ICPL Presentations 2016

For video recordings of these presentations, visit the  IWP Iowa City Public Library (ICPL) Library Channel >

9/2/16 • Right to Remove, Right to Refuge

9/9/16 • Fiction in the Age of Film

9/16/16 • At Language's Edge

9/23/16 • "Real Work"

9/30/16 • The Shape of Your Paragraph: Genre and Its Constraints

10/7/16 • Writing and Politics (IC Book Festival panel)

10/14/16 • The Sound of Your Words, the Line on Your Screen: Hybrid Media

10/21/16 • World Literature Today: Cross-currents

 

Happening Now

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

  • “I went to [Ayodhya] to think about what it means to be an Indian and a Hindu... ”  A new essay by critic and novelist Chandrahas Choudhury.

  • In the January 2024 iteration of the French/English non-fiction site Frictions, T J Benson writes about “Riding Afrobeats Across the World.” Also new, a next installment in the bilingual series featuring work by students from Paris VIII’s Creative Writing program and the University of Iowa’s NFW program.

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