J.C. Hallman, alumnus of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will read from "Wm & H’ry: Literature, Love, and the Letters Between William and Henry James," at 7 p.m. Monday, April 22, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story
"The Best Specimen of a Tyrant: The Ambitious Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand and the Wisconsin Insane Hospital" by Thomas Doherty is now available from the University of Iowa Press. Story
"Garland in His Own Time," edited by Keith Newlin, is now available from the University of Iowa Press as part of its Writers in Their Own Time series. In his heyday, Hamlin Garland had a considerable reputation as a radical writer whose realistic stories and polemical essays agitating for a literature that accurately represented American life riled the nation’s press. Story
"Wm & H’ry: Literature, Love, and the Letters Between William and Henry James" by J.C. Hallman is now available from the University of Iowa Press. Story
Robin Hemley’s memoir goes beyond a remembrance for a sibling consumed by a passion for finding and understanding God; it's also a quest to understand what people choose to reveal and conceal, and an examination of the enormous toll mental illness takes on a family. The book is finding new life via the University of Iowa Press. Story
Tessa Mellas and Kate Milliken received the 2013 Iowa Short Fiction Awards from the University of Iowa Press, located in the historic Kuhl house.
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"The Mythical Bill: A Neurological Memoir" by Jody McAuliffe is now available from the University of Iowa Press. Part medical mystery, part war story, and part social and family history, the book is the story of how one man’s physical and mental pain radiates outward into the life and mind of each member of his family. Story
"Stories We Tell Ourselves: 'Dream Life' and 'Seeing Things'” by Michelle Herman is now available from the University of Iowa Press. The two thought-provoking, extended essays that make up the book draw from the author’s richly diverse experiences and history, taking the reader on a deeply pleasurable walk to several unexpectedly profound destinations. Story
