David Peterson Book Signing

David Peterson, author of The Drake Relays and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, will be signing copies of his new book this weekend! He will be in Des Moines, just in time for the Drake Relays. For more information or to RSVP, visit our Facebook event.

Date: Saturday, April 19
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Friedrichs Coffee, 4126 University Ave, Des Moines, IA

Praise for The Drake Relays
"If, as the great sports commentator Heywood Hale Broun has said, 'Sports do not build character. They reveal it,' then here—in the masterful images of David Peterson—is character revealed beautifully, powerfully, fully."—Chris Johns, editor in chief, National Geographic

The Drake Relays: America's Athletic Classic, by David Peterson

Jenny Barker Devine reading: November 9

Head out to the Wonder of Words Festival in Des Moines tomorrow, November 9, to hear Jenny Barker Devine give a reading! Author of On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women's Activism since 1945, Devine will be at the Des Moines Public Library tomorrow afternoon.

We hope to see you there!

Praise for On Behalf of the Family Farm
"Devine redefines midwestern farm women's activism after World War II by tracing the subtle and powerful shifts in gender relationships in rural America. On Behalf of the Family Farm brings a fresh look at the complexities of how farm women shaped their organizations, claimed public space, and redefined their identities."—Carolyn Sachs, Pennsylvania State University

On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women's Activism since 1945 by Jenny Barker Devine

Douglas Bauer Reading: November 1 & 2

Douglas Bauer, author of What Happens Next? Matters of Life and Death, will be giving readings today and tomorrow. He will be in Iowa City at Prairie Lights tonight, November 1. If you can't make it, make sure to head out to the Wonder of Words Festival tomorrow in Des Moines. Bauer will be reading at the Des Moines Public Library in the afternoon.

We hope you can join us!

Praise for What Happens Next?
"This remarkable memoir-in-essays respects time but is not enslaved to it. Bauer moves in circular fashion among incidents that foreshadow later ones and recall earlier. It's not a linear but a spiral history, which touches us and then touches again. As for the language: in each sentence each word seems the only possible choice. How easily the prose lets us read it; what artistic intensity made it that way."—Edith Pearlman, author, Binocular Vision, winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award

What Happens Next? Matters of Life and Death by Douglas Bauer