Amanda Uhle in conv with Nina Lohman - Destroy this House
Schedule
Thu, 12 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240 | Iowa City, IA
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Amanda Uhle will read from her new memoir, Destroy This House, and will be joined in conversation with local author and BRINK publisher Nina Lohman. Described as a "tender, heartbreaking, hilarious and wholly original story," Destroy This House describes the lives of Uhle's unconventional parents and how she and her brother "seesawed wildly between being filthy rich and dirt poor, devious and virtuous, fake and real." Ada Calhoun, NYT bestselling author of Also a Poet, praises Destroy This House as "Destined to become a classic in the daughter-memoir genre," while Isaac Fitzgerald, NYT bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts, says: "A fantastically entertaining tale of two of the most endearing grifters ever committed to print—who happen to be the author’s parents."
Amanda Uhle is Executive Director and Publisher of McSweeney’s, known for its award-winning quarterly literary journal, humor website and eclectic book publishing program, along with The Believer and Illustoria, an art and storytelling magazine for readers ages 6 to 11. She is co-founder, with Dave Eggers, of The International Congress of Youth Voices and co-editor of the I, Witness series of first-person stories by youth activists, published by Norton for Young Readers. She’s the occasional host of the author interview radio program and podcast, Living Writers. For more than 11 years, Uhle was executive director of 826michigan, a nonprofit tutoring and writing center for school-aged students in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Ypsilanti. Uhle is deeply involved with numerous youth writing organizations, as documented in Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire, and serves on the board of Young Authors Greenhouse in Louisville, Kentucky and Three Part Harmony Farm in Brandywine, Maryland. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Politico Magazine, Newsweek, ThinkProgress, The Boston Globe, Delacorte Review, and elsewhere.
Nina Lohman writes hybrid nonfiction that seeks to understand pain through the lenses of medicine, theology, and philosophy. She is the Literary Programming Director for the Mission Creek Festival and the Nonfiction Editor of PromptPress, an interdisciplinary book-arts journal that pairs writers and visual artists to create and publish new work. Her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Paste Magazine, The Rumpus, Essay Daily, The Other Journal, Earth Island Journal, and elsewhere. She is always on the brink of wanting to cut off all of her hair.
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