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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Hope Wabuke - Blood at the Leaves
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 4th at 5:30 as we welcome poet and professor Hope Wabuke!\nTo order a copy of Hope’s book\, follow the link HERE! \nAbout the Poetry:\nBlood on the Leaves by Hope Wabuke is a searing and lyrical poetry collection that explores the intimate\, haunted relationship between Blackness and the natural world. At once a site of refuge and rupture\, nature emerges as both witness to generational trauma and a space of beauty\, survival\, and fierce possibility. \nHewn from historical record and personal experience\, these poems unearth the brutal legacy of slavery and the enduring persistence of systemic racism\, tracing how violence echoes through land\, body\, and bloodline. Wabuke weaves history\, science\, and the environment into the personal–examining gender\, motherhood\, identity\, and the Black body as sites of resistance and remembrance. \nBlood on the Leaves stands as a powerful testament to the Black experience\, survival\, memory\, and the enduring power of love. \nAbout the Author:\nHope Wabuke is the author of the full-length poetry collections Blood on the Leaves and The Body Family\, as well as three chapbooks of poetry including her\, winner of the Locked Horn Press Chapbook Prize. She has won fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation\, and the Fulbright Foundation\, among others. A former contributing editor for The Root\, where she originated a series on African and African diasporic literature\, she currently serves as a consulting editor for the African Poetry Book Fund and Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/book-launch-hope-wabuke-blood-at-the-leaves/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Tiffany Gayle Chenault - Black Woman Runner: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Francie and Finch Bookshop is pleased to welcome professor and author Tiffany Gayle Chenault to Lincoln on November 6th! Tiffany will be talking about her new memoir\, Black Woman Runner\, and signing copies of her book. We can’t wait to see you there!\nTo order a copy of the book\, follow the link HERE! \nAbout the Book:\nOne Black woman’s transformative journey of running through grief \nIn the wake of profound grief at the loss of her mother\, Tiffany Gayle Chenault decided\, at age 40\, to run a half-marathon in all 50 states. Black Woman Runner explores running as a space of survival\, healing\, joy\, while also shedding light on the experiences of Black women who participate in the largely white-dominated world of recreational running. \nChenault unpacks her own lived experience in order to contemplate the racial space of running: not just the physical neighborhoods where casual runners might run\, but also where races are held\, what the market for products for runners looks like\, and how and to whom running is marketed. Deconstructing the stereotype of the “strong Black woman\,” Chenault investigates the meaning of identity and the embodiment of being a runner\, particularly a Black woman runner. \nIn what she calls her “twenty-first-century Green Book\,” Chenault offers vivid insights into current-day racial realities while traveling to all 50 states. Ultimately\, this is a story about movement — through space\, emotion\, and identity. It’s about the culture of running\, but more urgently\, about who runs and why it matters. \nAbout the Author:\nTiffany Gayle Chenault is Professor of Sociology at Salem State University and the author of The Unseen Politics of Public Housing: Resident Councils\, Communities\, and Change. \nPraise for Black Woman Runner:\n“An intimate memoir about overcoming the myth of the strong Black woman.” ~Kirkus Reviews \n“Chenault’s vulnerability\, paired with steely determination and insight\, will inspire diverse readers and raise awareness for those who have not walked (or run) in a Black woman’s shoes. An enlightening\, important memoir for sports collections.” ~Booklist (STARRED) \n“Black Woman Runner is an important and engaging book about Tiffany Gayle Chenault’s journey to redefine Black womanhood\, which includes demythologizing the Strong Black Woman caricature that has served as a coping mechanism for Black women over generations but also presents a threat to Black women’s physical and mental well being. Chenault uses her biography and expertise to not only share how she learned to deal with the loss of her mother in healthy ways\, but also how she negotiated boundaries related to her race\, gender\, class\, and ethnic identity as she traveled across the United States participating in long distance races. Chenault’s contributions include examining running culture through the lens of a Black woman sociologist\, but also understanding running as a form of cultural capital. Chenault takes us on a running journey and a journey across time and place\, weaving America’s history of race relations with her newly found passion.” ~Lori L. Martin\, author of White Sports/Black Sports: Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-author-tiffany-gayle-chenault-black-woman-runner-a-memoir/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Christopher Vondracek - Redlin or Rodin: Essays on Midwestern Scenery
