We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.
Book Wings: A Virtual Drama is now available as an e-book at Autumn Hill Books.
Between 2012 and 2014, a partnership between the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and the Moscow Art Theatre, the home stage of Stanislavsky and Chekhov, in collaboration with the University's Department of Theatre Arts, produced three installments of Book Wings, a collaborative exchange and performance initiative designed to bring together writers, actors, directors, and new media professionals from the United States and partner countries in a virtual environment.
The literary foundation of this project were twenty original works commissioned from distinguished Russian and American poets, fiction writers and dramatists. Presented in this volume side by side, this stellar mix of young voices from the two countries ranges from haunting to startling. Contributors include:
PART I | 2012
Inga Kuznetsova, Linor Goralik, Dora Malech, Matthew Zapruder, Anna Russ, Quan Barry, Terrance Hayes, and Maxim Amelin
PART II | 2013
Marina Krapivina, Nataliya Moshina, Carlos Murillo, Victoria Stewart, Maksym Kurochkin, Sherry Kramer
PART III | 2014
Ksenia Dragunskaya, Maxim Osipov, Robin Romm, Anthony Marra, Michelle Carter, Herman Sadulaev
Book Wings in the News:
SELECTED FEATURES:
- Little Village (March 2013)
- Theatre Design & Technology magazine (Winter 2014)
- Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (February 2014)
- Arabic Literature (in English) (December 2013)
- Russian Theatre Digest (March 2013)
- Little Village (March 2013)
- The Clyde Fitch Report (March 2013)
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