Geoffrey G. O’Brien, graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will read from "People on Sunday" at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the UI Writing University website.

Doug Trevor, former editor of "The Iowa Review," will read from his novel "Girls I Know," at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 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.

Russian teenagers have been spending two weeks learning the craft of writing at one of America's best literary arts institutions.

Harilaos Stecopoulos, associate professor in the Department of English in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will succeed Russell Scott Valentino as editor of "The Iowa Review" this fall.

The University of Iowa Libraries used a new microscope to read for the first time the smallest book in its miniature book collection, a volume measuring only .138 inches square and .04 inches thick.

Former UI faculty member Reza Aslan discusses his new book on Jesus and the controversy it's generated.

Tom Montgomery Fate, an author and professor at College of DuPage, reflects on the significance of the novel, Gilead, in the wake of his father's death, who was both a friend and pastor of Gilead author and Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member Marilynne Robinson.

A 2002 University of Iowa graduate went to Paris to study abroad and came back with a thirst for the circus.

Author Elin Hilderbrand, who is promoting her new book Beautiful Day, attended graduate school at the University of Iowa, which she says has the best program in the country for creative writing.

Donald Black, director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will read from "Bad Boys, Bad Men" at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 18, 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.