University of Iowa English professor Kevin Kopelson read from his memoir, Confessions of a Plagiarist. “This is as painful and thoughtful as a great confessional essay can be, but it also has a quality I haven't seen before: a clenched-jaw...
Atina Diffley of Organic Farm Works reads from the memoir Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works. Diffley is the editor and designer of Roger Blobaum’s Organic History Website, and a contributing author of and lead trainer forWholesale...
Charles Portis is the reclusive American master of "deadpan," author of True Grit, Norwood, Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Gringos. Fellow Arkansas writer, Jay Jennings, has collected his complete unpublished writings including: half a...
Deirdre McCloskey reads from Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World. This book sets forth the idea that the big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal...
Vivian Gornick reads from a selection of her work in a special event co sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program. Gornick is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fierce Attachments and several essay collections. Her collection, The End of the...
Nine writers from the International Writing Program in 2002 read their work pertaining to the theme 'Unchanging Beauty in Changing Times' at the Chicago Public Library for the Chicago Humanities Festival. After their readings the audience is given...
Mike Finn speaks at a luncheon meeting of the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council. Finn discusses the current economic and social issues in Ireland, the changing face of Ireland and how Ireland is perceived by the rest of the world and by its own...
Charismatic speaker, motivator, educator and children's literature specialist Esme Codell, whose memoir Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year, has become a classic, reads from her latest book How to Get Children to Love Reading.
Kathleen Gleeson who co-authored Dr. Janusz Bardach's memoir of surviving Soviet gulags called 'Man is Wolf to Man' reads from the book's sequel Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag. Bardach died last year but this new book depicts the struggles he...
Iowa Workshop graduates Katy Lederer and Rachel Zucker read from their respective new works. Katy Lederer read from her memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers, and Rachel Zuker read from her poetry collection influenced by the Greek myth of...
World music critic Bob Tarte reads from his new book Enslaved by Ducks. Tarte steps away from his music columns to write a funny, loving memoir about life at the center of a maelstrom of ducks, rabbits, cats and other non-humans. Bob Tarte's witty...
Eleni Sikélianòs reads a selection of prose and poetry from her two most recently-published books, The Book of Jon and The California Poem. Sikelianos fields questions from the audience. She says that place influences poetry, because language...