In honor of the upcoming Iowa City Book Festival (July 16-18, 2010), we’re featuring some of the literary collections in Iowa Digital Library and Iowa Research Online. We hope you’ll explore the content online and the book fest in real life.

Paul Engle teaching at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The University of Iowa, ca. 1950s
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Lan Samantha Chang reading, Prairie Lights bookstore, Nov. 10, 2006
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Out of the girls’ room and into the night by Thisbe Nissen
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