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Iowa City Unesco City of Literature Presents IOWACITYBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG IOWA CITY UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE PRESENTS Oct. 8-15, 2017 Oct. 8-15, 2017 STAFF Welcome to Iowa City, the third UNESCO City of Literature, Donations: The vast and one of 20 in the world. The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature majority of Book Executive organization is proud to offer you eight days of literary programing as part Festival events are Director of the 2017 Iowa City Book Festival. offered without John Kenyon charge. But they are UNESCO conferred the City of Literature designation on Iowa City in not free. Your tax- Director of 2008. We are joined by Edinburgh, Scotland; Melbourne, Australia; Dublin, deductible donation Operations Ireland; Reykjavik, Iceland; Norwich, England; Krakow, Poland; Heidelberg, gives us the ability Rachael Carlson Germany; Prague, Czech Republic; Dunedin, Australia; Granada, Spain; to continue working Baghdad, Iraq; Barcelona, Spain; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Lviv, Ukraine; toward our mission to Program Design Montevideo, Uruguay; Nottingham, United Kingdom; Obidos, Portugal; celebrate and support Little Village Tartu, Estonia; and Ulyanovsk, Russia, as a City of Literature. literature on a local, regional, national, and Cover Iowa City is a City of Literature for many reasons: The world-renowned international level, Blair Gauntt writing programs at the University of Iowa, including the Writers’ Workshop connecting readers and and International Writing Program, our small presses and magazines, our writers through the Marketing wonderful libraries, our bookstores, and amenities like the Iowa Avenue power of story. Please Assistants Literary Walk. While you are here, we encourage you to explore all of this support the Book Alison McCarty and more, to fully immerse yourself in our rich literary culture. Festival and the City of Rachel Jepsen Literature by texting the Many people worked to make this year’s festival a reality. They include: word “book” Intern Anna Barker, Natasa Durovicova, Hugh Ferrer, Kathleen Johnson, Kathleen to Sarah Nelson Maris, Jason Paulios, Andre Perry, Matt Steele, Joe Tiefenthaler, Jan (319) 774-7669 Weissmiller. and follow the link. THANK YOU: Simon Andrew, Maeve Clark, Susan Craig, Ina Loewenberg, Mara Cole, Beth Fisher, the Iowa City Public Library, Prairie Book Drive: To benefit Lights, FilmScene, the Englert Theatre, the International Writing Program, victims of domestic M.C. Ginsberg, Coralville Public Library, Alison Ames Galstad, Kathrina violence at the Litchfield, Kathleen Johnson, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, Domestic Violence Aron Aji, United Way of Johnson County, Trinity Ray and the Tuesday Intervention Program Agency, Jason Lewis, Matt Steele, Jordan Sellergren, Little Village, Iowa (DVIP). Collection boxes Writers’ House, Hancher Auditorium, and Iowa Public Radio, City of Iowa will be located festival City, City of Coralville, Iowa Arts Council, RADInc., and Simeon Talley. events. 2 iowacitybookfestival.org Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017 G. Willow Wilson: A Superhero for Generation Why 2 p.m., Hancher Auditorium Willow Wilson is a superhero G. who employs her literary powers to address pressing issues including religious intolerance and gender politics. In fiction, nonfiction, and comics, the American convert to Islam has distinguished herself as a writer of remarkable originality and insight. In her lecture, Wilson uses the challenges Ms. Marvel—a Pakistani-American Muslim teenager—faces as a parallel for the challenges of a misunderstood generation: the millennials. She’ll discuss the genesis of Ms. Marvel, her roots in the historical science fiction/fantasy tradition, and the significance of writing a superhero for a millennial (and wider) audience. Wilson’s memoir, The Butterfly Mosque, which recounts her life in Egypt during the waning day of the Mubarak regime, is the 2017 selection for the One Community, One Book program sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. This event is free and unticketed. Presented by Hancher as part of its Embracing Complexity program. Additional support for Wilson’s lecture and residency has been provided by the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, International Writing Program, and Nonfiction Writing Program and also from Daydreams Comics. iowacitybookfestival.org 3 IWP 50th Events All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Events subject to change. For the most complete schedule, please visit iowacitybookfestival.org Panel Discussions: IWP 50th Panel: World Literature Today Iowa City Public Library, Tuesday, Oct. 10, noon Jeremy Tiang, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Peter Nazareth, Lorna Goodison, Tim Parks IWP 50th Panel: Fifty Years of Latin American Literature Iowa City Public Library, Wednesday, Oct. 11, noon Luis Bravo, Alberto