John Irving comes to Iowa
Tues 2023 Sept 26 The exciting news is that well known author John Irving is coming to Iowa to speak at Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City next month. Even better news, all of the seats are free because the University hosts a free lecture series and this is one of them. The bad news is that as of today, Sept 26, all of the seats are "sold out". A pox upon those who just told me about it and got me all excited about attending. Irving is scheduled to give his lecture on Friday the 13th, in October. My poor luck. I have only read a couple of novels by John Irving but I liked them very much. They were The World According to Garp (1978), and Cider House Rules (1985). If you are a fan of the Goodreads website , you may be interested to know that both books received a 4.1 average rating. This was based on 224,000+ ratings of The World According to Garp, and 181,000 ratings for Cider House Rules. John Irving studied at ...
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