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Nonfiction Writing Program Alumni Reading Series: Laura Julier

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Laura Julier, alum of the Nonfiction Writing Program will read from her new book Off Izaak Walton Road (University of New Mexico Press) at Prairie Lights Books on Wednesday, March 12 at 7 p.m.
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Forms of Apocalypse

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
William Rhodes, Assistant Professor of English, University of Iowa, will give a talk on apocalyptic literature and form as part of the "Criticism Today" lecture series.
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English Department VIEWS: Jonathan Lethem Reading

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7:00pm to 8:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
English Department VIEWS presents: Jonathan Lethem. Jonathan Lethem’s genre-defying fiction weaves the conventions of noirs, westerns, science fiction, and graphic novels into something both evocative and wholly original. The “bard of Brooklyn” (LitHub) is the author of more than a dozen books — including the much-lauded novels "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" — and the winner of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. Books will be available for purchase.
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Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction: William Callahan

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 4:00pm
Nonfiction Writing House
Literary Agent William Callahan will be giving a Publishing Q&A at the Nonfiction Writing House on Wednesday, April 2 at 4 p.m.
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Nonfiction Writing Program Alumni Reading Series: Torrey Peters

Saturday, April 5, 2025 3:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Torrey Peters, alum of the Nonfiction Writing Program will read from her new book Stag Dance at Prairie Lights Books on Saturday, April 5th at 3:00 p.m. Reception to follow: Nonfiction Writing House - 530 N. Clinton St., Iowa City
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Knowledge of Nothing: Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in The Flowers of Evil

Thursday, April 17, 2025 2:00pm to 3:30pm
English-Philosophy Building
Nathan Brown will be presenting. Nathan Brown is Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal, where he directs the Centre for Expanded Poetics. He is the author of Baudelaire's Shadow: An Essay on Poetic Determination (MaMa, 2021); Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (Fordham, 2021); and The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (Fordham, 2017). His translation of Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil was...