Attracting authors from all over the nation to share their work in front of Iowa City patrons, Prairie Lights featured Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Regina Porter on Monday, Nov. 4 to read excerpts...
Esteemed novelist and filmmaker Nicholas Meyer visited Iowa City to promote his latest Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols, on Tuesday.
A University of Iowa alum, Meyer...
It’s Markus Zusak’s “weird optimism” that kept him pushing through to the culmination of his latest work.
The 44-year-old Australian author came to the Iowa City Public Library Monday night...
On Oct. 16, illustrator Melissa Sweet visited Prairie Lights while visiting Iowa City to speak of her illustrations in How to Read a Book, a children's book written by Kwame Alexander.
Sweet was...
Tackling the eighth decade of his life, Carl Klaus, founder of the University of Iowa nonfiction writing program, returned the UI to read from his latest work, Coming of Age: An Octogenarian’s Chronicle...
First time nonfiction writer T Kira Madden visited Prairie Lights Thursday night to read an excerpt from her memoir, “Long Live The Tribe of Fatherless Girls.” The memoir is written as a series of...
On Monday night, a gymnasium was filled with 500 fans — to see best-selling author Amor Towles. The event, hosted by Prairie Lights, had to be moved to North Liberty’s Community Centre because of its...
Each genre of literature has particular tenets that make it distinctive, but some of the most poignant writing comes when genres cross over. In Wild Milk, an exciting collection of short fiction, author...
Prairie Lights presented an international reading on July 18 to showcase not just writers from all around the globe but also the University of Iowa International Writing Program. With fiction writers,...
On the evening of July 15, Prairie Lights hosted a reading to memorialize the late poet James Tate, who died in 2015 — a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and instructor at the University of Iowa.
Tate...
Iowa City is famous for its literary community, as only a UNESCO City of Literature can be. Author Lucy Ives dissects this community in her new novel, Loudermilk, which explores the lives of writers and...
Salvatore Scibona has a letter written over his typewriter from fellow writer Andrew Meredith. It reads, “If we sit at the desk with enough openness, enough love, enough coffee, then we will have good...
