Iowa City Authors Read at Prairie Lights and New Bo Books
Iowa City based writer Larry Baker promotes The Education of Nancy Adams with 7 p.m. readings at Prairie Lights and 7 p.m. at New Bo Books Cedar Rapids. Marcus Burke reads from Team Seven at Prairie Lights. A series of literary events features poets Carol Tyx Julie Hanson and Andrew Zawacki among others with book discussions at Ladd Library Cedar Rapids and a memoir reading by Elizabeth Gibbons Van Ingen.
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Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids
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Iowa
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New Bo Books
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Team Seven
Third St
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Book Lovers Club
Carol Tyx
Julie Hanson
Tyx
Mount Mercy University
Hanson
Andrew Zawacki
Mark Wunderlich
Zawacki
Wunderlich
Earth
Ladd Library Book Club
Ladd Library
Williams Blvd
Katherine Boo
Elizabeth Gibbons van Ingen
van Ingen
Kismet
Living Out Loud author series schedules three writers
Cedar Rapids, Hiawatha and Marion public libraries host free Out Loud events with Sarah Vowell, Wally Lamb and Elizabeth Berg at The Hotel Kirkwood The Out Loud Metro Library Net Center. Authors take audience questions and sign books afterward preregistration requested via bit.ly OutLoud or by contacting the metro libraries.
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Hiawatha
Marion
Sarah Vowell
Wally Lamb
Elizabeth Berg
Kirkwood
Out Loud
Metro Library
Metro
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Sarah Vowell to open this year's series June 27
New York Times best selling author Sarah Vowell will headline the opening of this year's series at 7 p.m. June 27. She writes six non fiction books on American history and culture and offers witty takes on presidents colonists and other American topics. She was a contributor to Public Radio International's This American Life from 1996 to 2008 and has appeared on Late Show with David Letterman Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Daily Show.
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Vowell
New York Times
America
Public Radio International
Wally Lamb to Speak at 7 p.m. July 11
Wally Lamb will continue the series with a 7 p.m. talk on July 11. The author of four New York Times best sellers including Wishin' and Hopin' and I Know This Much Is True has a new novel We Are Water about a marriage and family facing tragedy.
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Wally Lamb
Lamb
New York Times
Oprah’s Book Club
Elizabeth Berg to Close Series With July Event
Elizabeth Berg, a leading chronicler of female friendship, will close the series at 7 p.m. on July 18. Berg is a New York Times bestseller with titles such as Durable Goods and Joy School. She has won the New England Booksellers Award in 1997 and has works translated into 27 languages.
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America
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New York Times
American Library Association
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Oprah’s Book Club
New England Booksellers Award
Local Authors Celebrate 50th Anniversary of University Club Writers Group
Retired substitute teacher Ili Gilbaugh aged 79 turning 80 soon leads Iowa City Solon area writers in University Club Writers Group which marks its 50th year with a third anthology Fact Fiction and Little White Lies published by Eagle Book Bindery Publishing. The 275 page collection includes 33 authors and profits support the group scholarship fund.
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Iowa City
Solon
University Club Writers’ Group
Eagle Book Bindery Publishing Co
Cedar Rapids
Prairie Lights Boo
University Club
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Lois Muehl
Fac
Rosalea Ragland
Writers’ Group
Uiowa. Edu
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