UPDATED MARCH 4: Due to weather-related issues, this reading has been canceled. At present there are no plans to reschedule.

Rus Bradburd will read from Make It, Take It at 7 p.m. Monday, March 4, 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.

In Make It, Take It, Bradburd lays bare college basketball’s web of conflicts between players and coaches and African-Americans and whites, revealing the complex humanity of a team's inner circle.

Dave Zirin, author of Game Over: How Politics are Turning the Sportsworld Upside Down, says of Make It, Take It, “Rus Bradburd has given us an original novel about college basketball that is compelling, unsettling, yet downright funny and sad at the same time. Make It, Take It is even better than his incisive nonfiction—and, frankly, that's just not fair.”

Bradburd is the author of Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson and a memoir, Paddy on the Hardwood: A Journey in Irish Hoops. He spent 14 years as a college basketball coach, working for legends Don Haskins and Lou Henson. A regular contributor to SLAM Magazine, his essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Houston Chronicle, and Chicago's SouthtownStar.

For more information or special accommodations to attend this reading, call Jan Weissmiller at Prairie Lights, 319-337-2681. For a UI arts calendar and details about upcoming events visit the new Arts Iowa website.