By Jenna Kelly Iowa City is often referred to as a literary capital of the world. As I’ve only visited once, I can’t be too critical of that claim. One can find small book stores everywhere, especially privately-owned ones. Prairie Lights is famous for being a large attraction for bookworms that still retains its independent … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2013
On Joining the Coe Review
By Olivia McElwain When I was staying on campus as prospective student, I kept hearing murmurs of a great literary magazine called Coe Review. However, I was under a lot of pressure because of interviews, and I completely forgot about it until my first day of classes at Coe College. My literature professor told us … Continue reading
Robin Sloan at Prairie Lights: On E-Books and the Kindle
by Alex Boyd On the second floor of Prairie Lights Bookstore about a dozen, perhaps a bit more, readers and writers sat for a very brief reading by Robin Sloan out of his first novel, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, and a more extensive Q&A with him. His book is a crossover of several genres—romance, thriller, adventure, and … Continue reading
A Semester Exploring Poetry
By: Patrick Johnson My exposure to contemporary poetry before this semester has been… unfortunately limited, to put it mildly. I had been working on expanding my knowledge base in fiction, so poetry got shoved to the side. That, and I found the prospect of diving headlong into poetry mildly intimidating, as I hadn’t the slightest … Continue reading