Essayist Samantha Irby is the sort of person you feel like you’ve known your entire life, even though the title …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent Books Jun. 11, 2017 2:00 pm3148d ago
Essayist Samantha Irby is the sort of person you feel like you’ve known your entire life, even though the title …
By Melia Tatman, correspondent Living Jun. 11, 2017 9:12 am3148d ago
When Iowa City author/illustrator Jennifer Black Reinhardt saw her sister-in-law’s cat accidentally covered in blue chalk dust it left a …
Katie Mills Giorgio Books Jun. 10, 2017 2:46 pm3149d ago
I may be late to the game on reading Kwame Alexander’s 2015 Newbury Medal winning novel The Crossover. But as …
Katie Mills Giorgio Books Jun. 10, 2017 2:32 pm3149d ago
Kwame Alexander has a great laugh. Book lovers in Eastern Iowa are sure to hear it on Friday evening when …
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Talking to Anne Perry is a bit like talking to a philosopher, and one with a lovely English accent at …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Living Jun. 4, 2017 1:10 am3155d ago
In her memoir, ‘Give a Girl a Knife,” Amy Thielen recounts her culinary journey. Or to be more accurate: her …
By Melia Tatman, correspondent
Living Jun. 4, 2017 1:05 am3155d ago
Ever since 1979 when best-selling author Anne Perry introduced her characters Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Ellison Pitt in ‘The …
Living May. 28, 2017 2:00 pm3162d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — Don Wedewer faced death — twice. While serving in World War II, he lost both his legs …
Laura Farmer, correspondent
Living May. 28, 2017 12:33 pm3162d ago
The sixth novel by Dubuque resident and best-selling author Heather Gundenkauf centers around a decidedly personal topic for the writer. …
Laura Farmer, correspondent
Living May. 28, 2017 12:24 pm3162d ago
Heather Gudenkauf has done it again. Her sixth novel, ‘Not a Sound” is a gripping thriller with just the right …
Stacie Gorkow, correspondent
Living May. 28, 2017 12:24 pm3162d ago
I was sufficiently creeped out by this book so much that I didn’t even want to read it. This merging of …
Laura Farmer, correspondent
Living May. 28, 2017 12:25 pm3162d ago
Cornet player Bix Beiderbecke wasn’t your average guy from Davenport as Brendan Wolfe explains in his academic work, ‘Finding Bix: …
Rob Cline, correspondent
Living May. 28, 2017 12:25 pm3162d ago
In the acknowledgments at the end of ‘Beneath the Bonfire,” Nickolas Butler opens with: ‘Infinite thanks to the Iowa Writers’ …
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