Taking the class Alternative Films in the cinema/comparative literature department has given UI junior Tim Emery an idea of what his future could be like as a film producer. “The great thing about...

Whether twin brothers Trevor and Christopher Wiitala are recording music for their début album, Bad Blood, or simply loading gear into a venue, tension can run high among the two 30-year-old shaggy-haired...

Writing can often come in cycles of productivity and inaction. For Iowa-native Peter Hedges, the cycles come in genres, novels, plays, and films. He will read from his latest novel, The Heights, at 7...

When Molly Golemo became the film director of the Campus Activities Board, the idea of having an official theater space seemed like a distant fantasy. However, after a bit of Internet research last semester,...

Katie Consamus faces a complicated process when dressing for her role in Jean Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot. The first-year M.F.A. student’s character first washes her face with rose water. The...

The only thing more difficult than representing real people accurately in writing, for poet Camille Dungy, is making fictional characters seem as if they actually exist. This was the primary challenge...

One hundred black-and-white photos featuring UI students with duct-taped mouths and NOH8 tattoos decorate the once-Styrofoam wall. Around the corner, magazine ads depicting women and men as objects are...

Allan Gurganus is dedicated to creating a fully fictitious landscape in his writing. With a daily routine that involves waking up at 6 a.m. and writing until the early afternoon, Gurganus, 62, disconnects...

No one — not even his right hand — could have possibly predicted what the poetry world would have in store for Tom Healy. The former art dealer turned poet will read from his collection What the Right...

Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate and current visiting Assistant Professor Paul Harding won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Monday for his novel, Tinkers. Harding, who graduated from the Writers’ Workshop...

** out of ***** In 2007, MGMT released Oracular Spectacular to a surprisingly successful response. Singles “Time to Pretend,” “Kids,” and “Electric Feel” all went on to blast through the speakers...

To pay tribute to a legend, sometimes you must become that legend. UI visiting Associate Professor Gary Briggle will do just that tonight when he takes on the role of late British playwright, lyricist,...