The Western Illinois University Department of English will host the Fred Ewing Case and Lola Case Writer-in-Residence Friday, April 29 in Sherman Hall s third-floor auditorium.
Cara Blue Adams’s collection of interwoven short stories, You Never Get It Back, opens like this: “I met loss the other day. I took his measurements. My yellow tape looped around my arm, pins held tight between pursed lips, I circled him. I measured his thin wrists, his frail neck, .
The University of Iowa renowned worldwide for creative writing has struck literary gold again, thanks to Melissa Febos, associate professor of English in the Nonfiction Writing Program. Since Febos published her third book, GIRLHOOD, in March, the national media have lined up to sing its and its author's praises. GIRLHOOD, Febos’ second essay collection, examines narratives