The Great War shows Battle of Somme in single panoramic panel
Joe Sacco presents a 24 foot wordless panorama of the 1st day of the Somme with an accompanying Hochschild essay. The work uses a Bayeux Tapestry style to depict British troops marching toward the line, aerial bombardment, mines, and brutal casualties. The essay explains the misfires, miscalculations, and industrial scale of modern warfare.
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Joe Sacco
Palestine
Gorazde
Jacques Tardi
Western
Sacco
Somme
W.W. Nor
Hochschild
Bayeux
Hastings
Douglas Haig
Strid
Ghostbelly memoir readings by Elizabeth Heineman at New Bo Books
Historian Elizabeth Heineman discusses Ghostbelly a memoir of a home birth tragedy and grief. She will read at New Bo Books Cedar Rapids as part of March is for Memoirs with related Cedar Rapids events and author visits at local bookstores and libraries.
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I.C
Elizabeth Heineman
Heineman
University of Iowa
New Bo Books
Third St
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Mayhem of March Book Events
Cedar Rapids hosts a series of literary events across venues including Barnes & Noble Collins Road and New Bo Books. Notable items feature Adam Jap Epstein’s The Familiars and George Nash’s The Crusade Years. February and March listings include memoir readings by Dean Schwarz Geraldine Schwarz and Jennifer Wilson.
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Mommy Book Group
Barnes & Noble Bookseller
Collins Rd
Cedar Rapids
Nickolas Butler
Prairie Lights
S. Dubuque St
Iowa City
Writers’ Workshop
Shotgun Lovesongs
Movie Book Group
Barnes & Noble
Iowa
Children’s Choice Book Group
Adam Jap Epstein
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum
Parkside
Hoover
George Nash
Dean
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W.W. Norton & Co
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Sixth Ave
Marion
North Liberty Community Library
W. Cherry St
North Liberty
Iowa Sea
Joe Blair
Geraldine Schwarz
Third St. SE
Dean Schwarz
Jennifer Wilson
PCL Medical
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