Former University of Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member Francine Prose reads from "Goldengrove," her 15th novel. Prose's main character, Nico, is a 13-year-old girl dealing with the drowning death of her adored older sister.
Prose, the...
Novelist Francine Prose reads from her newest book, A Changed Man the story of Vincent Nolan, a 32-year-old, former neo-Nazi skinhead who becomes a media celebrity after publicly renouncing racism. "Prose tears into this unusual premise with the...
Field Hockey: The UI team is a national powerhouse with only a meager following. Coach Davidson and her squad have rolled up impressive victories both on and off the field that deserve our attention. -- Computermania! It's sweeping the UI campus....
Kavery Nambisan describes the migrant writer's thought-space, not losing rootedness whether traveling in the real or in the imagination. Saša Stanišić's talk is titled, "How You See Us: on Three Myths about Migrant Writing," and covers the myth...
Simone Inguanez chooses to stand in her poetry, a place that can neither be created nor destroyed. James Na divides his presentation into three topics: the hibernation of Phillippine-Chinese literature, the Phillippine-Chinese literature under the...
Leopoldo Brizuela says the way his imagination works is "not on reality itself, but on representation of reality: moreover, not on the words or images that represent reality, but on their silences, on their voids." Jeong Han-Yong applies the topic...
Rolf Hughes has published prose poems in The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Sentence, Quarter after Eight, 100 words, Stride, Double Room, and elsewhere. An English writer, critic and scholar, he currently lives in Sweden where he is an...
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; De Wilde, George James, 1804-1871;
Concerning Hunt's forthcoming book and its contents; mentioning Hunt's fears of being accepted as an author of poetry and of prose by the next generation; expressing sympathy in De Wilde's bereavement.
Concerning Hogg's book on Percy Bysshe Shelley and the resulting "indignation and disgust" felt by Percy Florence Shelley and Lady Jane Shelley; his conclusion that the "eccentric" and "cunning" Hogg "is out of his wits," despite earlier pieces...
Concerning his delay in answering a letter from Procter; the production of his play in the Lyceum theatre, i.e. his Lovers' amazements; the friendliness of the press and audience, and the delay in publishing the play; his bronchitis; American...