David Laskin discusses his nonfiction work, The Children’s Blizzard, which details the blizzard that hit the Midwest on January 12, 1888. Laskin details the terrible storm, pointing out that the temperature dropped 80 degrees in one day. ...
Author Amy Stewart discusses her nonfiction work, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms. Stewart, an avid gardener, notes that she first became interested in earthworms during a move when she discovered the species of...
Contents: Introduction by University Provost Michael Hogan (00:00:00) - Nonfiction Writing Program Director Robin Hemley (00:06:23) - Iowa Review Editor David Hamilton (00:11:07)Phillip Lopate (00:17:32)
Contents: Introduction by Phillip Graham (00:00:00) - LeAnne Howe (00:003:53) - Lawrence Sutin (00:19:05) - Anne de Marcken (00:37:00) - (00:) - Alma Gottlieb & Phillip Graham (00:51:05)
Suzanne Lebsock reads from her work, Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial. Lebsock, who considers herself a social historian, details the 1895 ax murder of a white woman in Lunenberg, Virginia. Lebsock explains that three black women and...
Contents: Introduction by Brian Goedde (00:00:00) - Gayle Pemberton (00:02:08) - Vershawn Ashanti Young (00:29:42) - James Alan McPherson (00:41:28) - David Shields (00:52:37) - Gayle Pemberton(00:67:38)
Author of Banvard’s Folly and Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins, a new resident of Iowa City, reads from his newest book The Trouble With Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine. Collins explains how his coming across an article within an...
John D’Emilio reads from his nonfiction book, Lost Prophets: the Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. D’Emilio discusses Rustin’s life as an African American homosexual civil rights leader in the early to mid-20th century. Rustin, a...
An author that came out of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, James Sullivan reads from and discusses Over the Moat: love among the ruins of imperial Vietnam. The book is true-life account of Sullivan's trip to Vietnam and his courtship of a Vietnamese...
Faith Adielé reads excerpts from her memoir entitled Meeting Faith: the Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun. Adielé, a woman of both Scandinavian and Nigerian descent, discusses her time spent growing up on her grandparent's farm in...
Director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop Frank Conroy reads from his latest book, Time and Tide: A Walk Through Nantucket. It is a collection of essays on Conroy's other home place, where he's lived most summers since 1955. He reflects on the changes...