Fiction

Articles:
Workshop Authors Named 2008 Guggenheim Fellows
The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
UI Press Announces Winners of 2008 Iowa Short Fiction Awards
Kate Christensen Wins 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award
eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released
IWP Alumnus Khaled Khalifa on short-list for ‘International Prize for Arabic Fiction’
Bi Feiyu’s ‘The Moon Opera’ selected for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize long-list
Formal Application Seeks to Designate Iowa City as UNESCO City of Literature
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Affiliated Authors Robert Hass and Denis Johnson Win National Book Awards
William H. Gass Accepts Truman Capote Award
“A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” Wins San Sebastian Best Picture
Daniel Alarcón and Bret Anthony Johnston in New York Times Magazine
Sarah Braunstein wins 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award
Review of Ehud Havazelet’s new work “Bearing the Body”
UI Doctors Practice Creativity as Part of Writing Group
Denis Johnson’s “Tree of Smoke” in the New York Times Book Review
Nathan Englander on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
UI’s Literary Tradition Helps Iowa City Become “Best in the Midwest”
Roberto Ampuero Awarded China-Chile Prize
From the VWU Archive: “Tort’s Bitter Marriage”
Francine Prose Reviews Jim Crace’s ‘Pesthouse’
Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007
At the Iowa Writers’ Workshop: Kiran Desai & Richard Kenney
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Alumni in ‘Bookforum’
Two Events with Charles Baxter
Rebecca Johns Finalist for Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
Francine Prose New President of PEN American Center
Granta’s ‘Best Young American Novelists’
Tonight: James Salter Reading
New Issue of ‘91st Meridian’ Online
Philip Roth Wins the PEN/Faulkner Award
NEA Awards IWP Alumnus Alexis Stamatis’ ‘American Fugue’
Martin Roper Interview (Part One)
To Do: ‘Returns’ and Writers’ Workshop Faculty Reading
Daniel Alarcón Webcast
Two Conversations with Tony Eprile
Recommended:  Dashiell Hammett’s ‘Red Harvest’
Nobel Lecture by Orhan Pamuk, ‘My Father’s Suitcase’
Recommended: Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘Maud Martha’
Author Spotlight: Heidi Julavits
Orhan Pamuk Wins 2006 Nobel Prize In Literature
Recommended: J.-K. Huysmans
Johnson County Reads: T.C. Boyle

Upcoming Events:
Rare Book Room Open House, 5/15/08
Kevin Gonzalez reading, 5/15/08
Elizabeth Berg reading, 5/19/08
Mike Farrell reading, 5/30/08

