Dennis Maulsby is a versatile writer hailing from Ames who took up writing as a…
Books and Writers
Many of us baby-boomer farm kids recall growing up in the 1950s and ’60s walkin’…
Mary Helen Stefaniak’s new novel is a delight. That’s a sentence I easily could have…
(Our apologies! The April 15 reading listed in the e-newsletter was in 2021!) When Russia…
For many years, Mary Helen Stefaniak has contributed her warm, contemplative, and playful essays to…
As a high school student in Iowa, I was an avid follower of MAD Magazine.…
Admittedly, the idea of a bunch of indie (that is, self-published) authors discussing what they…
Hear Renée Branum talk about her acclaimed new novel, Defenestrate, in a Zoom event sponsored…
In a recent virtual event, host Terri LeBlanc of Swamp Fox Bookstore in Marion, Iowa,…
The American writer Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, across the river from Pittsburgh.…
Nora Wall is a first-year student at the University of Iowa and already has three…
Libraries today are much more than just collections of books. And with the insidious spread…
Listen, I’m just going to be straight with you. We Heard It When We Were…
I am a big fan of Misty Urban’s short fiction. Here’s an excerpt from my…
Rustin Larson, who has spent the majority of his life in Iowa, sees the world…