The Iowa Media Book

The Iowa Media Book PDF Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793332079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57

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The Iowa Media Book

The Iowa Media Book PDF Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793332079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57

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Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media

Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media PDF Author: Jennifer Burek Pierce
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609387198
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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For decades, we’ve been warned that video killed the radio star, and, more recently, that social media has replaced reading. Nerdfighteria, a first-of-its-kind online literary community with nearly three million members, challenges these assumptions. It is the brainchild of brothers Hank and John Green, who provide literary themed programming on their website and YouTube channel, including video clips from John, a best-selling author most famous for his young adult book, The Fault in Our Stars. These clips not only give fans personal insights into his works and the writing process writ large, they also provide unique access to the author, inspiring fans to create their own fan art and make connections with one another. In the twenty-first century, reading and watching videos are related activities that allow people to engage with authors and other readers. Whether they turn to The Fault in Our Stars or titles by lesser-known authors, Nerdfighters are readers. Incorporating thousands of testimonials about what they read and why, Jennifer Burek Pierce not only sheds light on this particular online community, she also reveals what it tells us about the changing nature of reading in the digital age. In Nerdfighteria, we find a community who shows us that being online doesn’t mean disinterest in books.

The Book of Famous Iowans

The Book of Famous Iowans PDF Author: Douglas Bauer
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609382668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Will Vaughn, a man of late middle age living in Chicago with his second wife, remembers the month of June 1957 in his hometown, the rural village of New Holland, Iowa. More precisely, Will remembers just a few days of that month and the quick sequence of astonishing events that have colored, ever since, the logic of his heart and the moods of his mind. He tells of his stunningly beautiful young mother, Leanne, who liked to recall the years of the Second World War, during which she sang with a dance band in a lounge in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He tells too of his father, Lewis, a soldier in the war who one night saw the “resplendently sequined” Leanne step onstage and began at that instant to plot his courtship of her. But mostly what Will summons up in his intimate remembrance are those few catastrophic days in early June when he was “three months shy of twelve,” more than a decade after his parents have married and returned to the Vaughns’ home place, where Lewis farms his family’s land. For it is during those days that Leanne’s affair with a local man named Bobby Markum becomes known—first to Lewis and then, in a fiercely dramatic public confrontation, to young Will, to his beloved Grandmother Vaughn, and by nightfall to all the citizens of the town. The knowledge of such scandal, in so small a place, sets off a series of highly charged reactions, vivid consequences that surely determine the fates of every member of this unforgettable family. A tale of memory and hero worship and the restless pulse of longing, The Book of Famous Iowans examines those forces that define not only a state made up of a physical geography, but more important, those states of the wholly human spirit.

The Portrait and the Book

The Portrait and the Book PDF Author: Megan Walsh
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609385020
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Benjamin Franklin's portraits and colonial printing -- Phillis Wheatley and the durability of the author portrait -- Nationalist portraiture, magazines, and political books -- Picturing the seduction heroine in the U.S -- Gothic portraiture in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Ormond

Iowa

Iowa PDF Author: Dorothy Schwieder
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587295490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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In this engrossing history of the Hawkeye State, Dorothy Schweider reveals a place of fascinating grassroots politics, economic troubles and triumphs, surprising cultural diversity, and unsung natural beauty. Above all, this is the history of the people of Iowa and the lives they have led—the accomplishments of both ordinary and not-so-ordinary Iowans.

Invisible Hawkeyes

Invisible Hawkeyes PDF Author: Lena M. Hill
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609384415
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Conclusion. An Indivisible Legacy: Iowa and the Conscience of Democracy - Michael D. Hill -- About the Contributors -- Notes -- Index

Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara

Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara PDF Author: William Fargason
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609387058
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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2020 Florida Book Award in Poetry, Gold Medal In his debut collection, William Fargason inspects the pain of memory alongside the pain of the physical body. Fargason takes language to its limits to demonstrate how grief is given a voice. His speaker confronts illness, grapples with grief, and heals after loss in its most crushing forms. These poems attempt to make sense of trauma in a time of belligerent fathers and unacceptable answers. Fargason necessarily confronts toxic masculinity while navigating spiritual and emotional vulnerability.

The Body of Brooklyn

The Body of Brooklyn PDF Author: David Lazar
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587294354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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Even before the controversy that surrounded the publication of A Million Little Pieces, the question of truth has been at the heart of memoir. From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers' claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of essays, leading writers meditate on the subject of truth in literary nonfiction. As David Lazar writes in his introduction, "How do we verify? Do we care to? (Do we dare to eat the apple of knowledge and say it's true? Or is it a peach?) Do we choose to? Is it a subcategory of faith? How do you respond when someone says, 'This is really true'? Why do they choose to say it then?" The past and the truth are slippery things, and the art of non-fiction writing requires the writer to shape as well as explore. In personal essays, meditations on the nature of memory, considerations of the genres of memoir, prose poetry, essay, fiction, and film, the contributors to this provocative collection attempt to find answers to the question of what truth in nonfiction means. Contributors: John D'Agata, Mark Doty, Su Friedrich, Joanna Frueh, Ray González, Vivian Gornick, Barbara Hammer, Kathryn Harrison, Marianne Hirsch, Wayne Koestenbaum, Leonard Kriegel, David Lazar, Alphonso Lingis, Paul Lisicky, Nancy Mairs, Nancy K. Miller, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Phyllis Rose, Oliver Sacks, David Shields, and Leo Spitzer.

The Iowa Library Book

The Iowa Library Book PDF Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793330505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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The Iowa Bookstore Book

The Iowa Bookstore Book PDF Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793329000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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