Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Nick Twemlow and Joel Craig read from their new collections of poems. Nick Twemlow reads from Palm Trees, his first full length collection. Robert Fernandez describes Twemlow as a poet “at once debased and ecstatic, resigned and ambitious, victim...
Writers' Workshop graduates, Vinnie Wilhelm and Nick Dybeck read from their work. Vinnie Wilhelm reads from his first collection of stories, In The Absence of Predators. Shot through with dark humor, desolate landscapes, and seemingly impossible...
To the Editor -- Point of View -- Campus News -- Introducing: The New Arena—Recreation Project -- The Great Depression:
Why It Can't Happen Again -- '69 Alumni Return for Homecoming '79 -- Time After Time Premiere: Super Show at the UI -- Dr....
IN CLASS Marketing students add real-life boardroom experience to their resumes. -- Mercury Rising: Unsettled by escalating global temperatures and worldwide pollution, UI student activists campaign for environmental responsibility right here at...
Iowa Writer's Workshop and Stanford Engineering graduate Nick Arvin read from his collection of short stories In the Electric Eden. Arvin discussed why he likes both the arts and sciences, his book is a melding of both.
Nick Reding reads from "Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town."
Reding's journalistic account, based on four years of research, focuses on Oelwein, Iowa, where the blight of the crystal methamphetamine epidemic has taken a heavy...
Jennifer Banash, co-founder with Willy Blackmore of Iowa City’s new publishing house, Impetus Press, reads from her first novel, Hollywoodland, the tale of a hard luck girl who goes west to become part of Hollywood’s seedy underbelly. She is...
Nick Reding reads from "Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town."
Set in Oelwein, where Reding lived off and on for four years, the book chronicles the methamphetamine epidemic as it sweeps through the American heartland. Once a...
Nick Arvin reads from his new novel Articles of War. A powerful page-turner about a young Iowa man who serves in World War II and confronts grave doubts about his own courage. Arvin is an Iowa Writer's Workshop graduate, and the author of the story...