Past Events:
Leif Enger reading, 5/09/08
Jeffrey Eugenides reading, 5/07/08
Libby Fischer Hellmann reading, 5/07/08
Nina Revoyr reading, 5/06/08
Keith Gessen reading, 5/05/08
Michael Chabon reading, 5/04/08
Whenever We Feel Like It poetry reading, 5/03/08
Martha Grimes reading and talk, 4/30/08
Discussion: The World According to Cancer Bitch, 4/25/08
Daniel Mason reading, 4/24/08
Discussion: The Warbler and St. Michael, 4/24/08
John Marks reading, 4/21/08
John Marks talk, 4/21/08
Askold Melnyczuk reading, 4/17/08
Patrick McGrath reading, 4/16/08
Ann Patchett reading, 4/15/08
Fall and Spring Semesters: Writers Knit, second Sunday of every month, 4/13/08
Marjane Satrapi Lecture, 4/06/08
Karen Joy Fowler reading, 4/06/08
Joshua Ferris reading, 4/04/08
Chip Kidd reading, 4/01/08
Laura Lippman reading, 3/31/08
Terese Svoboda reading, 3/28/08
Leanne Howe reading, 3/26/08
Kevin Brockmeier reading, 3/25/08
Michelle Edwards and Maribeth Boelts reading, 3/16/08
John Irving reading, 3/12/08
Adam Langer reading, 3/11/08
Richard Price reading, 3/10/08
Aryn Kyle reading, 3/05/08
Charles Baxter reading, 2/29/08
Alan Drew reading, 2/28/08
Old Capitol Film Series, 2/22/08
After-Reading Party for Samantha Chang and Matthea Harvey, 2/20/08
Robert Hellenga reading, 2/13/08
Elizabeth Crane and Achy Obejas reading, 2/08/08
Mary Relindes Ellis reading, 2/07/08
111 Church Street Event: “Submitting Work for Publication”, 2/06/08
Tim Fay reading, 1/25/08
Anthony Horowitz reading, 1/18/08
Talk Art Cabaret, 12/12/07
Richard Price Q & A, 12/07/07
Richard Price reading, 12/06/07
Marilynne Robinson on Housekeeping, 12/06/07
Christi Merrill lecture, 12/03/07
Colleen Kinder with Chris Offutt, 11/08/07
Talk: “Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover”, 11/08/07
Rebecca Gradinger, agent from Janklow & Nesbit Publishers, 11/08/07
Conceicao Evaristo reading, 11/07/07
Shalom Auslander reading, 11/05/07
Ann Panning reading, 11/02/07
ICPL Panel: Images of America, 11/02/07
Small Press Publishing Q & A with Sarah Gorham, the executive editor of Sarabande Press, 10/31/07
Between the Lines Conference: Roundtable Discussion, 10/30/07
The World of Creole Languages: Thoughts from Haiti and Jamaica, 10/29/07
Between the Lines Conference: Ron Carlson, 10/29/07
Lorna Landvik reading, 10/25/07
Truman Capote Award Ceremony for WIlliam H. Gass, 10/25/07
International Literature Today, 10/22/07
Edward P. Jones reading, 10/19/07
Fall Semester: “Works-in-Progress” Night, 10/19/07
International Writing Program Friday Reading, 10/19/07
Edward P. Jones Q & A, 10/19/07
Jeff Porter reading, 10/18/07
Alan Cheuse reading, 10/16/07
After-Reading Party for Nonfiction Writer Darcy Frey, 10/15/07
Panel: State of the Art: Literature From Where I Stand, 10/12/07
Scattered Seeds: Writers from China and the Chinese Diaspora, 10/11/07
Panel: Creating and Promoting African Literature, 10/11/07
Tony Hoagland and Jonathan Ames reading, 10/10/07
Eliot Weinberger and Kiran Nagarkar reading, 10/09/07
Discussion: The World’s Voice In Our Ear: Influences of World Literature on Writing and Writer, 10/09/07
Ersi Sotiropoulos and Hamdy El-Gazzar reading, 10/08/07
Charlie Huston reading, 10/01/07
Tessa Rumsey and Anthony Swofford reading, 9/28/07
Antoine Wilson reading, 9/26/07
William Lashner reading, 9/25/07
Joshua Furst reading, 9/21/07
Ashley Butler with Sasa Stanisic and Peter Kimani, 9/20/07
Jud Ladhi, Agent from LJK Literary Management Talk and Q&A, 9/17/07
Junot Diaz reading, 9/16/07
ICPL Panel Discussion: ‘The Most Important Book on My Bookshelf’, 9/14/07
Kate Christensen reading, 9/13/07
Chris Abani & Joe Meno reading, 9/12/07
Ted Kerasote reading, 9/11/07
Talk Art Cabaret, 9/05/07
David Hamilton Reading, 8/29/07
Michael E. Lomax Reading, 7/27/07
John Domini Reading, 7/26/07
Andrea Portes Reading, 7/09/07
CANCELLED: Khaled Hosseini Reading, 6/30/07
Rilla Askew Reading, 6/28/07
Tony Romano Reading, 6/25/07
Richard Burgin Reading, 6/20/07
Robert Siegel Reading, 6/15/07
Simon Van Booy Reading, 6/14/07
Katherine Min Reading, 6/13/07
Ralph Savarese Reading, 6/12/07
Ron Carlson Reading, 6/11/07
Clare Clark Reading, 6/07/07