The Nonfiction Writing Program Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations
John T. PriceThe Nonfiction Writing ProgramNWP alumni & friends John T. Price and Hope Edelman will read this Friday at 7pm at @Prairie_Lights! Celebrate Price's new essay collection ALL IS LEAF. Edelman will read from Ned Stuckey-French’s posthumous essay collection, ONE BY ONE, THE STARS. https://t.co/4OZe4gMPIx https://t.co/WW4GK1amgs
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Hold Our Breath: A Journey to Texas Between Storms
Micah FieldsThe Nonfiction Writing ProgramCongratulations to NWP alum Micah Fields whose book on Houston and the Gulf Coast, WE HOLD OUR BREATH, is forthcoming from Norton in 2023!
Hardcover, 2023
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nightbitch
Rachel YoderThe Nonfiction Writing ProgramJoin us TODAY at 5:15pm at @Prairie_Lights for a reading by NWP alum KERRY HOWLEY, followed by a conversation with fellow alum RACHEL YODER, author of NIGHTBITCH. We'll see you there! https://t.co/GDqNQ6NleQ
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Workers Without Borders: Posted Work and Precarity in the EU
Ines WagnerThe Nonfiction Writing ProgramCongratulations to the winner and nominees of the NWP's 2023 Krause Essay Prize! 2023 Winner: “We Were Hungry” by Chris Dennis, from Astra Magazine Runner-up: “Really Real Dragons” by Laia Jufresa, translated by Rosalind Harvey, from Words Without Borders https://t.co/1LEEAuO2nM
Hardcover, 2018
$53.95$28.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Lifespan of a Fact
John D'AgataThe Nonfiction Writing ProgramRemembering when Prof. John D’Agata’s THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT was adapted into a Broadway production starring Bobby Cannavale (in the IOWA shirt here) https://t.co/mws8JOM05q
Paperback, 2012
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bub: Essays from Just North of Nashville
Drew BratcherThe Nonfiction Writing ProgramHelp us celebrate the release of BUB: ESSAYS FROM JUST NORTH OF NASHVILLE, the debut essay collection by NWP alum Drew Bratcher! 7pm TONIGHT at our favorite local bookstore, @Prairie_Lights https://t.co/t70gToeXDx
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Machine
Susan SteinbergThe Nonfiction Writing ProgramThe NWP is excited to welcome back SUSAN STEINBERG, who will read from her latest book, Machine, tomorrow at 7pm at @Prairie_Lights! Read her @IowaReview interview here: https://t.co/t9D678gk9B
Paperback, 2019
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bright Archive
Sarah MinorThe Nonfiction Writing ProgramBRIGHT ARCHIVE by NWP Visiting Assistant Prof Sarah Minor (@sarahceniaminor) among the 8 books featured - https://t.co/NP4I099BTl
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Intimacies in Borrowed Light: poems
Darius StewartThe Nonfiction Writing ProgramNWP writer Hannah Bonner (@HannahB40843697) reviews INTIMACIES IN BORROWED LIGHT by NWP alum Darius Stewart (@dariusantwan79) for @BrinkLiterary. See Darius read from the collection TONIGHT at 7pm at @Prairie_Lights, as part of the Krause Reading Series! https://t.co/HpiOTOt5kq
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
Katherine E. StandeferThe Nonfiction Writing ProgramKatherine E. Standefer, author of the memoir Lightning Flowers, in conversation with Thomas Mira y Lopez TONIGHT at @Prairie_Lights! https://t.co/YyO0l2RmNN
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book