Curtis Sittenfeld The Iowa City Book Festival has both a new organizer and a new…
Three Writing Buddies Hatch a Novel Plan | Three Writing Buddies Hatch a Novel Plan
Writing pals Rob Cline, Lennox Randon, and Dennis Green meet at New Bo Books in…
Rob’s 365 Days of Short Stories
I’m a one-holiday-at-a-time sort of guy. The kind of person who doesn’t want to hear…
John Kenyon Adds “Grift” to His Resume: The Reporter & Fiction Writer Becomes a Publisher, Too
Indispensable. That’s what Lawrence Block—best of the best mystery writers—recently called my friend John Kenyon…
Out Loud! Eight Writers Read | Plus the Largest Event in OL! History: Marc Brown
Writer Kevin Brochmeier reads April 27, 2012. In April, the fifth season of events for…
Kate Kasten’s “De-Conversion of Kit Lamb” | An Alternative to the "Left Behind" Thrillers
I have a particular interest in the portrayal of people of faith in literature, so…
Grainger’s e-Western Short Stories | Old Fashioned Genre in New-Fangled Form
Grainger’s Western noir short stories are only available on Kindle. It all started with a tweet.…
Matt Davenport’s New Novel | e-Readers and Matt Davenport’s New Novel
Author Matt Davenport My beloved graciously decided that my 40th birthday was a significant enough…
Story of the Week – Free from Library of America | Preserving American Letters
I have long been an admirer of the Library of America, the nonprofit publisher that…
How Dance Reflected Change in 20th Century America | Rebekah Kowal’s "How to Do Things with Dance"
When I asked Rebekah Kowal about the audience for her book, How To Do Things…
The Other Baghdad | Mary Helen Stefaniak’s Second Novel, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
The Arabian Nights meets the American South in Mary Helen Stefaniak’s new novel, The Cailiffs…
New Novels: Powers, Delillo & Coupland | Richard Powers, Don Delillo, and Douglas Coupland
Richard Powers Back in the early 1990s, I took a class entitled “The American novel…
Dahlia Lithwick’s Collaborative Novel | The Collaborative Novel "Saving Face"
Dahlia Lithwick is collaborating with Facebook and Twitter fans on her new novel. I haven’t…
Iowa Artisans Celebrates 25 Years | Celebrating A Quarter Century of the Midwest’s Most Refined Objects
Johnie McMahon and Astrid Bennett manage affairs at Iowa Artisans in Iowa City (photo by…
The Best Short Stories 2009 | Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award
Each fall, I eagerly await the appearance of two short story collections published by the…