Sundance Picks UI Alum for 2012 NativeLab Fellowship

Submitted by admin on May 15, 2012
Sundance Institute announced the four fellows -- including Jeffrey Palmer, an graduate of the University of Iowa.

The Sundance Institute announced the four fellows and projects selected for the 2012 NativeLab Fellowship, a two-stage development program that provides continuous and direct support to Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native film artists. Included in their selection was Jeffrey Palmer, an alum of the University of Iowa (M.F.A. 2012 in Film and Video Production).

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Review: Binyavanga Wainana’s One Day I Will Write About This Place

May 11, 2012

Binyavanga Wainana’s fantastic new book, One Day I Will Write About This Place explodes the boundaries of memoir and our notions of what it means to be a contemporary African. The book is part travelogue, part coming-of-age story, part African geopolitical history, but really in the end a tale about how its author became a writer. The story is told through dispatches from a particular time and place—grade school in Kenya, the first year of a business course in South Africa—and woven through with commentary that extends beyond the moment.

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The Legacy of David Foster Wallace

May 3, 2012

The Legacy of David Foster Wallace, edited by Samuel Cohen of the University of Missouri and Lee Konstantinou of Princeton University, is now available from the University of Iowa Press.

Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. As a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace gathers cutting-edge, field-defining scholarship by critics alongside remembrances by many of his writer friends, who include some of the world’s most influential authors.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Shane McCrae reading

Recorded: February 28, 2012

Poet and Writers' Workshop graduate Shane McCrae reads from his work. Shane McCrae is the author of Mule, published by Cleveland State University Press in 2011, and of the chapbooks One Neither One and In Canaan. His work has appeared in African... read more

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