LitCity

(Former) Grace and Rubie's Restaurant

209 North Linn Street

41.663942

-91.531876

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Carver-Hawkeye Arena

1 Elliot Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242

41.664302

-91.554580

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English-Philosophy Building (EPB)

251 W. Iowa Ave

41.661437

-91.540414

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Iowa City

123 S Linn St

41.661128

-91.530168

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Iowa Writers' Workshop (Dey House)

507 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, Iowa

41.667233

-91.535157

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St. Mary's Church

228 E Jefferson St

41.662964

-91.531943

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University of Iowa Main Library

125 West Washington St.

41.659655

-91.538568

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Wallace Stegner: College and Dubuque St

Corner of College and Dubuque St

41.658934

-91.533065

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(Former) Grace and Rubie's Restaurant

209 North Linn Street

Grace and Rubie’s restaurant was a women-only establishment that once existed on North Linn Street in Iowa City’s Northside.

Carver-Hawkeye Arena

1 Elliot Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242

Carver–Hawkeye Arena is a 15,400-seat multi-purpose indoor arena located in Iowa City, Iowa. Opened in 1983, it is the home court for The University of Iowa Hawkeyes men's and women's basketball teams.

English-Philosophy Building (EPB)

251 W. Iowa Ave

The English-Philosophy Building, known on campus as EPB, has been home to these two humanities departments and the Department of Linguistics since its construction, and to the Department of Rhetoric since 1970. From City Guide: Iowa City by Jan Weissmiller:

Just west of the Main Library is the English-Philosophy Building. From the time it was built in the late 1960s until 1997 it housed the Workshop. Its gray, utilitarian classrooms were the location of much beauty and heartbreak. Its small lounge on the third floor was the space where visiting writers for all those years endured the question and answer sessions that take place the morning after heralded readings. I have heard Robert Hass, Louise Glück, James Tate, James Merrill, John Ashbery, W. S. Merwin, Seamus Heaney, and Helen Vendler all answer questions in that room. Brilliant questions from brilliant students as well as questions such as, “Do your ideas just come to you or do you make them up?”

Iowa City

123 S Linn St

For 80 years, Iowa City has been teaching the world to write. The Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa pioneered the teaching of creative writing at the university level. Dozens of creative programs within the university and the city followed. The newest chapter in this tradition is Iowa City’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature.

Iowa Writers' Workshop (Dey House)

507 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, Iowa

The Dey House is the home of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. From City Guide: Iowa City by Jan Weissmiller:

... cross the river, and follow Dubuque Street to Church Street. There, if you turn right, you’ll pass the University president’s mansion and come upon Dey House, set on a grassy knoll overlooking the river. In 1997 the Writers’ Workshop relocated from the English-Philosophy building to this nineteenth-century house. The Frank Conroy Reading Room, which was completed in 2006, has vaulted ceilings and a magnificent library. A host of memorable readings by authors such as Robert Hass, Gurganus, D. A. Powell, and Dora Malech have taken place there.

St. Mary's Church

228 E Jefferson St

Saint Mary’s Parish of Iowa City is a Eucharistic community located in Iowa City's Northside neighborhood. The church was built in 1840 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

University of Iowa Main Library

125 West Washington St.

Built in 1971, the Main Library, set on a high platform, makes a statement: the building is both a repository of knowledge and a monument to learning. Visitors approach the south façade via stairs that, along with the scale of the building and its massive slab roof. The Main Library houses Special Collections and The Studio, among other departments and collections. From City Guide: Iowa City by Jan Weissmiller:

West of the Old Capitol toward the Iowa River is the University of Iowa’s Main Library (100 Main Library). The Special Collections and University Archives are well worth a tour. Special Collections can show you the Writers Archive, which contains the works of some of the great letterpress artists that have printed here. Among them are books from Carroll Coleman’s Prairie Press, founded in the 1930s to publish the work of contemporary writers in well-made volumes. Editions from Kim Merker’s Windhover Press include the first published works of poets Denis Johnson and Mark Levine. After perusing the archive, make your way up to the second floor where the thesis of every MFA recipient of the University of Iowa is shelved. It is a rite of passage for Workshop students to go there to read the student work of Mark Strand, Allan Gurganus, and James Tate.

Wallace Stegner: College and Dubuque St

Corner of College and Dubuque St

Located in the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall, this location appears in Wallace Stegner's fiction.