Fuguet, Pola Oloixarac IWP 50th Panel: One Chinese Language, Many Chinese Literatures Iowa City Public Library, Thursday, Oct. 12, noon Ya Hsien, Poon Yiu Ming, Li Di An, Jin Feng, Dung Kai-cheung, Bi Feiyu IWP 50th Panel: National Literatures in a Time of Rising Nationalisms Iowa City Public Library, Friday, Oct. 13, noon Daniel Simon, Anja Utler, Sadek Mohammed, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Dung Kai-cheung Readings: Tim Parks Prairie Lights Book, Monday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m., Pola Oloixarac and Alberto Fuguet Prairie Lights Books, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 7 p.m. IWP 50th Anniversary Poetry Reading: Luis Bravo and Anja Utler Shambaugh House, 430 N. Clinton St., Thursday, Oct. 12, 4 p.m. Gala: 50th Anniversary Gala: Dinner, Readings and a Sound/Poetry Performance Wednesday, Oct. 11, 6 p.m., Iowa Memorial Union (IMU) 2nd Floor Ballroom. Ticket price: $125. For advance tickets, email alice-gribbin@uiowa.edu or visit iwp50.grad.edu. 4 iowacitybookfestival.org Tuesday/Wednesday or sexual preference, as long as they cheer for the same college football team (Go All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Events subject to Vols!). It is about leaving behind bigotry, change. For the most complete schedule, please visit iowacitybookfestival.org but remembering the fried okra. The “WellRED Comedy Tour” comes Moby Dick to the Englert in partnership with the Tuesday, Oct. 10, 9 a.m.–9 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 11, 9 a.m.–7 Tuesday Agency. Tickets are $27 and p.m., Old Capitol (21 N Clinton St.); Thursday, Oct. 12, 10 a.m.–1 are on sale at www.Englert.org. p.m., Macbride Hall (17 N Clinton St.) his year’s read-aloud classic novel is Moby Dick, which Reading at Arm’s Twill be read from the steps of the Old Capitol on Tues- Length: Literature day, Oct. 10, and Wednesday, Oct. 11, and from under the Across Borders giant whale skeleton in Macbride Hall on Thursday, Oct. Wednesday, Oct. 11, 5 p.m., Prairie Lights 12. Please sign up for a 20 minute reading slot at mobydick- (15 S Dubuque St.) iowacity@gmail.com. ow do we listen to liter- Hary voices that belong to cultures that are remote from us? A multi-ethnic writer from Turkey, an Israeli protest poet, or a radical innovator of lan- guage from Brazil? How does literature transport ‘difference’ across cultural borders, to readers who do not share the same cultural experiences that animate a given literary work? Questions like these often hound literary translators who are chiefly responsible for making literary works move across the globe without losing their authentic, consummate qualities. Please join us for a conversation-reading with award-winning translators Lisa Katz, and Hilary Kaplan, WellRED comedy moderated by Aron Aji, Director of the Wednesday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., $27, Englert Theatre (221 E Iowa Translation Workshop. Washington St.) rae Crowder (The Liberal Redneck), Drew Holy Cow! Press TMorgan and Corey Ryan Forrester are stand-up anniversary reading comedy and writing partners. The trio has been touring Wednesday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., Prairie Lights nationally to sold out clubs and theatres in support of (15 S Dubuque St.) their best-selling book, Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin Dixie Outta the Dark. elebrating 40 years of the Duluth- This year’s tour, wellRED: From Dixie With Love , is Cby-way-of-Iowa City independent about celebrating everything great about the South and press, featuring founder and publisher telling stories from a place of love. It’s about dancing to Jim Perlman, and authors Dan Campi- country music at a gay wedding. It’s about loving your on, Crystal Spring Gibbins, and Gary neighbor whether you have the same religion, skin color, Boelhower. iowacitybookfestival.org 5 Thursday/Friday organization. advocacy organization, ACT UP. He The prize, established in 2011, lives in New York City. honors an individual who, like Paul His debut novel, Edinburgh, was praised Engle, represents a for its careful handling on pioneering spirit in the the difficult subject of sexual world of literature through abuse. It was the winner writing, editing, publishing, of the Whiting Award, the or teaching, and whose James Michener/Copernicus active participation in the Society Fellowship Prize, larger issues of the day Iowa Writers’ Workshop’s has contributed to the Michener Copernicus Prize in betterment of the world Fiction, and was the recipient through the literary arts. of the Lambda Literary Chee will receive the Foundation Editor’s Choice prize, which includes a one- Award. of-a-kind work of art and His second novel, Queen $10,000, during a special ceremony as of the Night, a historical novel about a part of the Iowa City Book Festival on female opera singer, was published in Paul Engle Prize: Oct. 12. The event is at 7 p.m. at the 2016, and was met with high praise.
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