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BY ROB CLINE Francine Prose isn’t going to walk you through a 10-step process for…

  BY THOMAS DEAN Patrick Irelan established himself as a skilled and engaging memoirist with…

BY TONY Ellis In 1973, as the Vietnam War spilled over its borders, Cambodiaplunged into…

BY ROB CLINE Gather a few old school chums together—folks who haven’tseen one another in…

BY ROB CLINE China Bayles solves mysteries; she also runs a tea and herbalbusiness. Both…

BY ROB CLINE Mary Vermillion has been a bit of a media darling of late.…

BY ROB CLINE Convinced that the world is going to end very soon, Louis Daguerre,perhaps…

While nature takes the path of retreat for the winter, we tend to go in…

We Iowans are a literary people. After all, writers from both coasts and around the…

BY DAYNA NORRIS Tigers pacing back and forth in sterile cages; polar bears usedto walking…

BY DAYNA NORRIS Think you have the gist of globalization enough not to readmore about…

BY DAYNA NORRIS Hearing "Are YOU going to eat THAT?” from her airplaneseat companion, Ruth…

It’s the summer reading season. You could grab a trashynovel or two to while away…

BY DAYNA NORRIS Everyone knows that George Washington spent seven wretched winterswith the rag-tag Continental…