Iowa City was the latest destination for Ploughshares magazine's "Literary Boroughs" series, which was created to explore "little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally."
In addition to its rich array of cultural offerings, Iowa City's "bookstores-per-capita ratio has got to one of the highest in the nation," Ploughshares noted, highlighting the offerings at Prairie Lights ("one of the best independent bookstores in the nation"), the Haunted Bookshop, Murphy-Brookfield, Iowa Book, the Book Shop, Uptown Bill's and Daydream Comics.
