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Mar 25, 2025

Mar 25, 2025

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

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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.

Mar 26, 2025

Mar 26, 2025

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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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. 

Apr 2, 2025

Apr 2, 2025

4:00 PM

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Literary Agent William Callahan will be giving a Publishing Q&A at the Nonfiction Writing House on Wednesday, April 2 at 4 p.m. William Callahan is an Inkwell Management agent and editor based in New York City. He is responsible for representing and managing the careers of a diverse roster of authors and literary talents. Prior to his current role, Callahan received his degree from the University of Iowa, where he honed his skills and passion for the publishing industry. Join us at the Nonf...

Apr 5, 2025

Apr 5, 2025

3:00 PM

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Torrey Peters, alum of the Nonfiction Writing Program will read from her new book Stag Dance at Prairie Lights Books on Saturday, April 5 at 3 p.m. Reception to follow: Nonfiction Writing House - 530 N. Clinton St., Iowa City Torrey Peters, NWP 2009, will publish Stag Dance: A Novel and Stories, with Penguin Random House in March 2025.

Apr 17, 2025

Apr 17, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

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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 wa...