Oct. 6-10 will feature a 'Live from Prairie Lights' reading each evening

Monday to Friday Oct. 6-10 will be a busy week of live literary events at the Prairie Lights bookstore, with a free reading each evening at 7 p.m. in the store, at 15 S. Dubuque St. in downtown Iowa City. Listen live via the University of Iowa Writing University Web site http://writinguniversity.uiowa.edu.

The events Tuesday through Thursday, Oct. 7-9, will also be recorded for broadcast on Iowa Public Radio's "Live from Prairie Lights" series. Hour-long "Live from Prairie Lights" productions, hosted by WSUI's Julie Englander, air at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturdays, and 7 p.m. Sundays on WSUI-AM 910 in Iowa City and WOI-AM 640 in Ames.

The week's readings will be:

--Jeff Gates, former counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, will read from "Guilt By Association," his expose of John McCain's ties to corruption, criminal activity and the goals of a foreign power, on Monday, Oct. 6.

--Porter Shreve, the director of the creative writing program at Purdue University, will read from "When the White House Was Ours," a novel of free love and family during the Carter Administration, on Tuesday, Oct 7.

--Molly McNett will read from "One Dog Happy," the winner of the John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award and published by the UI Press, on Wednesday, Oct. 8.

--Former Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member Forrest Gander, who established his reputation as one of America's leading poets, will read from his debut novel, "As a Friend," on Thursday, Oct. 9.

--Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus D.K. Smith will read from his second novel, "Missing Persons," on Friday, Oct. 10.

The Writers' Workshop is a graduate program in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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