Gordon Mennenga
Book Giveaway at AWP
Ok Chicagoish-ites. Here’s your chance to make the trip REALLY worthwhile. We will be giving away three copies of We Wanted to Be Writers at the end of our panel discussion Friday, March 2 (details below, extracted from the AWP official schedule). For a chance to win one of them, all you have to do [...]
Iowa Public Radio Interview
We’re delighted to share a comprehensive interview with Eric, Glenn and Gordy Mennenga about We Wanted to Be Writers conducted by Charity Nebbe of Iowa Public Radio. It aired 10/4/2011.
Prairie Lights Reading Video
Gotta love Iowa City audiences. Where else can you get an SRO crowd on a blustery Monday night?
Books by Gordon Mennenga’s Bed
Gordy reports, “Here’s what I’m reading:” Good Benito by Alan Lightman The Truth About Celia by Kevin Brockmeier The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta and finally a book I read every year, The Dog of the South by Charles Portis.
We’re Streaming Live!
How cool is that? Or, as Bill Manhire so eloquently put it, “Eric Olsen live streamed—all that 1950s science fiction is coming true.” Eric, Glenn, and Gordy Mennenga are reading from We Wanted to Be Writers tonight at 7 pm Central Time in Iowa City as part of the internationally known “Live from Prairie Lights” reading series. [...]
Early Buzz About the Book
People are starting to talk! Here’s what they’re saying about We Wanted to Be Writers. Rosalyn Drexler: The book arrived and I started reading almost immediately . . . A warm feeling of community and secrets revealed . . . of belonging came over me. Most interesting that so many of us felt we were [...]
An Apology
By Ross Howell Ross read this piece at the open mic night at The Mill in Iowa City during the Iowa Writers’ Workshop 75th Anniverary Reunion. It got quite a few laughs. My name is Ross Howell. I was a student in the Writer’s Workshop from 1975 to 1978. I’m here this evening to apologize. One [...]
We Wanted to Be Writers Book Trailer
Let the glowing reviews begin!
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