Tennessee Williams rented an apartment in this building at 225 N. Linn St., while living in Iowa City. See it on the map here, on the City of Lit mobile web project.
Tennessee Williams stayed in this boarding house at 126 N. Clinton St, while living in Iowa City. See it on the map here, on the City of Lit mobile web project.
“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I’m always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.”
Flannery O’Connor, pictured here at the University of Iowa in 1947.
Source: sixminutestory
Dan Gable takes down John Irving while wrestling at the University of Iowa, in the old Carver Hawkeye Arena, 1973.
We discovered this picture while researching for the City of Lit mobile project. See more images here.
Tennessee Williams performing in a stage production as a student at the University of Iowa. Williams stands in the center of the picture.
Via the Writing University City of Lit mobile site.
Oh so good, from hmhpoetry:
“A Word to the Hunters” by Tomaz Salamun, from THE BLUE TOWER.
(via hmhbooks)
Source: hmhpoetry
The Iowa Writers' Workshop 75th Project: Kevin Brockmeier, "A Chronological List of Statements People Made to Me at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 1995-1997"
~ For me it’s the opposite. You feel like a little kid, I feel like an old woman.
~ I really like your last paragraph. Why don’t you take that idea and use it to write a story?
~ “Half of Rumpelstiltskin”’s kind of a mouthful, isn’t it? Maybe after you introduce him, you can just call him…
Source: lareviewofbooks.org
The Iowa Writers' Workshop 75th Project: Joyelle McSweeney, "Iowa Occult: a Mütter Pedagogy; Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Vomit Art"
What is Knowledge? What shape does Knowledge take? It’s not a question we expect to find raised in an Iowa-style workshop, where we turn our attention to concrete things: form, craft, the page, the neat crosses and channels of a line break or an ellipsis or/and especially the poem’s…
Source: nplusonemag.com
The Iowa Writers' Workshop 75th Project: "Playing House," by Leslie Jamison
During my second year at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, I lived at 715 Iowa Ave., Iowa City, Iowa. In case my friends on the coasts didn’t get it, my address had to say it three times: I’m in the middle. Another workshop writer probably lives in that apartment now—a third-floor nest with…
Source: apublicspace.org
Found in the Iowa Women’s Archives at the University of Iowa: this picture of Mildred Wirt Benson (author of the first Nancy Drew books) swan diving into the Iowa River in Iowa City.
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