Iowa City Book Festival

Author Visit: "This Story Will Change" with Elizabeth Crane | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his...

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Author Visit: "They Knew" with Sarah Kendzior | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

In "They Knew," New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior explores the United States’ “culture of conspiracy,” putting forth a timely and unflinching argument: uncritical faith in...

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On Critical Race Theory with Victor Ray | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how the often mischaracterized intellectual movement became a...

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Author Visit: María Sánchez with Curtis Bauer | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

Curtis Bauer and María Sánchez will discuss Sánchez’s new memoir, Land of Women. Sánchez, who will appear via Zoom, is a third-generation Spanish veterinarian whose memoir looks at how we view...

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Teaching classics on Facebook, Les Misérables at 160 with Anna Barker | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

Project Guttenberg, Audible, Facebook, and Zoom in the Afterlife of The Decameron, Paradise Lost, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, and Les Misérables. A session with Professor Anna Barker.

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Author of "Shared Sisterhood" Beth A. Livingston | Iowa City Book Festival 2022

Dr. Beth A. Livingston is a professor, consultant, author, and speaker focused on human resources, gender & diversity, and the management of work & family–all in the service of the...

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Fall 2022 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel: Writing the Not-Self

A conversation between four IWP 2022 Fall Residency writers on the theme of "Writing the Not-Self."

About the authors:

Safinah Danish Elahi (fiction writer, poet; Pakistan...

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2021 International Writing Program (IWP) Panel: Reality Hunger | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

Join International Writing Program (IWP) writers-in-residence and members of the public in person or online (livestreamed at bit.ly/fallresicpl) for an Iowa City Book Festival (Oct. 18-25:...

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Chuy Renteria | Iowa City Book Festival 2021

Chuy Renteria will discuss his debut book, We Heard It When We Were Young. In this book from University of Iowa Press, Renteria tells the story of a young boy, first-generation Mexican American,...

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