The American writer Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, across the river from Pittsburgh.…
Books and Writers
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…
A reporter’s ability to find and tell a compelling story is a tremendous asset—and a…
This month, I’m taking a brief detour from my survey of Iowa’s abundant crop of…
Iowa City resident Nathan Timmel may be a stand-up comedian, but he also thinks serious…
Imagine your therapist writing a prescription for a Shakespeare sonnet or a Dylan Thomas poem—as…
In his new novel Headfirst, indie author Tim Pelton invites readers back to the 1960s…
Jolene Buchheit (who also writes as JoJo Bartlett and JAS Bennet) works in education and…
Bart Walton’s life and ongoing pursuit of enlightenment has taken him all around the world—including…
Tricia Andersen is a writer who does her research. Not just in a library or…
I’ll admit that I’ve always been intrigued by National Novel Writing Month. Each November, writers…