

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Benjamin Hale in conv with Bennett Sims - Cave Mountain 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Benjamin Hale will read from his new book, Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks, and will be joined in conversation with University of Iowa Associate Professor, Bennett Sims. Praised by Patton Oswalt as "The damndest mixing of true crime, memoir, and maybe (?) ghost story I’ve ever read," Cave Mountain tells the true story of how Hale's cousin, Haley, disappeared in a mountain trail in the Ozarks when she was only six years old in 2001. After Haley was found, she spoke of an "'imaginary friend' she met in the woods [who] would eventually become connected to another story that took place in the same wilderness more than twenty years earlier: a dark and bizarre story of a cult, brainwashing, murder, and the apocalyptic visions of a teenage prophet" (harpercollins.com). Cave Mountain is, as Harper Collins puts it, "Enriched by Benjamin Hale’s own family history and the lore of the Arkansas Ozarks [and] is a gripping story about nature and survival, religion and skepticism, and good and evil."

Benjamin Hale is the author of the novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore and the collection The Fat Artist and Other Stories. His writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Paris Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Conjunctions, and has been anthologized in Best American Science and Nature Writing. He is a senior editor at Conjunctions, teaches at Bard College and Columbia University, and lives in a small town in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Bennett Sims is the author of the novel A Questionable Shape, which received the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for The Believer Book Award, and the collection White Dialogues. He is a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society Fellowship and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome. His fiction has appeared in A Public Space, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, Tin House, and Zoetrope: All-Story, as well as in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/iowa-city/benjamin-hale-in-conv-with-bennett-sims-cave-mountain/200029852017940
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Workshops, trips-adventures, Nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Iowa City
- **state**: IA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240
- **lat**: 41.66073
- **long**: -91.53335
- **full address**: 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Prairie Lights Bookstore (https://allevents.in/org/prairie-lights-bookstore/20963808)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Prairie Lights Bookstore
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art, Workshops, trips-adventures, Nonprofit
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Benjamin Hale in conv with Bennett Sims - Cave Mountain  ?
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