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Featured Archive: Daniyal Mueenuddin reading, Live from Prairie Lights, January 21, 2010

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Jo Ann Beard and Melissa Febos reading, Live from Prairie Lights, March 26, 2021

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Featured Archive: Denis Johnson reading, The University of Iowa, 1991

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Featured Archive: Andrew Martin in conversation with Brandon Taylor, Live from Prairie Lights, July 23, 2020

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Featured Archive: Eavan Boland and Kevin Casey reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore, 1979

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Featured Archive: Jo Ann Beard and Melissa Febos reading, Live from Prairie Lights, March 26, 2021

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James McPherson reading at The University of Iowa, 1981

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Carl Phillips in conversation with Kaveh Akbar, Live from Prairie Lights, March 4, 2022

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Carmen Maria Machado in conversation with Garth Greenwell

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Alexander Maksik and Nathan Hill reading, October 8, 2016

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Christopher Merrill and Marvin Bell reading, 2016

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Lauren Collins reading, September 26, 2016

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Anaïs Duplan and Louis Chude-Sokei reading, May 19, 2016

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Margaret Ross and Sara Deniz Akant reading, April 22, 2016

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Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, Marie Silkeberg and Patty Nash reading, September 6, 2015

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David Sedaris reading, June 11, 2011

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Charles D’Ambrosio reading, November 17, 2014

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Lauren Haldeman and Bridgette Bates reading, November 6, 2014

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John Graber reading, June 25, 2009

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John Scalzi reading, September 9, 2014

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Jonathan Blum reading, June 16, 2014

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Leslie Jamison and Adam Fell reading, April 1, 2014

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Denis Johnson reading, March 6, 2014

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Abdelnabi, Gyasi and Manninen reading, September 29, 2013

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Norman Mailer reading, May 8, 1998

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Curtis Bauer reading, September 18, 2013

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Seamus Heaney Memorial reading, October 8, 2013

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Christopher Merrill reading, October 14, 2013

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Kofi Awoonor memorial reading with Kwame Dawes, October 14, 2013

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Simon Van Booy and Lucas Hunt reading, July 6, 2013

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Geoffrey Nutter reading, May 7, 2013

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Wenonah Hauter reading, June 21, 2013

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Jon Kabat-Zinn reading, October 9, 2006

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Caryl Pagel and Madeline McDonnell reading, April 16, 2013

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Alexandra Chasin reading, April 14, 2013

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Michael Tyrell and Steve Kuusisto reading, April 12, 2013

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Vivian Gornick reading, April 8, 2013

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Eavan Boland reading, October 12, 2009

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Dina Nayeri reading, February 26, 2013

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Ayana Mathis reading, February 25, 2013

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Jeffrey Eugenides reading, September 26, 2003

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Rilla Askew reading, February 6, 2013

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John Jeremiah Sullivan reading, February 4, 2013

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Tim Fay and the Wapsipinicon Almanac, January 25, 2013

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Gerhard Loewenberg reading, January 24, 2013

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Susan Sontag reading, April 27, 2000

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Robyn Schiff and Margaret Ross, October 1, 2012

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Aimee Bender reading, September 6, 2005

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Juliet Patterson and Amanda Nadelberg reading, September 21, 2017

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Jenny Zhang reading, September 21, 2017

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Carmen Maria Machado reading, November 3, 2017

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Anthony Bourdain reading, February 1, 2002

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W.S. Merwin interview (Video), May 2, 2005

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Francine Prose reading, October 30, 2008

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Sarah Vowell reading, October 24, 2008

In this archive, Sarah Vowell reads from her book, "Wordy Shipmates."

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Jericho Brown and Amber Dermont reading, February 15, 2015

The Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing presents the 2015 Visiting Writers-in-Residence Reading, featuring Jericho Brown and Amber Dermont.

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