Prairie Lights Books

Prairie Lights sprang to life in May 1978 as a small, intimate bookstore and is now one of the premier independent bookstores in the US.

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Tonight at 7pm, Dr.  Maureen McCue will read from her candid, behind the curtains consideration of disability and being human, Dancing In A Disabled World.

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Sunday Afternoon at 4pm, Iowa author Wini Moranville will talk about her new book, Love is My Favorite Flavor: A Midwestern Dining Critic Tells All. She'll be joined in conversation by food writer Meredith Lumberg.

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Join us Saturday Afternoon at 4pm with Iowa City author Lyell Henry, who will talk about his latest book, Trekking Across America, An Up-Close Look at a Once-Popular Pastime!

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Join us tonight at 7pm with YA author Bessie Flores Zaldívar, who will read from Libertad. “An evocative, nuanced, and powerful coming-of-age story that skillfully explores the many ways in which the personal is political.”—Randy Ribay

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Tonight at 7pm, poets Shane Book and Mark Levine will read from their work. Join us!

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Join us at 7pm with John Elizabeth Stintzi and Mason Andrew Hamberlin for a reading from Stintzi's funny short story collection, Bad Houses!

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Tonight at 7pm, Historian and UIowa Professor of Law Samantha Barbas will read from and talk about her book, Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times V. Sullivan. Join us!

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Join us tonight at 7pm for a special program co-sponsored by the UIowa Dept of History with Paul Renfro and Mariola Espinosa! There will be a reading and conversation about Refro's new book, The Life and Death of Ryan White: Aids and Inequality in America!

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Tonight at 7pm, Iris Jamahl Dunkle who will read from her "heartbreaking and heroic (Ken Burns)" new biography of novelist Sanora Babb, Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb.  She’ll be joined in conversation by UIowa Professor Harry Stecopoulos.

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Join us at 3 pm with Montana Poet Laureate and Métis storyteller Chris La Tray, who will talk about his latest book, Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home.

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Tonight at 7:15 p.m. (Note the later start due to the UI Homecoming Parade!) UI Nonfiction Writing Program Prof. Tisa Bryant will read from her hybrid essay collection Unexplained Presence, and performance artist Gabrielle Civil will read from her memoir In & Out of Place!

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Join us tonight at 7pm with author Charles Baxter, who will read from his new novel, Blood Test : A Comedy. Dean Bakopoulos will introduce.

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Tonight at 7pm join us at Prairie Lights with Wright Thompson and Kaveh Akbar, who will talk about about Thompson's new book, The Barn: The Secret History of A Murder in Mississippi!

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Tonight at 7pm, Prairie Lights and the IWP present author and translator team Yu Yoyo and Jeremy Tiang, who will read from and talk about Invisible Kitties: A Feline Study of Fluid Mechanics or the Spurious Incidents of the Cats in the Night-time.

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Check out the Iowa City Refocus Film Festival!! Author events are below, complete schedule of films here: https://t.co/w932Px469i

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The Iowa City Book Festival is in full swing! Check out the full schedule here: https://t.co/KhOowxVCzd
Saturday events at Prairie Lights are below!

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Join us at 7pm with the Iowa City Book Festival! Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz will read from and talk about her new book, The Indian Card: Who Gets to be Native in America! She'll be joined in conversation by retired journalist Harry Smith.

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6PM EVENT!!!!! Join us for a special 6pm event with the Iowa City Book Festival and National Book Award-winning translator Bruna Dontas Lobato, who will read from her atmospheric and wise debut novel of a young Brazilian woman’s first year in America, Blue Light Hours.