#The University of Iowa

[iowacitypast]

Hydraulics Laboratory, The University of Iowa, 1940s

Creator: Kent, Frederick W.

https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Aictcs_17327

#Hydraulics Laboratory #Riverside Drive #Trees #Smokestacks #1940s #The University of Iowa

[marlowe1-blog]

"Geraniums" (The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor)

Racism!

So yeah, I don't know if I'm going to make this into my third book to be reviewing but short stories do work better than actual books (I'm about 30 pages away from ending Hound of the Baskervilles and starting Les Miserables but I'm not going to review that one chapter by chapter because reading Les Miserables could be enough of a chore. And I found out that I can still be bored by classic books with Tale of the Genji where almost every chapter was "who are these people? Why should I care about these people? Did he just adopt that girl to groom her? Was that acceptable back in the day? I bet if I knew Japanese these poems would be really cool" and even found out that it was the favorite translation.

So I'm going to start reviewing these stories because I did like the Flannery O'Connor stories I read in grad school and I'll be getting to those, but it's a complete collection. It's not even a cultivated complete collection like with John Cheever who had some duds at the beginning of this collection. O'Connor died in her thirties so this was one of those "hey this great 20th century writer needs to have all of her stories published now" collections.

The first 5-6 stories were stories that she wrote in her 20s while in grad school. Or college. Grad school. I think it was grad school. I just read the damn introduction and I forgot the details. Wait.

Worse. She sold this story to a magazine called Accent at the age of 21 and the first six stories were published in her MFA thesis for the University of Iowa. Seriously fuck the University of Iowa. Granted there was a time when I was impressed by it because there was a very pretentious dude at a Theater party talking about how he was going to be a great writer and go to the University of Iowa which was the writing program of writing programs (he also had an idea for mounting a play where a closeted homosexual date rapes his friend. That also impressed me so much I wanted to play that character. Thankfully, that never got off the ground) and his favorite writer was Raymond Carver (sigh) so yeah the complete 20th century "let's not get too political here as we talk about these character sketches" package.

But of course, this one was political because everything is political. But this one is more political than most because it's written by a Southern writer in 1946. But it's also not political because it's supposed to be a character sketch.

So anyhow (I really thought I was going to write fuck this ofay and leave it there) the old man is living with his daughter and we don't even know at first that he's living in New York City. He's obsessed with the geraniums that the people across the street put in their window at 10:15 am. Unlike their neighbors who don't know anything, they know that you don't just leave geraniums in your window indefinitely.

Then there's a lot of exposition because this story is 90% exposition about how he moved to New York City because his daughter insisted. His son-in-law doesn't like him and he used to go fishing and even had a guide who knew the river and "there was no other N----- who knew it like him"

And then a N----- moves in. Should I just do the white guy safety word of Ninja? Or would that make that even more confusing. No. Best just use Ninja when singing along to rap songs. Else Old Dudley being confused when he sees a Ninja go into the apartment building and thinking that the neighbors have a Ninja servant only to find out that his daughter is going to be fine with living next to a Ninja.

Ok that's a funny image, but yeah, that's what happens. Only not with a Ninja. And goddamn Flannery O'Connor is not shy about that work. Hard er, even.

So poor Old Dudley, the protagonist who is feeling sad because he has to live in New York with his daughter, is upset because there's a N---- living next door. He's got a lot of internal monologue/exposition about how he raised her better than to just choose to live next door with one of them.

And her response of "I don't want any trouble with the N-----" doesn't exactly make her a paradigm of "woke" (sorry guys). She's just slightly less racist than her very racist grandfather.

The ending is that the geranium fell and the guy who had the geranium is yelling at Old Dudley. Only aren't they on the opposite sides of the street? I mean he's not looking out the window at the next building in the alley? Even then, you can't have a fucking conversation yelling across the street and understand a damn thing. This is the literary equivalent of people speaking from a tower that happens in fantasy movies (Return of the King deleted scene and the scene between Cersei and Tyrion in Game of Thrones - NO ONE CAN HEAR ANYONE THAT WAY)

Anyhow, we are supposed to feel bad for the old racist. But seriously fuck that guy.

Now how racist was Flannery O'Connor? Who knows. I don't think she's endorsing her racist fuck of a protagonist character. There's no "of course, there were demons because of race mixing" lines like you see in Robert Howard. And with the University of Iowa, there's really not supposed to be judgment of these characters. So who knows. Actually I kind of how I write my stories. Or something I aspire to. Sometimes.

#Flannery O'Connor #short stories #Tim LIeder #racists #very racist racists #holy fuck how racist can you get #ninjas #ron desantis #Florida School district #Gallant South #Strange Fruit #New York City #New York #IMpossible conversations #The University of Iowa #Tale of the Genji #old racists #rivers #n----- #les miserables

[athleticperfection1]

Iowa State Gymnastics

#Iowa State University #Iowa State Cyclones #college gymnastics #gymnast #gymnast girls #athlete #female athletes #college athlete #college girl

[fruitbasketball]

this can’t be defendable bro like there’s no shot

#wbb #wcbb #caitlin clark #iowa wbb #university of iowa #iowa hawkeyes #caitlin clark vs the gay agenda

[meeedeee]

"University of Iowa writers cite fan fiction as inspiration to pursue creative writing

A lot of students don’t know that the University of Iowa is a hub of fan fiction,” Balestrieri said.

