Marc Ribot
Ribot will read from his book Unstrung: Rants & Stories of a Noise Guitarist as part of the Iowa City Book Festival. Note: the Iowa City Book Festival event will be free and open to the public.
Werner Herzog
Presented at The Englert Theatre in collaboration with Refocus Film Festival
Legendary film director Werner Herzog will receive FilmScene’s Cinema Savant award and appear in conversation to discuss his life in film as part of a five-city US book tour.
Legendary film director Werner Herzog will receive FilmScene’s Cinema Savant award and appear in conversation to discuss his life in film as part of a five-city US book tour.
Storytelling Across the Arts: A Conversation with Lonnie Holley & Lee Baines
Presented at the Old Capitol Museum
Lonnie Holley and Lee Baines discusses their creative process.
Lonnie Holley and Lee Baines discusses their creative process.
John Irving
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Irving returns to our campus and community to discuss his life and creative process alongside Iowa Writers’ Workshop director Lan Samantha Chang.
G. Willow Wilson
In fiction, nonfiction, and comics, G. Willow Wilson has distinguished herself as a writer of remarkable originality and insight. In her lecture, Wilson uses the challenges Ms. Marvel—a Pakistani-American Muslim teenager—faces as a parallel for the challenges of a misunderstood generation.