‘The Iowa Review Web’ Releases New Issue: “Instruments and Playable Texts”
July 17, 2008
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The Iowa Review Web [TIR-W] announced the release of its newest publication, "Instruments and Playable Texts," guest-edited by Stuart Moulthrop.
The issue collects seven projects by six authors, including the distinguished digital writers Judy Malloy and John Cayley, as well as leading younger creators Nick Montfort, Elizabeth Knipe and Shawn Rider. It also includes Moulthrop's game-poem "Under Language," co-winner of the 2007 Ciutat de Vinaròs prize for electronic poetry.
The guest editor notes: "While all imaginative writing makes some approach to PLAY, texts become playable as they join that endeavor Cayley calls 'writing digital media.' We can now do literary work with the same tools and media that support dynamically interactive systems like video games, wikis, and social networks. This extension of literature into what Alan Liu and Katherine Hayles call 'the literary' calls for new ways of thinking, and new structures for invention: instruments both for previously impossible musics, and for seeing and testing emergent phenomena."
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Autumn Hill’s ‘Anima Mundi’ Wins a 2008 Book of the Year Award
July 15, 2008
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Autumn Hill Books of Iowa City received a 2008 Book of the Year Award for its 2007 title Anima Mundi. The novel, by Susanna Tamaro, was translated from the Italian by University of Iowa Professors Cinzia Sartini Blum (Dept. of French and Italian) and Russell Scott Valentino (Dept. of Cinema and Comparative Literature). The book’s Italian edition, which was originally published in 1997, has thus far been translated into 28 languages. An author tour is being planned in conjunction with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for late fall 2008.
The Book of the Year Awards are sponsored by Foreword Magazine and presented at Book Expo America every spring. Anima Mundi was awarded a silver medal in the fiction translations category.
Review: Ethan Canin’s “America America”
July 09, 2008
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| The fourth novel from Canin |
In this Washington Post book review, senior editor Ron Charles heralds Ethan Canin's newest book America America as his "best novel" and "a worthy successor to Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men."
"Canin, who teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has written before about the seductive and transformative power of people with extraordinary wealth, but never with such sensitivity," Charles writes. "[America America] couldn't have arrived at a more auspicious moment than this season of potentially epochal political change."
Read the entire review here: "Morality Play"
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Summer Writing Festival Resumes on UI Campus
July 07, 2008
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Despite delays and detours caused by flooding in the Iowa City area, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival will resume its summer sessions this week at the University of Iowa. Due to flooding, the program has added two brand-new sessions to the end of July. Check the schedule for more information on the weekend of July 26-27 and the week of July 27-August 1.
Many of the programs activities and locations have been changed to accommodate UI building closures. The following links provide updated information, schedules and maps:
- Revised General Schedule: Schedule.doc
- The Elevenses Reading series schedule: Revised Elevenses Calendar.doc
- New locations for Summer Writing Festival activities and classes: New Locations.doc
- Welcome Letter to new Summer Writing Festival Participants
For more information on the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, visit their site: http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iswfest
UI’s Bowman House Harbors Displaced Departments
June 26, 2008
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| Faculty members meet outside the house |
The recent flooding of the Iowa River has left many University of Iowa buildings debilitated in its wake, forcing many university departments out of their offices.
The Bowman House, home to the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI) and the Writing University website, has been able to provide a space for a few of these departments. The Iowa Review, after having been evacuated from the English-Philosophy Building, was able to relocate to the second floor library space at Bowman House.
Faculty members from UI’s Center for the Book in North Hall and the School of Library and Information Science in the Main Library have also been welcomed to an office space after their evacuation, and two summer classes that needed a new location will take place in Bowman House as well. For more information about flooding and the UI community visit the University of Iowa website: UI Flood Information Page
91st Meridian’s New Issue Highlights Non-Fiction
June 23, 2008
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A new issue of 91st Meridian, the IWPs on-line journal, has been released with a focus on non-fiction. The Special Section, guest-edited by Emily Goedde, features four essays hovering in the overlap between translation and non-fiction: Diana Thow is concerned with translation and memory, Russell Scott Valentino traces the voice a translator might share with a non-fiction writer, Becka Mara McKay considers redacting rules in translations of the Hebrew Bible, and Emily Goedde asks why Chinese travel literature is a genre largely missing in translatorial action.
Also in this issue -- essays and memoirs by Lawrence Pun, Vietnamese journalist Van Cam Hai, Al Mustaqueem Radhi and Puja Birla.
Read 91st Meridian Issue 6.1 here.
Workshop alum Michael Judge’s op-ed ‘After the Flood’
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| Flood waters on the UI campus |
"Watching the waters of the Iowa and Cedar Rivers rise and subsume whatever they please -- homes, churches, businesses, museums and libraries filled with cultural treasures -- it's easy to see why floods play such a central role in mythology.
The water gives and takes life. From Gilgamesh to Noah, in Roman and Greek mythology, in nearly every culture and religion known to man, the flood comes -- and with the destruction comes renewal, rebirth, a chance at a better life."
In his Wall Street Journal editorial piece 'After the Flood', Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Michael Judge comments on this summer's record-breaking flooding in Iowa. He examines its impact on the state and on the University of Iowa campus. Read the entire article here: 'After the Flood'
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