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Literary Carnival
Hotel Vetro, 201 South Linn Street Iowa City
Join the Iowa City Book Festival authors for this fun new event to kick-off the weekend’s activities. Think county fair and carnival with a literary twist.
Tagged as: Author Event
Author Readings
Catch bestselling, up-and-coming, authors all day on Saturday, July 14.
Jim Aylesworth
University Capitol Centre, International Commons
Jim Aylesworth was born in Jacksonville, Florida and graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a B.A. in English. He went to Illinois and began a career as a stockbroker.
Tagged as: Children's Event, Author Event
Dean Bakopoulos
Dean Bakopoulos Dean Bakopoulos is the author of two novels, Please Don't Come Back From the Moon, a 2005 New York Times Notable Book, and My American Unhappiness, just released in paperback by Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books.
Tagged as: Author Event, Fiction
Evelyn Birkby
Old Capitol Museum Senate Chamber
Evelyn Birkby has spent most of her life living in small towns in Iowa. She settled in on a farm where she began writing a column titled "Up a Country...
Tagged as: Author Event, Non-fiction
Day in the City of Literature
Listen to and mingle with writers "in their natural habitats" reading in businesses around Iowa City.
Hunger Games
UI Pentacrest
Tributes will practice their skills in a training center before they enter the arena for a "fight to the death."
Tagged as: Teen Event