was a likely addition to her oeuvre. The Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum …
A few thousand people just ran the initial CRANDIC marathon, half-marathon, and 5k last month. The full route started at …
Tom Wolfe, an early practitioner of ‘new journalism” who captured the mood and culture of America across five decades with …
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