Marilynne Robinson on Democracy, Reading, and Religion in America
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author about her recent collection of essays, "When I Was a Child I Read Books"… More »
Joe Fassler, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa. In 2011, his work for TheAtlantic.com was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in Journalism. He hosts The Lit Show on KRUI radio and litshow.com.
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author about her recent collection of essays, "When I Was a Child I Read Books"… More »
The author, who died this week at 83, believed kids are able to handle dark, complicated stories.… More »
Longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, the form has been the ugly stepchild of the literary world. But that's starting to change.… More »
A look at new software that could transform journalism… More »
An interview with Nathan Englander, author of the short-story collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank"… More »
The author, whose children's book was turned into a Martin Scorsese-directed, Academy Award-nominated film, is starting to resemble some of his own characters. In his lavishly illustrated books for children, author-artist Brian Selznick writes about magic—but not the wand-waving, quidditch-broom kind. Selznick takes up the real-life wonders conjured by history's big dreamers: the impossible illusions of Harry Houdini; the phantasmagoric landscapes of…… More »
We've gathered all of the lectures from Michael Pollan's Berkeley class in which the bestseller introduced students to several food A-listers… More »
The former Speaker's remarks met with an Occupy-style Mic Check and shouting at the University of Iowa.… More »
An interview with the writer about his new essay collection, "The Ecstasy of Influence"… More »
Realistic stories once dominated American literature, but now writers are embracing the fantastical. What happened?… More »
An interview with the novelist about his new book, which is out this week… More »
How an innovative training garden outside of the oldest public housing project in Kansas is changing the way an entire community eats… More »
With "Bumble-Ardy," the author of "Where the Wild Things Are" has yet another unsettling children's book. Should adults be worried?… More »
A conversation with the author of "Where the Wild Things Are" on his latest creation, "Bumble-Ardy"… More »
The newest presidential candidate met some resistance outside the Hamburg Inn in Iowa City, but the crowd inside loved him… More »
Iowa's attempt to ban undercover videographers from documenting animal cruelty is merely the latest battle in an ongoing war… More »
A conversation with the former New York governor about his new book, "Government's Place in the Market"… More »
An interview with David de Rothschild, whose new book documents his 8,000-mile journey in all its hare-brained idealism… More »
A conversation with Kembrew McLeod, co-author of "Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling"… More »
Michael Pietsch describes how he turned Wallace's unfinished manuscript into a publishable novel after the author's 2008 suicide… More »
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