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Iowa Writer's Workshop alumnus Eric Bennett's article, "How Iowa Flattened Literature" in the Chronicle of Higher Education has ruffled…
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On a cold February night in 1897, the general store in Walford, Iowa burned to the ground. The next morning townspeople found charred remains believed to…
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Don Snyder never got to know his mother. She died just sixteen days after he and his twin brother were born in 1950. The truth about her death remained a…
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According to Kate Christensen, she has spent much of her life as, “a hungry, lonely, wild animal looking for happiness and stability.” In her new memoir…
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The catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 was the most costly natural disaster in the history of the world and killed almost…
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When Lennox Randon asked his friends Rob Cline and Dennis Green to form a writing group, they were reluctant to devote the time until Randon mentioned his…
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When great American novelist Willa Cather died in 1947, her will made it clear that her letters were never to be published. That moratorium lasted 66…
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Hattie Shepherd is the mother of 11 children. She is a strong and complicated woman who was brought into this world by Iowa Writer’s Workshop Graduate…