K.L. Cook crafts stories populated by characters who seem wholly real. Each story in Cook’s award-winning 2011 collection, ‘Love Songs …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Books Feb. 22, 2015 8:00 am3949d ago
K.L. Cook crafts stories populated by characters who seem wholly real. Each story in Cook’s award-winning 2011 collection, ‘Love Songs …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Books Feb. 22, 2015 8:00 am3949d ago
‘Welcome to Braggsville” (William Morrow, 355 pages, $25.99), the new novel by Iowa Writers’ Workshop grad and current visiting professor …
By Stacie Gorkow, correspondent Books Feb. 22, 2015 8:00 am3949d ago
‘The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins is everywhere – book blogs, magazines and on bookstore shelves – right …
Katie Mills Giorgio Books Feb. 22, 2015 8:00 am3949d ago
IOWA CITY – When it’s the right word, just one word – or even just a sound – can tell …
By Fergie Ward, Longfellow Elementary School Books Feb. 22, 2015 8:00 am3949d ago
David LaRochelle’s ‘Moo!” is a funny and charming tale of adventure. Who wouldn’t love a story about a cow joy-riding …
Books Aug. 18, 2021 2:03 pm1580d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – This year’s Linn Area Reads selection is ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” the 1962 novel by …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Books Feb. 15, 2015 8:00 am3956d ago
‘A Replacement Life,” the debut novel from Boris Fishman, is many stories in one. It’s the story of Slava Gelman, …
By Stacie Gorkow, correspondent
Books Feb. 15, 2015 8:00 am3956d ago
After reading two books with depressing characters, I was ready for a light, fun read. I knew Beth Kendrick wouldn’t …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Books Feb. 15, 2015 8:00 am3956d ago
Author and New Yorker Boris Fishman is no stranger to Cedar Rapids. The summer after his freshman year at Princeton …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Books Feb. 15, 2015 8:00 am3956d ago
When we think of leaders in the civil rights movement, we often think of people like the Rev. Dr. Martin …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books Feb. 15, 2015 8:00 am3956d ago
A couple – Dale and Hoa – travels to Mexico’s Chihuahua Desert, tracing the apocryphal path of the writer Ambrose …
Books Feb. 8, 2015 8:00 am3963d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – X marks the spot next to the most important piece in the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art’s …
By Meredith Hines-Dochterman
Books Feb. 8, 2015 8:00 am3963d ago
IOWA CITY – February is Love Your Library month at the Iowa City Public Library. The annual celebration is an …
Althea Cole
Vanessa Miller
By Christopher Weber And Mike Balsamo
The Gazette has been informing Iowans with in-depth local news coverage and insightful analysis for over 140 years. Support our award-winning, independent journalism with a subscription today.
© 2025 The Gazette | All Rights Reserved.
Subscriber Services
Our Journalists
Sports Desk
Our Columnists
Our Writers
Our Writers
Our Photojournalists
Data
More Gazette
Other Links
