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Nonfiction Writing Program Calendar

Spring 2008 Calendar

Friday, January 25th, 7PM
Tim Fay reads from The Wapsipinicon Almanac
Prairie Lights Books

Saturday, January 26th, 7PM
Abigail Foerstner reads from James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles
Buchanan Auditorium, Pappajohn Business Building

Monday, January 28th, 7:30PM
Daniel Ellsberg, Author of Whistleblower
Hancher Auditorium

Friday, February 8th, 3:30PM

NWP candidate talk with Jenny Boully
Gerber Lounge

Monday, February 11th, 3:30PM
NWP candidate talk with Tom Beller
Gerber Lounge

Tuesday, February 12th, 7PM
Natalie Goldberg reads from Old Friend From Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
Prairie Lights Books

Wednesday, February 13th, 3:30PM
NWP candidate talk with David Gessner
Gerber Lounge

Thursday, February 14th, 7PM
Massimo Pigliucci reads from Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science
Prairie Lights Books

Thursday, February 21st, 7:30PM
Museum Writers-in-Residence reading featuring Elena Passarello and Jeff Porter
UI Museum of Art

Friday, February 22nd, 7PM
Doug Thorpe reads from Rapture of the Deep
Prairie Lights Books

Monday, March 10th, 7:30PM
Laurie Garrett, science journalist and author of The Coming Plague (Pulitzer) and Betrayal of Trust
IMU Main Lounge

Friday, March 28th, 7PM
Teresa Svoboda reads from Black Glasses Like Clark Kent (Winner of The 2007 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize)
Prairie Lights Books

Wednesday, April 2nd, 7PM
Thomas Cahill reads from Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
Prairie Lights Books

Sunday, April 6th, 7:30PM
Marjane Satrapi, Author of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
IMU Main Lounge

Tuesday, April 8th, 7PM
Laura Flynn reads from Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir
Prairie Lights Books

Wednesday, April 16th, 7PM
Dwight W. Hoover reads from A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression
Prairie Lights Books

Thursday, Apr. 17th, 7:30PM
Museum Writers-in-Residence reading featuring Amelia Bird and Stephen Kuusisto
UI Museum of Art

Friday, April 18th, 7PM
Kenny Fries reads from The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory
Prairie Lights Books

Monday, April 21st, 7PM
John Marks reads from Reasons to Believe: One Man's Journey Among the Evangelicals and the Faith He Left Behind
Prairie Lights Books

Friday, April 25th, 7PM
Michael Paul Mason reads from Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath
Prairie Lights Books

Monday, April 28th, 7PM
Kao Kalia Yang reads from Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Prairie Lights Books

Tuesday, April 29th, 7PM
Connie Mutel reads from Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa
Prairie Lights Books

 

 

 
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