All Iowa Reads

Join us for the annual All Iowa Reads book discussion! The conversation will be lead by Simpson College Professor CoryAnne Harrigan. She teaches courses on British and western literature with a special focus on authors such as Chaucer, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare. She serves as the faculty sponsor of Simpson PRIDE, the LGBTQIA student organization, and Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society. Her current research focuses on international film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays.

The book pick for All Iowa Reads this year is How High We Go in the Dark, by Sequoia Nagamatsu. From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resiliency of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe.