The Secret Life of William Shakespeare reviewed
Jude Morgan explores what lies beneath Shakespeare in a dense novel that probes identity love and marriage set against Elizabethan England. The narrative shifts through Will's view and Anne Hathaway's perspectives as characters and scenes converge, demanding patience but rewarding with rich language and layered ideas.
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Books, bindings link Irene Douglas to Brucemore museu m era
Irene Douglas lived at Brucemore in Cedar Rapids from 1906 to 1937 and built a on site bookbindery. She bound Shakespeare and the display in Brucemore library showcases her craft. The scene ties to the author Morgan in The Secret Life, exploring identity and Shakespearean figures with stylized dialogue evoking Elizabethan English.
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Cedar Rapids
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Flemingville
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Author Lud Gutmann reads from his memoir at Prairie Lights
Lud Gutmann, professor of neurology at UI Hospitals and Clinics, reads from his memoir Rich ard Road Jour ney from Hate about his family fleeing Nazi Germany and becoming chicken farmers in New Jersey. The event is at 4 p.m. today at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City.
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Manuel Vilas Reading at Prairie Lights Iowa City
Friday event features Manuel Vilas reading from fiction and poetry in Spanish at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City. He is author of Gran Vilas Amor Calor El Luminoso Regalo Espana Los Inmortales and Aire Nuestro.
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S. Dubuque St
Iowa City
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el Luminoso Regalo
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Aire Nuestro
Bruce Mills reads from An Archaeology of Yearning at Prairie Lights
Bruce Mills reads from his memoir An Archaeology of Yearning at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City at 4 p.m. The book recounts his life as a father of a boy with autism growing up in rural Iowa.
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Prairie Lights Books
S. Dubuque St
Iowa City
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