When ‘The Spot,” his fourth collection of short stories featuring his usual suspects of down-and-outs and troubled souls, was released …
Michael Chevy Castranova Living May. 8, 2016 9:00 am3440d ago
When ‘The Spot,” his fourth collection of short stories featuring his usual suspects of down-and-outs and troubled souls, was released …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Living May. 7, 2016 12:59 pm3441d ago
John Blair’s poems offer readers structured forms, vibrant images, and a propulsive energy. In return, they ask for sustained attention …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Living May. 1, 2016 9:00 am3447d ago
In ‘System of Ghosts,” Lindsay Tigue blends the past and the present and the communal and the personal in poems …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Living May. 1, 2016 9:00 am3447d ago
While his debut novel, ‘Private Citizens,’ is being hailed as a defining book for the millennial generation, Tony Tulathimutte didn’t …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent Living May. 1, 2016 9:00 am3447d ago
For those readers interested in an exegesis of the genealogy included in Gospel of Matthew, most would turn to theologians …
By Stacie Gorkow, correspondent
Books Apr. 23, 2016 10:02 pm3455d ago
Three best-selling authors have come together to write ‘The Forgotten Room,” a novel about three women united by one iconic …
Books Apr. 23, 2016 10:01 pm3455d ago
Donn Behnke isn’t a great writer, and it shows. He is a great coach, though, and that most definitely shows. …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Books Apr. 23, 2016 10:00 pm3455d ago
When Iowa graduate Daniel Raeburn met his wife at a party, he was stuck in an extended adolescence, as he …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books Apr. 23, 2016 9:54 pm3455d ago
As Nazi atrocities threatened the Jews of Europe, members of the American Jewish community were deeply divided over ways to …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Living Apr. 23, 2016 9:53 pm3455d ago
‘The Houseguest,” Kim Brooks’ debut novel, began as a story of characters the author loosely based on her grandparents. The …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Living Apr. 17, 2016 9:00 am3461d ago
Margo Jefferson’s memoir, ‘Negroland,” grew out of several intersecting impulses. First, the Pulitzer Prize-winning theater and book critic and author …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Living Apr. 17, 2016 9:00 am3461d ago
In her memoir, ‘Negroland,’ Margo Jefferson describes the hard won but tenuous position of upper echelon black families in the …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Living Apr. 17, 2016 9:00 am3461d ago
Set in Western Iowa at the end of World War I, Michelle Hoover’s second novel, ‘Bottomland,’ is the story of …
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