Laura Esther Wolfson A translator earns Iowa Prize for nonfiction
Laura Esther Wolfson, winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary nonfiction, discusses her unlikely path to publication. The book blends her career as a translator of Russian and French with her life, marriages, and chronic lung condition, and is released by University of Iowa Press this month with readings in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids.
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For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors debut review
Laura Esther Wolfson’s 2017 Iowa Prize nonfiction collection examines language, marriage, health, and identity through 13 essays. The prose blends memoir and translator’s insight, tracing resilience across language barriers, migration, and family secrets in a compelling debut.
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Local tween author reads from new book in Iowa City
Iowa City author Sarah Princas known for the Magic Thief series will read from her tween fantasy The Lost Books The Scroll of Kings at 7 p m Wednesday at Prairie Lights Books 15 S Dubuque St Iowa City The event promotes a book where powerful Lost Books at a palace library unleash evil magic and two friends seek control Prineas also wrote Ash Bramble and lives near Iowa City with a family and animals.
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Cedar Rapids
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David Bowie
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Coral Ridge Ave
Corabille
Pamela Schuster
All the Names They Used for God reviewed by Rob Cline
The Anjali Sachdeva collection blends mystery and melancholy with a distinct voice. In Logging Lake a man on a first date questions love while a crafted dating profile hints at deeper change, signaling Sachdeva’s deft storytelling and satisfying, not predictable, endings.
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Much Nore
Sachdeva
God
Nathan Englander
Kevin Brockmeier
Neil Gaiman
Kelly Link
Iself
Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Terri
Robert
Sathdeva
Anjali Sachdeva Reads All the Names They Used for Ground
Anjali Sachdeva presents a reading of tom All the Names They Used for Ground at 7 p.m. Monday at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City. The event runs at 15 S. Dubuque Street with the author discussing the work.
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