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What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?

What Does It Mean To Be a Working Class Writer at Iowa Writers’ Workshop?

Lee Cole on the Absence of Working Class Perspectives in our Literary Institutions

By Lee Cole | June 17, 2025

Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction

Paul Lisicky on Joni Mitchell, Anti-Memoirs, and How Songwriting Influences His Nonfiction

The Author of “Song So Wild and Blue” in Conversation with Emma Copley Eisenberg

By Emma Copley Eisenberg | February 24, 2025

Brooklyn Is Where the Heart Is: On Leaving Home to Write About It

Brooklyn Is Where the Heart Is: On Leaving Home to Write About It

Xochitl Gonzalez Considers the Power of Memory in Creating Literary Detail

By Xochitl Gonzalez | January 6, 2022

On Finding the Balance Between Solitude and Community at an MFA Program

On Finding the Balance Between Solitude and Community at an MFA Program

For Sanjena Sathian, a Room of One’s Own Came with Roommates

By Sanjena Sathian | April 7, 2021

The Connie Brothers Era: 45 Years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Connie Brothers Era: 45 Years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Fiction/Non/Fiction">With Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 17, 2019

Connie Brothers: The Heart of the Heart of the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Connie Brothers: The Heart of the Heart of the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Isabel Henderson on the Career of a Beloved Literary Figure

By Isabel Henderson | October 17, 2019

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He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

Remembering the Late, Great Poet, 1928 - 2018

By Ann Patchett | June 25, 2018

The Largesse of Denis Johnson

The Largesse of Denis Johnson

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In Praise of the Great Thom Jones

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Obama, America, and the Legacy of James Alan McPherson

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By Whitney Terrell | August 1, 2016

Remembering James Salter, One Year Later

Remembering James Salter, One Year Later

Maureen Gibbon on the Professor She Moved Across the Country For

By Maureen Gibbon | June 20, 2016

A Life in Letters: From the New Republic to Iowa to Knopf...

A Life in Letters: From the New Republic to Iowa to Knopf...

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By Doris Grumbach | March 15, 2016