University Of Iowa Press imprint: 216 books
Screenwriting for Neurotics
A Beginner's Guide to Writing a Feature-Length Screenplay from Start to Finish
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Screenwriting for Neurotics is a quirky and accessible handbook for beginning screenwriters. Whether you are a student in a screenwriting class or just someone who wants to try their hand at writing for film or television, this handy guidebook makes the entire process simple and unintimidating. Scott...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
For several years just before and just after his 1860 edition of *Leaves of Grass *appeared, Walt Whitman regularly frequented Pfaff’s beer cellar in downtown Manhattan. The basement bar was the very center of mid-nineteenth-century American bohemian activity and was heavily patronized by writers,...
An Infuriating American
The Incendiary Arts of H. L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As American journalism shape-shifts into multimedia pandemonium and seems to diminish rapidly in influence and integrity, the controversial career of H. L. Mencken, the most powerful individual journalist of the twentieth century, is a critical text for anyone concerned with the balance of power between...
How to Revise a True War Story
Tim O'Brien's Process of Textual Production
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
“You can tell a true war story if you just keep on telling it,” Tim O’Brien writes in The Things They Carried. Widely regarded as the most important novelist to come out of the American war in Viet Nam, O’Brien has kept on telling true war stories not only in narratives that cycle through...
Good Food, Strong Communities
Promoting Social Justice through Local and Regional Food Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Many Americans are hungry, while others struggle to find healthy foods. What are communities doing to address this problem, and what should they be doing? Good Food, Strong Communities shares ideas and stories about efforts to improve food security in large urban areas of the United States by strengthening...
Garland in His Own Time
A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In his heyday, Hamlin Garland had a considerable reputation as a radical writer whose realistic stories and polemical essays agitating for a literature that accurately represented American life riled the nation’s press. Born in poverty and raised on a series of frontier farms, Garland fled the rural...
Everybody Hurts
Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Have you ever been a fan of a show that was canceled abruptly or that killed off a beloved character unexpectedly? Or perhaps it was rebooted after a long absence and now you’re worried it won’t be as good as the original? Anyone who has ever followed entertainment closely knows firsthand that...
by Lisa Wells
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Proceeding from Hélène Cixous’s charge to “kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing,” The Fix forges that woman’s reckoning with her violent past, with her sexuality, and with a future unmoored from the trappings of domestic life. These poems of lyric beauty and...
by Edward Hamlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Night in Erg Chebbi and Other Stories spans the globe, taking us from Belfast to Brazil, Morocco to Manhattan. The teenaged daughter of an IRA assassin flees Northern Ireland only to end up in Baby Doc’s terrifying Haiti. An American woman who’s betrayed her brother only to lose him to a Taliban...
by Marian Crotty
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of people searching for human connection. Her characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. In the title story, a young woman begins a job on a construction site after leaving an abusive marriage. In “Crazy...
Good Apples
Behind Every Bite
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Apples are so ordinary and so ubiquitous that we often take them for granted. Yet it is surprisingly challenging to grow and sell such a common fruit. In fact, producing diverse, tasty apples for the market requires almost as much ingenuity and interdependence as building and maintaining a vibrant...
Paracritical Hinge
Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interrelated pieces highlighting Nathaniel Mackey’s multifaceted work as writer and critic. It embraces topics ranging from Walt Whitman’s interest in phrenology to the marginalization of African American experimental writing; from Kamau Brathwaite’s...
Nola
A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The evidence at hand: an autobiography—complete with their mother’s edits—written by his brilliant and disturbingly religious sister; a story featuring actual childhood events, but published by his mother as fiction; the transcript of a hypnotherapy session from his adolescence; and perjured...
Half a Million Strong
Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
From baby boomers to millennials, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying...