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About Me
I read books. I write books. I blog about books. And sometimes I post links to stories about the Iowa City arts and culture scene. You can contact me at emilygrosvenor [at] gmail.com.
Friends
Iowa Arts and Culture links
Great Reads
Lost Countdown
Where in the world are Emily's readers
Followers
What Emily is reading
- The Red Tent by Anita Dumant
- Unaccostomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Home by Marilynne Robinson
- The Fine Art of Copyediting
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
- Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart
- Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (again)
My Books
- Die Spur des Hoellenhundes (translation)
- Lance Laguna's DANCE DANCE DANCE
- Englisch in 24 Stunden
2 comments:
Emily,
As an Iowan (and former Iowa City resident) who now lives in Indiana, I greatly appreciate your fondness for my home state! (People ask me, "Iowa - Indiana...aren't they pretty much the same!" This, of course, horrifies me. "Absolutely not!" - is one of my tamer replies) I came across your blog after perusing the Iowan magazine website - keep up the good work!
Leah
Thanks for reading the piece, Leah. I find there are many fascinating things going on in Iowa, but they often get framed in a "no, we're not in New York, we're in Iowa" light, which is really lame. It's the job of the state's writers to seek out the cool stuff and communicate why it is cool in it's own right. The Iowan has done a really good job recently of moving away from purely traditional images of the state.
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