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 7th\, Francie and Finch Bookshop is pleased to welcome back to the shop author Christopher Vondracek! In his new book of essays\, published by Univeristy of Nebraksa Press-Bison Books\, he “takes an inside-out look at the entrenched cultural tropes and portraits of rural\, rustic nostalgia in an age of global grain markets\, collapsing rural communities\, and changing heartland values.” We can’t wait to see you there!\nTo pre-order a copy of the book\, follow the link HERE! \nAbout the Book:\nThe virus arrives\, the world shutters\, and in Washington\, DC\, the homesick journalist Christopher Vondracek—recently relocated from South Dakota—starts scrolling through digitized oil paintings by the Midwestern nostalgia artist Terry Redlin. Vondracek traces Redlin’s coming-of-age during the Farm Crisis as well as his own fleeting memories of a small-town wracked with upheaval from farm foreclosures and a shifting political perspective on the prairie. The author takes an inside-out look at the entrenched cultural tropes and portraits of rural\, rustic nostalgia in an age of global grain markets\, collapsing rural communities\, and changing heartland values. \nVondracek often asks of this land\, “Is it a Redlin?” seeking to reconcile the idyllic portrayal of his American heartland with the reality unfolding on TV and social media channels. In Redlin or Rodin he looks to understand how the romantic palette of a farm country pastoral scene can obscure the industrialization of the very same land. \nAbout the Author:\nChristopher Vondracek is the author of Dancing with Welk: Music\, Memory\, and Prairie Troubadours and the poetry collection Rattlesnake Summer\, featuring a poem for each of South Dakota’s sixty-six counties. He is the Washington correspondent with the Minnesota Star Tribune and former agricultural reporter for the newspaper. \nPraise for the Book:\n“You don’t quite read Christopher Vondracek’s latest memoir—you hold on. Redlin or Rodin is a Sunday sally down a washboard road\, the driver—a journalist by trade\, a philosopher at heart—searching for the meaning of his denuded Midwestern roots in the most unlikely of places: the saccharine landscape paintings of Terry Redlin\, ‘our strip mall Seurat.’ These probing\, witty\, and ever-companionable essays herald the arrival of one of the most exciting new voices of the plains.”—Carson Vaughan\, author of Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream \n“With enviable insight and humor\, Redlin or Rodin brilliantly examines the forces that seek to define our own landscapes\, reckoning with the effects of images and memories that comfort\, deceive\, and idealize us.”—J. Ryan Stradal\, author of Great Kitchens of the Midwest: A Novel \n“An engaging\, lyrical love letter to the Midwest. . . . Writing with an earnest\, humane eye\, Christopher Vondracek serves as a thoughtful docent to Midwestern art. . . . Along the way\, he illuminates the lived realities of farming communities in the Great Plains and Upper Midwest; their long\, slow drift toward precarity\, and their persistent cultural attachment to place.”—Gretchen Marquette\, author of May Day: Poems
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-author-christopher-vondracek-redlin-or-rodin-essays-on-midwestern-scenery/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Authors - Michael Lowenthal and Scott Heim - Authors of Books Mysterious Skin & Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation
DESCRIPTION:More to come!
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-authors-michael-lowenthal-and-scott-heim-mysterious-skin-place-envy-essays-in-search-of-orientation/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Ber Anena in conversation with Kasey Peters - The Lies We Tell for America: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 17th as we welcome author Ber Anena in conversation with Kasey Peters!\nTo order a copy of the book\, follow the link HERE! \nAbout the Book:\nNamed A Most Anticipated Book for Fall by Publishers Weekly!\n\nA brilliant\, piercing\, and funny exploration following one woman’s journey in navigating the fraught higher education system during the COVID-19 pandemic as an international student. \n“The Lies We Tell for America is beautifully particular and unexpectedly relentless in its haunting goodness. Geeez! Ber Anena manages to write New York\, romance\, and graduate school as inventive as I have seen all three of them written this decade.” —Kiese Laymon\, award-winning author of Heavy \nIn 2019\, Ugandan writer Ber Anena opened her email and was overjoyed to find that she’d been accepted into Columbia University’s prestigious MFA in Writing. Then\, reality struck: It would cost approximately $150\,000 in tuition and fees alone for the two-year degree. \nAnena scrambles to secure funding\, leaving the security of her stable income\, apartment\, and family in Uganda for great uncertainty in the United States. The idea of studying in New York quickly morphs into an ordeal. From maneuvering icy roommates to grappling with food insecurity and calling out racism in her writing workshops\, Anena begins to rewrite the narrative of the American Dream she had once accepted. \nIncandescent and uncompromising\, funny and humane\, The Lies We Tell for America charts the lengths students from “shithole” countries go to seek an education in the West. These pages lay bare Anena’s own cultural assumptions\, while shining light on a particular kind of migrant experience. After everything—was coming to America worth it? \nAbout the Speakers:\nBer Anena is a writer and poet from Uganda. She attended the MFA Writing program at Columbia University and is finalizing a PhD in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she has received the Vreeland Prize for Fiction and the Susan Atefat Peckham Prize for Poetry. Anena’s debut poetry collection\, A Nation in Labour\, won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2018. Her works appear in or are forthcoming from Transition Magazine\, Wasafiri\, Prairie Schooner\, The Atlantic\, adda\, Off Assignment\, and Black Warrior Review. Her prose has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and nominated for a Pushcart. \nKasey Peters was born in Nebraska. An Elizabeth George Foundation grantee and the recipient of fellowships from McCormack Writing Center and the Vermont Studio Center\, their work has appeared in Sewanee Review\, The Rumpus\, Greensboro Review\, Grist and others. Peters’ first book won the 2026 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\, and is forthcoming from UGA Press in 2027.
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-author-ber-anena-in-conversation-with-kasey-peters-the-lies-we-tell-for-america-a-memoir/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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