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Missile Thinking, Space Dreaming: How Science Fiction Pacified the ICBM promotional image

Missile Thinking, Space Dreaming: How Science Fiction Pacified the ICBM

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 3:30pm to 4:30pm
English-Philosophy Building
The Criticism Today Lecture Series presents "Missile Thinking, Space Dreaming: How Science Fiction Pacified the ICBM" with Assistant Professor Tom Lin. Tom Lin is author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu (Little, Brown, 2021), which won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Northern California Book Reviewers’ Award in Fiction. His scholarly research investigates the role of science fiction and...
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Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction: Kristen Radtke, Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor

Thursday, October 31, 2024 7:00pm
Nonfiction Writing House
The Nonfiction Writing Program is pleased to present a reading with alum Kristen Radtke, author of Seek You and Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor. Join us Thursday, Oct. 31 at 7 p.m. for a reading, followed by conversation and a reception. This reading is part of the Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction.
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Of Black Waters and Happy Islands: Visions of the Terraqueous Globe in Early Modernity

Friday, November 1, 2024 3:15pm to 5:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
Hillary Eklund is Professor of English at Grinnell College, where she specializes in literatures of the 16th and 17th centuries. She has written or edited several books and articles on early modern literature, colonialism, and racial and environmental justice. Her current book project describes how wetlands, often perceived as nature’s mistakes, both compel and elude human designs in the seventeenth century. Wetlands, she argues, demonstrate a series of “unfast” countermoves to the fast violence...
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Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction: Q&A with Editor Vanessa Haughton

Friday, November 8, 2024 1:00pm
Nonfiction Writing House
The Nonfiction Writing Program presents a Publishing Q&A event with Vanessa Haughton, editor at Alfred A. Knopf. Join us at the Nonfiction Writing House (530 N. Clinton St.) on Friday, Nov. 8 at 1 p.m. for the conversation, which is part of the Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction. This event is open to MFA students and undergraduate writers.
Lyz Lenz and Tom Lin: Reading and Q&A promotional image

Lyz Lenz and Tom Lin: Reading and Q&A

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 6:00pm to 7:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
Books will be for sale at the event. Refreshments provided. Lyz Lenz is a New York Times bestselling author, whose writing has appeared in The Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, and others. Her book God Land was published in 2019, through Indiana University Press. Her second book Belabored, was published in 2020 by Bold Type Books. Lyz’s essay “All the Angry Women” was also included in the anthology Not that Bad edited by Roxane Gay. Her third book, This...
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Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction: Dodie Bellamy

Friday, February 21, 2025 7:00pm
Nonfiction Writing House
The Nonfiction Writing Program presents a reading with Dodie Bellamy, NWP Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor and author of numerous books including When the Sick Rule the World. Join us at the Nonfiction Writing House (530 N. Clinton St.) on Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. for the reading, which is part of the Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction.