Jennifer Croft, a graduate of the Iowa MFA program in Literary Translation, has won the Man Booker International Prize for …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent Books Jun. 9, 2018 4:56 pm2744d ago
Jennifer Croft, a graduate of the Iowa MFA program in Literary Translation, has won the Man Booker International Prize for …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent Books Jun. 4, 2018 9:39 am2749d ago
Fourteen-year-old Saudah lives in one of the poorest areas of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. She wears a uniform and …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Books Jun. 4, 2018 9:39 am2749d ago
Marilynne Robinson’s new collection of essays, ‘What are We Doing Here?” invites us to consider some of the most pressing …
By Katie Mills Gorgio, correspondent Books Jun. 4, 2018 9:39 am2749d ago
Jacqueline Woodson is becoming quite the living literary legend. She will visit Cedar Rapids Friday evening as the second speaker …
By Terri Leblanc, correspondent Books May. 28, 2018 12:36 am2757d ago
Nothing sounds better than ‘Paris in the spring” when gloomy skies loom over the Midwest in the early weeks of …
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Books May. 28, 2018 12:35 am2757d ago
Denis Johnson, who died on May 24, 2017, was not the most famous graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, but …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Books May. 28, 2018 12:35 am2757d ago
During a sleepless night in her early twenties, writer and illustrator Hallie Bateman had a sobering realization: one day her …
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By Katie Mills Giorgio, correspondent Even after more than two decades as a writer, Lisa Gardner still loves to interact …
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Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern …
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By Stacie Gorkow, correspondent ‘Let Me Lie” is the third novel by Clare Mackintosh, a former UK detective who uses …
By Terri Leblanc, correspondent
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As technology continues to infiltrate our lives and rumors of Amazon’s Alexa listening in on our conversations surface, readers may …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books May. 20, 2018 7:37 pm2764d ago
The 10 stories in Curtis Sittenfeld’s new collection, ‘You Think It, I’ll Say It,” find men and women who are …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books May. 20, 2018 7:37 pm2764d ago
Curtis Sittenfeld didn’t think a short story collection was a likely addition to her oeuvre. The Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum …
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