The Organization for Transformative Works, the parent company of Archive of Our Own, has partnered with the UI since 2009 to form a preservation alliance. The UI provides a physical space for the OTW to house its historic collections of fanzines and fandom content.

“Through our partnership with the [OTW], we’ve received hundreds of collections of historic fan fiction,” he shared.

A large portion of fandom content is novels, stories, and fanzines. However, fan art is an equally important entry in fan content archives."

https://dailyiowan.com/2024/01/23/ui-writers-cite-fan-fiction-as-inspiration-to-pursue-creative-writing/

#fandom history #star trek #fanzines #fanfiction #university of iowa #otw #ao3

[ncaapeaches]

baileylibby1 on Instagram

#sexy peachy bum 🍑 #bootie peach #ncaa #peach ass #gymnast girl #gymnastics #college gymnastics #athletics #Iowa Hawkeyes #University of Iowa

[orlamccools]

I AM DONE WITH RYAN BERGARA

#maddie mumbles #ryan bergara #watcher entertainment #buzzfeed unsolved #for context: i attend the university of iowa. iowa state is our rival

[elenitrack]

Ally Blumenfeld (Iowa State)

#ally blumenfeld #iowa state cyclones #iowa state university #diving #ncaa #olympic diving #swimsuits #college sports

[humanoidhistory]

Visual Arts Building, University of Iowa, designed by Steven Holl Architects.

(Architectural Record)

#iowa #university of iowa #architecture #design

[scribefindegil]

I don't have a plot yet but I think it would be very funny to write a fic where I somehow zap the Lower Decks crew to Real-Life Riverside Iowa.

#it's star trek anthyding could hadplen #i feel like im 50+ years they must have done *some* kind of weird meta storyline about out universe #or idk maybe they left all that kind of meta to Galaxy Quest #anyway it would obviously be a sappy narrative about the power of science fiction to inspire humanity #but it would also feature: #Tendi trying to fend of questions from overeager cosplayers about how she got such even coverage with her body paint #Boimler having an existential crisis #Rutherford hotwiring some large piece of industrial farm equipment #and Mariner freaking out because yes they're back in time yes this is a universe where Starfleet isn't real #but most importantly they are in IOWA and they need to get OUT OF IOWA none of you are paying attention to the REAL problem here! #if i write it i will probably also find some way to incorporate the University of Iowa's fanzine collections because of course i will #lower decks #to boldly split infinitives

[iowacitypast]

Blast from the Campus Past: People gazing at telescope in observatory, The University of Iowa, 1950s

Creator: Frederick W. Kent

https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/isla.../object/ui%3Aictcs_7341

#Telescopes #Observatory #1950s #The University of Iowa

[athleticperfection1]

Iowa State Volleyball

#Iowa State University #Iowa State Cyclones #volleyball girls #college volleyball #athlete #female athletes #college athlete #college girl #bikini #athletes in bikinis

[fruitbasketball]

GUYS MAYBE CAITLIN CLARK DOES PLAY DEFENSE AND I DON’T KNOW SHIT

#wbb #wcbb #caitlin clark #iowa wbb #university of iowa #iowa hawkeyes

[ncaapeaches]

hannacastillo_ on Instagram

#sexy peachy bum 🍑 #bootie peach #ncaa #gymnast girl #gymnastics #peach ass #athletics #college gymnastics #University of Iowa #Iowa Hawkeyes

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday!

Today’s fine press book is another from the collection of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick, entitled Manhattan. The book consists of poems by Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) with wood engravings by Margaret Sunday. Each poem references varying observations and places in Manhattan, accompanied by woodcuts created by Sunday. At first glance, these engravings seem simply to be abstracted lines, but it becomes obvious that they are illustrations of the surroundings in Clampitt's poems. Subway maps, construction equipment, and housing can all be seen in Sunday’s woodcuts.

Manhattan was printed by Kim Merker and Don Howell for the University of Iowa Center for the Book in an edition of 130 copies on Rives Heavy mouldmade paper. The type is handset 18pt Monotype Van Dijck. Poems were previously published in a variety of periodicals including Antaeus, Chelsea, and the Christian Scientist Monitor.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

View more Fine Press Friday Posts.

– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Fine Press Friday #fine press fridays #Dennis Bayuzick #Amy Clampitt #Manhattan #Margaret Sunday #Kim Merker #Don Howell #University of Iowa #University of Iowa Center for the Book #wood engravings #van dijk type #rives #poetry #New York #fine press printing #fine press books #fine press publishing #Sarah S.

[tjkl895]

(https://www.instagram.com/p/CxrNDToMyfy/)

#university of northern iowa #university of northern iowa wrestling #uniwrestling #uni panther wrestling #panther #wrestling #wrestling practice #practice #wrestling training #training #wrestling tights #compression tights #compression #men in tights #black